Such a great video with some other sides to the question and from highly experienced shark people. thankyou for doing this, its a great video.
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Meet the work of Eli Martinez is an experienced professional in which he develops a work of great importance alerting the preservation of these species of sharks and all marine life, developing the local treasury of the Bahamas. As for the feeding of sharks I believe this does not interfere with their usual behavior is just a way to get easy food. This is a matter of personal opinion depends on the vision that each person has. Great video to reflect! And most importantly preserve any form of marine life.
I have dived with Eli and Capt Scott on the dolphin dream. One thing that I read brought up was that if there is ever an incident with shark diving (someone is attacked) that it would be detrimental to the conservation of sharks. I can see both sides.
Ive recently become vegan ( primarily because of the horrors of factory farms) but it opens me up to ALL animals being worthy of love and respect and how we need actually so little from them due to modern plant based food and products providing our human species with great things without causing all the death and suffering. I see here in this video what amounts to a greater sense of love and compassion than the negative fear propaganda I grew up with. Thanks for the education.
Eli made a good point about if you don't have food on you the shark won't swim up and eat you, lol. I'm happy that more sharks are appearing and that they're safe there. I hope all this slaughtering will end soon. Good educational video man!
Great video and great way to raise awareness of these beautiful and misunderstood animals. Should we feed them? Of course we should - we need to do what we can to at least attempt to repair the population damage we've inflicted on their species.
The real question I have is, if this was proven to be altering the sharks feeding behavior and possibly leading to more shark attacks would you stop feeding them? At the moment there is pretty good evidence that feeding them is not a good idea which is why Florida and some parts of Africa are making feeding them illegal. It was shown that feeding the sharks was altering the sharks normal feeding behavior and the sharks had less fear of humans leading to more close encounters, I believe Australia was considering making cage diving with great whites illegal for the same reason it was teaching the sharks to associate the boats with food.
Absolutely, and as Eli noted in this video if any of us believed for one moment that feeding sharks was causing any increased risk to humans we wouldn't do it. I do not have the experience of the divers in this video, but I have been diving many times with sharks, and I just don't see any evidence sharks associate people with food at all. When we go down the sharks are just not there until bait hits the water. If we go down to dive, you have to really try to see a shark, and only get lucky once in awhile. They fear people, and avoid us unless somebody brings bait to attract them in.
You can... and that is all I have is my open water with PADI... but I would recommend that you be an experienced diver and very comfortable around large predatory animals. This isn't the spot to be making rookie mistakes.
I just love sharks you professional divers are great peaple should respect all animal that live in the sea but they are amazing and they fascinate me but they all treat you like as if they were your family to toach one must be very special for one to let you toach one very spiritual
Linda thank you for your comment, while I wish I was a professional diver I'm just like 98% of scuba divers out there doing it for fun on vacations. You are right, I'll never forget the first time I saw a shark under the ocean, never forget my first larger shark encounter, first ever shark feed, and certainly will never forget a second of any trip I have had to Tiger Beach in the Bahamas for the Tiger Sharks. I think "Love" is a great word to describe how all of the divers who go to Tiger Beach feel about sharks. That certainly has a lot of respect with it for what they can do, but all the divers I have ever been to Tiger Beach will certainly love the animals we are there to see.
@@Lax-Sharks Hi lax may you have a great time swimming with all your animal friends and I hope you many wonderful years to come and maybe one day I will come and join you all
@@lindaforrester464 Based on your comments I can already tell you would fit right in on these trips, go get certified to dive and just book a trip! We'd love to have you join us on an upcoming adventure!
@@Lax-Sharks we go to eygpt every four weeks and they do diving there and they do shark diving there plenty to do there you would love it I mite look into a course there in sharmelshake
If you don't pay any attention down there you can certainly feed the sharks ;) Only the crew feeds the sharks their snacks. Usually somewhere around $3K.
