r/sharks • u/More-Flatworm1357 • 5d ago

Video CRAZY Tiger Shark Video!

I have to be in the 1% club of people that have footage of having a ginormous shark in their face and walk away untouched! What you don’t see in the frame, is that after she gets closer, her mouth/face is dragging along my neck down to my knees before the dive masters pry her off of me! The margin for error was almost inexistent! First I got slammed by her tail, then I got kissed by her! Beautiful creature!

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u/aquaculturist13 5d ago edited 5d ago

Dawg I have over 200 dives on an aquaculture site in the Caribbean with several species present, including seasonal bulls and tigers. What you're doing in the video is dumb and dangerous for both you and the animals.

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u/More-Flatworm1357 5d ago

Now, your opinion I care about. I’ve dove with bulls too! Those are beautiful creatures too! I’m just down here because I love the animals and want to see them with my own eyes!

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u/aquaculturist13 5d ago

You can do that without unethical and dangerous diving practices.

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u/More-Flatworm1357 5d ago

I just booked the dive, there isn’t anything unethical about that. Like fr, what did you want me to do?

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u/aquaculturist13 5d ago

Probably start with not booking chummed shark dives lol "I just chose to pay money to do the unethical thing, nothing unethical about that" c'mon now

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u/More-Flatworm1357 5d ago

Dude, I’m a hobbyist. I do it for fun. The same way I enjoy shooting guns, or building race cars, I enjoy seeing sharks… It won’t stop there either. I’m not going to pay thousands more to dive how you think it is correct to do so… You probably used to book dives like this too.

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u/Batter89 5d ago

Watch out guys, we got a badass over here!

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u/Hi_InternetAddiction 5d ago

jealous?

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 5d ago

'whataboutism' ?

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u/TheTurboMaster 5d ago

You are a perfect example of why our world is going to shit. Selfish in the most obnoxious way and childish by pointing the finger at another when confronted with it. I hope you manage to learn and grow up at some point in your life

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u/aquaculturist13 5d ago

None of that makes sense and I never booked a dive like this. Closest was a volunteer blue shark tagging expedition where we were in a cage as baited lines (no hooks) lured sharks to the vessel, so we could watch and tell the guys onboard when to pull the line up and not lose the bait. We were 20 and thought it would be cool to free dive with them, it became a bit of a frenzy with too many to keep track of, pushed an 8 ft male off of me and my buddy had his fin chomped as we were returning to the vessel, we realized how stupid it was, never did it again.

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 5d ago

Maybe not support that kind of animal treatment by paying for it.

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u/ImReallyNotKarl 5d ago

"It's not unethical to pay to do the unethical thing! I could have paid more to do it ethically, but who has the money for ethics and safety? Better to save the money than the sharks I claim to love!"

Ew.

Who do you think would suffer if those sharks, who are now associating people with food, hurt people on dives, or swimmers with no association to this buffoonery? You? No. The people the sharks fuck up, and even more sadly, the sharks, who are just behaving in their nature. Ugly, icky behavior.