Diver fights off great white shark narrowly escaping with ripped flipper
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- A brave fisherman fought off a great white shark as the beast lunged at him multiple times during an intense nine-minute-long stand-off (NOTE: The video has been edited down).
While diving off the coast of Perth, Australia, on September 7, Joe Petrovich and some friends were spearfishing but he almost ended up as the prey.
Joe had strayed about 300 metres away from the boat, trying to hunt down a school of pink snapper before a four-and-a-half-metre long shark weighing approximately 400kg appeared.
Moments after the video begins, the shark checks and tilts its head to assess Joe’s defences.
On the fourth circle, the shark leant in further and eventually launched at Joe, who was only able to parry the potentially fatal attack with his gun as the shark’s bite narrowly missed under his right arm.
The shark retreated before almost instantly lunging again but for Joe’s legs, this time taking a chunk out of his left swimming fin as the footage shows a great deal of commotion and struggle.
Joe began his escape back to the boat as the shark continued to circle threatening attacks with each pass.
Eventually, Joe is able to the shark a taste of the pointed spear tip which gives the message to the shark that Joe is also a threat which slowly defuses the encounter.
The shark slowly backs off and Joe successfully makes it back to the safety of the vessel.
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His calmness under terrifying circumstances saved his life. He was in control the whole time
He was not in control
@@d1rty129 Maybe he was talking about the shark
This is one of the best shark videos I've ever seen. Amazing footage!
If you’re going to go spear fishing, a notoriously dangerous sport, then this has got to be one of the best examples of how to survive an interested shark
The camoflauge of the GW skin to the ocean is just terrifying and impressive plus they don't have to be far away to hide so easily.
Most frightening is every time the shark dips out of sight since it could possibly be the start of a vertical assault
Yeah the fact that it didn't Rocket Up From Below proves it was a little bit confused and just going for an exploratory bite, if that thing really wanted you nothing would stop it
At 35mph
Great Whites attack from below, this did not seem like anything but exploratory as the other comment said.
@@BURGAWMMA Definitely a slightly irritated shark. If he truly wanted lunch i think that might have looked slightly more alarming.
@@JahRasta01 I think the dude would have got munched if he sat there and took it but the shark wasn't treating him like a prey item more or less a inanimate objects that might be edible
This made me so desperate! And the diver was so smart. Never just swimming away, always keeping his eyes on the shark and not panicking! Hats off to him, I would have freaked out.
The diver held his nerve really well. If that was me I would have been so terrified I would have misjudged the spear and gotten bitten.
The most important thing is to keep your eye on the shark. As long as you are watching it then you've got a better chance of survival as they like to sneak up on you. Most shark attack victims never see the shark that attacked them and this is the way sharks like it. If he had tried to swim away the shark would have most likely attacked him.
The diver was too conservative. The shark was trying to decide whether or not to attack...he was thinking about it quite seriously. The diver should have aggressively tried to stick his spear point in the gills. This would have convinced the shark the risk was too high. That would backfire against a bull shark but against a white, it was the smarter choice. You can easily see the point in this video where the shark decides that he is leaning towards an attack. The diver should have never let it get to that point.
@@bobbybearing1767 ....the diver did misjudge and nearly lost an arm. he waited until the shark was already coming for a test bite to get aggressive with the spear. by that time he didn't have a good target. Its a lot easier to stick them in the side then when they are already coming at you.
If he was smart he wouldn't be in the water in the first place....
Few people in their lifetimes will ever have so terrifying an encounter as this one.
Few people are swimming with dead fish attached to them as well.
@@justin57153 point
Point is dead fish belong out of the water, not attached to your waste.
...and survive it!
I had something similar when I left a strip club in Las Vegas.
A very large, muscular, drunk guy,with cornrows, who was thrown out for fighting, about 30 minutes earlier, decided I was his next victim, when my friend decided to leave.
I just kept him at a distance, slowly backing toward the front door, until I saw the bouncers, go back inside, and close the doors..... ugg...
