Great White Shark... friendly?!

LiE · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:06

Astonishing and crazy?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46909353

Minusorange · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:11

Brave lady

Diddums · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:15

Sharks aren't the murdering ******** that Hollywood makes them out to be. Just stick to the rules and you'll be fine.

spolsh · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:15

Minusorange said:
Stupid lady

FTFY

LiE · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:16

Diddums said:
Sharks aren't the murdering ******** that Hollywood makes them out to be. Just stick to the rules and you'll be fine.

So ask them first before stroking them?

robfosters · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:19

Rules? What rules?

edscdk · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:20

It's unlikely its friendly it's not in their nature it's indifferent or curious.. It would not give a second thought to eating her ..

200sols · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:23

Humans kill like 100million sharks per year.

robfosters · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:24

edscdk said:
It's unlikely its friendly it's not in their nature it's indifferent or curious.. It would not give a second thought to eating her ..

It’s like if you’re diving in a swimming pool and you see a biscuit floating about. You’ll probably be curious and swim to it as you don’t often see a biscuit in a swimming pool. When you get there you see it’s a custard cream. You might not be hungry or might not like custard creams, so you just carry on swimming around, but if you did like custard creams, you’d grab it and eat without even thinking about it. Know what I mean?........

I think I need to go to bed.

OldComputerGuy7 · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:25

Would love to see one of those up close, but maybe not that close, brave lady though.

SexyGreyFox · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:49

edscdk said:
It would not give a second thought to eating her ..

Sharks don't eat people, they bite and then realise they're not very tasty.
It is true that body parts have been found inside sharks but they weren't meant to be there.
Thank you David Attenborough.

Gerard · 17 Jan 2019 at 21:53

LiE said:
So ask them first before stroking them?

Way hey

Otherwise they do you for sexual assault. :eek:

ianh · 18 Jan 2019 at 06:36

robfosters said:
Rules? What rules?

There's a whole bunch as people have been cageless "free diving" around GW's for years without issue and they've studied the sharks behaviour for long enough that they developed a set of rules to free diving with GW's. One of the biggest lessons, which is true for any animal, is "know their body language". In this case the sharks pectoral fins (the "wings" at the front) are horizontal, which means the shark is relaxed and calm (yay I can swim with a GW), whereas if the fins started to drop and get be more vertical thats an aggression stance (Nope, not swimming with this one). This is another - is it's caudal fin (tail) movements slow and steady (relaxed shark) or tense and quick (aggressive shark) etc. Plus there's a whole bunch of others which people have spent years cataloguing successfully.

In fact it's been so successful that not a single "free diver" has ever been attacked by a GW whilst deliberately and knowingly swimming with a GW - Ever!

Could it still be danagerous even if you know all the "rules", yeap, but the % chance is massively reduced to almost zero if you know and follow them.

Diddums · 18 Jan 2019 at 06:49

ianh said:
There's a whole bunch as people have been cageless "free diving" around GW's for years without issue and they've studied the sharks behaviour for long enough that they developed a set of rules to free diving with GW's. One of the biggest lessons, which is true for any animal, is "know their body language". In this case the sharks pectoral fins (the "wings" at the front) are horizontal, which means the shark is relaxed and calm (yay I can swim with a GW), whereas if the fins started to drop and get be more vertical thats an aggression stance (Nope, not swimming with this one). This is another - is it's caudal fin (tail) movements slow and steady (relaxed shark) or tense and quick (aggressive shark) etc. Plus there's a whole bunch of others which people have spent years cataloguing successfully.

In fact it's been so successful that not a single "free diver" has ever been attacked by a GW whilst deliberately and knowingly swimming with a GW - Ever!

Could it still be danagerous even if you know all the "rules", yeap, but the % chance is massively reduced to almost zero if you know and follow them.

This guy gets it.

There's a family in Durban who have been doing cage dives for decades, across two or three generations and not one of them has died to a shark. I went cage diving with them once (this is when I met them / found out about them, never heard of them before that) and I was in the cage, the diver with his chum was outside of it. He knew exactly what was what and when to move to the other side of the cage, effectively turning it in to a barrier before the shark could get anywhere near him. It takes the shark a good 20 seconds to turn around and come back by which time he's either on the other side again or has hopped out of the water. It's quite fascinating to see, I don't know what fascinated me more, being in the water with these amazing creatures or the fact that this guy had the dance down so well he just bobbed about and casually moved around as if he was in a gold fish pond, whereas I would've been panicking and losing my mind. He'd only leave the water when there were many more sharks, two or three at one point? Nah, keep going dude, all good. All this whilst filming too.

Derek W · 18 Jan 2019 at 06:52

Still don't mess with crocodiles though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46901245

Diddums · 18 Jan 2019 at 06:54

Pringle W said:
Still don't mess with crocodiles though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46901245

**** crocodiles. That's a whole different beast. I've seen my fair share and they're horrible, horrible creatures. And fast. Seriously, seriously fast.

AHarvey · 18 Jan 2019 at 07:40

SexyGreyFox said:
Sharks don't eat people, they bite and then realise they're not very tasty.
It is true that body parts have been found inside sharks but they weren't meant to be there.
Thank you David Attenborough.

You're right, but look at the mouth on that beast, it'd take you whole... the shark would too

glenimp617 · 18 Jan 2019 at 07:44

edscdk said:
It would not give a second thought to eating her ..

Neither would I to be fair

d_brennen · 18 Jan 2019 at 07:47

robfosters said:
Rules? What rules?

Don't look like a seal from below

Clav · 18 Jan 2019 at 08:27

ianh said:
There's a whole bunch as people have been cageless "free diving" around GW's for years without issue and they've studied the sharks behaviour for long enough that they developed a set of rules to free diving with GW's. One of the biggest lessons, which is true for any animal, is "know their body language". In this case the sharks pectoral fins (the "wings" at the front) are horizontal, which means the shark is relaxed and calm (yay I can swim with a GW), whereas if the fins started to drop and get be more vertical thats an aggression stance (Nope, not swimming with this one). This is another - is it's caudal fin (tail) movements slow and steady (relaxed shark) or tense and quick (aggressive shark) etc. Plus there's a whole bunch of others which people have spent years cataloguing successfully.

In fact it's been so successful that not a single "free diver" has ever been attacked by a GW whilst deliberately and knowingly swimming with a GW - Ever!

Could it still be danagerous even if you know all the "rules", yeap, but the % chance is massively reduced to almost zero if you know and follow them.

This plus it was in the area stuffing it's face on a whale carcass, look how fat it is in the side-by-side shot. Very unlikely to be eyeing up the divers as potential meals.