i’ve been in love with sharks for most of my life but swimming with them is synonymous with being nominated for the darwin award.
also, can inside edition not afford an animator or stock cgi footage of a shark? if all you want to do is keyframe the puppet tool please please please put me on your freelance roster.
I was reading that this was in the area of a dead whale. Research indicates that great white sharks have a very different behavior around floating whale carcasses. While they do feed, their endorphins go off the charts and they act “high” and mellow. There is also some evidence that hints that whale carcasses are epicenters of mating behaviors for great white sharks. The neurohormonal changes around whale carcasses are hypothesized as necessary to allow the sharks from getting violently territorial.
So, in the grand scheme of things, this might be the best scenario to go swimming with them.
I guess you are the fish guy. 
I know it’s dangerous, but man do I want to swim with that big momma. I’ll have to watch for the right floating whale carcass to get my chance.
I’d still prefer to swim with a whale shark. Even bigger, more beautiful, and you’d really have to work at it to get one to eat you!
Yes, but where’s the danger? I’m kidding, of course. That would also be unbelievably amazing.
Analysis of white shark livers in particular shows an extremely high total lipid content, dominated by triacylglycerols… For the orcas this is like eating a deep fried Mars bar.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/16/orca-whales-vs-great-white-sharks-in-a-battle-of-the-apex-predators-who-wins
She’s adorable, right? … Right? wigglewigglewiggle
Oh, she’s a lovely fish to be sure. I was chuckling more at the motion graphic design, which is just wonderfully ridiculous.
I get a similar uneasy feeling watching a trainer wrestle playfully with a full-grown lion, only the shark wasn’t raised by hand from cubhood by the diver, and doesn’t have a mammalian mind…
I very much like to see sharks when snorkeling.
They are not often very big though.
“oceans” corny instagram-posts confirms the self-promotion in my opinion quite significant. and “swimming-with-a-great-white” without any protection is just plain stupid.
Thanks for that explanation. I know sharks get a bad rap and all, but was still wondering how this is even remotely safe to do- after all, don’t divers usually go down in a metal cage if they’re planning to observe great whites?
Yeah; I did get a chuckle out of that too. She’s a huge, magnificent creature, and the wiggling was unexpectedly endearing.
Cage dives are necessary because most of the time, in order to have any chance to see great whites, you have to chum them in with blood/fish meal/chunks of tuna. In that state, they are aggressive and violent. They will strike at each other and any smaller predators drawn in by the chum.
*Don’t try this at home
And yet, surprisingly, she and her team survived the encounter??? As she made clear in her comments on IG, she knew exactly what she was doing and advises everyone not to follow her example.
Of course there is some self-promoting going on, but to show that even a Great White is not the monster everyone believes it is, is IMHO a service to the protection of sharks. Every wildlife documentary does nothing to protect the environment in itself, but it can raise awareness to the magic of nature, that we are currently destroying.
Sheer beauty! I’ve never witnessed one of these guys with such magnificent abdominal girth.
However, I can’t say I would be able to copy her.
Swimming with sharks while blindfolded? I can’t see anyway this wouldn’t kill your heart with joy and take your breath away.
you can tell she’s off her rockers when she refers to the shark as the “most gentle” great white.
the shark is neither gentle nor vicious - rather it’s just… well… shark.
these things go well until they don’t.