Then i slowly started toward the street.
Lucky my friend pulled up with the window open, and I just ran, and dove, into the back window, and he sped away.
Watching this video, reminded me of that event.... so many years ago.
I still have a small scar on my jaw-line from the 'skull with a helmet' ring he had on.
Amazing video. His ability to stay calm and not panic undoubtedly saved his life. Remember, fight or flee and fleeing was not an option.
When you panic you lose 85% of your ability to make good decisions whether you're swimming with a great white or get caught in a riptide 85% of your ability to make good decisions go on.
That was one of the most dangerous 1 on 1 encounters with a great white I've seen aside from someone actually being attacked wow
It's quite intense isn't it? Lucky guy!
@@DeepBlueDiscovery I guess you were the lucky guy because if that shark had had the intension to go at you, your speargun wouldn't have made a difference. I am glad you didn't use it on him or her. That shark was just curious.
@@ugotlj4133 yes, maybe a deadly test bite but these come from curiosity. still you are right in a way. good he suevived.
This is horrifying. I was wondering...would the better thing have been to toss out the fish to let him have it, or is that just going to get his hunger reflexes going and make him more likely to attack you?
He was right by the boat. It looks intentional to me
The man did really well in maintaining sight and a defensive attitude. 300 m from the boat in open water? Respect! If he had panicked, Whitey would have gone for it. I encountered a great white one day while scuba diving off San Clemente, CA. We were able to keep eyes on the whole time, while slowly(!) kicking back to the boat, which was close by. The other divers said we should be honored by the encounter - I told them what they could do with the honor. Being sized up for lunch really sucks 😕! No more dives that day 😂
If he just poked his head out of the water and screamed at the ship to come pick him up it would've been 10 times better. He definitely panicked. He was swimming frantically to the boat. The only thing that was stopping him from swimming faster was that he was missing one fin. Just keeping the shark on your eyes is not going to stop a 4 meter apex predator from attacking you. Neither will the speargun. The way he poked the shark with the speargun was what provoked the attack and why it tried to bite the diver. It was pretty unnecessary and it probably just made the shark mad and that's why he started following him all the way to the boat. He can be happy it wasn't like a bull shark because he definitely wouldn't get away without being attacked after provoking it with the speargun. You can swim slowly to the boat just like you said. The crew might not hear you scream (which I mean they should because it's literally their job to pick you up if something goes wrong) so you need to swim to the boat so swimming very very slowly while keeping the shark on your eyes might be just fine but if the guy didn't poke the shark with the spear and just stayed in one place without panicking the shark would simply lose interest and just swim away because it could sense it's not afraid of him and he would realize it's nothing to eat. This just made the shark think that it might actually be something to eat because it swims away like prey does. He's lucky great whites are pretty tolerant and they don't attack even if you do quite a lot of mistakes. You can see so many videos where even kids swim and splash around like crazy and there's a big great white swimming next to them and it doesn't do anything.
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@@xtherealest you and I must’ve watched a different video. That shark was hungry and aggressive for food. It tried to take a nibble on that guy and he was smart to fend it off. He didn’t have the luxury of removing his regulator and yelling over to the boat. He had to keep an eye on that shark the whole time. I’ve been in flight or fight situations before and it’s very difficult to control your breathing and your reactions. He did a fine job.
“Everyone got a plan till they get bit in half “
Shark Tyson. 🦈🥊
I’ve had a 5 mtr GW turn up to say hi and hang out while diving with students. This guy did well.
what is CA
Super scary! That shark was not playing. Glad you got out safely-great footage. I don't know how you stayed so calm, but good job.
If the shark wasn’t playing, this guy would’ve been bird feed in seconds
Shark was just curious. Then went for a test bite. Luckily for the diver it was more curious than hungry
@@drdrew3 incorrect. You clearly see the shark is thinking about if its worth the risk to attack or not. This wasnt a test bite. The shark kept comming back 2a3 times to bite. Thats not a test bite. Its testing if its worth ennough to attack him as a prey.
