the chance of a shark attack is like getting hit by lightning twice in the same day when it's not raining and you're indoors on Christmas day at the Vatican.
That's happened to me. Twice.
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the chance of a shark attack is like getting hit by lightning twice in the same day when it's not raining and you're indoors on Christmas day at the Vatican.
The chance a shark encounter is so low it doesn't even register for most divers....the chance of a shark attack is like getting hit by lightning twice in the same day when it's not raining and you're indoors on Christmas day at the Vatican.
Yup, stuff like the picture posted above are usually the result of someone deliberately dropping chopped up and bloody fish into the water (chumming). It attracts sharks and gets the excited for a meal. As long as you don't have dead/bleeding fish attached to you you're fairly safe. Heck even spearfisherman with bloody fish usually don't get injured - the sharks just take the speared fish.
This guy would...So your telling me you would happily jump in with great whites so long as you didn't have any dead fish on you??
Mike
I'm watching sharknado on tv, great movie and it got me thinking, if diving and come across an aggressive shark like a great white, what's the best action to take??
Swim away? Stay still? Thump it on the nose? Cut my buddy's leg n swim off??
Has anyone had experiences with aggressive sea animals? And what did they do?
Mike