Just ran across this "Tiger Shark Near Miss" video and article

[supergaijin]

Impressive fish.

I can imagine that it's pretty hard to keep one's cool with sharks that big.

I had to laugh at the second diver though. Did you see the reaction of the Tiger as soon as he swam up?

 

[InTheDrink]

I was on a a tiger shark dive a couple of years back in South Africa. The briefing included how to push their noses down and the tiger between your legs if they were getting too curious. I must say, directing the mouth of a large Tiger shark towards the family jewels seemed to me to be a plan with some potential flaws. The tigers didn't turn up as the water was 22C but we had oceanic black tips and duskies. They get plenty close too. The dive was in 5m open water and sharks were coming in from all angles so normal shark protocol (eye contact the whole time, etc) simply not possible. There was probably 15 sharks milling around the entire time.

John