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u/Nameless49 Sep 22 '23
This would be one hell of a video to show off to friends
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u/bailtail Sep 22 '23
Assuming you don’t beat your dove partner to death once you get back to the boat. I’d be pretty fucking livid…
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u/ThatOddMoment Sep 23 '23
Tf is camera person gonna do
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u/captian30 Sep 23 '23
Blbblblblb...blblblubblublblbbl!!!
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Oct 20 '23
You point and then do the shark gesture which is, you use your hand and put it on top of your head like a mohawk all 5 fingers stick straight up. Much of driving is sign language.
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u/Cultural-Company282 Dec 03 '23
Much of driving is sign language.
I think you meant to say diving. Much of my driving is also sign language, but it is all one gesture using one particular finger.
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u/sugma_digbich Sep 24 '23
Point a finger?
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Oct 09 '23
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u/InnerCosmos54 Oct 13 '23
My Thoughts Exactly; just like a Feline 🐈⬛ or a Bear 🐻 , you make yourself interesting and activate their predatory drive when you do anything other than play dead. Actually, I heard you’re supposed to fight like hell and be loud against lions. The experience I’ve had owning 14 cats 🐈 over the years have made me believe otherwise, tho.
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u/No_Incident_5360 Nov 29 '23
Make the universal sign for shark and point. Hand like fin on head.🦈
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u/bjzy Mar 17 '24
Exactly. Once the camera operator saw what was coming and realized they couldn't change anything they did the right thing and just filmed. Would have been a great video, boop or bite.
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u/p450480y Sep 22 '23
Soooo how do you warn the other diver in that case? Bigger bubbles? Waving? Dancing?
It is to my understanding that it is particularly difficult to speak with the diving respirator inside the mouth, not mentioning the fact that... we humans aren't that good at talking under the water. Almost like we weren't designed for this
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u/MyNameIsDaveToo Sep 22 '23
I'd say pointing. That's usually universally understood. But I also think that staying still was probably best. Sharks' prey usually move around.
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u/AndyEGM Dec 03 '23
Also the video is slowed down quite a bit. With how murky the water is, there was not enough time for the camera person to actually do anything once the shark was visible.
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u/Imperator_Leo Feb 26 '24
Scuba sign languages. There's an actual sign for sharks.
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u/niccol6 Mar 19 '24
What is it
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u/HoodedOccam Sep 23 '23
There are things that you can attach to make noise. For instance, elastic band with hard plastic on the tank. Just pull slightly and it makes a bang sound. May not be used much any more, but it once was
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u/TuckFulane Dec 03 '23
This. Bang on tank. Some type of metal on metal noise. My buddy said they did that during a night dive in FL. When sharks were circling just outside their light radius.
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u/Barncheetah Sep 23 '23
There are marine life hand signals. There is a commonly recognized hand signal for a shark.
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Oct 13 '23
You know that thing where you use your hand to point at stuff? I forget what that's called
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u/VesilahdenVerajilla Oct 22 '23
Also, this video is slowed down. In the original, the shark appears from fucking nowhere, right behind him. There was no time to properly warn the guy.
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u/jamesyr33 Oct 22 '23
I was told one hand on your head with fingers extended upwards (like a fin) was signal for a shark. Two hands stacked meant BIG shark.
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u/Hold_On_longer9220 Dec 04 '23
Wave bye and swim the hell away..lol
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u/DemonBubblegum Feb 18 '24
I'm no expert but I would probably advise against swimming frantically away from a shark and INTENTIONALLY making yourself look like food.
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u/neasroukkez Sep 23 '23
On the other hand I think if you pointed and I turned to see what’s going on, I would absolutely freak out and probably get eaten by the shark.
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u/BlueverseGacha Sep 23 '23
sharks are giant sea puppies, change my mind.
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Oct 20 '23
They’re more like cats in my opinion. You definitely want to make eye contact with them when free diving with them. Always keeping alert and calm is important as they can sense electrical signals like elevated heart beats and such.
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u/BlueverseGacha Oct 20 '23
cats are vicious though.
