Shark

[Adobo]

Sharks are afraid of bubbles...

Who came up with this? I was told this very same thing when I was inquiring about getting open water certified and expressed concern over sharks.

I've seen small sharks on a couple of occasions. Nothing over 6 ft. None of those sharks seemed to care about the presence of scuba divers (bubbles and all).

Recently, a dive team in southern California was "observed" by a white shark. The shark did not seem deterred by the divers' bubbles.

Check out: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=906289372731956

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I've seen a heap of sharks of different types and other so called aggressive creatures. The ones where I normally dive in Australia have never behaved in an aggressive manner to me as a diver. It is illegal to spear on scuba here so I think that is why the critters don't tend to be aggressive to divers.

I was amazed in Florida to hear of aggressive morays and see aggressive behaviour of sharks!

 

[Tigerman]

They did not get in with the sharks, they used a robot


Mike

---------- Post added November 1st, 2014 at 10:10 PM ----------



Deffo will remy,


Mike

Then it wasnt the video I was thinking of, my bad.
However I can find other guys who would..
Great White sharks are not dangerous according to daring photographer | Daily Mail Online
I dont much agree with harassing or riding the wildlife, however...
[video=youtube;kTVMdzDFf4g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVMdzDFf4g[/video]

That said, no wildlife are 100% "safe" to be around. Their fight or flight instincts are very much alive and much stronger than ours, so if you piss off a great white (for example by riding it), of course its gonna hurt you. You wouldn't piss off a 300lb cage fighter would you? (Unless youre also one)

 

[kelemvor]

Here's a discovery channel fact to remember. Men account for 90% of shark attack victims. Apparently sharks are sexist.

Maybe this idiot knows the freediving idiot in the video above?

[video=youtube;7pjbH5OuBc4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjbH5OuBc4[/video]

 

[dmoore19]

Female sharks.

 

[Tigerman]

Female sharks.

90%+ of shark attacks being made by female sharks? Wouldnt surprise me, the vast majority is probably in heat too

 

[drrich2]

Who came up with this? I was told this very same thing when I was inquiring about getting open water certified and expressed concern over sharks.

It's not just sharks; one of my instructors noticed on rebreather she could get closer to (other) fish. Bubbles are an unnatural phenomenon. I doubt sharks are terrified of them, but they are a feature that likely marks us as alien. Of course, adult great whites feed on marine mammals (amongst other things), which I imagine produce some bubbles at times, so size & species of shark might be a factor.

Richard.

 

[rockystock1]

Then it wasnt the video I was thinking of, my bad.
However I can find other guys who would..
Great White sharks are not dangerous according to daring photographer | Daily Mail Online
I dont much agree with harassing or riding the wildlife, however...
[video=youtube;kTVMdzDFf4g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVMdzDFf4g[/video]

That said, no wildlife are 100% "safe" to be around. Their fight or flight instincts are very much alive and much stronger than ours, so if you piss off a great white (for example by riding it), of course its gonna hurt you. You wouldn't piss off a 300lb cage fighter would you? (Unless youre also one)

I think this video is abit fake,, there is something just not quite right, maybe this shark is a photoshopped dolphin?


Mike

 

[DKL]

Here's a discovery channel fact to remember. Men account for 90% of shark attack victims. Apparently sharks are sexist.

Maybe this idiot knows the freediving idiot in the video above?

[video=youtube;7pjbH5OuBc4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjbH5OuBc4[/video]

Clearly not following the basic rules of diving/swimming with sharks:

First, you are suppose to call sheriff Brody or
second call Chuck Norris
What this guy did was emulate Captain Quint. This is NOT, I repeat NOT part of the swimming/diving with sharks protocol.

 

[Adobo]

It's not just sharks; one of my instructors noticed on rebreather she could get closer to (other) fish. Bubbles are an unnatural phenomenon. I doubt sharks are terrified of them, but they are a feature that likely marks us as alien. Of course, adult great whites feed on marine mammals (amongst other things), which I imagine produce some bubbles at times, so size & species of shark might be a factor.

Richard.

I disagree with the premise that sharks are afraid of bubbles - I haven't seen any documentation or studies that suggest let alone conclusively show that they are. Whereas I have seen quite a bit of evidence that shows that sharks will approach and look at divers who are on scuba.

I can appreciate what rebreather divers say regarding their ability to approach fish. However, I think there is a huge leap from that to sharks being afraid of bubbles.