Great white shark cage breach accident - video
Sharks, eh? If they simply conducted themselves in a more congenial fashion we could admire them for what they are without the bother of primeval fear.
About 18 months back, around about the time West Oz surfers were rationalising their need to surf, the South Oz government announced a proposal to extend commercial cage dive licenses. Cage diving had been allowed on the outlying Neptune Islands for many years, however last February a pod of Orcas ambushed a Great White causing other Whites to follow their own primeval fear and swiftly flee the area. The result was devestating to the local cage diving operations who rely on Great Whites for a thrill.
The government proposal suggested alternative cage diving sites much closer to land, some within sight of surfspots, particularly around Port Lincoln. The outcry from local surfers was no surprise, cage divers attract sharks and, as the theory goes, the sharks learn to associate humans with food. Not a pleasant thought as you jump off the rock shelf into the Southern Ocean.
Recent footage that surfaced in Mexico shows it's not just surfers who need be worried, those aluminium cages may not be all they're cracked up to be.
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Lol - "Is anybody in there?" - and they're running the show!!! As Steely Dan would say "Do it again" - bet they didn't.
bet the diver needs to change his undies!
I do! and thats from just watching the video....
Are you fricken serious?!
And they leave the other diver in the other cage as well. LOL!!!!
Yeh, classic!
Most entries in the Darwin Awards begin with "There is no way..." . Seriously, stop messing with nature and stop teaching sharks to associate humans with food.
This is ludicrous.
As an aside, is there anything in the ocean cooler than an Orca? Like a giant, tuxedo wearing doorman- you just don't mess with them.
Classic - give that man a drink.
Fucken morons.
See the blood coming out of the shark, no animal deserves to be terrified and injured like that for human enjoyment. Even if it is a gws.
Unfortunately (or not?) it may take one of these knuckle heads being eaten before this whole ridiculous business is banned.
Scary time..not a lot of spare room in the cage with 2 men and that beast....wishing to see the underwater footage
Udo na water was pretty shitty..........................
Spewing just got a new board with Fluro Yellow on it! Yummy Yellow they say! Fark!
"Is anybody in there?"
"Not anymore."
This is a prime example of why this shit needs to be stopped! ......On a number of levels.......Who in their right mind thinks that chumming white sharks for affluent tourists is a good idea ! By all means jump in and swim with a white shark if you have the intestinal fortitude to do it without a cage in the natural habitat, but the end result of this form of tourism is only going to end in "tears"......... not the eye ones !
fukkin hilarious and someone says 'is there anyone in the cage'...like there was but.. not now....or the old chestnut 'how do you feel' when the guy emerges......beautiful stuff...shame Rodney fox wasn't in there.
Best laugh I've had in ages............ as he got out of the cage, did you see the hole in his wetsuit around his arse caused by his butt-hole explosion!
and did I hear someone on board say they didn't have a butt-plug big enough for the poor bastard's butt to stop puckering....
Luck, or maybe smarts on the sharks part to realise an escape route over the top of the cage.
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thanks haydos. sounds like shark cage breaches (thanks stu) might not be so rare. love the hypocrisy of the author - she's against feeding sharks except when she does it. the clowns profiting from associating humans with food have a lot to answer for
This crap annoys me greatly.
Absolute idiot
Wonder if that clip will make the promo for next season's tours?
In all seriousness, humans tormenting a wild creature & legally making money out of it. Fucken disgraceful.
"Nah, there's nobody in there. Nobody in there."
And then they pull someone out.
Then just after this catastrophic safety failure they're clapping and laughing, like, oh well, shit happens. Nothing to do with me.
Then about a million years later it occurs to someone to wander over to the other cage to get the other guy out.
Who trusts their lives to these cowboys?
Yeah but anyway! What about my Fluro Yellow board! I've heard there colour blind but? They chew into Yellow balloons like Candy! Mick had Fluro on his board when he got stalked! But then again that was just a nibble! There razor sharp teeth cut through his leg rope like a spider web! There awesome creatures! Faaarrrrkkkk!
What colour was Micks legrope?
It's Faith No More! The very definitive ultimate greatest hits collection! It's got a massive white pointer on the cover! I'm freaking out man!!! You gotta reach out and pull it all in! Wow heavy!
And licking 9V batteries does nothing! I hope the smoke alarm works? You cunts are useless! Brocky believed in Chrystals! Don't smoke em kids!!!
I'll end my purge? With a song from the Cosmic Psychos! Crystal doesn't have a h in it! Does it dickhead! Rock On!
The Cackling Lesbians down the Street! Then Freddy got Fingered!
Money? It's a Hit!
Micks leggie was yellow as well!
I'm gonna spray it black! I'm not riding a Yellow board when Human Meat is on the top of the list!
Is there one of these in Ballina?
I'd be thanking the man upstairs for this miraculous escape. That he got out of that situation surely is an uplifting experience yet reading some of the comments here there seems almost an air of disappointment...yet again we get this 'poor shark' bullshit.
Poor shark bullshit?!
Ha so the shark deserved it did it!
Righto hero
Yes poor shark, the shark did not create the situation fuckwit. :-)
Why this is tolerated and supported by any government when there are many documented and obvious cases of human feeding wild animals changing their behavior is just bizarre. DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS. Seen this sign heaps in SA National Parks.
Teasing and tormenting anything, and not feeding it especially an apex pedator at an instinctive level just seems way worse.. I've never seen a DO NOT TEASE THE ANIMALS sign cos its parents (and the teased animal) self regulating the kiddies on this 101...
Naah can't do it! Its beautiful I'm not changing! Come get me you Finned Funkers! I'll be waiting! Just Go! Eddie Would!
Hako and goofy, sorry to say you are pathetic losers - you cry over a bit of blood on a GWS so obviously you've never harmed a living thing in your lives? Get over it and celebrate the guy's Great Escape, not turn it into another shark-hugging exercise.
So the shark wasn't lured looking for food purely for peoples enjoyment? Poor thing gets trapped in a cage bloody disgraceful really. The only great escape was by the shark the person didn't really do anything that great.
if an unarmed man pokes a bear with a pointy stick we know he's an idiot, if he jumps into the bears pen and lets his mate prod the bear from outside then he's a bigger idiot.
Personally I would have been quite happy to have seen the guy get chomped, cause guys like him are making it more likely that I might get chomped .
Gee yud think the guy in the cage could have at least shot some footage. Must have tensed up a little.