5 Misconceptions About Great White Sharks: Ocean Talks EP 4
Вставка
- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- In this video, we look at five misconceptions that are often voiced about great white sharks in my videos. I'll admit, I had a few of my own before I began spending serious time observing and photographing sharks.
Do you have more to add to the list? Let me know in the comments.
Your support is greatly appreciate on this channel. Please visit my Patreon page to support more videos like this. Thank you!
/ themalibuartist
Or join my UA-cam Crew or Explorer Membership.
For all footage licensing inquiries please reach out directly to me via the contact form on my website.
DISCLAIMER:
I'm NOT a marine biologist. As with all UA-cam content, I encourage independent verification of facts via official scientific and trustworthy sources. I will strive to post citations for any information I discuss here whenever possible. My goal is to use photography and drones to bring awareness to wildlife and the nature around us. I welcome collaborations with scientists to bring cinematic elements to the educational presentation. If my drone work can assist in the study of these animals, please reach out to me. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
Doesn't matter if you're not a marine biologist, dude, you know a lot more about sharks than most of us.
He sure does and I truly believe he would not say something he wasn’t sure about and if he wasn’t sure about it he does say “I haven’t confirmed this or that” so it doesn’t matter to me that you aren’t a licensed marine biologist. You still spend more time with shark biologist and watching sharks. Doubt you would be just watching sharks if you didn’t know anything about them to then show the public to help with the fear people have with sharks.
I get the fear. It’s easy to say I’m not afraid when I’ve never seen one except on tv or my phone. I can say that all day until I’m actually face to face with one and then I bet I’ll be scared to death. However that being said I still understand when I walk into ANY ocean water I am walking into their home. I am a guest in their home. And they deserve respect. A world without sharks is a scary thought. I wish people could and would understand that.
😂😂😂😅😅 lolz now that funny 😂😂
Of all he mentioned & said ,doesn't matter
All we wants to know is how to survive or deter a shark attack.
The rest is nonsense...🤣
We don't give a toss what's it called or does it give birth to a mermaid.🤣
You say you aren't a scientist, but the science you're doing is so incredibly important and valuable.
I love Ocean Talks! I really appreciate how you calmly and logically debunk these common misconceptions. Love your work man.
Qa0o
17,000 people die every year from slip and fall accidents at ground level.
Walking into your bathroom in the middle of the night, half a sleep is more dangerous than all the sharks in the ocean combined. Love the content.. Thanks for the video.
Millions dies from smoking and 30000 are murdered by their partners every year. I think that the fear of sharks is fed by the industry behind sharkfinning.
Almost everyone walks everywhere, every day. Far less swim in the ocean, and it's usually only a few days a year. So these slip and fall deaths aren't a very good comparison. But stats are still very low for shark attacks.
Everything this man said is 100% correct. Especially number 5. I often use the example that humans have eaten other humans in the past. But, that doesn't mean humans are man-eaters. Just look at the international shark attack file, species implicated section. Over the past 443 years, only 59 people have been killed by white sharks. Context is important. Great video my friend.
Great points. I'm in threads everywhere echoing these clarifications. 💯
Context is important, like humans have been dressing up like seals more and more in recent times to access colder water
@boogieheads
Exactly. Another great example is the Simon Nellist case. Way too many people think he (and others) were "consumed" by white sharks and that the shark purposely targeted him the with intent of consuming a human. But this is false.
Firstly, Simon was not consumed. Just over an hour after the event, police confirmed human remains had washed up on the shore. NSW Ambulance Inspector Lucky Phrachanh described the injuries sustained by Mr Nellist as "catastrophic."
Once the white shark detected that he was not a seal, the body was rejected. The absence of further remains from what washed up to shore does not imply that the remains were consumed by the white shark. It just means that further remains weren't found. Nothing more. That's FAR from confirmation of consumption.
Experts have said that the white shark probably mistook Nellist, wearing a wetsuit, for a seal when it launched and attacked. Science has shown that dark-colored wetsuits pose a significant risk for divers when swimming near seal colonies. Nellist's attack was categorized as "provoked" because of the area he was in.
It was the first fatal shark attack in almost 60 years in the area. Simon became known for always wearing the suit, which is considered an unusual habit when taking into account how warm the water is.
Being struck a second time is extremely rare for white sharks upon humans. It was the wetsuit near a seal colony that made the difference.