The shark just wanted his fish but the diver wasn't going to give them up without a fight. What a legend.
You and I have no idea what the shark truely wanted... we can educationally guess all day but he could of been curious or a mentally ill shark or wanted the fish! but knowing exactly what nah I doubt it was the fish he wanted. They most likely brought him there with the blood but his curiosity probably changed key word probably
Lots of great white attack experts who have probably never dived let alone had an encounter with a large shark. Hats' off to the diver.
Yeah, shark week is a thing my dude. lol Everyone gets at least a couple days training of great whites yearly. xp
Mate you are doing the same thing by pointing it out. LOL! Oh, and I've encountered a great white, mate - in real life.
@@MrPrice2U
Cool story bro. I'm an ex commercial fisherman and have 35 years of diving experience. I've had plenty of shark encounters, including great whites. Go back to sleep buddy 🤫
@@MrPrice2U he's not claiming expertise in his comment, u mook. He's simply giving an accurate statement that the diver did really well and that most people have never even been diving let alone near great whites.
Diver was bad. He needed to give up his fish and could have avoided it all. Marine biologist here
This guy was proactive about his survival and did save his own life! 👍🏽
Imagine all other videos that may have been taken that the world isn’t able to see.
True, a guy that witnessed Simon Nellist's death told that there was another, much more graphic video - shot from another angle, with the shark popping out of the water with Simon in its jaws, still alive... He said the guy either deleted the video out of respect for the family or the police seized it but it didn't make it to the internet. I'm wondering if we will ever see a different video of Cameron Robbins...
Lol with a spear gun😅 Everybody could do that,this spear could kill the shark easily
Thanks for being alive and sharing the footage!
You bet!
Never ever keep speared fish close to your body ( 1:17 ); likely the shark was going after that meal and the guy was simply in the way. Either leave the fish tied to your gun’s line by the float or have the boat fetch your catch, lessens the chance of a close encounter. Having said that, hat’s off to the guy; incredible presence of mind.
No, it was interested in him. You may know tropical sharks well, but Whites are another thing all together. If it was interested in an easy feed (like most tropical sharks would be), it would have pissed off after he dropped the fish. Whites in California subsist off of mammals primarily. They're not "confused" or interested in fish. He was interested in predating the guy and had he not put up a staunch "you can have me, but you'll have to pay" vibe.... He would have certainly been killed. Not all whites will consume a human body afterwards (maybe we taste bad), but we are definitely in the same class as their usual prey. This is a stark difference than say bulls, tigers, etc. who do eat fish primarily.
@@ianseibert8410 Even if that were the case, it does not help one bit having dying/dead fish hanging from your body, especially if you’re prone to running into large predators.
I think both of you are right. My friend told me he was diving with a handful of friends years ago somewhere in Southern California and he reluctantly got stuck with carrying the bag. He kept it quite some yards back I don’t remember exact amount he told me but he said something hit it like a freight train and started dragging him Like a rag doll with it. Most likely a great white or large mako. He was able to unhook and release it. He never saw what it was the visibility wasn’t the best. Scary shit.
Screw that, the shark was trying to find your blind spot .
"Excuse me sir... We've been trying to reach you in regards to your vehicles warranty".
"Have you heard of our lord and savior jesus christ, good sir?"
These responses are so fucking played out on every fucking shark video.
Bro"drop ur fish, wave at safety boat, stand ur ground, and pray he dont come at u like a train. GOOD JOB! Awsome camera work considering the circumstances dude. Really cool!
Came on to say the same thing! That’s all it wanted lol…
I must say you have balls of steel to go face to face with JAWS like this ! I think the Great White, along with some other sharks as well, are very Territorial ! And possibly this one wanted you MORE out of his Sea Domain Usual Haunt Area than to feed on you. At least in my opinion. Thanks for the upload !
yeh, the guy in the video handled this incredibly well imo. Thanks for watching.
Balkan genetic 😂
Thanks Deep Blue 👍
One of your best videos yet
Yeh it's amazing isn't it?