I don't think I understand the portion of your comment about "that is what sharks do"? I am confident everybody is sorry about the young man being attacked while his father had to watch from the shore. It is a horrific event the entire world wishes would never have happened. I remember shortly after one of my videos was released there was another tiger shark attack in the Bahamas on a snorkeler while her family was in the water with her. Tiger sharks are certainly dangerous animals if they get close to you. One of the minor goals of my videos is to show people that you can properly re-direct a tiger shark if it approaches you by maintaining eye contact, and acting like you are the bigger predator. If it gets too close a hand on the top of its head or mouth to re-direct is a last resort. Horrific events like Egypt happen when people do not see the tiger shark coming, or worse they do and try to swim away. Swimming away from a predatory animal only elicits a predatory response. In terms of "that is what sharks do", I believe sharks provide a vital element in the health of our reefs and oceans. They clean the oceans and reefs of fish that are dead or injured, and control populations of larger fish that if left unchecked would destroy an entire reef system quickly. If the reefs get destroyed then we have a world hunger problem because the reefs support the fish population much of the world uses to eat. When the world sees sharks as "Jaws" they hunt and kill them jeopardizing the health of our entire ocean ecosystem. We need to save our sharks and learn to co-exist with them in the safest way possible because without them the human population loses everything we depend on our oceans (about half the worlds oxygen comes from the ocean, in addition to the food).
If you interview only "feeders" they will obviously say feeding is good. If you made a video with the other side of the story, from people who do not support feeding your story would be able to give people more information to make a decision as to how they feel about shark diving.
That's a very fair point. This wasn't really supposed to be a back and forth type video, it was really responding to the main points. Each of the questions asked basically are the most common points made by people against shark feeding.
I agree with what you are saying here, the video was really designed in response to the article from Scuba Diver Life saying we need to stop feeding sharks, so I was really going point by point from that article.
Such a great video with some other sides to the question and from highly experienced shark people. thankyou for doing this, its a great video.
Meet the work of Eli Martinez is an experienced professional in which he develops a work of great importance alerting the preservation of these species of sharks and all marine life, developing the local treasury of the Bahamas. As for the feeding of sharks I believe this does not interfere with their usual behavior is just a way to get easy food. This is a matter of personal opinion depends on the vision that each person has. Great video to reflect! And most importantly preserve any form of marine life.
I have dived with Eli and Capt Scott on the dolphin dream. One thing that I read brought up was that if there is ever an incident with shark diving (someone is attacked) that it would be detrimental to the conservation of sharks. I can see both sides.
Ive recently become vegan ( primarily because of the horrors of factory farms) but it opens me up to ALL animals being worthy of love and respect and how we need actually so little from them due to modern plant based food and products providing our human species with great things without causing all the death and suffering. I see here in this video what amounts to a greater sense of love and compassion than the negative fear propaganda I grew up with. Thanks for the education.
Eli made a good point about if you don't have food on you the shark won't swim up and eat you, lol. I'm happy that more sharks are appearing and that they're safe there. I hope all this slaughtering will end soon. Good educational video man!
Great video and great way to raise awareness of these beautiful and misunderstood animals. Should we feed them? Of course we should - we need to do what we can to at least attempt to repair the population damage we've inflicted on their species.
What's the name of the music playing in the background? I need this for when I sleep.
Honestly don't even know, I know I got it from Digital Juice.
Amazing video guys... amazing. Great work X1,000,000!
The real question I have is, if this was proven to be altering the sharks feeding behavior and possibly leading to more shark attacks would you stop feeding them? At the moment there is pretty good evidence that feeding them is not a good idea which is why Florida and some parts of Africa are making feeding them illegal. It was shown that feeding the sharks was altering the sharks normal feeding behavior and the sharks had less fear of humans leading to more close encounters, I believe Australia was considering making cage diving with great whites illegal for the same reason it was teaching the sharks to associate the boats with food.
