I just love your style. It's like you are just having a casual conversation with us about interesting situations. No drama, no stupid music, no fake imagery. Just perfect
Absolutely! I always think the exact same! Sharks happen suddenly appeared in my newsfeed occasionally one day when I was searching for videos about marine life, and since then I watch every new episode.
O.W.s seem to congregate in the Red Sea fairly often, which is why I've never snorkeled there, not even on a trip to Jordan. I didn't venture beyond the beach
I remember that guy. He invented the Aqua Lung with another French guy. I used to watch all of his shows when I was a kid and didn't realize he was such a eugenicists at the time. I think one of the 70s James Bond villains was based on his values.
Well said, also Ron & Valerie Taylor, Valerie said on her life experiences the same, they are very dangerous The most annoying thing is Jacques Cousteau and team, and Ron & Valerie Taylor in its days of shows, never promoted how dangerous it was, always how nice they were, sharks that is
Gw's are by far the scariest but for me the Oceanic White Tip is the one I wouldn't want to come across in the water. Simply because if you see one it's almost certainly trying to attack you. Being a open ocean scavenger the mind set is different. GW's attacks are rare compared to how often people are around them.
@@CuchulainAD was supposedly a white and a bronze whaler double act that did for that poor Brad dude in Aus. Dude fought so hard even with those two commin to take chunks outta him! RiP
@Jon Stanford Omg YES my friend! Happy to see someone else informed that shares this same opinion. GW's are utterly terrifying, of course. That really goes without saying. But the Oceanic White Tip...just due to the fact it's an open ocean feeder, meaning food is scarce and they have to take advantage when prey opportunities arise, is a truly frightening fish. And that point ties right into the fact that if you DO happen to encounter an OWT, you're probably in a VERY bad situation to begin with, sharkiness aside haha. Imagine having already floated in the open ocean ALL day, following a bad ship wreck, and suddenly you peek below the surface to see a massive helix of white tips all funneling up from the depths...and you notice that sunlight starting to dwindle...Now THAT is the definition of true fear to me.
@@conkyjoe8932 HS ‘ shouldn’t have read that comment, you ve been studying with Hal about how to describe a shark attack scene as vivid as possible 😅 indeed alongside the big 3 OWT maybe is the scariest, Jacques Yves Cousteau always defined the OWT as the most dangerous shark of all ‘ Uss Indianapolis crew wouldn’t disapprove of it ‘ no wonder 😅
Ran into a story about some kids who were chased by some bronze whalers and they managed to swim to a jetty. The sharks circled the jetty and fortunately they were rescued before the tide came in.
Great White-largest at 23 feet. Fictional Jaws shark 25 feet. Just gives me chills that the real thing is two feet less than the fictional one. "What were you thinking" segment-I feel sorry for the shark. That was plainly animal abuse. Great show, Hal.
It makes you wonder if there is a 25 footer out there somewhere. They used to say that great whites typically got around 18 feet, but no longer than 20, and that was very rare. So, making Jaws a 25 foot "rogue" shark with a hatred for people truly made him a monster. No matter how big the biggest white was/is, though, they are definitely not monsters. They are fascinating and beautiful creatures that should be respected. When we go into the water, we are in the shark's world. It's their home. There are bound to be attacks sometimes. I also feel sorry for that little shark that the "life guards" killed. That was totally uncalled for and quite cruel. People really suck sometimes.
TRP: 23' that we can prove, but the stories of fish much, much bigger exist. The fishermen around New Zealand and Australia have family or first-hand accounts of fish being 30', or longer.
@@repetemyname842 While this is certainly possible cuz why not, most of those first hand accounts are likely serious overestimations (which ppl almost always do with every shark and many other dangerous animals in general) or blatant lies for clout.
@@mermaid_at_heart213 the shark in Jaws didn't hate people. The movie showed the theory of territoriality of one shark claiming a certain area. They are territorial but not in that way.
Great story telling, I can just leave my audio on put my headphones on and I can actually see and feel like I am there while its happening 🙃 just invisioning what these people have gone through is enough to keep me on the boat,and I grew up on the new England coast.as a child and teenager I would swim fearlessly in the ocean all the way out until the drop off,now after researching and realizing how lucky I am that I am not in one of your campfire stories, lol.i think reading and hearing all these stories and being older now 🙄 maybe I think twice about my interactions with the ocean 🤔 😳 😅 wonderful stories enough to make someone think twice.
Thank you for this awesome information! 👏🏻 Love the list and the comparisons. I found it interesting that if the shark bares its teeth, it is likely a great white or a mako. Made a mental note, but hopefully I will never be in a position where I’m trying to ID what kind of shark is headed my way! 🤯
I have a short list of sharks that I wouldn't want to swim close to: (1) A shark that is longer than 2 feet long (2) A shark that has teeth that punctures, cuts, slices and dices (3) A shark that has teeth that will rip you to shreds (4) A shark that heads out to sea with me in it's mouth (4) A shark that can get in a swimming pool on it's own Yep. I think that covers it... I don't scare easily so there's only 4 sharks on my list.
I could believe sharks got to larger sizes back when the oceans were healthier and food sources more plentiful. Especially large sea mammals which populations have declined since the early 1900s.
I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your channel. I'm glad I just happened upon it one day about a month ago. Keep up the great work and never stop doing this.
Most of our attacks in Australia happen south of Brisbane due to crocodiles being a main deterrent to entering the water in warmer waters. Also we have a very large amount of great whites in the colder water. I just don’t swim full stop no mater where 😂
We went to the London Aquarium when my son was just short of a year old and were standing in an observation window at the shark tank. My son was at the front in his pushchair when a Grey Nurse went into attack, swam straight at him before slamming into the window. All the adults gasped and moved back, the other young children never budged.
I saw the video of the guy on the beach. If you watch closely you’ll see that hammerhead was actually chasing a fish and quit when it went into the shallows by the man.
Hal, this was an awesome video; so informative. And I agree with you about how to measure sharks. The tail is part of the shark and should be included in the measurement. Btw, love your shirt. My favorite shark from that list is the Great White. They are magnificent apex predators. But, like you, I don’t go in the ocean because I sure don’t want to come face to face with an animal that large. Look forward to the next video. Much love from Tennessee.
Hi Debra, please read my comment above regarding why they don't include the tail. Here's a good example... if I told you that I'd been bitten by a 10 foot shark, then you would easily be able to get a rough idea of the weight, size, bite diameter, etc. because you already know that the tail is excluded. However, if I told you that I'd been bitten by a 10 foot shark and that includes the tail, you wouldn't know whether it was an 8ft shark with a 2-foot tail or a 5 foot shark with a 5 foot tail. And the difference between an 8 foot shark and a 5 foot shark is pretty significant and could be a matter of life of death. Because shark tails vary so much in size, excluding it gives a more accurate reflection of the overall size of the animal. This has been researched in great depth and been proven as the best way of assessing the size of the predators in an ecosystem. Hope that helps! Best wishes...
Hal, (haha my dads name is Harold aka hal) thanks for all you do and what you stand for. I can only imagaine what we could learn with reported water temps with these attacks, though it is conveniently missing. I stopped watching the shark programs years ago on tv due to misleading info that was being taught. I am glad you are here speaking the truth and reporting the facts.
