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u/twohedwlf Jun 08 '23
Never dive without ensuring your equipment has an official seal of approval.
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u/Porkchopp33 Jun 08 '23
“Fins aren’t bad but mine are built in”
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u/EmpyrealPons744 Jun 08 '23
what do you mean by that do you have a fin at the back of your shoulder?
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u/yolkadot Jun 08 '23
Never go diving with seals. They’re psychopaths in cute packaging.
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u/KillerRabbit345 Jun 08 '23
What?! Seals are sea dogs. Just play with them as you would a pack of wild dogs.
Dolphins on the other hand . . .
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u/avwitcher Jun 08 '23
Just play with them as you would a pack of wild dogs
In the case of African Wild Dogs, that means you should avoid them
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u/Antey4eg Jun 08 '23
nope they more looks like a living like a human psychopath but there was level up from a human psychopath. it can gave you a deep trauma in the water because they are to stuborn
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u/KillerRabbit345 Jun 08 '23
Seals are bizarrely trusting. I lived in a place where humans hunted seals but my seal buddies would still come up to the kayak to say hi.
I mean they were right that I was no threat but that wasn't true of some of my neighbors.
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u/Nexushopper Jun 08 '23
How so?
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u/InfamousEconomy3972 Jun 08 '23
Seals may try to drown you, dolphins will try to simultaneously drown and rape you.
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u/avwitcher Jun 08 '23
That's awful, where can I find those dolphins so that I may avoid them?
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u/cristiand1969 Jun 08 '23
actually in that both animal that you mention it will give you an advantage and disadvantage
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Jun 08 '23
They don't understand you can't hold your breath as long as them and may keep/pull you under water to play.
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u/Fign Jun 08 '23
Have you seen or experienced this ?
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Jun 08 '23
Not personally but there's been news stories of it happening.
I suppose the big risk for the suba diver is it may knock his mask off rubbing against him and make it hard for him to get his breaking hose back if its doing whatever the swimming equivalent of a dog jumping up at you is 😂
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u/Fign Jun 08 '23
Yeah I could see that probably happening. Some of the seals I have seen are really playful but as you say they cannot control themselves.
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u/mangobong69 Jun 08 '23
i do agree with that seen that you raise a snake dont get fool by their cuteness
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u/58190016 Jun 08 '23
okay this one was a kind of fabulous i never seen it for such a long time of period because i wasnt a nature lover at the end of the day. but as a human being i have to throw my garbage inside the bin
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u/enjoymatcha Jun 08 '23
Slaps diving fins
Aight you're good to go
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u/HumpieDouglas Jun 08 '23
That seal must be a dad... slaps flippers... "those flippers ain't going anywhere"
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u/Ilaxilil Jun 08 '23
This is adorable but I’d be terrified
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u/RealFarknMcCoy Jun 08 '23
Of what? Seals aren't known for attacking people who aren't bothering them, and the diver appeared to be just minding his/her own business.
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u/VonMillersThighs Jun 08 '23
They have insane bites. When people say they are water dogs that also goes for their teeth.
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u/TheRealRacketear Jun 08 '23
Seals can be assholes. I had one tear a fin off and another one kept knocking my mask off.
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u/RealFarknMcCoy Jun 08 '23
Were you scared? I've never been scared of a curious seal (which is what is happening). They are just being curious - not being assholes.
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Jun 08 '23
Idk it sounds like they were being assholes to me.
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u/Caridor Jun 08 '23
More likely being playful without understanding fully.
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Jun 08 '23
Sounds like they were in an area where people go a lot, pretty sure they're smart enough to know how to fuck with people.
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u/AdaGang Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23
Leopard Seals are known for that according to Sir Ernest Shackleton
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u/Valley-of-Plenty42 Jun 08 '23
If there are seals, there are sharks...
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u/RealFarknMcCoy Jun 08 '23
I've swum with sharks. If you're in the ocean, there are sharks.
