Oceanic whitetip shark bites diver's leg
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Sometimes, sharks do test bite humans, usually to see if we're food, but it's extremely rare. |This diver was particularly unlucky.
British holiday maker, Dan White, captured the footage in the Red Sea, Egypt.
It shows an oceanic white tip shark, apparently spooked, approaching the group of divers before appearing to bite one of their legs.
Audible screams can be heard and a small plume of blood appears to spread into the surrounding water as the shark lets go.
The video was filmed by Dan White, from Farnham in Surrey, UK.
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Great video. But I could have done without the softcore porn music.
Lol - apologies!
You could always film your own video of an actual shark attack and pick your own music, but naw, just complain. it is the way of the internet and its trolls.
@@drk321 I never thought someone would be so butthurt by a little humor. Tragic.
@@DeepBlueDiscovery oh man. That's the best reply. xD
I wouldn’t have it any other way🤪
Should title this "How not to dive with Sharks"
I fought off whitetip aggression numerous times spearfishing, They usually come in three or more and start probing, Bunch up, Face them, Prob back when they come close, Get away, And never take your eyes of em...These people were in dangerous waters and not properly instructed. SMH....I can tell from the video that man lost a large part of his calf, At least...Hope he recovered and saved his leg...
This wasn't just a nasty bite that the diver recovered from, he lost the bottom part of his leg from this incident.
I agree with you it looks to me like the shark bit his leg off
This was a classic lesson on how not to dive with sharks of any type, especially Oceanic White Tips. The group were lucky there were not more injuries or even fatalities. The standard briefing for The Brothers & Daedalus dives sites, is to keep in pairs and in the group, if sharks approach stay vertical and do not swim away, oh and yes do not swim towards the sharks waving a Gopro at it. Then to go on and try to kick it, beggars belief, the real sad point is the diver who started all this was not the one that got bitten. The diver on side mount ended up getting bitten for being stupid, no buddy, swam towards the shark, then did not keep eye contact on it and was horizontal in the water, again not diving the site as required. I dived this site the week after this incident and yes the sharks were behaving abnormally, however no incidents from our boat, despite having three coming in and out of our group.
I don't know where were ears of those people when they were telling them about all these things that you shouldn't do when diving with sharks. I have no idea what is so hard for people to just stay calm and don't swim away.
why horizontal? just because nothing else in nature that they eat has a horizontal profile?
@@ONeilYu ...vertical.
Nothing abnormal with sharks biting other animals or showing aggression.
Do people even realize they are carnivores and what carnivores do?
I've a question for you, Mr. Murray. Aren't you supposed to behave like a predator when confronted by another predator? So if swimming away makes you look like a prey and trigger the killer instinct of the shark, wouldn't you want to try and kick it or show aggressiveness? I know that we cannot do any damage to an oceanic whitetip, but it all boils down to psychology, or not?
Looked to me the divers near that shark were just asking to get bit.
thanks for the in depth explanation
@@stevenbaer9061 you couldn't understand even if he told you more.
Whitetip sharks are notoriously aggressive toward humans, unlike any other sharks. I'll rather spend my afternoon spending nice time with 20 ft great white and be pretty sure it would not harm me. That being said I would never spend a dim of my time "investigating" whitetips or entering their waters. But if by any chance any of them appear near me by accident I would not hesitate for a moment to shot it, or even better to chop off its head with the proper tools if available.
Someone without a bleeding PETA heart. I hate white tips.
@@Tempusverum me too. Kill em all.
Geez some of the comments on here are sadistic ! Some even appear to be disappointed that the divers leg was not torn off . Watching someone getting bit by a shark wasn't bad enough ?
Yup. UA-cam armchair virgins are the worst
I think the guy scuba diving in shorts had a similar brown fluids coming out😂
What are you telling? This was very obviously more than a test bite. The shark definitely tried to cut out a piece of flesh. Changing public opion from "sharks are killing machines" to "sharks don´t see humans as prey at all", so replacing one extreme by the opposite extreme, is just stupid. Of course nature shall be protected and so should be sharks. But there are some few species, which just eat what they can get, if they are hungry. Once they make up their mind that you are no danger for them, you´re in trouble.