Incredible. I have a 35 lb labradoodle and he has a strong grip when we play tug of war. Twenty three feet !!! that's like putting 4 six ft long couches end to end....nope.I heard an eyewitness of the great white attacking and consuming Simon Nellist describe the shark as big as a car.
Hi Hal! i have to say i agree with your list i would not want to run into any of them sharks on that list. i lived in Hawaii for 6 years and i was in the water everyday and i never saw any shark when in the water not saying they were not there i was just lucky enough that none wanted to take a bite out of me. great show hal see on the next video!!
When you mentioned the grey shark you brought back floods of memories of my childhood in Durban in the 1960s. We used to sit in our car with mom and watch the Lazy Greys as we used to call them at the river mouth of the Blue Lagoon justNorth of Durbans main beaches. I now live in False Bay Cape Town and refuse to swim in the sea anymore. The idea of the great whites terrify me. I miss my beloved Durban beaches where I grew up and never considered a shark attack as we had shark nets from the early sixties.
My shark stories- Barwon Heads, Victoria- Caught a small Mako- hooked a prolly 7 foot threasher, it did some jumping (hooked on a 1.0 with white bait ! ) my scariest moment- Great Barrier reef, of course I ignored the staff and snorklled out beyond the ropes, over coral island with 1 foot of water, then suddenly I'm over the edge of the biggest drop off of murky water....boy did I shit! I had images of a big tiger just waiting for something to swim off.... I scraped my belly swimmin back as fast as I could!
Only 1 about sharks. Used to have a recurring one where i see a black dot way down in crystal clear water. The dot quickly grows to a huge orca mouth open and id wake up. Multiple times, same dream
@@SharksHappen that was a very " cinematic" description. Good job painting that scary picture Hal, it's not necessarily easy to convey a sense of terror in writing in just a few words. You did it. Another great show, and I MUST purchase that cool longsleeve you had on today's video. Peace.
@@AlisonPerini Gosh I would hate that. When I've had reoccurring dreams before I found the way to stop them was to ask myself lots of questions, sometimes with a pen and paper. It's amazing what your mind will tell you if you start asking searching questions. Eventually I'd get the answer and the difficult reoccurring dream would stop. I hope that helps ☘️
I've had a nightmare in which I'm scuba in the deep and when O2 starts running low I look up to begin ascent but there's a massive white circling above. I can't get past it before it will attack so Im stuck hiding in the deep dark water below. Right as I run out of oxygen I wake up.
1. Great White shark 23 ft 2. Bull shark 14 ft 3. Tiger Shark 18 ft 4. Oceanic White Tip 13 ft 5. Bronze Whaler 14 ft 6. Mako 15 ft 7. Lemon 10 ft 8. Sand tiger(grey nurse) 12 ft 9. Hammerhead 20 ft 10. Galapagos 11 ft Others Blue Shark Sandbar Shark Black Tip Reef Shark Thresher Shark 7 Gill Shark Cookie Cutter Shark
I’ve been ere since the beginning and I love watching you’re channel grow 😊 I tell everyone who will listen about you’re channel 😂 I can’t wait to celebrate 100k subscribers with you and watch you get your silver UA-cam plaque 🙏 you deserve every bit of it with all the research you put into you’re channel 💯 keep going Hal
Hi Hal! I have to say you have the coolest clothes of anybody on you tube! They look so good with your tan. I think your list of sharks was spot on. I don't want to see any shark so I don't go in to the ocean. I don't even want to be on a boat in the ocean. Took a cruise and never again. We went over New Year's week and all I could think about was the Poseidon Adventure 1972. I was so excited when I saw your post. I love this show and the way you do it.
I watched John Wilson fishing safari in Namibia...he was pulling in massive bronze whalers from the beach..he points the camera down the beach and there's loads of people in the sea, he chuckled and said this shark is considered a man eater in Australia but the don't bother anyone in Namibia....crazy stuff!
I went camping in the Isles of Scilly and they were offering to take people swimming with seals, people laughed at me when I said “no thanks, sharks eat seals, I’m not getting in there!!” Watching you Hal, I’m so glad I didn’t! Nobody was bitten that I heard of, and everyone had a great time, but not a chance in hell was I going in to be the first victim in years! People think the UK doesn’t have sharks, they need to watch your show!
We love your shows, wish you could put a new video out every day! Picked out which items from your store I'm getting and Placing order tomorrow. 4 of my family members love these shows as much as I do. They will be thrilled to have merch of yours. Keep It up and before you know it you'll be up to 100k in no time!! 😀
Losing limbs every time we fill up in mi… being robbed here with cost of everything no diff than when in the keys. At least no sticker shock when i go and get gas down there last time 80 cents cheaper than here
Thank you so much for that video! The last accurate rating is more than 10 years old. Very appreciated with your stats and experience. I can agree to Great White on pole position although I´d rather encounter one of these on a surfboard compared to a bull or tiger with no defense. Not sure about Lemon shark placement. Great hammer heads attack way less people than blacktip sharks. Interesting you put the Galapagos shark in there since they are quite resticitive to a certain area. I think we would all come up with slighly different lists. Massive thank you for sharing yours!
I'm surprised the blue shark didn't make the list. Always heard they were known attackers, more so than the gray nurse, which was always said to be more docile.
Thank you for your insightful and well researched assessment of the comparative dangers posed by various sharks around the world. I wasn't surprised about the top four, but was surprised to learn that the mako and the great hammerhead weren't higher on the list than they were. No argument here, because I haven't done nearly the work that you have done in researching the history of shark attacks. I've simply always assumed that those two were some of the worst that one could run into. That is one of the reasons your channel is so useful and important. While we don't have much choice about the sharks we happen to encounter when in the water, at least you can help to educate the public about what we need to watch out for. I, for one, never knew that bronze whalers were particularly dangerous. On the other hand, I've always assumed that the porbeagle had to be a dangerous shark, just because of its terrifying morphology. Glad to know that it's probably harmless! Honestly, the cookie cutter sharks are maybe the creepiest fish I've ever heard about! Those little bastards are truly the piranhas of the sea, and appear to have been designed by the devil himself! My personal favorite shark is the sand tiger, just because I like their smiles. I don't know why I'm sharing any of this, but what the hell? I both like the fact that they aren't the terrors of the deep that the dreaded white sharks are, (brrrrr!) and also the fact that they seem to be able to take care of themselves. Long live the sand tiger, says I! Thanks again, Hal, for your fascinating channel. I've learned a lot from you, and I'm glad you're sharing what you've discovered with the public. I am not in favor of treating sharks as the enemy- hunting and killing them, or anything of the sort- I just want to stay out of their way, and hopefully more people will be more careful in the water because of what you're making us aware of. All the best! --N
G'day Hal, can't get enough of your show. I was wondering if you'd ever heard of the case of Paul de Gelder? He was a Royal Australian Navy clearance diver who got majorly nibbled on by a big bull shark while undergoing night training in Sydney Harbour. Inspirational shit, those 'bubble heads' are definitely built different.