Has to be the best shark video out there, dude handled that perfectly
That split second transitioning onto the boat probably seemed like an infinite amount of time . Way to keep them in sight and composed !
Thats like waving a dead rabbit in front of a lion with a pointy stick between you and him for defence 😂
My toes curled up so much they touched the heels of my feet 😱
lol. Thanks for watching :-)
You jumped onto your boat way slower than I would have
Think I just accidentally discovered I can hold my breath for 4 minutes & 36 seconds
That's some crazy footage. Good job defending your life there.
I know, right?
Holy shit, the other diver appearing out of nowhere at 03:59 scared the life out of me.
Spearfishing in great white shark territory! what could possibly go wrong? Darwin award for you sir.
Is there any fish really worth catching knowing you are swimming around with Great White Sharks?
Yes, it is the most exciting thing I've ever done. Never seen a great white myself though, tigers and bulls but nothing in my life has ever been like spearfishing reefs
Bro they sell fishing lines and hooks so you don’t have to get in the water with sharks
@@Jack-bn6rc I'm sure sky diving without a parachute is exciting too.
@@Jack-bn6rc
SMH...You're pride and ego is going to get yourself killed or maimed one day.
Are you fishing for food or just needing to get a thrill?
There's all sorts of other ways to fish, without being in the killzone with dead bloody fish in your bag.
If thrill is what you want, then go right ahead and see who wins that game when a great white shark really wants to eat.
You will have ZERO CHANCE.!
I have zero empathy for spear fisherman. Why?...because it's not like that is the only way to catch and eat fish.
Spear fishing is totally a ego thing that feeds the pride of the person.
You love the attention that you receive from it and videos that you may share from it.
Chomp Chomp
@@The-GreenHornet God, just shut up. There are plenty of sports that are inherently dangerous. People die from Motocross all the time and people still do it. There's scientists that literally have swam with multiple 20 foot great whites WHILE they were feeding. Probably the most cuck response I've ever seen. You're probably 65 and have literally nothing better to do with your life
The crazy part about this was that the shark wasn't even really trying. It seemed pretty relaxed and was more just curious but even a curious Great White is still dangerous. If it really wanted to attack/eat a person it would probably lie in ambush. That's the most creepy part about the ocean. The most dangerous sharks are the ones you can't even see, lying in wait to charge you in a kill zone.
It most likely just found the guy a nuisance and was trying to chase him off. There was one encounter I saw where Sperm Whales were chasing away a wildlife photographer who videotaped them giving birth. The photographer claimed one had its mouth around his feet while he paddled away.
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If there's something to take from that, it's that whales, and possibly sharks, find us a nuisance--like we see pigeons, squirrels and rats. At least they don't poison us, the way we do them.
I've read that its common behavior for predators (eg. bears, sharks, lions, etc.) to cautiously approach unfamiliar animals to size them up (see if a threat or possible prey) instead of rushing in as great whites do when attacking seals (usual prey they know).
@@davewolf6256 no. He wanted to eat
not curious.. he want eat but cautiously. he come back all the time even if he pic him with is harpon.
@@davewolf6256 with no other expertise other than watching videos, and occasionally meet 'n greets I have had personally, the way a great white reacts towards what it KNOWS is prey, is very different than what is happening here... this is like a dog looking for a fight, not a creature that just lost its mind in anticipation of a juicy seal... this video doesnt seem like curiosity either, they must be territorial to a certain extent it seems, right?
Both curious, both interested, both persistent, both wanting to know more. amazing composure under the circumstances. props for you. thank God for your safety. 🤙🏼✌🏼🦈
Hahaha! I love how it's like 'Yeah, O.K. dude, whatever...I'm just linger here on the brink of your sight.'
How does this not have more views?
Who knows Diego! The algorithm might not prioritise newish channels or it could just be bad luck. Thanks for watching though :-)
@@DeepBlueDiscovery Just curious, if you got to a point where you feared for your life couldn't you put one in his eye or his gills?
