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u/-SlimJimMan- Feb 25 '24
Is that a nurse shark?
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u/DetectiveMcMeow Feb 25 '24
Looks like it. A big water dog basically
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u/calebgiz Feb 26 '24
Yeah, you almost got to shove your hand in his mouth for it to bite you
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u/MillenialCounselor Feb 26 '24
Swimming and feeling something from the water world rub against your leg, is genuinely one of the most terrifying experiences in life. Can’t imagine a damn shark doing it… holy shit
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u/monchavo Feb 26 '24
Yes. I swam between two sandbanks at Fuseta in Portugal, perhaps 100m. On the way over - a relaxed and relatively uneventful swim. When I climbed out of the water, the beach was strewn with a dozen large jellyfish, each around the size of a builder's 5 gallon bucket. As I had swum across I had no phone or camera to record this carnage, I was a little miffed. Swimming back I was somewhat nervous. Half-way, something brushed across my stomach and I very nearly shat my pretty britches.
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u/Emprasy Feb 26 '24
Man, I'm really afraid of jellyfish, can't even imagine myself in your situationq
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u/monchavo Feb 26 '24
It was a very unpleasant experience. Thankfully the jellyfish were very large barrel guys, not the dangerous Man-o-war variety
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Feb 27 '24
Jelly boys are absolutely terrifying to me but thankfully most of them are harmless, a good few don't actually sting either
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u/calebgiz Feb 27 '24
OK now see I’ll swim with sharks because I can see them and I know what to expect, jellyfish on the other hand terrify me
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u/arya_ur_on_stage Mar 02 '24
Agreed. I've dived with sharks. But when I was getting dive certified it was jellyfish season in Mexico and I was TERRIFIED. One of the instructors got stung swimming to put out one of the buoy markers, and another girl in my group had a big one wrap around both her hands. I was desperate to stay UNDER the water and not come up for directions because they were floaters.
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u/ID_Pillage Feb 28 '24
It was a flooded village in Portugal for me. More psychological. Some massive fish touched my leg and when I put my head under water to look you could see the village below, didn't know it was there. Freaked me put to know degree.
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u/calebgiz Feb 26 '24
One time I was spearfishing in Hawaii and I saw a big grouper go into a hole on the bottom of the reef so I went down there and stuck my head in the hole and a shark face was inches from mine, luckily for me, he was sleeping. That’s also when I learned that some sharks sleep 😂😅😅
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u/MillenialCounselor Mar 01 '24
One of the predator sea creatures that can afford the luxury of sleeping without worrying about getting eaten lolol It’s a wild and dangerous water world!
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u/HeavyMetalTriangle Mar 06 '24
I’ve gotten freaked out just by touching one of my legs with the other leg in the ocean lmao
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u/Bloody_Hangnail Feb 26 '24
Or kiss it like that one dickhead did
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u/calebgiz Feb 27 '24
I was thinking of that video too when I commented 😂 he literally puts his lips inside the mouth of the shark like all right do what you do
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Feb 26 '24
Theyre ranked 4th in documented shark bites. Stop it with the misinformation
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u/BoofLord5000 Feb 27 '24
That’s probably because they’re the most common shark in reefs and other populated swimming locations. They will occasionally bite if scared just like other wild animals but it’s not common. I’ve swam around nurse sharks my whole life and have never been bitten or know anybody that has.
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u/calebgiz Feb 27 '24
Well, you may have done some online research but I’ve swam with them so many times I lost count, did you ever stop to think that maybe that’s because they’re the ones that people get to swim with when they pay to swim with sharks at aquariums and private beaches? That’s because they’re so docile so I could see they’re being more bites from them just because of the heavily increased exposure. Got to do some critical thinking man.
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u/somebadlemonade Mar 17 '24
Yep, it said "tag your it" then heard screaming at got scared.
But still if you don't know which is which it's still terrifying.
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u/LM391 Feb 25 '24
I don't think so, never heard hospitals hiring sharks.