I loved your episode today Hal, great information, thanks for this. I think the hammerhead was chasing rays in that clip, you can see the ray swim towards the shore 🤔 Have a super day 😀🦈
Great video, Hal! For me I'd go with: 1) Oceanic White Tip 2) Bull 3) Great White 4) Tiger 5) Bronze Whaler ... as my top 5. The OWT has killed 1000s of people throughout history and isn't high on many lists because of the difficulty in recording attacks for these sharks but if you see one (ignoring diving deliberately, etc), then you're likely in deep water and/or have just survived a plane crash or ship accident; so, you're in trouble. Its a deadly shark as it is constantly hunting and very aggressive due to scarcity of food in the ocean deep. Think Hal should've put it higher but, as he says, he could argue for it to be second.
For me I think the Oceanic White Tip makes the top 3. Bulls and OCWs oftentimes wanna eat you if they bite. GWs perhaps not so much., it's just they do so much damage if they do bite. Tigers are a bit if an oddity, they tend to take a limb and lose interest. There was that shipwreck though where 2 of the 3 man crew were taken by the same Tiger as they made their way to shore. I think last dude just about made it to a reef as it was closing in on him also
Sorry for rambling, I'm stoned. I was curious when was the first time you heard of a bullshark? When I was a kid like 5years old I fell in love from sharks. I could look at a tooth and tell what kind of shark it was. Not saying I knew all the sharks, but I knew great white , hammerhead, tiger, and a few others. I was all about anything with sharks. I wanted to study sharks when I grew up. I never fulfilled my dream, but I still love sharks. But I really don't think I've heard of a bullshark till like 1988 Anyone else or am I just stupid?. I read every shark book I could find and never saw a bullshark.. I read about a shark that swims up rivers but never got a name.
Bull shark i wasnt aware of until reading the attack books. Probably being a smaller shark i was more interested in the 16-20 footers. So maybe around 12 or 13 i was aware of them and their attacks
Perfect ending to a weekend. Thanks Hal the Shark Man for new outstanding Sharks Happen episode.🤘🦈 I’m also stoked we still have at least 240 Bull Shark attacks to still cover! 10% thus far, such a gnarly crazy fish, my favorite Shark! Also I think they pick you up like that out of water the GW and slam you on top of the water like as it’s concrete to weaken you. Bulls, Tigers, covering Oceanic white tips also, Lemons, Sand Tigers, Hanmerheads, Makos, AAAAND BRONZE WHALERS?!! A bunch of my favorites, and also I agree about measuring GW’s hell that big piece of tail is enough muscle to speed that Godzilla beast of a Shark into bite’n my ass, ha yea you better be measuring that Shark correctly Haha! SUCH A GREAT EPISODE Hal!!!🤘🦈
We don't have Bullsharks in Hawaii( just the ever- friendly Tigers, Hammerheads, & Black-Tip Reef Sharks). The first time I swam in mainland waters, was in Texas. The milky/muddy waters of the Gulf of Mexico off Padre Island where you cant see anything underwater. My friend told me to be careful not to run into a Bull shark😳 "because they're everywhere out there"😳 Instead, I stepped on a Horseshoe crab & got a big hole in my foot (much better creature to encounter)!!😊🦈
@@eringemini7091 Ouch! Aw I hear ya on that one Erin! Sorry that happened to you. Yea crazy how the Gulf water looks crappy on most of the Texas border but here in Florida like Clearwater Beach for instance, the name says it all. The Gulf of Mexico is gorgeous on Gulf side of Florida. On the Atlantic side it’s more of a greenish blue in the Fort Lauderdale area but then down to South Beach Miami, gorgeous blue waters, and Tigers do pass through usually on their way to Tiger Beach in the Bahamas. Swimming around from hanging out in the Keys a bit. Same with big ass Great Hammerheads. Hal can tell ya I’ve talked about my Great Hammerhead Keys story in past videos haha and it was in fact a Great Hammerhead but only about 12 feet and I say only when I was still in a boat having a We need a bigger boat moment, ha! They can get up to around 20 ft which is why I said “only” lol. I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to see one that size just from how gnarly a 12 footer alone was, and it was a GHH alright, with it’s huge dorsal fin, the hammer of the Shark, it’s colors, it’s other fins, it’s creepy smile, all Great Hammerhead. We see Bulls in our Fresh water canals once in a blue moon, unless fishing we can easily see more, and that is the gnarliest stuff ever! That is cool you are from Hawaii! Stay safe in the waters! 🙏🤙🦈🤘
Yeah Hal I'm with you on those white tips.... They are serious sharks. Love that shirt man gonna get that next for sure. Hope ya got that shirt in a size 5 toddler 😆. You know me and my grandson love your shirts
This channel has now became my favorite channel on here. I plan on visiting the website and ordering some merchandise from the store in the near future. As for this list, I agree with you on the top 10, with the difference between my list and yours would be the ranking of the top 4. I personally would list the Oceanic White Tip as number one, based on just pure aggression and the never quit attitude. The Rod Temple attack is the biggest one that sticks out in my mind, with the way they kept coming even after being punched, kicked, etc they weren't going to stop until their prey was gone. Second would be the Bull Shark, based purely on raw power and aggression. Third would be the Great White and then 4th would be the Tiger. After that, probably the Mako at #5,, the fastest shark in the world and just the look of the shark, especially the way the teeth are. One shark that I absolutely love and am amazed by is the Goblin Shark. And I know this is about shark attacks, but just wanted to throw that one out there. It is a very fascinating species of shark. Love the channel, keep up the great work. I would love to be able to do something like what you are doing, I think it is awesome. If you ever want any help with research or anything, I'll volunteer
In Australia, I suspect the majority of attacks attributed to the bronze whaler are more likely either Bull sharks or dusky whalers. The average eye witness wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Dusky whalers are more common and larger than bronze whalers. Decades of misreporting has made bronze whalers so common in people's minds.
One of the craziest animals I would never expect to have attacked a person would be the giant squid. There is only one documented attack and it only cut up a swimmers leg and then left
Thresher is one of my favorite sharks, I really like it's long tail. The great mako is fascinating, like a pokemon it basically evolves into a gw at that point. It's so cool. I wouldn't believe a story of a hammerhead biting a human in half and eating them in 2 bites. Even the great hammerhead looks to have a mouth not wide enough for that. Taking chunks is believable and the body sank below it, looking as if it vanished maybe, but I wouldn't buy it consuming a whole half in a bite lol
As much as whites scare me I think the Bull is the scariest. They are relentless. I've seen some huge ones in the gulf. I saw one that was over 10 feet and huge girth on it. Definitely a scary fish. But a great white would also scare the shit out of me.. the scariest thing for me with white sharks is the live in that dark deep blue water. I was invited to go surfing in the pacific and paddling out looking at that deep blue water I was freaking out. Then I saw a seal and called it a day. My friends called me pussy and I'll happily take the name pussy instead of paddling out into the pacific ocean again. Here in south west Florida we have murky green water and lots of bulls. You can't see them until it's to late. It's really hard to pick between them. Tigers are scary too, but they aren't as angry as a hungry bull shark. I think you're more likely to die from a bull attack than a white or tiger. But you're more likely to live minus a legs or arms with a white or tiger. Bulls destroy their prey. Even the first hit without a bite will break ribs .
It doesn’t take long listening to Hal before you realize there are A HELL OF A LOT MORE shark attacks taking place than the media reports on. Then of course, when they do report on an attack, they always offer as a postscript how many more sharks are killed by humans, than humans killed by sharks, which while being true doesn’t make the attacks taking place any less horrific!