@Bryson Reins i thought there were 2 whites as well... That south african video is probably the scariest thing ive ever seen
Shark: "Hand over the fish and no one gets hurt; ya feel me mate?"
Holy sh%$# man my heart was pumping watching the video.. been there myself scuba diving, a great white appeared out of the deep and glided directly under my feet while I was at 3m decom.. my buddies on a boat were 100m away. I was so lucky it just kept swimming away after checking me out. Terrifying.
Shark: THAT FISH IS MINE!!!!
Diver: NO!!! IT'S MINE FISH FACE
That was defending at its most primal.
Side note, this channel intro is the best I’ve seen in years lol.
Thanks very much, the animator loves it when he gets compliments :-)
He wanted the fish. He was literally chumming the water
Ah, finally a tense video of a shark encounter that doesn't have the word GoPro in the title, or made by people trying to score coolness points by saying "filmed on GoPro".
Now thats a shark in counter!!! No click bait. Good shit dude. 👍
This spearfisher deserves a lot of credit for not shooting that shark! They could have easily done that and cut their line and the shark would have left immediately but they didn't! Absolutely amazing Stuart of the deep blue that helps sustain them!
You never shoot a shark. You wouldn’t have time to cut your line. The shark would pull the gun out of your hands and the spear would be an exceptionally ineffective deterrent. If your gun is attached to your person, you’re going for a ride and would likely be drowned. You keep the spear between you and the shark, maintain eye contact, stand your ground and get close to your dive partner. Get to the boat but don’t panic and swim toward it fast or if you’re shore diving, slowly start swimming toward shore while keeping an eye on the shark and being prepared to defend yourself.
The shark is like: "Eyyy!!! Thats my hunting ground".
shark "I want to eat some balls today...nahhh...this guy has them too big"
It gave me chills when the shark rushed in. I bet that’s the last thing many people lost at sea - see 🌊 👁
Can you imagine! By the time you see it it's to late.
Most people feel the attack first....its a sharks inate nature and hunting instinct to hit from behind/below
Prolly a oceanic white tip tho
@@PalmsMahoney It’s a Great White 100%
@@sheky275 he’s saying many people lost at sea succumb to oceanic whitetips, not GWS
Shark really wanted that dead fish he was carrying. The way a shark would go after a dead or dying animal is very different from how they hunt and attack a large living animal. You could see the shark trying to figure out how to get that fish without getting poked, and eventually, he gave up.
If a great white turns their head to another shark he tells it "get out of my space/hunting ground". if the other shark won't turn and swim away another massage will be send, a bite just like this one. This was not an attack to kill and feast. Just a massage "Fuck off"
Great job to the diver for handeling the situation tho. Nice one mate, stay safe
And thats why you get an asian lady to massage you, never a shark
@Omne Obstat lololol
You just have to ask for full service
Remco are you a marine biologist who studies sharks? If not then your explanation of shark behavior is invalid.
@@minerran he's actually a shark
When a GWS is furiously hungry & angry it's all over, count your blessing mate.
So glad this wasn’t clickbait !
It should be the opposite actually lol
You enter his territory, you become his meal.
Great footage. Seems he was after your catch 🎣
Fish on the line while diving seems like a very bad combination.
I’m impressed with the divers self control… not only swimming calmly but that he didn’t fire his gun! After the shark took her “test bite” and continued to investigate, it would have been awfully tempting to pull the trigger and add some force to your defense. Not saying that is wise, just tempting!
.... right in the gills from an angle a little behind so it slips in deep. My thought exactly... but yeah, probably not wise. Was also like.... powerhead.... would love to have one of those in a moment like that.
"This is getting out of hand... Now there are TWO OF THEM!"
That's not aggressive - that's mildly inquisitive....
