Shark Cage Diving? Not for me!!!

[BlueTrin]

The shark got a nice ‘Scuba Diver Cage’ experience

 

[Dan]

Are great whites more aggressive/dangerous than bull sharks? I went on a cageless bull shark dive in Mexico. They didn't feed the sharks on that dive, but there are other dives where they do feed, and the feeder just wears chain mail.

Here's my Bull Shark diving experience (~6 of them swimming around us), cage less and unfed by anyone in Cabo Pulmo (Marine Park). They were just cruising by us and left us alone. I didn't feel threaten by them.

 

[Chavodel8en]

That sharks is bleeding, seems to have been injured from the experience.

 

[JohnN]

A person I worked with that did a cage shark dive observed that urine is not a shark repellant

 

[Dan]

I say see them in their natural habitat without chum, bait, or cage.

That’s the problem. We may not be lucky enough to see one in their natural habitat, ever, without chum, bait, or cage, up close and survive to tell the close encounter.

This cage diving is actually helpful for fixing the bad image of them that JAWS has created back in the 70’s. Also the presence of those liveaboards reduces the number of those shark fishing boats from coming to the area. The GWS population are now on the rebound.

 

[AfterDark]

Are great whites more aggressive/dangerous than bull sharks? I went on a cageless bull shark dive in Mexico. They didn't feed the sharks on that dive, but there are other dives where they do feed, and the feeder just wears chain mail.

Just?!?! Like chain mail is listed on SCUBA.COM!

That must have been an exciting dive, no wonder he wants to do it again! Good luck to him!

 

[divinh]

It seems encounters like this does better PR for Great Whites than people in cages, as the need for a cage says "danger"...

 

[Dan]

It seems encounters like this does better PR for Great Whites than people in cages, as the need for a cage says "danger"...

My problem is I’m not like Ocean Ramsey. I can’t breath hold for 6 minutes. I don’t live in Hawaii. That big mama, I heard, she just finished devouring a whale carcass. Any predators with belly full like this supposedly a mild manner 50-years old GWS called “Deep Blue” would not prey on anything.

Most of the close encounter chances we have would be with those aggressive & hungy juvenile GWS. So, I’d better be in the cage for my safety.

 

[ginti]

@Dan , my impression is that people going cage diving already have good perceptions of sharks. Also, in my experience, people with a negative perception of sharks do not change their opinions with these cage diving videos.

 

[Hoag]

@Dan , my impression is that people going cage diving already have good perceptions of sharks. Also, in my experience, people with a negative perception of sharks do not change their opinions with these cage diving videos.

I went to Isla Guadalupe several years ago. There was one person on the boat who was petrified of sharks in general, but she figured if she could do this, then she might lessen her fear.

The first day, it was very hard to convince her to even get in the cage before the crew started chumming. Just being in the water was almost too much for her, but she did it. By the time the crew had to pull the cages out of the water and get ready to head home, she was spending the entire day in the cage.

She had gone from paralyzing terror to being respectfully awestruck by their magnificence in 3 days. On the way home, she said that her fear was due largly to the way Hollywood portrays sharks, and especially Great Whites in movies, but having seen them in real life changed her perspective forever.