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Oct 20 '23
Apex predators typically are. Sharp teeth, sharp claws, and large and fast twitching muscles so they can get that prey.
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u/S1Ndrome_ Dec 03 '23
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u/0ceaneyees Dec 04 '23
Sure!
Now I love sharks but respect them as the apex predators they are, they are not “ sea puppies”
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u/bigdikdmg Sep 23 '23 edited Oct 25 '23
This is actually an enhanced video. I remember seeing the original a few years back and it was very green and murky. You could barely see the shark before it bumped into the divers head.
Edit: here’s a link to the original https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DWSUN3LhODI
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u/nerdboy5567 Sep 22 '23
Warn how
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u/r1gorm0rt1s Sep 22 '23
Even if he warned him there was no time. The video is already slowed down so that happened in a wink of a eye.
Glad it did not go down with a diver being beheaded by that great white. It could have gone very very bad very quickly.
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u/phuktup3 Sep 24 '23
FUCK ALL OF THIS SITUATION. You know where this wouldn’t happen?, on dry fucking land!
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u/Absolute-Unit Sep 23 '23
I’m fairly sure that there is no second diver, but a camera that is attached to a tether on the diver’s belt. It’s easier to see in the full clip, but it looks like the camera moves with the diver in frame.
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u/Greenking73 Sep 23 '23
Most experienced divers have an elastic band or strap with a bead on their tank that they can pull and release to make a ping sound to get others attention while under water
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u/shitty_mtbr Sep 23 '23
I've been diving before on a guided trip and we went through this small cave in the coral. I was right behind the guide and he looked back at me and gave me the sign for shark and pointed behind me, so I looked back but didn't see anything. I look back at him and he just points again so I turn again and there, 2 ft from my face, is a shark. It was just a small ~4ft nurse shark but it sure as hell made me jump, especially being in a cave that was at most 5ft in diameter.
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u/phucknut2313 Sep 23 '23
They're underwater how would you warn him without making yourself at target of the shark by waving your hands making them look like a fish
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u/RedCaelian Sep 25 '23
If the diver was warned, he may have made a sudden, unexpected movement, making him look like prey to the shark.
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u/Able_Needleworker718 Oct 16 '23
Making a commotion around a great white is a great way to look like food. Great whites won't bite you unless you look like food. If the person with the camera started waving and pointing this would be a different video
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u/Utopia22411 Oct 27 '23
Sure, just yell to your pal! Hey! There's a shark behind you! Very easy... /s
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u/Rhaj-no1992 Dec 29 '23
This video is slowed down. In the original clip the shark comes out of the shadows so quick that there’s no time to warn the other diver.
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u/geedogjones Sep 22 '23
The shit cloud should be a give away. I mean i just shit the bed watching on my phone.
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u/Puck_The_FoIice Sep 23 '23
Could be warning and with no sound let alone how hard it can be to hear…
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u/Endure94 Sep 23 '23
This being in "don't help just film" is equivalent to that video of two silver back gorillas fighting in the zoo, and Carroll in the background with "where's the zoo keeper?"
Just like the zoo keeper, tf is my man holding the camera supposed to do underwater?
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u/SaucyMajora Oct 26 '23
I mean correct me if I’m wrong but even if you warn them, if that shark had it in its head to eat that diver it’s already way too late
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u/Ambitious-Fish405 Oct 28 '23
Does anyone know anything about sharks? Why would the shark do this? Does this seem like the shark didn’t see the diver and the bump was an accident?
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u/carrieann23 Dec 04 '23
There is no cameraman. The camera is attached to the air hose going to the surface.
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Dec 04 '23
I’m curious as to why Mr GW did not take him, but rather almost instantaneously realized dude wasn’t food. Not even the ol’ exploratory bite that we so often hear of. Yet, at other times, a person is fully consumed. Perhaps just like humans, some sharks have a true personality and can simply be real dicks about it and just ravage some innocent person because they can in the same vain people attack each other.
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u/Das-Noob Dec 29 '23
Sometimes it better not to tho. The panic might trigger the shark to attack. 🤷♂️
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u/GhostNobody1 Sep 22 '23
boop the human