Great white takes scallop diver - Mexico

[Belzelbub]

It’s probably not easy to replicate a portable or a though

Currently out of stock, but this might work.

The Killer Whale Submarine - Hammacher Schlemmer

This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the <i>Orcinus orca</i> after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2"-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale's pectoral fins for rolls and...

www.hammacher.com

 

[BlueTrin]

Currently out of stock, but this might work.

The Killer Whale Submarine - Hammacher Schlemmer

This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the <i>Orcinus orca</i> after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2"-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale's pectoral fins for rolls and...

www.hammacher.com

Thanks I was exactly looking for a place to buy an orca looking submarine at an attractive price

 

[Boarderguy]

Thanks I was exactly looking for a place to buy an orca looking submarine at an attractive price

It's the cost of 3 OC dives to 100m.

 

[MrChen]

"...impressively ripping off his head and biting both shoulders..."

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Impressively? Is there a mundane way to bite off a head.
Tragic story. I pray for his family.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

Yikes. If accurate, that's one heck of a white shark and certainly capable of doing catastrophic damage to a person in one bite.

Shellfish/urchin divers run some elevated risks of shark attack; quite a few abalone divers in South Australia got hit when that was a big industry and for a number of years there was only one urchin diver working the Farallones off California because nobody else was nuts enough to try it. Long bottom times, lots of noise from the open-circuit gear and banging on rocks, mostly looking down ... potentially throw in low visibility, marine mammals, and in this area/timeframe possibly mature females either before or after pupping (read: hungry) mean stacking some odds against a diver.

I had to laugh at the "dress like a sea snake" suggestion; I'm not aware those are in the Sea of Cortez and years ago someone made the note that tiger sharks are known to happily eat sea snakes. I'd be a little careful about taking the OP article at face value given how silly parts of it are.

 

[drrich2]

...for a number of years there was only one urchin diver working the Farallones off California because nobody else was nuts enough to try it.

Ron Elliott? If so, even he got bitten (though he indicated it was an accident rather than an attack). Here's the story.

Richard.

 

[MrChen]

Yikes. If accurate, that's one heck of a white shark and certainly capable of doing catastrophic damage to a person in one bite.

Shellfish/urchin divers run some elevated risks of shark attack; quite a few abalone divers in South Australia got hit when that was a big industry and for a number of years there was only one urchin diver working the Farallones off California because nobody else was nuts enough to try it. Long bottom times, lots of noise from the open-circuit gear and banging on rocks, mostly looking down ... potentially throw in low visibility, marine mammals, and in this area/timeframe possibly mature females either before or after pupping (read: hungry) mean stacking some odds against a diver.

I had to laugh at the "dress like a sea snake" suggestion; I'm not aware those are in the Sea of Cortez and years ago someone made the note that tiger sharks are known to happily eat sea snakes. I'd be a little careful about taking the OP article at face value given how silly parts of it are.

Why are they at an elevated risk?

 

[johndiver999]

 

[Kay Dee]

Well, if we are going to share horrific diver/shark stories, then there is this from way back in the day.

25 Years Later, Memories of Shark Attack Remain Vivid

It happened 25 years ago, but the image of sharks savagely attacking his diving partner and dragging him to the hazy depths of the Caribbean is as vivid in Bret Gilliam's mind today as it was in the days after the attack.

www.latimes.com

As for "staring sharks down", works for some, but take it from an old 'shark diver' (pre wreck diving daze) with all limbs still attached, does not even faze others. Highly recommend the Shark Shield though, although even it wont stop a determined shark.
But sure beats trying to stare them down.