Exactly. It’s the same thing every time “we’re not on their menu”/“you’re more likely to be struck by lightning” etc all the usuals when the uncomfortable truth is that attacks happen a lot more than people realize and that often, the goal is predation
Hi Hal Having seen old documentaries from the 1970s I wonder if the whaling industry is why around Australia sharks were reportedly much bigger back then. That awful industry gave sharks the opportunity to guzzle down on a lot of whale blubber, not so easily available these days. I understand by the the end of the 70s they had mostly closed down the whaling stations there. My grandfather was actually a whaler back in the 1950s, a grim thought, but he was a builder from Scotland and there was a time where he had go to sea on the whaling boats to make ends meet for his large family. He was stationed off of South Georgia which I understand to be just below Argentina. He said all the guys hated the gunner who was exceptionally cruel. I went to visit my friend in Edinburgh and we were at this touristy dock place and in the distance I spotted this piece of old machinery and I just got a shiver and knew exactly what it was before we got any where near to it. It was the harpoon gun from one of the old whaling ships, bolted to the dock for tourists to see.
Thank you for a very informative video. Personally, I have had two encounters-close calls with sharks and both times were with hammerhead sharks in Bradenton and Boca Grande. Now I only swim in swimming pools and consider myself very lucky for not getting bitten. I always swam in less than 6 feet deep water and cannot understand why anyone would want to swim in deeper water.
I've found this video really interesting and informative. I like that it went over the lesser known sharks. The porbeagle is a curiousity to me because of it's similarity to it's bigger and far more dangerous cousin, the Great White Shark. So it's interesting that it doesn't aytack people. I think Greenland Shark or sleeper sharks can get to pretty large sizes (24ft max), so although they are probably more scavengers than predatory to human swimmers, I can't discount that they aren't potentially dangerous because of the size. They have been seen with mooses and polar bears in their stomachs. I think some of these kinds of potentially dangerous sharks are mainly seen in colder regions where there's not much tourists swimming in the sea most of the year, or at deeper depths where nobody but divers can potentially encounter them.
Good educational segment. I'm curious what other types of sharks other than GW's commonly breach and what other species are considered mackerels. Enjoyed the occasional footage pauses, too. Those sand tiger's rank high on my list as one of the creepiest, scariest looking.
Mackerel sharks are GW, Makos, Porbeagle, Salmon shark and another close relative is the Basking shark. Lots of sharks breach, but the biggest to do so are mackerel sharks and spinners, I think.
Tiger Sharks are HUGE & I mean they are in HUGE NUMBERS by Headstone Hell off of Norfolk Island, 16-18 footers no problem that size. They got the cow canteen out there where they cull their old cows & send em out to the sharks & the sharks are MASSIVE. Biggest Tigers I’ve EVER SEEN!
We hear about sharks passing people to attack specific targets….. in 2 cases the person attacked were more active prior and were calming down and relaxing so kinda makes me wonder if they can sense the body temp or they sense perspiration maybe….
I love all sharks but I'm totally fascinated with the GW, they r just hauntingly beautiful ♥️ & it is most definitely on my bucket list to see them either in Australia or SA. as yet I've no one offering to join me 😳😂 my SH t-shirt arrived yesterday, absolutely made up, it's perfect 😊 great sho as always Hal 😊 love from England ♥️
I just love your style. It's like you are just having a casual conversation with us about interesting situations.
No drama, no stupid music, no fake imagery.
Just perfect
HA! Yep !
Do you like Tom Petty?
Absolutely! I always think the exact same! Sharks happen suddenly appeared in my newsfeed occasionally one day when I was searching for videos about marine life, and since then I watch every new episode.
Exactly why this is one of my favourite channels on this platform.
Yeah sometimes I just like to hear his voice but when I want to hear actual reports I'm not confronted by graphic images of` blood and guts
This is the opposite of shark week. I love how he isn't afraid to say that sharks eat people. And you're more afraid of them than you are of them.
I know what you are but what am I? 🤗
I'm more afraid of them than I am of them?
Love love love sharks happen 🦈🦈🦈🖤🖤🖤
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@@soookimbo6571 I'm in a different time zone? Nah I just watched it real quick. I was the 3rd view and 1st comment I think
Me too!
Well I'm old now and lm dying with my leg and my ASS. Yea l don't get people they are no t swimming with little fish. Love the Show Doreen Jones.
Oceanic White was described by Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous shark to interact with.
O.W.s seem to congregate in the Red Sea fairly often, which is why I've never snorkeled there, not even on a trip to Jordan. I didn't venture beyond the beach
I noticed in a lot of these accounts, these tend to just eat people bite by bite 😬 its a horrific way to die
I remember that guy. He invented the Aqua Lung with another French guy. I used to watch all of his shows when I was a kid and didn't realize he was such a eugenicists at the time. I think one of the 70s James Bond villains was based on his values.
Well said, also Ron & Valerie Taylor, Valerie said on her life experiences the same, they are very dangerous
The most annoying thing is
Jacques Cousteau and team, and Ron & Valerie Taylor in its days of shows, never promoted how dangerous it was, always how nice they were, sharks that is
Hal , Can sharks cross breed?
Gw's are by far the scariest but for me the Oceanic White Tip is the one I wouldn't want to come across in the water. Simply because if you see one it's almost certainly trying to attack you. Being a open ocean scavenger the mind set is different. GW's attacks are rare compared to how often people are around them.
Bronze whalers are the castration shark... they scare me.
@@CuchulainAD do they really rip stuff off?
@@CuchulainAD was supposedly a white and a bronze whaler double act that did for that poor Brad dude in Aus. Dude fought so hard even with those two commin to take chunks outta him! RiP
@Jon Stanford Omg YES my friend! Happy to see someone else informed that shares this same opinion.
GW's are utterly terrifying, of course. That really goes without saying. But the Oceanic White Tip...just due to the fact it's an open ocean feeder, meaning food is scarce and they have to take advantage when prey opportunities arise, is a truly frightening fish.
And that point ties right into the fact that if you DO happen to encounter an OWT, you're probably in a VERY bad situation to begin with, sharkiness aside haha. Imagine having already floated in the open ocean ALL day, following a bad ship wreck, and suddenly you peek below the surface to see a massive helix of white tips all funneling up from the depths...and you notice that sunlight starting to dwindle...Now THAT is the definition of true fear to me.
@@conkyjoe8932 HS ‘ shouldn’t have read that comment, you ve been studying with Hal about how to describe a shark attack scene as vivid as possible 😅 indeed alongside the big 3 OWT maybe is the scariest, Jacques Yves Cousteau always defined the OWT as the most dangerous shark of all ‘ Uss Indianapolis crew wouldn’t disapprove of it ‘ no wonder 😅
Ran into a story about some kids who were chased by some bronze whalers and they managed to swim to a jetty. The sharks circled the jetty and fortunately they were rescued before the tide came in.
Do you know where it was?
Great White-largest at 23 feet. Fictional Jaws shark 25 feet. Just gives me chills that the real thing is two feet less than the fictional one. "What were you thinking" segment-I feel sorry for the shark. That was plainly animal abuse. Great show, Hal.