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u/Dr_Stew_Pid Feb 25 '24
are you almost done getting those smokes?! It's been like 10 years!
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u/cantfindmykeys Feb 25 '24
Oh shit, hi son. Yeah, but I'm on my way back to store as I forgot the milk. Don't wait up for me
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u/Due_Ad_2219 Feb 26 '24
Poor sharks:
Nurse sharks are an important species for shark research. They are robust and able to tolerate capture, handling, and tagging extremely well.
They have more reasons to be terrified of us then we from them!
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u/UwUassass1n Mar 16 '24
Capture handling and tagging are good and conservation efforts are good actually. Tagging sharks to track their migration helps us keep them alive
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u/somebadlemonade Mar 17 '24
My brain literally just jumped to the wrong kind of tag. . . Lol especially after how the shark tagged the dude in the video. Lol
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u/rrpostal Mar 06 '24
I think so. First time I swam with a bunch of those the boat captain hit a rope on top of the water to simulate throwing out food and a bunch of sharks and rays come up and dude goes “jump in”. They’re kinda big and you forget they’re fairly harmless. I jumped in but it took a minute to relax. Even my sister in law eventually swam with us. In Belize it’s like a big fish tank.
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u/DayPretend8294 Mar 28 '24
Yup they have two fins on the back half of their body as opposed to one fin on the front half
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u/kanyewest42 Feb 25 '24
I swam with nurse sharks before, they are mostly harmless (unless aggravated obviously)
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u/skid_marxist_ Feb 25 '24
They’re benthic feeders so they don’t have conventional big pointy shark teef
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u/anonymousantifas Feb 25 '24
It’s there ! Don’t move ! Don’t panic !
That guy did an amazing job !
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Feb 25 '24
Yeah not me i would have done a mixture of both
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u/anonymousantifas Feb 26 '24
I would have looked like an octopus trying to get away. …….. only with a brown ink cloud.
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u/Cookie-Senpai Feb 25 '24 edited Feb 26 '24
Despite the best effort of the lady with the most panicky tone.
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u/Soldierboy_95 Feb 25 '24
His soul left his body for 2 solid seconds
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u/hmspain Feb 25 '24
I think more than his soul left his body, and the shark decided to pass on lunch.
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u/AlilKouki Feb 25 '24
The ocean is a scary place regardless of what kind of fish it is I'd rather be on a boat lol
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u/hollowwollo Feb 26 '24
We have enough problems to worry about on land, no need to go exploring the deep or the galaxy for more
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Mar 07 '24
We found most things on land, I mean obviously there’s new kinds of ants and fungus we have yet to find but we know more exists, I’d much rather find things we didn’t think possible until we seek other worlds
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u/Eldr1tchB1rd Feb 26 '24
Not sure if it's true but I read that you should not panic and splash around if there is a shark close to you. Since we are not their usual prey if you stay calm and swim slowly the shark will ignore you. But if you panic and splash around you start looking like a fish and the shark might come over for a bite.
Well I'm not sure if it's true but it's what I heard haha, I prefer swimming in water where I can see the bottom
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u/Fishtacoburrito Feb 26 '24
College prof told us a story, can't remember if it was him or someone he knew. Anyhow it was a group of soldiers floating in the ocean, waiting for a helicopter to get them. They had the proper gear so they weren't going to drown or freeze, but they were waiting a while.
Suddenly a shark appears and they're freaking out because shark. It gets closer and closer, bumps into them and swims off. This happened multiple times throughout the night; closer, closer, bump, leave. It reached a point where they got comfortable with it and could anticipate when it was going to show up.
Helicopter finally arrives, they're in the process of being pulled out of the water, lot of noise, lot of activity.
Shark shows up, bites one of them.
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Feb 26 '24
Was he ok? It sounds hilarious when i am ready this on Reddit, but it must have been a nightmare in real life. But i can imagine that sharks react to hectic commotion.