Absolutely, and as Eli noted in this video if any of us believed for one moment that feeding sharks was causing any increased risk to humans we wouldn't do it. I do not have the experience of the divers in this video, but I have been diving many times with sharks, and I just don't see any evidence sharks associate people with food at all. When we go down the sharks are just not there until bait hits the water. If we go down to dive, you have to really try to see a shark, and only get lucky once in awhile. They fear people, and avoid us unless somebody brings bait to attract them in.
I really want to test this experience. Can we do it with the first level of scuba diving?
Any contacts please?
Tks
You can... and that is all I have is my open water with PADI... but I would recommend that you be an experienced diver and very comfortable around large predatory animals. This isn't the spot to be making rookie mistakes.
I just love sharks you professional divers are great peaple should respect all animal that live in the sea but they are amazing and they fascinate me but they all treat you like as if they were your family to toach one must be very special for one to let you toach one very spiritual
Linda thank you for your comment, while I wish I was a professional diver I'm just like 98% of scuba divers out there doing it for fun on vacations. You are right, I'll never forget the first time I saw a shark under the ocean, never forget my first larger shark encounter, first ever shark feed, and certainly will never forget a second of any trip I have had to Tiger Beach in the Bahamas for the Tiger Sharks. I think "Love" is a great word to describe how all of the divers who go to Tiger Beach feel about sharks. That certainly has a lot of respect with it for what they can do, but all the divers I have ever been to Tiger Beach will certainly love the animals we are there to see.
@@Lax-Sharks Hi lax may you have a great time swimming with all your animal friends and I hope you many wonderful years to come and maybe one day I will come and join you all
@@lindaforrester464 Based on your comments I can already tell you would fit right in on these trips, go get certified to dive and just book a trip! We'd love to have you join us on an upcoming adventure!
@@Lax-Sharks we go to eygpt every four weeks and they do diving there and they do shark diving there plenty to do there you would love it I mite look into a course there in sharmelshake
Can I feed the sharks??? What's a trip like this cost????
If you don't pay any attention down there you can certainly feed the sharks ;) Only the crew feeds the sharks their snacks. Usually somewhere around $3K.
What about the tiger shark eating the man in Egypt alive yelling for his Dad . That is what sharks do, let’s not fool ourselves
I don't think I understand the portion of your comment about "that is what sharks do"? I am confident everybody is sorry about the young man being attacked while his father had to watch from the shore. It is a horrific event the entire world wishes would never have happened. I remember shortly after one of my videos was released there was another tiger shark attack in the Bahamas on a snorkeler while her family was in the water with her. Tiger sharks are certainly dangerous animals if they get close to you. One of the minor goals of my videos is to show people that you can properly re-direct a tiger shark if it approaches you by maintaining eye contact, and acting like you are the bigger predator. If it gets too close a hand on the top of its head or mouth to re-direct is a last resort. Horrific events like Egypt happen when people do not see the tiger shark coming, or worse they do and try to swim away. Swimming away from a predatory animal only elicits a predatory response.
In terms of "that is what sharks do", I believe sharks provide a vital element in the health of our reefs and oceans. They clean the oceans and reefs of fish that are dead or injured, and control populations of larger fish that if left unchecked would destroy an entire reef system quickly. If the reefs get destroyed then we have a world hunger problem because the reefs support the fish population much of the world uses to eat. When the world sees sharks as "Jaws" they hunt and kill them jeopardizing the health of our entire ocean ecosystem. We need to save our sharks and learn to co-exist with them in the safest way possible because without them the human population loses everything we depend on our oceans (about half the worlds oxygen comes from the ocean, in addition to the food).
If you interview only "feeders" they will obviously say feeding is good. If you made a video with the other side of the story, from people who do not support feeding your story would be able to give people more information to make a decision as to how they feel about shark diving.
That's a very fair point. This wasn't really supposed to be a back and forth type video, it was really responding to the main points. Each of the questions asked basically are the most common points made by people against shark feeding.
I agree with what you are saying here, the video was really designed in response to the article from Scuba Diver Life saying we need to stop feeding sharks, so I was really going point by point from that article.
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