So you want to battle a shark ?

[clive francis]

this muppet was telling people with dead fish on a stringer to charge bull sharks and schools of large cudas, I wish i lived near him, so i could take my camera and film/photograoh him getting eaten, that would be worth some money!

 

[SM Diver]

Clive, this "dick head", as you refer to him, is one of the most respected shooters in Florida, and I believe him when he says he would defend his stringer, and I also believe it would not be a good finish for the shark.

Your response completely ignores his point about triggering a feeding frenzy, and the added dangers inherent in doing that. If you're going to disagree, fine, but you might state what experience you have handling dead (or still kicking wounded) fish around sharks. Otherwise, your opinion is merely conjecture based upon stereotypical shark rumors.

Also, that wise ass comment about filming him getting eaten was uncalled for.

 

[clive francis]

so how is it that they have been getting sharks in a feeding frenzy in bahamas every day for last 10 years and no one has been bitten? a group of divers 100 to 200 sharks!!

 

[FredT]

clive francis once bubbled...
so how is it that they have been getting sharks in a feeding frenzy in bahamas every day for last 10 years and no one has been bitten? a group of divers 100 to 200 sharks!!

NO operator I know of has EVER intentionally driven sharks into a frenzy. Either great pains are taken to space out the offerings or the divers are placed a fair distance from a chumball in clear water.

Feeding sharks or 'cuda in low vis is WAY dangerous for anybody!

Do not confuse a "trained" batch of "tame" sharks to wild ones in low vis. To do so is equivalent to comparing our last President with someone who recognizes that truth even EXISTS!

A "wild" shark of most species does not associate people with lunch, and is bluffable under most conditions. A shark simply cruising and looking for lunch is still nervous around the big ugly bubble blowers. WE do NOT look like anything he has had for lunch, and we may be a threat. Displaying threatening activity around the shark will normally tip the scales to defensive mode and he'll bug out.

OTOH if unarmed and/or unwilling to take appropriate action if the bluff does NOT work, don't even start it.

Assume a male shark defending his territory in the breeding season is NEVER bluffable. It's his plot of ocean, let him have it and dive elsewhere.

FT

 

[clive francis]

they do the chumsicle and get between 100 to 200 sharks fedding swiming in and out of divers (seen it on tv and pictures loads of times) they even have guys hand feeding them.

saw the guy that snorkels with bulls at walkers cay, he said that if you had fresh fish in there you would not get out alive, spear fishing where there are bulls and then trying to scare them is fool hardy and verging on insane.

I doubt their insurance companies would pay up if they were attacked and found out that they provoked the attack.

Shark rodeo is not a tame shark they are wild, meaning un predictable, there is no such thing as a tame shark.

it is well documented that if you invade a sharks space they will attack.

when it has got the smell of fresh dead fish, pis*ing it off is not going to make it go away.

it might go away, but come back again, more likely it will turn around and bite you.

it would be grate viewing to see that with a bull, tiger or a mako i know which my money would be on!

some people seem to forget we are the intruders in the water world we are the guests, we are not top of the food chain, quite a way down it actually