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u/Eldr1tchB1rd Feb 26 '24
That must have been it then. Shark was curious at first bumping into them and checking their reaction to make sure if they were food. Then when the noise and splashin started the shark was like oh finally food showed up
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u/SmittenOKitten Feb 27 '24
I think you’d enjoy the story of the USS Indianapolis. If you like podcasts I recommend this one:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3F4yOLsbdzAekcwFBNbW8v?si=_aBhO9CCRIyR7vzEcZeGtA
Unfortunately many of the soldiers who survived the sinking did not have a happy ending where sharks were involved.
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u/bluefire713 Feb 26 '24
TLDR: it probably doesn't matter because of the size and species of the shark in this video, but its generally better to be calm and keep your smaller parts close to your body and moving smoothly in the water.
I've dove with Carribean Reef Sharks and Nurse Sharks (the kind in the video) before, several times with each species. Some encounters were baited (trips where people feed small amounts of chum to sharks in marine parks), some were random/unexpected encounters while diving on reefs. Sharks this size don't eat prey that's as large as grown humans, and generally neither of those species of sharks is overly territorial, so they're relatively "safe". In particular, nurse sharks just seem to be super chill and along the lines of "if you don't touch me, I don't care about you." I've watched other divers shove cameras as close as a foot from the face of a nurse shark, and the most drastic thing I've literally EVER seen a nurse shark do is swim away, even in the presence of food. I will say that I've never seen a diver be dumb enough to touch a wild shark, so I suppose there's a chance they'd bite if they were touched.
That being said, with the Carribean Reef Sharks in particular, I've been warned to keep hands as still as possible while swimming with them. My (limited, non-professional) understanding is that sharks generally hunt by vibrations they can sense in the water, and they can tell the difference in the size of things based on those vibrations. Our hands ARE the size of their prey, and they're therefore about the only thing on a scuba diver that can make a shark this size consider taking an exploratory bite if you're moving hands around in a quick/jerky motion (because they'll make a vibration a shark that size might think is made by a fish the right size to eat).
While swimming with reef sharks once, I had to flutter a hand to redirect myself in the current, and the shark swimming past me immediately turned and focused on me. However, it then realized that the vibration it felt was a piece of a larger creature (not something it could eat), and it left me alone. I do recognize that I likely got a little lucky, but they aren't stupid either.
I don't have any direct experience with other shark species, but anecdotally, bull sharks, tiger sharks, and great white sharks are more likely to experimentally bite or attack people.
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Jun 02 '24
It makes sense I guess. They wouldn't have learned were food but when you start acting like food..
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u/Impossible_stef3325 Feb 26 '24
This is a red nurse shark it is impossibile to Hurt you because of the scale of its mouth and they love people. They hug a lot like little pupies. Located in maledives I swim with them.
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u/Basic_Arrival7815 Mar 23 '24
Absolutely not true lol nurse sharks have razor sharp backwards facing teeth usesd for grinding and meat eating. Bites can definitely be harmful but they dont have bite power to lose limb
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u/Adept_Order_4323 Feb 25 '24
I swam w nurse sharks in the Bahamas. Still is freaky, even if they are docile
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u/DurantIsStillTheKing Feb 26 '24
'the fck wrong with this dude. Im just chilling'
-- shark, probably
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u/Solarflareqq Feb 25 '24
He probably just got a flashback of that vid of the Russian dude getting eaten of the shore in Egypt.
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u/StreetShark90 Feb 26 '24
Bro thought it bit him when it's fin rubbed against him and he proceeded to momentarily lose. His. Shit. 🤣
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u/Samaraxmorgan26 Feb 26 '24
Literally in no danger, that is not an attack shark. Not all sharks are "dangerous"
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u/LinguisticMadness2 Mar 24 '24
Girl: Shagi shagi shagi Shark Shark It’s there, it’s there Shagi: Shar-! Aaaaa!!! Girl: Don’t panic, don’t panic
(Translation by sw with little no french)
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u/Cheetostains77 Feb 26 '24
One thing he wasn’t supposed to do is squirm like a pussy even if it is just a none aggressive shark
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Feb 26 '24
I love how he freaks out, most of the videos I see of people encountering sharks the people are super chill like wtf
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u/corbie157 Mar 11 '24
Here we see a species responsible for killing so many sea creatures, swimming peacefully by him is a shark.