The most scariest and true fact about a Great White, the shark is watching you long before it appears. If it wants to eat you, you will have zero warning. Let that sink in.
heart rate and blood pressure was how high?
lol
I can’t believe this video doesn’t have 45 million views. This is to my knowledge the only cageless first person white shark attack on camera. This is like the only video on earth that shows in real life how we all picture sharks act. There’s plenty of other white shark videos but they aren’t aggressing the situation like this.
Terrifying!
the diver appeared more brazen than brave, by invading that sharks personal space and ultimately causing the shark to react!
The mother of all code brown ! Props to him for standing its ground
If a great white shark asked for my fish, I would give it to him! 😂
No reason to destroy the creature. Thanks, good video.
There was actually one very good reason to shoot the shark.
I'm a conservationist and am glad to see the shark survive...but I would have fired out of fear.
Why in the world would a spear fisherman swim 300m from the boat in open water? I never did that even in scuba. Its a bit far.
ITS CALLED..COMPLACENCY
OMG! The suspense was killing me! 😮 No more snorkeling for me!
Why do sharks never upload THEIR point of view to youtube? ^^
Well..likely because….that’s a “desperate to be funny”…comment!
There is nothing more annoying than losing a flipper and having to swim back to your boat with only one left. Damn you shark!
The shark must have thought they were in his territory so they must be fair game. At the same time, I'm glad no-one got injured - they were adequately prepared and intelligent about it!
Yeh, he was carrying the fish he caught and it's not unusual for sharks to investigate spear fisherman as they surface. Terrifying that it was a great white though, cos if one of them decides to go for you (which is EXTREMELY rare) you're usually toast.
You've got a bleeding fish with you, which is more then likely why he's coming at you.
The video is epic enough without the ridiculously annoying music.
Apologies. We shall bear this in mind for future uploads :-). Often natural sound is better.
@@DeepBlueDiscoveryDelete this one and reupload it without the music. This video is truly amazing and terrifying but the music is too much.
Get some full on classical music. That would make it terrifying.
Play some Michael Jackson songs like “Billy Jeans” would have been awesome for this video
@@walor5384 copyright?
Funny thing is shark seemed more like a curious boi than anything else
he wanted the fish you speared bad
Wow! So this is what the guy in Egypt could've done if he had a spear and balls of steel.
Imagine if it was a little darker outside or the water was murkier…
Exactlly right .very clear water is only the go
Nearby native village playing their ritual drums was a stroke of luck
And the scariest part is. You must keep your eyes on it at ALL TIMES...!!! Just because it swam away out of view doesn't mean you aren't lunch for it. It could go deep for a launching attack as they typically do which you'd be helpless to avoid at that point. Or it could simply circle around in back of you and get you that way.
Remember the camerman never dies! He handled that so well!
That was crazy. That shark was way too curious for my liking.
Great job fending it off. I woulda been fish food w/o question.
You and me both!
spear fishermans dream, why else go into the water dressed like a fish
When everything in your ENTIRE being is telling you to turn and flee, you have to grab your big brass balls and face it up eye to eye. Maybe even go towards it just to let it know you ain't prey. Easier said than done I know but that's the only way your gonna survive this situation. Man's lucky he had his Weetabix that morning.
Fuck man, I thought the same thing. I would probably go after it, when it was sort of hovering around, and poke the living fuck out of it so it knows that even if he eats me it will most likely cause him some severe long lasting damage, fleeing is just retarded, even with flippers that shit can outsim you
Maybe that's why the water still remained clear. No brown cloud to obstruct its view and hide his scent. 😆😆😆😆
@@plfernandes88 I'm with you, bro. I'm 100% behind protection for great whites, but one on one, I'm poking the living fuck out of him too.
#imnotfishfood
Do not ever go to the shark, you have to keep a minimal distance. And poke the shark only if necessary (don't shoot obviously). But never never swin to the shark or turn your back !
So who else is thinking get your feet OUT the water NOW! Lol
The amazing thing to me is how they can determine if we can see them or not . And ambush us from behind at the right moment
Yeh was thinking that also
The very second that I concluded my spear fishing lifestyle and now I buy all my seafood from Walmart. Forever.