Yes! Exactly! 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
Great perspective... and I think your last comment really brought the balance. They are not man hunters, but find yourself swimming around with them, and they might make an exception.
Have been a longtime subscriber, I like what you do, your content, quality, production and presentation are very professional. This post of yours, is the first time I've seen who is behind this excellent YT channel. One comment about GWS: If you enter their environment, they might eat you. Cheers.
Oh, you went to the Farallon Islands!!! Did you see any sister sharks? I read a book called The Devil's Teeth about those islands and the massive, old sharks that inhabit those waters during certain times of the year. The author calls them sister sharks if I'm remembering correctly. If you haven't read it, it's a very interesting book.
I was actually at the Farallon's with the same team of scientists from the book, and filming off of the same research vessel was an honor.
@@TheMalibuArtist Amazing and very fortunate!
Great episode! I love learning more about these beautiful and interesting animals.
Thank you, Carlos! Very interesting
The short video of the abalone freediver approached from behind by a great white, mouth open for a kill but aborting last second once it realizes he's not a seal says it all, they're not indiscriminate killers.
I was recently at the Farallon Islands with the man from that video actually.
We always learn so much each time you pist a video, Carlos! Thank you for all that you do and the awareness that you raise for marine animals!
I found your channel when it only had 11k subs! glad seeing you do so well!
Just donated a few of my small dollars to the shark fund, Carlos. Thanks for yet another great video!
great to see the face behind the drone, love your measured and reasoned information and videos about white sharks.
Thanks 👍
I myself use the "White Shark" nomenclature. Simply because it is learned. I have been an avid White Shark officianado since seeing Jaws in the theater some 40 odd years ago. So I have sifted through piles of lies and misinformation for decades now.
As for swimming at the Farallon's. Only a fool would tempt such an act. Particularly in October. There is one particularly large female (name escapes me) who would be happy to come up from below to say Hi.
Or white pointer. Love your work
Best WS channel on UA-cam, thanks for your vlogs🦈🦈🦈👍
Thanks a ton!
An awesome ocean talks subject Carlos. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
Numbers 2 and 5 are misconceptions often seen with sharks in general. Everything you said here is absolutely right Carlos. Especially, misconception number 5.
Thanks! I appreciate the support and comments from you every time!
Nice to see your face! I love your videos. They both freak me out by how many sharks there are, and reassure me by how few of them attack humans. They are also incredibly soothing on an anxious day. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I already knew these facts, but I really appreciate how kind and patient you were in teaching those who didn't know them, instead of being condescending. Everybody has to learn somewhere, which actually probably comes from us being mammals!
Another great video thanks.
I love great white sharks. I’ve always been fascinated with them and I Shld have been a marine biologist just for them.
We don't know how far they can smell blood, but do know when they pick up the order of blood they can tell the direction of where the smell is coming from
I love and recommend your channel often Carlos. I like your honesty, I only wish that you continued your very last sentence, "... absolutely not- because...". Of course most of us know why you said that, but some others, maybe younger viewers, need to hear that it was just too dangerous to swim around those islands.
Great information Carlos, I love watching your videos of these magnificent creatures, and remember when you swim in the ocean you’re swimming in their home, belated Happy New Year too x Julie 🇬🇧
I really like u first time watching new subscriber im not a marine biologist either but i have been studying sharks for years they are my favourite animal u and sharks happen are great keep it up ❤
As always, thank you Carlos.
Was there ever a follow up video to that video that teased catching great white birth footage?
Stay tuned next week for world wide media coverage of it! BBC UK will have the first exclusive story.
Your videos are spectacular! 🥰
I had a close encounter when I was young and it left me fearful of sharks but I don't want them hurt.
We can't blame them for doing what is natural
Many of the GWs close to the beach in southern California are juveniles searching for fish. If the same amount of beach goers from San Diego or LA, were to swim outside of a kelp bed at Monterey, the attacks numbers would probably increase due to sharks that are use to eating mammals rather than fish.
love your videos
Great vid
Great video.
Makes sense ☘️
I wonder why the life guards don’t use drones to look out for the sharks for swimmers on a beach , love your videos too
Good idea!
I think in Australia they do.
@@A.l.a.c. thank you
@@migueljardim8177I’m pretty sure we use drones, helicopters and small planes to sweep up and down the coast during the summer months 😊
It'll be interesting when isaf releases the number, because the "spike" I do wonder if COVID still played a role
Facts. 👏
Is ANYONE here a Marine Biologist? 😉
Love these videos (and sharks) BTW!