He actually lost his leg, idk why this channel is intentionally misleading people in comments & other. He clearly thinks losing a limb is just a minor bite but is still great.
@@Ph.D.. Anyone with an average knowledge of sharks would know whitetips are tremendously dangerous and should be approached with the most extreme of caution.
@@ziudra91 well the person who posted this clearly has zero knowledge about sharks & this incident
Free diving for fluted pacific clams in 40 ft . These things just circling around me . So nervous I had to leave my knife in a clam . Came up and my mate was laughing. Said " I can see your head going round and round watching the sharks . Don't worry if one comes in I'll shoot it " . He had a piece of sharpened rebar and a rubber band .
Not sure if it bit the entire leg off, but did a lot of damage.
What you wrote "Sometimes, sharks do test bite humans, usually to see if we're food, but it's extremely rare. |This diver was particularly unlucky." it is not true. Oceanic Whitetip Shark commonly attack. They are probably the most dangerous shark specie in terms of unprovoked attacks.
Hi there , thanks for watching :-). Yes, you are correct there are unprovoked attacks... but in the context of 'all' annual shark attacks, unprovoked attacks are indeed statistically rare I'm afraid. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen though.
Yep they attack a lot.
I believe those sharks were responsible for the massive loss of life when the USS Indianapolis went down.
"probably the most dangerous". Wow there is a well researched "fact". Dude sees some you tube videos and deducts OWT is "probably the most dangerous". Science in 2021.
@@stevegiboney4493 You are correct. They were also implicated in a german submarine attack which also cost thousands of lives . They are arguably the most dangerous shark in the ocean. Complete lunacy to purposefully dive with them.
I noticed the Oceanic Whitetip was more interested in the divers wearing shorty wetsuits than the divers wearing a full wetsuit. Perhaps showing skin is what drew the shark to the divers wearing a shorty wetsuit???
The first guy reacted with panic and started to move like a fool, a wounded prey. When the scuba instructor came to calm down the situation he suggested to the other scuba diver to freeze (with both hands). Shark's reaction was " "There is harmful not moving fish, maybe a dead one! Let's get a bite". When you meet a Whitetip Shark just look him into the eyes and tell him you're not a prey. Never react backwards. Turn around. Avoid its mouth. Don't fear eyes contact 'cause you are a predator not a prey
Sounds like good advice. Although we're not experts in this area. Are you a diver?
Deep Blue Discovery I’m not expert but shark do react when people panic and disturb the water, it will send vibration like an injured prey. Also most predators don’t hunt their preys face on since the prey could fight back and possibly injure them
@@DeepBlueDiscovery I don't know about Nicolas "For Real?" Realini but I am a diver; or at least I was in the '80's & '90's as a DM in Sharm, Eilat and elsewhere. Personally I've never been bitten by a shark: just once by an eel, twice by dogs, three times by the same horse and four times by two different women who loved me more than I loved them; or so they thought. To be honest, even with these lesser (excluding the women) adversaries I've always reacted far more demonstrably than your dive-buddy in the video, who I thought stayed admirably calm in very trying circumstances. But the next time I'm bitten, regardless of what may have it's teeth or fangs locked into my flesh, I shall do my best to remember Nic's expert advice to simply keep calm and stare down my adversary with a dominant eye. (Excluding the women.)
@@DeepBlueDiscovery i am an expert diver there are several species of sharks that i would never turn your back too, whitetip and tigers are one, dive with a partner like you should always sticking together your bubbles is usually enough to keep them away, if the shark is the size of you and does this probe like behavior, swim to the bottom and keep your eye on it.
Even in your video you can see its probing behavior it swims in, and eyes up anyone who is alone the first diver the bubbles from under neither spoked it watch it dart off. Then the diver with no suit on. It sees the pale skin, and you can see it lock on to its leg and just aggressively goes for his legs.
These sharks are open water hunters, so their food is very rare, and is usually those white fish with the yellow stripe on the sides i forget the name of the fish.
Beautiful shark though he looked almost 4 or 5 feet. Good size shark and saw few scars when it swims by.
Always have respect for the ocean, and should never dive this far apart even in open water with clear visibility of each other.