It makes you wonder if there is a 25 footer out there somewhere. They used to say that great whites typically got around 18 feet, but no longer than 20, and that was very rare. So, making Jaws a 25 foot "rogue" shark with a hatred for people truly made him a monster. No matter how big the biggest white was/is, though, they are definitely not monsters. They are fascinating and beautiful creatures that should be respected. When we go into the water, we are in the shark's world. It's their home. There are bound to be attacks sometimes. I also feel sorry for that little shark that the "life guards" killed. That was totally uncalled for and quite cruel. People really suck sometimes.
TRP: 23' that we can prove, but the stories of fish much, much bigger exist. The fishermen around New Zealand and Australia have family or first-hand accounts of fish being 30', or longer.
@@repetemyname842 While this is certainly possible cuz why not, most of those first hand accounts are likely serious overestimations (which ppl almost always do with every shark and many other dangerous animals in general) or blatant lies for clout.
@@mermaid_at_heart213 the shark in Jaws didn't hate people. The movie showed the theory of territoriality of one shark claiming a certain area. They are territorial but not in that way.
It was 23 ft 8 inches, the Malta GW.
Great story telling, I can just leave my audio on put my headphones on and I can actually see and feel like I am there while its happening 🙃 just invisioning what these people have gone through is enough to keep me on the boat,and I grew up on the new England coast.as a child and teenager I would swim fearlessly in the ocean all the way out until the drop off,now after researching and realizing how lucky I am that I am not in one of your campfire stories, lol.i think reading and hearing all these stories and being older now 🙄 maybe I think twice about my interactions with the ocean 🤔 😳 😅 wonderful stories enough to make someone think twice.
I swear I was thinking how awesome it'd be if Hal posted a video tonight. I was thinking that just as this video became available! I love it!!
Thank you for this awesome information! 👏🏻 Love the list and the comparisons. I found it interesting that if the shark bares its teeth, it is likely a great white or a mako. Made a mental note, but hopefully I will never be in a position where I’m trying to ID what kind of shark is headed my way! 🤯
I have a short list of sharks that I wouldn't want to swim close to:
(1) A shark that is longer than 2 feet long
(2) A shark that has teeth that punctures, cuts, slices and dices
(3) A shark that has teeth that will rip you to shreds
(4) A shark that heads out to sea with me in it's mouth
(4) A shark that can get in a swimming pool on it's own
Yep. I think that covers it... I don't scare easily so there's only 4 sharks on my list.
Or are there? You might want to check before posting next time.
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I could believe sharks got to larger sizes back when the oceans were healthier and food sources more plentiful. Especially large sea mammals which populations have declined since the early 1900s.
Agreed
Top Ten Timestamps:
1] Great White Shark [23 foot] : 0:40
2] Bull Shark [14 foot] : 3:31
3] Tiger Shark [18 foot] : 5:15
4] Oceanic White Tip Shark [13 foot] : 9:02
5] Bronze Whaler [14 foot] : 12:25
6] Mako Shark [13-15 foot] : 13:43
7] Lemon Shark [10 foot] : 15:56
8] Grey Nurse/Sand Tiger Shark [11-12 foot] : 16:57
9] Hammerhead [12-20 foot] : 18:00
10] Galapagos Shark [11 foot] : 19:43
Honorable Mentions - 20:24
Includes, Blue Shark, Blue Whaler, Sandbar Shark, Black Tip Reef Shark, Spinner Shark, Thresher Shark, Porbeagle, 7 Gill Shark, Cookie Cutter Shark
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Thank you. That's what I was looking for
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I’ll bet most shark enthusiasts could almost come up with the identical list ,maybe not in that order of course.👍👍👍
Thank you, it's nice of you to do that for everyone.
Your merchandise looks awesome! I love this long sleeved one you're wearing! You're not too bad, yourself! 💎👌🏾
~~ In an effort to not offend, the Great White shark will be officially renamed the "Average Caucasian Shark".
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I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your channel. I'm glad I just happened upon it one day about a month ago. Keep up the great work and never stop doing this.
Most of our attacks in Australia happen south of Brisbane due to crocodiles being a main deterrent to entering the water in warmer waters. Also we have a very large amount of great whites in the colder water. I just don’t swim full stop no mater where 😂
You are the best, Hal. Thank you for all the nice and learning moments I have watching your shows.
Lemons and tigers and bulls. Oh my!!! Love this show. Thanks Hal. Blessings. 🙏🦈🦈🦈🙏
I always listen to the very end because Hal's videos are packed with content.
YAY! Always a great day when I see a notification that there is a new SHARKS HAPPEN! ❤️
Hal's is the channel I never knew I always wanted.
We went to the London Aquarium when my son was just short of a year old and were standing in an observation window at the shark tank. My son was at the front in his pushchair when a Grey Nurse went into attack, swam straight at him before slamming into the window. All the adults gasped and moved back, the other young children never budged.
I saw the video of the guy on the beach. If you watch closely you’ll see that hammerhead was actually chasing a fish and quit when it went into the shallows by the man.
Hal, I gotta tell you, I love the intercutting of funny photos.
I love that too! The cat! 😂🤣
When I got the notification I was transported to Heaven.
😂 and same
Hal, this was an awesome video; so informative. And I agree with you about how to measure sharks. The tail is part of the shark and should be included in the measurement. Btw, love your shirt. My favorite shark from that list is the Great White. They are magnificent apex predators. But, like you, I don’t go in the ocean because I sure don’t want to come face to face with an animal that large. Look forward to the next video. Much love from Tennessee.
Hi Debra, please read my comment above regarding why they don't include the tail. Here's a good example... if I told you that I'd been bitten by a 10 foot shark, then you would easily be able to get a rough idea of the weight, size, bite diameter, etc. because you already know that the tail is excluded. However, if I told you that I'd been bitten by a 10 foot shark and that includes the tail, you wouldn't know whether it was an 8ft shark with a 2-foot tail or a 5 foot shark with a 5 foot tail. And the difference between an 8 foot shark and a 5 foot shark is pretty significant and could be a matter of life of death. Because shark tails vary so much in size, excluding it gives a more accurate reflection of the overall size of the animal. This has been researched in great depth and been proven as the best way of assessing the size of the predators in an ecosystem. Hope that helps! Best wishes...
Hal, (haha my dads name is Harold aka hal) thanks for all you do and what you stand for. I can only imagaine what we could learn with reported water temps with these attacks, though it is conveniently missing. I stopped watching the shark programs years ago on tv due to misleading info that was being taught. I am glad you are here speaking the truth and reporting the facts.
Thanks Hal, always enjoy and look forward to hearing from this channel. 🐋🇬🇧✌️🌧️☔
Incredible. I have a 35 lb labradoodle and he has a strong grip when we play tug of war. Twenty three feet !!! that's like putting 4 six ft long couches end to end....nope.I heard an eyewitness of the great white attacking and consuming Simon Nellist describe the shark as big as a car.
Hi Hal! i have to say i agree with your list i would not want to run into any of them sharks on that list. i lived in Hawaii for 6 years and i was in the water everyday and i never saw any shark when in the water not saying they were not there i was just lucky enough that none wanted to take a bite out of me. great show hal see on the next video!!
Hal, how about ranking the the Top 5 worst shark attacks of all time?
That is in the works. Will be 2 top 5s. Fatal and non
@@SharksHappen- This is fantastic news!