This is what you are doing best.
I may still have some misconceptions about the people who live in Malibu
(you should use headphones when editing audio)
Humanity needs to reacquaint itself with nature and it's necessity for all life to exist.
My go to for accurate names for creatures is Sir David Attenborough. If that's how he describes or pronounces it.....
👍🌟👍
Why don't you do a little test so fast as the great white and scenting blood?. If you could possibly use a boat and you're drone.... perhaps using the drone try @ locate a great white within say 1-5-10-20 miles @ how fast can they get to the source once they have caugjt the scent? Depending on reaction time etc,by starting at the one mile distance, you'd know how fast @ how far to go up relatively quickly...
Anyway, Judi thought it might be a fun experiment @ you might even see if they reactin a noticeable way between human blood and fish blood. Or, is blood, blood? I'd think it would be kind of interesting,especially if they could indeed tell a difference in the blood. The outcome might buy them the benefit of the doubt,or it might hang them! Hard saying not knowing lol!!
Just think it would be fun... Thanks for all the videos...
It always sticks in my craw to see the cross section of people who attempt to correct other people calling them “white sharks”.
I like your comment about not swimming near a whale carcass. I surf a few times a week at a known shark nursery here in southern California, and I'm almost always alone.
About a year and a half ago, during a late August heat wave, I was out on my 9'0" longboard by myself during the afternoon, sitting upright on my board and a little bit adrift on the outside while waiting for waves. Then I saw the unmistakable fin coming at speed directly towards me. Now, I've seen plenty of whiteys before, but like in your videos, they're usually just cruising at a slow speed and on a course that suggests they're not interested in me. And usually at first sight there's uncertainty- is a shark, dolphin, seal, bird??? There was no mistaking this one from first glance. It was a big shark and he was coming at me at good speed. It's fight or flight time- and I choose to battle.
I've been watching your videos for some time now, and one important piece of knowledge I learned from you is that sharks like to investigate from behind. So as the shark comes close (less than 10 feet for sure), the shark indeed starts circling behind me. Since I was sitting on my board, I followed his actions and began to turn with him as to not let him get behind me. We did a full rotation, and the little bugger didn't beat it yet. We started yet another rotation while he was still in arms reach, and at this point I started banging on my board and yelling some choice words at him. Thankfully after the second time circling he left me alone and swam back out to sea. I usually don't leave when I see a shark, but this time I did!
There was a surf camp (who were out of the water) nearby and I warned the instructors about the incident. They had told me that there had been a dead dolphin floating around the area earlier. Now it all makes sense! The little fishy thought I was a dead dolphin. I theorize that little homie (he was bigger than my longboard, he's probably ±12 feet) was able to smell the carcass but he was late to feeding party. So the banging on the board and swearing I think made it possible for the shark to distinguish me from a floating carcass.
I guess that's some more anecdotal evidence that we are indeed not on the diet. I certainly stood no chance if we were.
He definitely knew you weren't the dead dolphin, if not before he got so close, definitely as he was circling you. I think you saved your life by choosing not to flee in that situation, but there's no way he didn't know you were not a dolphin, especially a dead one. Be safe.
@@The_Variant Obviously sharks can tell the difference between their normal prey and humans. Why do you think shark attacks on humans happen radically differently from how they attack other animals?
@@andyfriederichsen Oh, so you admit that when sharks attack it isn't mistaken identity -great, I'm tired of that narrative.
@@The_Variant It isn't even much of an attack when a shark bites a surfer when you consider that the shark literally pisses off after biting ONCE and also consider that sharks don't have arms and hands to use to investigate WTF the weird thing at the surface is.
@@The_Variant It was already figured out years ago that a surfer being bitten by a shark isn't because of mistaken identity but because a white shark or tiger shark has no other way of testing if something is food or not other than to bite.
Often called 'White Pointers' in Australia.
👍👍👍
I went snorkeling in Hawaii. We took a boat to a popular spot off a small island. The instructor allowed everyone to enter the water with frozen peas EVEN THOUGH there was a 4 ft reef shark darting around. I said "NO Thanks!"
It's just dumb! The lack of regard is shocking. I was there for my 16th birthday & I look back proud of my decision.
Why frozen peas?