And staying calm is always sound advice
As some comments mentioned (I am not a shark expert by the way); diver was moving & posing totally wrong. Still sharks are predators to be shown respect and always there will be survival & damage ratio every time we go to dive.
Gotta love all these comments chock-full of expert analysis. I am not an expert, but common sense comes into play here like it would in nearly every other wildlife setting. First off, it's been known for many decades the oceanic whitetip is one of, if not the most aggressive shark species out there. Just ask Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the famous researcher, scientist, conservationist, filmmaker etc... Oh, that's right he's dead. Nevertheless he was quoted as dubbing it “The most dangerous of all sharks”. Putting yourself in close proximity of one or more whitetips is akin to walking around unarmed in the Serengeti. Not turning your back to any wild animal is good advise, but remember it may attack regardless. Just look up the sunken Nova Scotia, uss Indianapolis and a horrific oceanic whitetip attack from 1972 on Rod Temple. I wouldn't be caught dead diving with a Whitetip without a shark-stick, speargun or some defensive weapon.
I agree
Video shows why Cousteau found this the most dangerous of all sharks. Not scared at all even with multiple people in the water, made several aggressive passes on multiple divers, until it found an opportunity to get a good piece of meat - the guys calf. Obviously need to protect yourself if going into the waters with this shark.
They should have nailed the bugger with a Bang Stick as soon as it showed ANY hostile intent. Hard lesson learned...
Good that the other diver raced up and belted the shark off, well done!
This music is oddly wonderful and terrifying
carry spear fishing gun/spear and poke the shark if it gets close. works nearly every time.
let the shark know you are dangerous and to stay away.
have a backup knife to quickly draw if it gets very close to stab it.
Sure baby
Totally agree with that.
very stupid behaviour from clearly novice divers.
Oceanic's are notorious ass', Lived in Guam for awhile and dove all over Micronesia. had more then one run in with these guys and every time they were aggressive, Got to the point that as soon as they appeared we started getting out of the water.
Exactly! Just like you and in the Pacific have had these thug lifes come in "out of nowhere". They only have one thing on their mind, period. ASAP..........., back in the boat, period. Had a single one "come out of nowhere" once, luckily saw the prick straight on at 300 feet (thank god for clear water!!!) making a beeline for me as if he was just out for a walk. Ya, I was in the boat, pronto.
So, how about starting an extermination campaign on these fckers? Considering they are oceanic (pun half way intended), we won't ever get them all anyway. But we can clear some pretty big areas.
Why were they all diving in the middle of nowhere with nothing to see?
Just like in bear, cougar, alligator, etc country, carry deterrent or weapon just incase. Why an ocean would be any different is beyond me. You don't go into the swamp, deep wilderness or mountains w/out at minimum a knife or deterrent.
Shark definitely took out some rubber in the leg portion of the suit but divers leg not bitten off. Of course leg could have substantial damage. Play back at slowest speed to see it.
It doesn't say it was bitten off. Divers leg bitten, off Egypt.
ReturnRadio Do you see a comma??
Looked bitten off enough to me. That was a viscous bite IMO. I mean mangled to say the least. It appeared to me his mouth cleared the entire girth of the leg and went in deep and shakes it fast.
ReturnRadio No it says the diver was biten by Egypt, and then the shark bit Egypt, in vengeance of the diver. The shark is actually the hero here.
@@MrKingNica he lost his lower leg! Idk why people think this was just a nasty bite.
Oceanic white tips have a reputation of aggression toward humans. Avoid them. You're there to have fun, not to do battle. However if you do encounter one you should do as you said. Fleeing triggers a predator vs prey response. Besides, do you really think you're going to outswim a shark or any fish for that matter? 99% of predators don't attack prey head on. Yes they ambush, but they have the advantage of surprise. Most predators won't risk injury that could lead to debilitation or infection for the sake of a single meal unless starving or desperate. Hindsight is 20/20 of course. Hope that diver swims again.
I think the diver was ok
I don't give a two shytes about the dude who got his leg destroyed. If you swim next to shark then you must be ready and responsible for anything that coul go wrong. I'm not saying I'm happy he got bit but it's not weird for a shark acting like a predator.
#1 - He was wrong for failing around.
#2 - The diver closest to him should've calmed him afyer shark's 1st approach & had him focus.