When you mentioned the grey shark you brought back floods of memories of my childhood in Durban in the 1960s. We used to sit in our car with mom and watch the Lazy Greys as we used to call them at the river mouth of the Blue Lagoon justNorth of Durbans main beaches. I now live in False Bay Cape Town and refuse to swim in the sea anymore. The idea of the great whites terrify me. I miss my beloved Durban beaches where I grew up and never considered a shark attack as we had shark nets from the early sixties.
Those nets made s huge difference. I think put in after Maragaret Hobbs attack
My shark stories- Barwon Heads, Victoria- Caught a small Mako- hooked a prolly 7 foot threasher, it did some jumping (hooked on a 1.0 with white bait ! ) my scariest moment- Great Barrier reef, of course I ignored the staff and snorklled out beyond the ropes, over coral island with 1 foot of water, then suddenly I'm over the edge of the biggest drop off of murky water....boy did I shit! I had images of a big tiger just waiting for something to swim off.... I scraped my belly swimmin back as fast as I could!
Hal, knowing these attacks so well, do you ever have nightmares about these attacks or being attacked yourself?
Only 1 about sharks. Used to have a recurring one where i see a black dot way down in crystal clear water. The dot quickly grows to a huge orca mouth open and id wake up. Multiple times, same dream
@@SharksHappen that was a very " cinematic" description. Good job painting that scary picture Hal, it's not necessarily easy to convey a sense of terror in writing in just a few words. You did it.
Another great show, and I MUST purchase that cool longsleeve you had on today's video.
Peace.
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Gosh I would hate that.
When I've had reoccurring dreams before I found the way to stop them was to ask myself lots of questions, sometimes with a pen and paper.
It's amazing what your mind will tell you if you start asking searching questions.
Eventually I'd get the answer and the difficult reoccurring dream would stop.
I hope that helps ☘️
@@AlisonPerini sharknado!!!
I've had a nightmare in which I'm scuba in the deep and when O2 starts running low I look up to begin ascent but there's a massive white circling above. I can't get past it before it will attack so Im stuck hiding in the deep dark water below. Right as I run out of oxygen I wake up.
Hey, Hal, are you familiar with the song "Mack the Knife"? The Bobby Darin version is my favorite. I always think of your channel now when I hear it.
From " Three Penny Opera".
I adore Bobby Darin💙💋
I sing it at Karaoke at Ocean View when in the keys
@@SharksHappen Good choice! 👍
1. Great White shark 23 ft
2. Bull shark 14 ft
3. Tiger Shark 18 ft
4. Oceanic White Tip 13 ft
5. Bronze Whaler 14 ft
6. Mako 15 ft
7. Lemon 10 ft
8. Sand tiger(grey nurse) 12 ft
9. Hammerhead 20 ft
10. Galapagos 11 ft
Others
Blue Shark
Sandbar Shark
Black Tip Reef Shark
Thresher Shark
7 Gill Shark
Cookie Cutter Shark
I’ve been ere since the beginning and I love watching you’re channel grow 😊 I tell everyone who will listen about you’re channel 😂 I can’t wait to celebrate 100k subscribers with you and watch you get your silver UA-cam plaque 🙏 you deserve every bit of it with all the research you put into you’re channel 💯 keep going Hal
The 23 ft is accurate, but very rare I think. Great show, thanks Hal
Woohoo. I've been waiting for this episode for aaaages. Thanks Hal 👍
Hi Hal! I have to say you have the coolest clothes of anybody on you tube! They look so good with your tan. I think your list of sharks was spot on. I don't want to see any shark so I don't go in to the ocean. I don't even want to be on a boat in the ocean. Took a cruise and never again. We went over New Year's week and all I could think about was the Poseidon Adventure 1972. I was so excited when I saw your post. I love this show and the way you do it.
And, here I thought I was the only one with a shark/open ocean/cruise liners phobia!! I guess that's what beach livin' will do to a persons psyche.
Me too. I won't go into the oceans for many reasons and I live in Florida! Happy with our pool.
I watched John Wilson fishing safari in Namibia...he was pulling in massive bronze whalers from the beach..he points the camera down the beach and there's loads of people in the sea, he chuckled and said this shark is considered a man eater in Australia but the don't bother anyone in Namibia....crazy stuff!
I live in a 22 x 22 foot studio. When you talk about the length - my entire space. I shake my head in awe and wonder.
I went camping in the Isles of Scilly and they were offering to take people swimming with seals, people laughed at me when I said “no thanks, sharks eat seals, I’m not getting in there!!” Watching you Hal, I’m so glad I didn’t! Nobody was bitten that I heard of, and everyone had a great time, but not a chance in hell was I going in to be the first victim in years! People think the UK doesn’t have sharks, they need to watch your show!
We love your shows, wish you could put a new video out every day! Picked out which items from your store I'm getting and Placing order tomorrow. 4 of my family members love these shows as much as I do. They will be thrilled to have merch of yours. Keep It up and before you know it you'll be up to 100k in no time!! 😀
I love the eye contact on the bronze whaler! He watches everything, and keeps his eyes open.
Filled up with gas today , it " was an attempt to predate " , I got home and my wife said " what were you thinkin "
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My brother thought the moon landing was in 1955. That was _definitively_ an attempt to *predate* . 👍
Losing limbs every time we fill up in mi… being robbed here with cost of everything no diff than when in the keys. At least no sticker shock when i go and get gas down there last time 80 cents cheaper than here
Thank you so much for that video! The last accurate rating is more than 10 years old. Very appreciated with your stats and experience. I can agree to Great White on pole position although I´d rather encounter one of these on a surfboard compared to a bull or tiger with no defense. Not sure about Lemon shark placement. Great hammer heads attack way less people than blacktip sharks. Interesting you put the Galapagos shark in there since they are quite resticitive to a certain area. I think we would all come up with slighly different lists. Massive thank you for sharing yours!
I'm surprised the blue shark didn't make the list. Always heard they were known attackers, more so than the gray nurse, which was always said to be more docile.
Thank you for your insightful and well researched assessment of the comparative dangers posed by various sharks around the world. I wasn't surprised about the top four, but was surprised to learn that the mako and the great hammerhead weren't higher on the list than they were. No argument here, because I haven't done nearly the work that you have done in researching the history of shark attacks. I've simply always assumed that those two were some of the worst that one could run into.
That is one of the reasons your channel is so useful and important. While we don't have much choice about the sharks we happen to encounter when in the water, at least you can help to educate the public about what we need to watch out for. I, for one, never knew that bronze whalers were particularly dangerous.
On the other hand, I've always assumed that the porbeagle had to be a dangerous shark, just because of its terrifying morphology. Glad to know that it's probably harmless!
Honestly, the cookie cutter sharks are maybe the creepiest fish I've ever heard about! Those little bastards are truly the piranhas of the sea, and appear to have been designed by the devil himself!
My personal favorite shark is the sand tiger, just because I like their smiles. I don't know why I'm sharing any of this, but what the hell? I both like the fact that they aren't the terrors of the deep that the dreaded white sharks are, (brrrrr!) and also the fact that they seem to be able to take care of themselves. Long live the sand tiger, says I!
Thanks again, Hal, for your fascinating channel. I've learned a lot from you, and I'm glad you're sharing what you've discovered with the public. I am not in favor of treating sharks as the enemy- hunting and killing them, or anything of the sort- I just want to stay out of their way, and hopefully more people will be more careful in the water because of what you're making us aware of.
