Omg! omg! omg! OW dive #2

[tursiops]

He said “customer” and leading said “customer” on the second dive, I don’t speak Canadian do they refer to students as “customer”? I get the off handed reference to things you don’t see while teaching as a generalized statement

At the very end he says you don't want to see a great white while you are teaching open water.

 

[lexvil]

At the very end he says you don't want to see a great white while you are teaching open water.

Yes, I hear that as a generalized statement against the site description.

 

[johndiver999]

The movement of the camera leads me to suspect it was hand held rather than mounted on the head, so an instructor might have his hands full with a camera in his hand and a student as well. We just can't trust the internet anymore.

 

[therookie]

My Canadian is less fluent than it used to be, but another article from CBC sheds a bit more light I think. Here's the link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...great-white-shark-near-hubbards-n-s-1.7620548

The quote from that article that got my attention:

A relative novice with less than 50 dives under his belt, he was on a guided dive in waters near Fox Point Beach, about a 40-minute drive from Halifax, N.S., with Torpedo Rays instructor Eric Peterson when they encountered the shark.

So I interpret the instructor/guide's reference to the "second" dive not as OW2 but the second dive after a surface interval. And the comment at the end about "while teaching" is possibly because he does a lot of teaching dives at the site.

Video credits in the clips are to other names - neither the instructor/guide or the person that it seems he was guiding are listed so the footage probably comes from other divers in the group

 

[sassyalice]

mmm not sure about that either.

Really?

Why not?

There are GW sightings there more often lately

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/great-white-shark-spotted-near-hubbards-for-2nd-time-in-a-week-1.7622764

For the second time in one week, swimmers at Fox Point Beach near Hubbards, N.S., have gotten up close and personal with a great white shark.

Maria Maclean-Guy, who lives in the area and studies engineering at Dalhousie University, was snorkeling with her mom and brother on Monday afternoon when the three of them saw the shark.

"I was pretty much terrified," she said. "The visibility in the water wasn't great, so you couldn't see much more than 10 to 15 metres away … and so we were just trying to keep eyes on it at all times, and then we were just slowly backing ourselves in towards shore to get out of the water."

 

[lexvil]

My Canadian is less fluent than it used to be, but another article from CBC sheds a bit more light I think. Here's the link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...great-white-shark-near-hubbards-n-s-1.7620548

The quote from that article that got my attention:

A relative novice with less than 50 dives under his belt, he was on a guided dive in waters near Fox Point Beach, about a 40-minute drive from Halifax, N.S., with Torpedo Rays instructor Eric Peterson when they encountered the shark.

So I interpret the instructor/guide's reference to the "second" dive not as OW2 but the second dive after a surface interval. And the comment at the end about "while teaching" is possibly because he does a lot of teaching dives at the site.

Video credits in the clips are to other names - neither the instructor/guide or the person that it seems he was guiding are listed so the footage probably comes from other divers in the group

Sometimes listening to what someone says rather than what you want them to say pays off I have a collection of x’s who can attest to the concept.

 

[chillyinCanada]

My Canadian is less fluent than it used to be, but another article from CBC sheds a bit more light I think. Here's the link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...great-white-shark-near-hubbards-n-s-1.7620548

The quote from that article that got my attention:

A relative novice with less than 50 dives under his belt, he was on a guided dive in waters near Fox Point Beach, about a 40-minute drive from Halifax, N.S., with Torpedo Rays instructor Eric Peterson when they encountered the shark.

So I interpret the instructor/guide's reference to the "second" dive not as OW2 but the second dive after a surface interval. And the comment at the end about "while teaching" is possibly because he does a lot of teaching dives at the site.

Video credits in the clips are to other names - neither the instructor/guide or the person that it seems he was guiding are listed so the footage probably comes from other divers in the group

You did good, rook!

My mistake.

 

[therookie]

Still an OMG moment, no matter what they were doing in the minutes before that shark appeared!

 

[MB NZ]

Great white sightings are getting more common where I live. They are generally spotted in the shallows of a harbour. Big fish too. Quite a few photos get posted on local Facebook pages, especially over summer when there are more people on/in the water.

I know if I get hit, my last thoughts will be great, killed by a f***ing fish!

 

[chillyinCanada]

Great white sightings are getting more common where I live. They are generally spotted in the shallows of a harbour. Big fish too. Quite a few photos get posted on local Facebook pages, especially over summer when there are more people on/in the water.

I know if I get hit, my last thoughts will be great, killed by a f***ing fish!

A great big toothy scary fn fish!