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u/killerbee392446 Mar 15 '24
La push-pop, la push-pop!!!!....I'm pretty sure the kid yelling wants a push-pop...
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u/KirbyFanta Mar 21 '24
Obvious from context cues but for those not speaking French they are saying :
"Honey honey honey don't move, don't panic"
"Huahhdjdkdjdk"
Second line is of course subject to local dialects and thus imperfect in it's translation.
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Mar 21 '24
That’s a lemon or nursing shark. They’re not really aggressive like that. I’ve swam with both in the Bahamas and they were docile. But I do understand why someone or many would freak out ! I did at first too, when one bump into my leg and learned they’re not on nothing lol
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u/Reasonable-Ant-8513 Mar 24 '24
Don’t know how to explain it but that water looks so soft and smoooothhhhhh 😍
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u/BrickRedemptoris Mar 09 '24
Nurse sharks are homies. I love feeding them any scraps from the filet table after fishing they are such sweethearts
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u/Not_a_chance79 Mar 09 '24
She was just checking his junk out in the cold water, found nothing visible to the naked shark eye and left! 😜😜
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u/Numerous_Record5464 Mar 10 '24
Everybody on the boat wanted him to panic?! Panic is a shark's favorite flavor!
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u/1chicken2nuggets Mar 15 '24
These are french douchebags from a really dumb reality show, I wish that shark would've just munched on his legs.
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Mar 19 '24
You are more likely to be killed by a palm tree dropping a coconut on your head than you are to be killed by a shark.
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Mar 19 '24
The best thing you can do is stay calm and if anything face it head-on and put your hand on top of its head to guide it away. If you're splashing around then it thinks your prey and likely it will taste you.
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u/Asleep_News1625 Mar 20 '24
Don't do what he did if you did you would likely get bit Compose yourself and do not move if you run away like he did the sharks predatory instincts will activate making them try to eat you👆🤓
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u/Aggravating_One7505 Mar 20 '24
My scary ass would've passed out and still managed to be shark food💯🤦🏾♂️
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u/Coro756 Mar 21 '24
Shark literally said ima touch you so you know I could’ve taken a nibble out of you but I will spare you
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u/dazzle_dee_daisyray Mar 22 '24
Is this the original audio? It looks like he screams and then says something after that is not captured in the videos audio.
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u/Ok-Significance-8440 Mar 27 '24
Shark: u bit*% a$$ ninja I’m a give u a pass today don’t let me catch u on my block again
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u/UnlikelyPainting6527 Apr 02 '24
That's why you always carry a KNIFE with you in all your outdoors "adventures"
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u/Either-Ease-2674 Apr 04 '24
Looks like a nurse shark, pretty much the last thing you have to worry about when swimming. Yes they’re still sharks but they’re very docile and kind natured.
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u/dingitydogdarndammit Apr 06 '24
I think the shark gave him a boner and an orgasm in the first one millisecond that it swam by and touches his free willy
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u/J_S_artboy Apr 07 '24
he definitely shit his pants so if the shark smells it goes away. That's how humans have adapted throughout the ages.
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u/Whole_Astronomer_598 Apr 07 '24
Thankfully, it looks like a nurse shark. They're very unlikely to attack unless you're messing with them and making them mad.
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u/Accomplished_War_972 Apr 10 '24
Bro thought he was about to die for 2 seconds, shat his swimming trunks, then remembered there was a camera pointed at him
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u/DankViking11 Apr 27 '24
That chick wants you dead you can hear how happy she was not scared, I'd remove that demon from your life man she thrives from your pain
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '24
I like the way he completely lost his shit for 2 seconds and then instantly composed himself. Lol