Slaughter wrote:
Good point Keith. Also sharks are no different than dogs, bears and people for that matter in that they're not all the same. Some of our so called experts keep suggesting that they know the answers to a sharks behaviour, but I'm sure that there are big happy contented Great Whites out there who have no intension of hav'n a go at you, as there are delinquent aggressive Grey Nurses. As an analogy, it’s no different than the behavioural differences between a bully kid in a playground and a nerd.
I think this explains what I'm saying. The ending says it all.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGk83ovkzeI[/youtube]
slaughter, you make a good point that each shark like any animal is an individual. I guess it's human to underestimate an animals intelligence and then we are so impressed when they do something unexpected. These experts then go back to the the drawing board to relearn their "expertise" lol. Unfortunately this clip does not show his revisit. Yep this fool actually goes back and does the same thing again. The second time he does not get attacked. If he had been attacked a second time I don't think anyone would be carrying him out of the water. Don't know what he is trying to prove? Perhaps that sharks are unpredicatable. We already knew that.
There's also some clips of a silly dodo paddle boarding with a great white
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lycgfl2kQyYI would like to see the sharks reaction had he fallen of the board
and a couple guys diving with great whites in south africa(without a cage).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLPNM_zanm0To prevent an attack from a curious great white it appears you have to do a lot of things just right
Ofcourse none of this information is of any help in making the average swimmer,surfer,diver or any other person involved in water recreation feel any more comfortable around sharks
Speaking of sharks and kayaks I should mention a highschool mate of mine was attacked by a 6 meter great white while paddling his kayak off the tip of york peninsula last week. He was paddling about 10 meters offshore along a rocky cliff line when the shark came up from underneath and struck the kayak. The force knocked him clean out of his kayak but luckily the shark proceeded to gnaw on his hull buying enough time for a friend in another yak to help him to shore. It wasn't a hobie though. Sharks refuse to damage the superb hull formation found in a hobie kayak and that's a fact