How many fatal shark attacks to stop you diving

[Foxfish]

Have a look at the videos below. Of those who claim that they 'don't care' about the risk of a fatal shark attack and would dive regardless, how many would enter the water without the cage or any protection?

For those who can't be bothered watching the videos they show people cage diving with white pointers and the sharks attacking the cages.

Cage Diving with a Great White Shark goes wrong ! - YouTube

Cage Diving with a Great White Shark goes wrong ! - YouTube

Caught on Tape: Newlyweds' Terrifying Close Encounter With Shark - YouTube

Great White Shark chomping on my cage off Guadalupe Mexico - YouTube

 

[Skittl1321]

Of those who claim that they 'don't care' about the risk of a fatal shark attack

But the risk is small. You have to weigh the risk against the thrill.
Many people have decided the risk is worth it to them. (And it doesn't appear that any of the people in those videos died. So there was no fatal shark attack.)

Personally, I would rather stop enjoying the ocean entirely than support culling a species who is native there, and who helps hold the food chain in balance.

As for your videos- they almost certainly were proceeded by chumming, a standard practice for cage diving, so they don't fit your standards set out in the first post.

Great White Shark chomping on my cage off Guadalupe Mexico - YouTube

That was so clearly not an attack. The shark was trying to figure out what the thing was. It doesn't have hands- what else was it supposed to do but try a little bite; not food? It went away. The noise at the end of the video sounds like the diver was thrilled. That was pretty much exactly the experience they were going for.

 

[Diver0001]

Have a look at the videos below. Of those who claim that they 'don't care' about the risk of a fatal shark attack and would dive regardless, how many would enter the water without the cage or any protection?

Cage diving is not a normal diving activity. The sharks are baited and agitated for tourist amusement. I think it may be unwise to get into the water in close proximity to a boat that had just dumped 30 litres of blood into the water to attract sharks. But these sharks are not showing the normal behaviour that they would have in the wild.

R..

 

[JohnN]

Have a look at the videos below. Of those who claim that they 'don't care' about the risk of a fatal shark attack and would dive regardless, how many would enter the water without the cage or any protection?

For those who can't be bothered watching the videos they people cage diving with white pointers and the sharks attacking the cages.

Cage Diving with a Great White Shark goes wrong ! - YouTube

Cage Diving with a Great White Shark goes wrong ! - YouTube

Caught on Tape: Newlyweds' Terrifying Close Encounter With Shark - YouTube

Great White Shark chomping on my cage off Guadalupe Mexico - YouTube

You seem to be more and more desperate to try and make your point. So we've gone from diving in waters that might have sharks (and the perceived risk) to diving in the middle of a chum-bath in a cage. . .

When you're not impersonating a troll, what is your day job ?

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Have a look at the videos below. Of those who claim that they 'don't care' about the risk of a fatal shark attack and would dive regardless, how many would enter the water without the cage or any protection?

For those who can't be bothered watching the videos they people cage diving with white pointers and the sharks attacking the cages.

Cage Diving with a Great White Shark goes wrong ! - YouTube

Cage Diving with a Great White Shark goes wrong ! - YouTube

Caught on Tape: Newlyweds' Terrifying Close Encounter With Shark - YouTube

Great White Shark chomping on my cage off Guadalupe Mexico - YouTube

But those aren't shark attacks ... those are all examples of humans provoking sharks. None of those encounters would have occurred were there not a lucrative market for the thrill of a close encounter.

It reminds me of the people who go to places like Yellowstone or Denali and attempt to "share" their sandwich with a passing grizzly bear ... and then holler "attack" when the bear decides to relieve them of the rest of their meal. If you provoke an animal for the thrill of a close encounter, then you're not being attacked ... you're getting exactly the experience you asked for.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[tridacna]

When you're not impersonating a troll, what is your day job ?

He told us in a previous post that he was a government official tasked with getting rid of sharks to help the tourist industry.

 

[Diver0001]

He told us in a previous post that he was a government official tasked with getting rid of sharks to help the tourist industry.

At least he's passionate about his work. How many of us can say that LOL

R..

 

[Tigerman]

He told us in a previous post that he was a government official tasked with getting rid of sharks to help the tourist industry.

I suspect that MIGHT not be for real though...

 

[tridacna]

Well, I don't think I would want to go diving right in the middle of a busy seal colony in the middle of great white shark season, but thats just about it too...

Actually the smell of the seal colony is the real issue here. If you've ever been close to a seal colony, the smell is unbelievable rancid. And no I would not dive in those waters.

 

[fjpatrum]

Okay, Diver0001, I'll grant you that anxiety happens. I don't happen to agree that foxfish's posts or this thread are about "anxiety".

When I dove the channel islands off Santa Barbara last fall, one of the potential dive sites was a sea lion rookery, in known white sighting territory. I was briefly nervous about it, reading books about the rookery the night before our dive. I decided, though, I've been surfing in waters where whites had been sighted a week previously and I survived. Maybe I was lucky but I contend the odds were in my favor, even as a surfer. The odds of me being "in the middle of" the rookery were slim to none and the chance of being close enough to the sea lions while diving was certainly worth the unlikely risk (in my opinion) of a white encounter.

Would I go diving in a white mating area close to feeding time? Not a chance-probably not even in a cage. Would I go spearfishing in a known Tiger territory? Maybe.

Risk is for each of us to decide. The problem I have with this thread is foxfish's insistence that the poll allows for a reasonable level of personal thought into that risk when it clearly doesn't.