#3 - They all should've had something long to push sharks away.
*PS - Serial Killer Red Sea Attacks ( **#HBOMax** ) brought me here* .
People are so surprised that the shark attacked and they are doing the first thing to not do when you encounter a shark. They are swimming away just tell me why are you doing this swimming away doesn't fix anything the shark is way faster and you just provoke the shark to attack. Those people should never go scuba diving ever again in their entire life because if it is too hard for you to just stay calm, not swim away and accept that the sharks are curious then just don't go shark diving. Especially with Oceanic Whitetip because they can get aggressive pretty easily. Whitetips are known for that they're not afraid of humans at all and if you do something stupid you will most likely get attacked. If you encounter a shark when you're swimming at the sea then just stay calm, keep an eye contact with the shark never look anywhere else. The shark will probably circle around you because sharks are very curious about humans and if you want to get out of the water even if you don't see the shark at the time never start swimming away fast just slowly swim away to the shore if you can and keep your eyes on the shark if you can and you can be 100% sure that he won't attack you.
A white tip reef shark is a different specimen and Beast altogether than an Oceanic whitetip those sharks can be very aggressive and they're powerful. Not a shark you want to mess around with they was a major player in the USS Indianapolis deaths all those years back in World War II. I know a lot of people would like to think that it was Jaws AKA great white tiger sharks and bull sharks no I don't think so. There might have been a few bull sharks and maybe some tiger sharks Scavenging. I mean what Mosley killed all those Sailors was salt poisoning exposure dehydration and the Sharks had to eat so there were a lot of bony human meals to be had. 900 men went into the water and 316 survive. But we're really all those men killed by sharks I doubt it I think it's around a hundred and fifty of them estimated were killed by sharks. A lot of them succumb to the elements that were at hand and then the Sharks fed on their bodies after they were dead. So we reported it 880 Sailors died whether by shark attack or by the elements or by both. The worst Naval disaster in history. And I think there's 10 survivors alive today. The ship's Captain Charles McVay ended up taking his own life in 1968 and shot himself with a pistol at his home in Connecticut. I suspect because he didn't go down with his own ship it eventually just ate at him so much that he had to commit suicide. They didn't find the USS Indianapolis until August 19th 2017. By the billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen put the money up for the expedition. He was found in the Philippine Sea some 5500 Metre below the ocean basically around 18,000 feet down. Of course the USS Indianapolis was on a hush-hush mission because they were delivering components of the little boy atomic bomb which they did and I'm sure Karma played a big part in that. The fact that what they were delivering would eventually kill all those people in Japan and Nagasaki and Hiroshima and eventually in World War II in the western theater. It was a terrible tragedy what happened to the Indianapolis and I'm not condoning what happened to them but all the innocent people that died when the two bombs were dropped in Japan I guess made up for what happened to the sailors on the Indianapolis and most of the sailors that died by shark or eaten by oceanic white tips in a few tiger sharks here and there.
You are being weird, 'Karma delivered by shark attack' because they delivered parts of a weapon they would have had no knowledge of as sailors. That's like saying the postman that delivers a knife is responsible if someone is stabbed with it.
How dumb are these divers, that shark made lots of aggressive passes leading up to the attack.
Exactly. But remember, these are "certified" "divers" with open water, possibly even "advanced" open water "certification" and all their digital equipment. I'll be not one of them can manually do their tables...........
There is a lot of good advice on how to swim and react to a curious shark. Knowing the little I know about whitetips, I would've very quickly exited the water the minute I noticed those tell tale dorsal fins.
Playing back this video at slow speed the shark does bight into the leg but takes out a piece of the divers leg portion of the diving suit. If you observe immediately after the attack this diver has his leg intact and it is not bitten off. Of course this diver might have lossed some flesh as I do see what appears to be some blood.
The cloud was blood.
Being the guy that filmed it I can tell you the divers leg was not left intact!
He lost his leg!
@@danwhite6532 did he lose the leg
@@issacdragon3834 no just his calf muscle
Was it just a flesh wound?
@@DeepBlueDiscovery wicked scar?
@@gitz2818 No idea. I imagine so.
Deep Blue Discovery No he lost the leg!
“Right, we’ll call it a draw.”
