skimboarder13
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Has anybody had any cool shark encounters while diving? 
shark encounters?
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Cool, well, considering what you call cool......I DO still have both hands and all my fingers!!
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Lots of sharks on the Texas Flower Gardens right now...
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I have been on a shark feeding dive in the Bahamas. There were about 10, 4-6' long reef sharks for the feeding. Being I had never been around sharks before, I personally thought that was "cool".
Ive been circled by a 2m Oceanic White tip and 1.5 m Silky at Elphinstone reef in Egypt. No more than a metre away. Gets the adrenalin going!
Feeding sharks is a bad idea!
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I have had some aggressive shark encounters if that is what you mean.
Two were very memorable and they both happened back in the mid 1980's:
We speared a large mutton snapper while freediving down in the Florida Keys near Alligator Light and attracted a very large hammerhead that was interested in the fish. We estimated him to be about 12 feet and he was very thick/fat. Sharks usually don't scare me but just the sight of this one was very intimidating. He circled swimming very fast just keeping on the edge of visiblity. We yelled for our friend to bring the boat over but the boat was pretty far away. We debated whether it would be best to throw him the fish (which might excite him more) or hold the fish out of the water so it would not thrash. We opted for holding it out of the water. My buddy and I got back to back so we had 360 vision so that we would not lose sight of him with his fast circling. Right about that time our buddy pulled up with the boat and we quickly got out of the water with the fish. It was scary at the time but was a "cool experience" in the end.
Then years later we had a shark take a freshly speared 15 pound grouper from us before we could get it in the boat. We speared the grouper freediving just south of Anglins Pier in Fort Lauderdale using a pole spear with a paralyzer tip. The shark appeared quickly out of nowhere. It turned out to be a "really cool" experience and nobody got hurt.... except for the grouper of course
Two were very memorable and they both happened back in the mid 1980's:
We speared a large mutton snapper while freediving down in the Florida Keys near Alligator Light and attracted a very large hammerhead that was interested in the fish. We estimated him to be about 12 feet and he was very thick/fat. Sharks usually don't scare me but just the sight of this one was very intimidating. He circled swimming very fast just keeping on the edge of visiblity. We yelled for our friend to bring the boat over but the boat was pretty far away. We debated whether it would be best to throw him the fish (which might excite him more) or hold the fish out of the water so it would not thrash. We opted for holding it out of the water. My buddy and I got back to back so we had 360 vision so that we would not lose sight of him with his fast circling. Right about that time our buddy pulled up with the boat and we quickly got out of the water with the fish. It was scary at the time but was a "cool experience" in the end.
Then years later we had a shark take a freshly speared 15 pound grouper from us before we could get it in the boat. We speared the grouper freediving just south of Anglins Pier in Fort Lauderdale using a pole spear with a paralyzer tip. The shark appeared quickly out of nowhere. It turned out to be a "really cool" experience and nobody got hurt.... except for the grouper of course
Hi,
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I agree feeding and baiting for sharks is not a good idea. However I did run into a very cool Lemon Shark in Tahiti. It was about 10-11 feet long. My buddy Bill and I swam after it long enough to get a picture to prove we saw it. It was really cool.
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Welcome to SB!
I agree feeding and baiting for sharks is not a good idea. However I did run into a very cool Lemon Shark in Tahiti. It was about 10-11 feet long. My buddy Bill and I swam after it long enough to get a picture to prove we saw it. It was really cool.
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