All the best! --N
Keep bending the strings. Hal. you are a great story teller.
I agree with you in how shark's lengths are measured. We all love, what were you thinking?
G'day Hal, can't get enough of your show. I was wondering if you'd ever heard of the case of Paul de Gelder? He was a Royal Australian Navy clearance diver who got majorly nibbled on by a big bull shark while undergoing night training in Sydney Harbour. Inspirational shit, those 'bubble heads' are definitely built different.
Yes. I think i covered him in the last handful of shows actually
I’m still binging through the videos at the rate of at least 5 a day, some I watch more than once!
I always look forward to your videos. Thanks for all your research.
I loved your episode today Hal, great information, thanks for this. I think the hammerhead was chasing rays in that clip, you can see the ray swim towards the shore 🤔
Have a super day 😀🦈
Yep, I could see it in my cell phone
I've seen that clip, too. The hammerhead was chasing rays and backed off when one it was chasing swam behind the person.
People absolutely love your channel! Can't wait to see you hit the 100k mark then 1m. Should come fairly quick!
I'm not saying sharks are afraid of me, but no shark has ever dared to come near my house.
Great video, Hal!
For me I'd go with:
1) Oceanic White Tip
2) Bull
3) Great White
4) Tiger
5) Bronze Whaler
... as my top 5. The OWT has killed 1000s of people throughout history and isn't high on many lists because of the difficulty in recording attacks for these sharks but if you see one (ignoring diving deliberately, etc), then you're likely in deep water and/or have just survived a plane crash or ship accident; so, you're in trouble. Its a deadly shark as it is constantly hunting and very aggressive due to scarcity of food in the ocean deep. Think Hal should've put it higher but, as he says, he could argue for it to be second.
For me I think the Oceanic White Tip makes the top 3. Bulls and OCWs oftentimes wanna eat you if they bite. GWs perhaps not so much., it's just they do so much damage if they do bite. Tigers are a bit if an oddity, they tend to take a limb and lose interest. There was that shipwreck though where 2 of the 3 man crew were taken by the same Tiger as they made their way to shore. I think last dude just about made it to a reef as it was closing in on him also
Those are probably in order of percentage of attempts to predate. Good list
@@SharksHappen I agree with the list. 100%. Gw’s always be my number one. You definitely got the list right.
@Richard Harrison This is my list. If Jacque Cousteau says OWT are the most dangerous I’d agreed him. Though I have a ton of respect for Hal as well.
My man Hal back at it again with the quality content!
Awesome show Hal as usual.
Mine are
1. Bull shark
2. Great white
3. Tiger
Sorry for rambling, I'm stoned. I was curious when was the first time you heard of a bullshark? When I was a kid like 5years old I fell in love from sharks. I could look at a tooth and tell what kind of shark it was. Not saying I knew all the sharks, but I knew great white , hammerhead, tiger, and a few others. I was all about anything with sharks. I wanted to study sharks when I grew up. I never fulfilled my dream, but I still love sharks. But I really don't think I've heard of a bullshark till like 1988 Anyone else or am I just stupid?. I read every shark book I could find and never saw a bullshark.. I read about a shark that swims up rivers but never got a name.
Yes. Always thought it a strange name.... like Bull or bulldog shark?
Bull shark i wasnt aware of until reading the attack books. Probably being a smaller shark i was more interested in the 16-20 footers. So maybe around 12 or 13 i was aware of them and their attacks
I'm so intrigued when I get your videos 👍 🏖️🌊Can't wait to see what you have next.
Me, too 😊
Perfect ending to a weekend. Thanks Hal the Shark Man for new outstanding Sharks Happen episode.🤘🦈 I’m also stoked we still have at least 240 Bull Shark attacks to still cover! 10% thus far, such a gnarly crazy fish, my favorite Shark! Also I think they pick you up like that out of water the GW and slam you on top of the water like as it’s concrete to weaken you. Bulls, Tigers, covering Oceanic white tips also, Lemons, Sand Tigers, Hanmerheads, Makos, AAAAND BRONZE WHALERS?!! A bunch of my favorites, and also I agree about measuring GW’s hell that big piece of tail is enough muscle to speed that Godzilla beast of a Shark into bite’n my ass, ha yea you better be measuring that Shark correctly Haha! SUCH A GREAT EPISODE Hal!!!🤘🦈
We don't have Bullsharks in Hawaii( just the ever- friendly Tigers, Hammerheads, & Black-Tip Reef Sharks). The first time I swam in mainland waters, was in Texas. The milky/muddy waters of the Gulf of Mexico off Padre Island where you cant see anything underwater. My friend told me to be careful not to run into a Bull shark😳 "because they're everywhere out there"😳 Instead, I stepped on a Horseshoe crab & got a big hole in my foot (much better creature to encounter)!!😊🦈
@@eringemini7091 Ouch! Aw I hear ya on that one Erin! Sorry that happened to you. Yea crazy how the Gulf water looks crappy on most of the Texas border but here in Florida like Clearwater Beach for instance, the name says it all. The Gulf of Mexico is gorgeous on Gulf side of Florida. On the Atlantic side it’s more of a greenish blue in the Fort Lauderdale area but then down to South Beach Miami, gorgeous blue waters, and Tigers do pass through usually on their way to Tiger Beach in the Bahamas. Swimming around from hanging out in the Keys a bit. Same with big ass Great Hammerheads. Hal can tell ya I’ve talked about my Great Hammerhead Keys story in past videos haha and it was in fact a Great Hammerhead but only about 12 feet and I say only when I was still in a boat having a We need a bigger boat moment, ha! They can get up to around 20 ft which is why I said “only” lol. I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to see one that size just from how gnarly a 12 footer alone was, and it was a GHH alright, with it’s huge dorsal fin, the hammer of the Shark, it’s colors, it’s other fins, it’s creepy smile, all Great Hammerhead. We see Bulls in our Fresh water canals once in a blue moon, unless fishing we can easily see more, and that is the gnarliest stuff ever! That is cool you are from Hawaii! Stay safe in the waters! 🙏🤙🦈🤘
Hal your show us by far one of my favoriate channels now. I think you could expand to doing interviews and other content.
Love this channel. Sharks scare the shit out of me
Such a great channel, Hal. Ive been subbed since early on & glad to see your channel & subs growing. Best content of its kind on the platform! 👍
Yeah Hal I'm with you on those white tips.... They are serious sharks. Love that shirt man gonna get that next for sure. Hope ya got that shirt in a size 5 toddler 😆. You know me and my grandson love your shirts
In Australia, Grey Nurse sharks are thought of as harmless.
Great list bud! pretty spot on.
The most dangerous are those swimming around you in an aggressive manner.
This channel has now became my favorite channel on here. I plan on visiting the website and ordering some merchandise from the store in the near future.
As for this list, I agree with you on the top 10, with the difference between my list and yours would be the ranking of the top 4. I personally would list the Oceanic White Tip as number one, based on just pure aggression and the never quit attitude. The Rod Temple attack is the biggest one that sticks out in my mind, with the way they kept coming even after being punched, kicked, etc they weren't going to stop until their prey was gone. Second would be the Bull Shark, based purely on raw power and aggression. Third would be the Great White and then 4th would be the Tiger. After that, probably the Mako at #5,, the fastest shark in the world and just the look of the shark, especially the way the teeth are.