@@daddius The boat passed out peas to feed the fish... you know to lure in the beauty😂 Like it's not beautiful all on its own. Also, the swarming of fish looked extra distracting.
@@nikkilovesrocks And the small reef shark was a problem because...?
@@andyfriederichsen Well, for starters it's a wild animal. The reef is its home. Feeding the fish which I assume are the sharks prey, only increase the chances of interaction. Sharks are notorious for eating & trying to eat. Sharks are rarely if ever engaging on an emotional or intellectual level so I prefer to remain distant. Mammals & fish are different.
@@nikkilovesrocks Look into the details about how shark attacks happen. It's not someone swimming in crystal-clear water suddenly getting eaten one second later by a shark for no reason.
Also... Sharks ARE fish and pretty smart ones at that.
Please do a collaboration with SharkBytes. It doesn´t matter that you´re not a marine biologist.
Attacks still happen and I choose to be more cautious because its better to be safe than sorry
That applies to literally any wildlife species. I also suggest you look into the details regarding how shark attacks (which are VERY rare) happen.
@@andyfriederichsenDo not spread false information implying that a person has to do something "wrong" to be attacked by a shark. Sharks may "only" kill 5-10 people in a given year to our knowledge, but they do attack/eat 100 people per year. You are the exact reason I wish he would've finished his last sentence about why he wouldn't swim by those islands, sharks can and so eat people, they just all haven't evolved into knowing that they can. GW sharks in general are cautious, over time they will likely be more and more comfortable and attacks will rise. Same with Tiger sharks that Ramsey and her crew are teaching human behavior by default.
@@The_Variant Says the idiot spreading actual bullshit.
@@The_Variant If that is in any way true (it's not) then I guess people will just have to stay out of the ocean.
@@andyfriederichsen Everything I said ARE FACTS. GOOGLE IT. ✌️
My everyday menu consisted of bread & chicken breast, but from time to time I like to have a good steak and a piece of cake.
Of course we're on the menu..may not be the most popular morsal on the menu..but we're on the menu!
super-senses that don't include basic geometry aren't going to help an animal stay out of a vehicle's path, lol.
I appreciate you not touting yourself as an expert even though you have had a lot of exposure to great white shark behavior. I am able to really enjoy your content and insights
I've a question TheMalibuArtist; How come some people say Great White Sharks are the worst Shark Species that alway's Attack people?And why do GREAT WHITE SHARKS the only Species people are afraid of the most?
It's a size issues, GW are often very big and even an exploratory bite can be fatal. It makes sense to respect this capability to kill even by "accident".
@@FuckGoogle2 Bull sharks are arguably more dangerous.
I'm more afraid of bull and tiger sharks
@@DebraOdonnell-zb3vx yeah but you can't argue that great whites look a lot more terrifying than bull and tiger sharks. Great white sharks are literally nightmare fuel........
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Also White Pointer.
In German it‘s only White Shark , ( translated) not great White Shark , this seems to be different in different languages .
Why not just call it the Gray White Shark instead of the Great White Shark?!
I can’t watch this video due shark attack mammals, pig, seals and other that I’m too sensitive and emotionally.. I’m sorry, Carlos!
Is this correct...Our current NZ Prime Minister has the empathy of a Great White Shark. Perhaps this is mean to the shark....?
You know more about those white sharks then those oceanographers you know more about those sharks then pretty much any of them because you get to see them in their natural habitat the way they act naturally when you put a person in the water that changes everything and they act differently but with you catching them from above with the drone yeah that's getting footage of how they are when nobody's around and I've kind of noticed with yours the younger sharks those aren't the ones you got to worry about surfers it's those bigger ones and you get out deep yeah those are the ones you get out of worry about because the young ones are fish eaters they're the ones that are eating the stingray
You got to realize that shark it doesn't know when his next meal is going to come or where it's going to come from so you know if that shark is starving oh yeah he'll eat anything and everything and tell his hunger is satisfied and if you happen to be in his area and he happens you know to get you and you're the first thing yeah he's going to consume but nine times out of 10 they don't want to eat us because we don't have enough fat on us but the oceanic white tip oh yeah they'll consumers most definitely that is the one shark that he killed more humans than any other shark out there More humans than any other sharks out there yeah don't believe me look at the USS Arizona
Indianapolis, not Arizona
@@jmalexander131 And that was most likely oceanic white tips, not whites, tigers, or bulls.
love your videos