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shark attack similarities

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shoutatthesky

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Notice how these attacks seem to be mostly in water of low vis? Surf, Murky water, etc.
Has anyone heard of or had any experience of shark attack in clear vis?
 
Sharks attack in low visibillty because they cant really tell what it is, if a shark attacks in clear water it was probably provoked somehow.
 
my wife has never provoked me in the water but i have been know to attack in clear water :)
 
thank god joe said that cos i was readin up today and was startin to have second thoughts about hitten the ocean this weekend. but now that i know ill just stick to really good crystal clear water lol
 
Shark attacks are freakingly similar, they are all similarly awful rofl
 
I think only a few sharks actually mean to attack (Oceanic White Tips, Tigers, etc). Most attacks are being mistaken for natural prey (you gotta hand it too em... someone in a neoprene wetsuit and flippers can look alot like a seal... and your chances of being mistaken are only going to increase as the vis decreases)
 

I'm thinking along the lines of a modified neoprene wetsuit system:
"The SnOrka"

black dorsal (back side),
white ventral (belly side),
shoulder-strapped-on dorsal fin (includes camel-back snorkel system),
and sharp bladed monofin.

(The dorsal fin big enough to convince the sharks I'm not just a big juicy penguin. )

Whaddya think?

DDeden
 

You`ll be harrassed anyways. Manny Puig says, that most sharks (excluding GWS) attack`s a spearo, cause they are trying to fight with you for the catch, they see you as a huge predator too, they always steal food from each other and bite its peers, they get no damage cause they are tough, not the same thing with a human being. I remember Willie the Crab, (a friend of Fuzz) saying that he wanted his bluewater guns in contrast color, cause sometimes the tigers confuse the speargun with a huge wahoo. That`s why nowadays you see all that sharp lookin`Wong guns in black!!
 

Good point, I wasn't thinking of speared fish attracting sharks. My experience in spearing fish is 1) ice-spear-fishing shad in Minnesota and 2) attempting and failing to spear any fish in the Bay of Japan (good oysters though :t later I got a few fish with hook and line).

I was just thinking of deep diving in cool waters where sharks might be around. A profile less like a frog or a seal, and more like Shamu.

Wondering if a backpack hookah with mouth control valve could help with mask equalization on the fly. Just brainstorming...

DDeden
 
Not a bad idea, mother nature had done it`s research for million of years, and we had realize that the natural designs works as well for us. That is the ¨Shark cammo¨theory by the way, that some patterns will hopely deter some sharks in the long run ...
 
bright yellow and luminous green suits should really be the order of the day but are we just too cool to wear them ? nature usually warns you with colours i don't taste nice so back off bannanas might be an exception but they are not the main diet of sharks as far as i am aware.
 

Hmm.. I thought sharks were color blind.. Black & white is high contrast, even in murky waters. But yeah, a banana suit might work, just watch out for any hungry aquatic apes!

DDeden
 
Does anyone have any fisrt hand experiences of meeting sharks whilst diving? What sort were the sharks? Type? Conditions?
 

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I don`t know man, they use to call bright yellow, the YUMM YUMM YELLOW
 
I thought I saw a nature program a while back that had bright colored wetsuits getting attacked more than the more subdued colors. I guess the bright colors look like torn flesh to the shark. Hot pink was the worst.
 
Certain colors must be attractive to some predators (sharks among them) as in the colors used to lure fish by reel and rod sportsmen, i guess there is some room for a reverse logic on that, i mean certain colors must be a turn off for that predators too.
 
shows how much i know, but maybe black bands like on the mimic octopus or sea snake on a lighter colour might deter from taking a nibble as those patterns may be associated with poison etc.
 
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