One shark that I absolutely love and am amazed by is the Goblin Shark. And I know this is about shark attacks, but just wanted to throw that one out there. It is a very fascinating species of shark.
Love the channel, keep up the great work. I would love to be able to do something like what you are doing, I think it is awesome. If you ever want any help with research or anything, I'll volunteer
once again Hal top notch due diligence what a list. Ill take your word for it and just stay the hell out of the ocean. I will enjoy it from shore.
In Australia, I suspect the majority of attacks attributed to the bronze whaler are more likely either Bull sharks or dusky whalers. The average eye witness wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Dusky whalers are more common and larger than bronze whalers. Decades of misreporting has made bronze whalers so common in people's minds.
I love the what were you thinking...makes me roll my eyes out loud. Thanks for the great content
One of the craziest animals I would never expect to have attacked a person would be the giant squid. There is only one documented attack and it only cut up a swimmers leg and then left
I love this channel!!!!
Another outstanding video Hal, keep them coming 👍 ☝️ 💥 👏 👌 😀
Killing a shark for no good reason = 👎👎👎
Thanks Hal for another great video. 👍👍👍
Thresher is one of my favorite sharks, I really like it's long tail. The great mako is fascinating, like a pokemon it basically evolves into a gw at that point. It's so cool. I wouldn't believe a story of a hammerhead biting a human in half and eating them in 2 bites. Even the great hammerhead looks to have a mouth not wide enough for that. Taking chunks is believable and the body sank below it, looking as if it vanished maybe, but I wouldn't buy it consuming a whole half in a bite lol
As much as whites scare me I think the Bull is the scariest. They are relentless. I've seen some huge ones in the gulf. I saw one that was over 10 feet and huge girth on it. Definitely a scary fish. But a great white would also scare the shit out of me.. the scariest thing for me with white sharks is the live in that dark deep blue water. I was invited to go surfing in the pacific and paddling out looking at that deep blue water I was freaking out. Then I saw a seal and called it a day. My friends called me pussy and I'll happily take the name pussy instead of paddling out into the pacific ocean again. Here in south west Florida we have murky green water and lots of bulls. You can't see them until it's to late. It's really hard to pick between them. Tigers are scary too, but they aren't as angry as a hungry bull shark. I think you're more likely to die from a bull attack than a white or tiger. But you're more likely to live minus a legs or arms with a white or tiger. Bulls destroy their prey. Even the first hit without a bite will break ribs .
It doesn’t take long listening to Hal before you realize there are A HELL OF A LOT MORE shark attacks taking place than the media reports on. Then of course, when they do report on an attack, they always offer as a postscript how many more sharks are killed by humans, than humans killed by sharks, which while being true doesn’t make the attacks taking place any less horrific!
Exactly. It’s the same thing every time “we’re not on their menu”/“you’re more likely to be struck by lightning” etc all the usuals when the uncomfortable truth is that attacks happen a lot more than people realize and that often, the goal is predation
Hi Hal
Having seen old documentaries from the 1970s I wonder if the whaling industry is why around Australia sharks were reportedly much bigger back then. That awful industry gave sharks the opportunity to guzzle down on a lot of whale blubber, not so easily available these days. I understand by the the end of the 70s they had mostly closed down the whaling stations there.
My grandfather was actually a whaler back in the 1950s, a grim thought, but he was a builder from Scotland and there was a time where he had go to sea on the whaling boats to make ends meet for his large family. He was stationed off of South Georgia which I understand to be just below Argentina.
He said all the guys hated the gunner who was exceptionally cruel.
I went to visit my friend in Edinburgh and we were at this touristy dock place and in the distance I spotted this piece of old machinery and I just got a shiver and knew exactly what it was before we got any where near to it. It was the harpoon gun from one of the old whaling ships, bolted to the dock for tourists to see.
Thank you for a very informative video. Personally, I have had two encounters-close calls with sharks and both times were with hammerhead sharks in Bradenton and Boca Grande. Now I only swim in swimming pools and consider myself very lucky for not getting bitten. I always swam in less than 6 feet deep water and cannot understand why anyone would want to swim in deeper water.
I've found this video really interesting and informative. I like that it went over the lesser known sharks.
The porbeagle is a curiousity to me because of it's similarity to it's bigger and far more dangerous cousin, the Great White Shark. So it's interesting that it doesn't aytack people.
I think Greenland Shark or sleeper sharks can get to pretty large sizes (24ft max), so although they are probably more scavengers than predatory to human swimmers, I can't discount that they aren't potentially dangerous because of the size. They have been seen with mooses and polar bears in their stomachs.
I think some of these kinds of potentially dangerous sharks are mainly seen in colder regions where there's not much tourists swimming in the sea most of the year, or at deeper depths where nobody but divers can potentially encounter them.
Good educational segment. I'm curious what other types of sharks other than GW's commonly breach and what other species are considered mackerels. Enjoyed the occasional footage pauses, too. Those sand tiger's rank high on my list as one of the creepiest, scariest looking.
Mackerel sharks are GW, Makos, Porbeagle, Salmon shark and another close relative is the Basking shark. Lots of sharks breach, but the biggest to do so are mackerel sharks and spinners, I think.
Great White, Mako, porbeagle, Basking and Salmon shark are the Mackerels.
great love your style the Clint Eastwood of sharks. Did you hear about the recent shipwreck rescue that they made with a helicopter ?!
Have not heard of it yet but will take a look
Id never heard of a St Josephs Shark until recently. Dont think it would do much damage due to its size but dont fancy its posionous spine
Just ran across an injury from a spine of another shark. Small tho so didnt look into it
Shoutout to the Dusky shark for an extra honourable mention.
Great vid Hal.
Its the girth of A Great White too
Loved this episode alot!!😁Thank you Hal.
My best asset has always been my memory
Hey there, Hal! Love the shirt! You've shared some interesting topics tonight.
You keep'em comin'.🏄♂️🦈
Thanks Hal, their eyes freak me but. That lid over the eye.
Your videos are so entertaining and relaxing oddly 😉😋 My favourite shark is the Blue shark. Glad it got a mention 😊 💙
Tiger Sharks are HUGE & I mean they are in HUGE NUMBERS by Headstone Hell off of Norfolk Island, 16-18 footers no problem that size. They got the cow canteen out there where they cull their old cows & send em out to the sharks & the sharks are MASSIVE. Biggest Tigers I’ve EVER SEEN!
We hear about sharks passing people to attack specific targets….. in 2 cases the person attacked were more active prior and were calming down and relaxing so kinda makes me wonder if they can sense the body temp or they sense perspiration maybe….
I dont know. One of the biggest mysteries about sharks.
Excellent information. Never boring.
Good morning Hal ! SH with coffee on a Monday brilliant way to start the week !
That measuring is strange. Thank for your list
I love all sharks but I'm totally fascinated with the GW, they r just hauntingly beautiful ♥️ & it is most definitely on my bucket list to see them either in Australia or SA. as yet I've no one offering to join me 😳😂 my SH t-shirt arrived yesterday, absolutely made up, it's perfect 😊 great sho as always Hal 😊 love from England ♥️