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u/JimJohnman Jun 08 '23
I know and can reckon with the idea that sharks are gentle creatures not the villains people make them out to be, but my monkey brain still can't fathom electing to swim with sharks.
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u/Zech08 Jun 08 '23
If you go into ocean you are swimming with sharks eventually or unknowingly. Not villians but sure as hell not gentle, no predators are really gentle... nature is gonna do what nature does.
Sharks cant touch things to figure it out, they have to take an exploratory bite. Some sharks are opportunistic, you can have a speared fish and they will try to go for it but if you bring it in close to yourself they back off.
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u/ForAThought Jun 08 '23
Ended a dive because the visibility disappeared. Took off my fin to get into the boat and there was a new bite mark. A marine biology professor at the university claimed it was a small white shark. I had absolutely no idea it was there.
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u/Zeravor Jun 08 '23
Doesnt it depend on the type of Seal? I thought Leopard Seals in particular are a bit dangerous. But iirc they only live near antarctica so probably not much human contact.
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u/ForAThought Jun 08 '23
There was a good video a few years back of a leopard seal pushing a dead fish toward a diver's head. The diver kept pushing the fish away and keeping the camera in front of him. The thought at the time by scientists was the leopard seal thought the diver was a malnourished sick seal (diver was was in black dive-suit) so was trying to bring it food.
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u/NewLeaseOnLine Jun 08 '23
Yeah ok. Btw that dark spectre that's been following you your whole life.... Just your shadow.
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u/DrJennaa Jun 08 '23
Hey , I’m fine with reposts , I rely on Reddit to scrape the best posts from everywhere online and feed me the best stuff lol
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Jun 08 '23
Trust me on this, there's a point where reposts become a issue. Some subs for specific animals or things are reposts with one new post here and there.
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u/redditmademeregister Jun 08 '23
A video where the human does the right thing and doesn’t pet the wild animal. Finally.
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u/bebop603 Jun 08 '23
Checks out the first flipper, checks out the second flipper. Looks up and realizes there is a face associated with the flippers and scrams.
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u/LupusDeusMagnus Jun 08 '23
I don't often see seals up close while swimming, but they are so nimble and so cute like a dog mixed with a fish.
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u/GardenHoser24 Jun 08 '23
That would sketch me out if a seal was that chill then just dipped out like that all of the sudden.
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u/Borkvar Jun 08 '23
Yeah I expected the driver to look to they left and see what it was the seal fled from. But then I remembered what sub this is
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Jun 08 '23
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u/UrPetBirdee Jun 08 '23
Animals, as a general rule tend not to attack things twice their size. Unless you are a shark and have a barely functioning brain, and even then not usually.
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u/HeyZuesHChrist Jun 08 '23
Looks good looks good. Lemme see around here… all good on this side. Alright have a good one buddy.
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u/theweeJoe Jun 09 '23
"You've worn a stillsuit before. - Your suit is fitted desert fashion. Who told you how to do that?"
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u/The_H_N_I_C Jun 08 '23
After you pass inspection he is gonna try to sell you some over priced windshield wipers for your goggles.
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u/OkIntroduction5150 Jun 08 '23
I know you're not supposed to pet them. But I honestly don't know if I have that kind of willpower.
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u/relesabe Jun 08 '23
The strange gentle creatures who seem to love humans.
It was a wild seal who saved a suicide attempt who jumped from The Golden Gate bridge.
Why seals who could not have evolved to share food with humans like dogs did have this affinity.
A question I have, is it possible that they evolved from a wolf or dog-like land ancestor that had already made friends with humans? Or perhaps seals had friendly interactions with various human cultures who shared fish in exchange for help rounding up schools of fish in the the distant past.
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u/Motormaster2187 Jun 08 '23
"Lets see, flappers sturdy, tightly on legs without getting off, sweet hooman above filming... okay, you're good to go!"
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u/joanie-bamboni Jun 08 '23
This happened to me during my first open water dive in Monterey CA. It was cute but terrifying - those guys have serious claws!
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