Why go back out on the paddle board where you can easily get bumped and fall off - like what it seems almost happened at the end of the video? Why not go back out in some type of rowboat or canoe or sea kayak where you can sit and balance much more easily? If he had been bumped off the paddle board this story could have ended in a much more tragic way. Even if those sharks don't typically eat people, or other things that are too big, I'm sure they're curious enough to perhaps try to take a nibble just to try to figure out what's in the water with them. Then who knows, a nibble might turn into a bite once the blood hits the water and the guy starts thrashing around trying to get out of the water. I wonder if the sharks would get scared off by the thrashing guy or if they would be attracted to it thinking it was a possble easy meal in distress or if even perhaps they feel threatened and instead of flight they choose to fight and attack more agressively. Any shark experts out there have an opinion on what those sharks may likely have done in a situation lke that? Does the fact that there were two of them together (maybe even siblings) change the dynamic of how they might behave? Do they communicate with each other in some way and say "lets gang up on this thing and have some fun tearing it up" or does one of them tell the other "lets get out of hear because I have no idea what that thing in the water is with us and I don't want to even check it out"? Do any REAL shark experts out there that have actually studied shark behavior have an opinion of how this could have played out. And lets all keep in mind that these are wild animals that often times may act in unpredictable ways. Heck, even us humans act in unpredictable ways sometimes - just look at this guy who paddled out HOPEING to see these sharks AGAIN after he saw them in the same place the day before - now that's what I would call unpredictable animal behavior for a wild or domesticated (human) animal.
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Posted by edm goes swimming with sharks August 12, 2010 07:39am PDTReply | Report Abuse
Why go back out on the paddle board where you can easily get bumped and fall off - like what it seems almost happened at the end of the video? Why not go back out in some type of rowboat or canoe or sea kayak where you can sit and balance much more easily? If he had been bumped off the paddle board this story could have ended in a much more tragic way. Even if those sharks don't typically eat people, or other things that are too big, I'm sure they're curious enough to perhaps try to take a nibble just to try to figure out what's in the water with them. Then who knows, a nibble might turn into a bite once the blood hits the water and the guy starts thrashing around trying to get out of the water. I wonder if the sharks would get scared off by the thrashing guy or if they would be attracted to it thinking it was a possble easy meal in distress or if even perhaps they feel threatened and instead of flight they choose to fight and attack more agressively. Any shark experts out there have an opinion on what those sharks may likely have done in a situation lke that? Does the fact that there were two of them together (maybe even siblings) change the dynamic of how they might behave? Do they communicate with each other in some way and say "lets gang up on this thing and have some fun tearing it up" or does one of them tell the other "lets get out of hear because I have no idea what that thing in the water is with us and I don't want to even check it out"? Do any REAL shark experts out there that have actually studied shark behavior have an opinion of how this could have played out. And lets all keep in mind that these are wild animals that often times may act in unpredictable ways. Heck, even us humans act in unpredictable ways sometimes - just look at this guy who paddled out HOPEING to see these sharks AGAIN after he saw them in the same place the day before - now that's what I would call unpredictable animal behavior for a wild or domesticated (human) animal.
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