@@DeepBlueDiscovery He wasn't. The diver lost the bottom part of his leg due to this bite
The clue was @1:17... I'm sorry but the divers should have the training to understand that sign.
Wear a full wet suit when shark diving..notice how the shark
Targets the diver with a shortie wetsuit and bites where the skin is
Very powerful fish. Thank you for sharing.
Np at all :-)
I need to ask, how serious was the wound? It looked like he got a good chunk out it
We understand it was nasty but not remotely life threatening in any shape or form.
@@DeepBlueDiscovery I am aware. But what went missing? Details lol
@@yannaedc5934 We spoke to the filmer not the injured man, who was very quickly taken to hospital I think.
@@DeepBlueDiscovery aahhhhh dang it :( I wanted to picture it in my head. To remind myself how impressive and powerful these animals are
@@yannaedc5934 he lost his lower leg
The guy below gestures to stop moving.... might wanna move that leg away from his mouth though...
Just like a dog defending its territory : first a threat posture then, when not heeded, a quick snap!
was this one of the incidents why brother's island was closed down for a while?
No idea. We'll sea if we can find out.
Yes it was
@@danwhite6532 thank you for repeatedly correcting false information from this video. The guy lost his leg after.
@@Ph.D.. Lost his CALF. Not the entire thing.
Same thing happened to me, except with a reindeer
THIS IS WHAT CAN QUITE EASILY HAPPEN TO HUMAN BEINGS IF THEY STUPIDLY DECIDE TO SCUBA DIVE IN OPEN OCEANS WHERE BIG FISH WITH LARGE SHARP TEETH ALSO RESIDE, DOH.
Bites?!
Looks clean of to me
Seems like a good idea let's all hang out like sharkbait.
This is nothing more than a serious game of chicken. The divers know that there is a good chance that one of them is going to get bit and possibly die but they are playing the odds that it won't be them. Have fun and take pictures so I can watch, please.
Everyone still dreaming of great whites
Stupid divers didn't even try to protect themselves. No sympathy here.
Would be nice to be asked to use my footage. Could have had a way better quality video too. This is awful quality!
Hi Dan. Thanks for getting in touch. Can you contact DBD@catersmediagroup.com. Deep Blue Discovery is run by Caters.
@@DeepBlueDiscovery oh okay, I sold the story to them but I definitely gave them better quality footage and the full length video that shows why the shark bit the diver.
@@danwhite6532 Not sure why the quality is lower than the original. Sorry about that. We'd love to show the longer version and also what it was like to be under there when it happened too. I've sent you an email :-).
Interested to hear your opinion on it since you were down there. It seemed like the shark was going to bite someone after multiple previous aggressive approaches. What are you supposed to do in that situation.
@@travis7277 the shark was chilled as could be checking us out while we were completing an exercise under the boat to finish a course. Then as we headed to the reef some bubbles hit the underside of the sharks belly and spooked it and then it’s fins came down and it started wanting to know who the F we were.
This is stupid these animals are extremely dangerous.
01:15 After this moment you should know what will happen
After warning Just bite.
They say it will be fun
Aaaaand...... the video ends.... it always ends, dammit. 🤬
it's not our fault ;-)
fuck sea, you are scarry
Why didn't they just harpoon the shark..?
I just dont get why you would swim towards it after it already showed signs of aggression by nipping at the first guys flipper.. In the words of joe biden, “Come on, man..”
Ooo...
I didn't know blood looked like that underwater. It looks like some sewage drainage started leaking.
PS: Ha ha...
I hope that guy develops aquaphobia. (No offense, just fooling around)
Actually I have aquaphobia to some extent. I'm scared of dark waters(when you don't know the depth of it or the light doesn't reach the bottom) my imaginations goes wild.
Ffffffuuuuuuuuhh!
🤦🏼♀️
That shark swam off with a huge chunk of meat in its mouth. I hope the diver survived and is able to walk.
At least it got to eat and didn't end the day hungry.
He lost his leg!
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dude a harpoon could have avoided this.. these whitetips are smalls sharks.. one spear in the head or body.. and its a rap. these sharks aren't nice or playful or curious like other sharks lol
i wouldn't call sharks that can get up to 3m (sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, like this one) small^^