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As far as I know this is the only time this has been filmed from a cage. Awesome.
It's amazing how fast those things are.
Read the title as "great white breaching from underwear."
I loved the audible "woohoo" from the diver.
I like how all the little fish rush up after it like fish in a tank being fed. Probably trying to grab little chunks of whoevers day the great white just ruined.
OvB, you are one of my favorite posters :)
I wonder why he did it?
Probably caught a bird or something, they tend to do that.
[QUOTE=Neolithic v2;32485718]I wonder why he did it?[/QUOTE] to eat
When I read breaching, I thought the shark was going to attempt to breach the cage
And when outside of water, any fish becomes helpless. No hands, no feet.. just a mouth and a torpedo of a body.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;32487567]And when outside of water, any fish becomes helpless. No hands, no feet.. just a mouth and a torpedo of a body.[/QUOTE]
Even when out of the water, unless landing directly on a surface (boat) and far from the edges of said surface, I highly doubt a multi-hundred pound projectile with three rows of razor teeth is 'helpless'.
Oh god I love that noise the diver made.
[QUOTE=Doom14;32487996]Even when out of the water, unless landing directly on a surface (boat) and far from the edges of said surface, I highly doubt a multi-hundred pound projectile with three rows of razor teeth is 'helpless'.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I just bet many great sharks have felt helpless when tangled in a web being pulled out of the ocean by humans..
[QUOTE=Doom14;32487996]Even when out of the water, unless landing directly on a surface (boat) and far from the edges of said surface, I highly doubt a multi-hundred pound projectile with three rows of razor teeth is 'helpless'.[/QUOTE]
If a Great White was to land on a boat it would probably die because they have no skeleton.(this has happened a few times, with the people on said boat usually terrified) All of its vital organs would take the full weight of the sometimes 1+ ton animal landing on it. Also, just before they breach they close their eyes to protect them from damage. They sometimes miss their target because seals are agile enough to dodge them at the last second. If a human was unlucky enough to get breached by Great White it would most likely end badly. Though in most cases they'll stalk you from a distance without you knowing and come in for a test bite before running away to get a running start so to speak for a breach if the depth is permitting. A shark will not waste energy on prey that it knows it can't kill easily. So the great majority of all shark attacks are just taste bites to see what you are. These bites are not the full strength bite you would have if the shark unleashed its full power on someone. It's very similar to a dog bite, except dogs don't have rows of razor sharp teeth designed for grasping small mammals. Often times it's a bacterial infection that kills people after a shark bite, not the bite itself.
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I remember this one story of some guys that were out fishing when a small Great White jumped on their boat. It was too heavy for the guys on the boat to lift and they were too far to bring it back to land so they called the Port Authority and local police and told them what had happened. Great White's are illegal to catch and it's actually illegal to come within 100 feet of them in California. With this shark coming to them, they got a rare trophy to mount on the wall.
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