All this time the diver was keeping his eye on the shark, I thought:" if there's another shark in play, he might not see that one coming at all". Extremely intense video, can you imagine how the diver experienced this?
I thought I noticed a second shark in the video, but I'm not certain. Is that what you were insinuating? If you go to 2:18 the shark goes out of frame and the camera pans up and you see a shark directly in front of the diver in the opposite direction. It seems unlikely the same shark could have made it there in two seconds, but it's hard to tell.
yes! any few realize that they hunt in coordination with each other. Lots of fish do this.
Imagine if he got out and realized the GoPro wasn’t rolling 🤣
This was such a terrifyingly epic encounter.. Just wow
This is what happens when you wear the chum. All it wanted was that fish.
Psssssh & they say sharks don’t eat humans ! My ass !! Holy shit he blends perfectly !!!! I lost him for a second !!
He gave the shark a fish but the shark wasn't interested.... good job keeping him off.... what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger.
Either that or what doesn't kill you More than likely will the next time that you should have shot the thing!;)
@@marcalan1198 nah, the shark wasn't trying to kill him it was giving him warning shots.
finally a real video of a real encounter... soooooo many clickbaits , I was giving up on finding some proper actual footage
Glad you didn't pull the trigger, not sure that I could hold off after the first hit
I love the music. Those mermaids and mermen love to play the bongos while watching sharks stalk the humans trying to get to Atlantis.
I would rather be under the water facing it then floating on top of the water!
yes....doing this on scuba would be ten times easier.
Yeah, I would have been doing squid impersonations the whole way back to the boat.
I would have blinded the shark with my natural brown inking abilities...oh wait that is just sh&%$* myself. Hats off to you what a battle!!!
I would have escaped through the cloud of “ink” I produced when I first saw it.
This is where a power head comes into play. A good poke and BANG the shark will not be feeling like messing with anymore.
I prefer a samurai sword. Chops the bastards head off
. Honesty, the shark wasn't even being too aggressive. I think it was a warning shot towards the diver.
I agree with you there ad thats your only chance. But I will say I was on a tuna fishing trip and by nightfall our boat was surrounded by sharks. The captain ordered the crew to stab them with spears so the won't eat out catch. Dude these spears did absolutely nothing to scare away the sharks. Completely unfazed by it. It looked like a kid poking a bull with a stick. And tiger sharks tend to have extremely tough skin. Iv seen videos of spear fishermen continuously stabbing a tiger that kept coming back again and again. Only thing that made it run away was when he actually got the eye.
@@utecastronoova863 Why???? It's the shark's territory!!!
@@amandamcleod9050 SMH he is obviously joking
Man, the moment when you got to turn your back to the shark to climb the ladder 🪜just terrifying!
Here's the scary part, that great white wasn't being aggressive. If it was being aggressive there's nothing he could have done to stop it from tearing him into shreds.
that is kind of true! If a great white accidentally decides you're lunch for whatever reason, you are probably toast. Thanks for watching.
It wasn't going as hard as it could but it was being aggressive
@@aronlane4664 Sharks make certain displays when aggressive, like how gorillas beat their chest or dogs show their teeth. One of the things they do is bend downwards at the waist to create like a hump on their back, this shark was just swimming straight and very slowly around the spearfisher.
It might have bitten him but out of curiosity, not aggression or hunting behavior. The only reason it opened its mouth is because of the pokes it got.
But you would successfully be able to defend yourself against a shark in this state if you just use any sort of object pressed against its snout, doesn't have to be sharp or painful, you can even just use your hand posted on its snout with your arm straight to keep distance between you and its mouth.
You don't need to be strong to do that because you're in the water, if the shark keeps moving towards you while you have your hand on its snout you're just gonna float backwards. The only time this wouldn't be a good move is if your back is pressed against a boat or something.
@Griffin Pretty sure the people who actually understand shark behavior are not common, so no, I'm not using common sense, I'm using educated sense.
@Griffin I'm sorry that you don't have that mental capacity.