Some great video footage - but wow, what an incredibly controversial activity!!
Personally as a biologist, I strongly disagree with feeding and human conditioning of wildlife. There were some interesting findings in a recent study by Clua et al (2010) "Behavioural response of sicklefin lemon sharks Negaprion acutidens to underwater feeding for ecotourism purposes".
1. Ecological changes through aggregation & reduction in shark mobility
To all those stating that these diving activities are conditioning sharks to associate humans with a food source and that this will increase the rate of attacks, please point us in the direction of the relevant scientific literature on the subject.
Additionally, why don't you stop rubbishing a dive operation you don't know anything about, one that provides for the local community, protects the sharks, and whose actions cannot be attributed to an increase in shark attacks in Fiji.
While I think White (and many Tiger) sharks tend to behave in a more (ahem) "peaceful" manner when given free fish handouts, the fact of the matter is that (as this video proves) humans have no control over the situation and these highly aggressive predators could easily realize a feeding opportunity at our expense (e.g., Groh or Ritter attack). The sharks in the open ocean? They will eat anything, including us. It is their ecological niche to do so. All the contrary jabber here means nothing.
Tell me, why is it that the people that purport to "know" sharks the best are the ones that cite bee sting/elephant/ coconut mortality statistics instead of sociobiology? What, does hand feeding sharks or tagging them give one special insight into their behavior? It doesn't. Sharks occupy a ruthless place in the world. JAWS tapped into people's justifiable fear of certain sharks, i.e., they eat us. No? What happened to Lloyd Skinner or the USS Indianapolis sailors? Your assent changes nothing.
you people obviously know nothing about diving with sharks, when was the last time someone was attacked while feeding sharks? now compare the last time someone was attacked surfing, bodyboarding, swimming. you have not educated your self & are commenting on this without the facts. Sharks are just another fish & JAWS was a movie just like jurrasic park
Great video. Beautiful sharks. It's sad how many have signs and injuries indicative of having escaped a fisherman's line. That Bull especially. Poor girl couldn't even hold on to the fish.
Sirs!This is a very exciting spectacle.But! I think that what you are doing harm sharks.I watched a lot of shots from Beqa.We see that the sharks (tiger and bull) - Obesity!They are unaccustomed to hunt.The shape of their bodies are not natural. Certainly a great attraction. Risk,adrenaline,beauty ...and MONEY.But I am afraid that this will end badly for the population of sharks in the region. Divemaster myself.Fiji was not once on the various islands.of course to scuba diving.Wasnot in the Beqa
It's not so much they're conditioning sharks to believe: with humans comes food. It's the fact that they're conditioning the sharks to think humans are safe. They aren't and most humans want to get rid of these majestic animals. It's absolutely disgusting what's happening to them.
@burgersforreal No you are incredibly wrong.The movie Jaws is not based on any form of a fact. 6 people die a year from shark attacks. Elephants kill 100 people each year. You do the math. Sharks attack us because they think we are a seal or something appetizing. 96% of recorded fatal shark attacks are from blood loss not because the victim has been eaten or any flesh even removed. When a shark attacks us they take an exploratory bite, realize we are not edible and go away. Educate yourself.
You are incredibly foolish. White/Tiger/Bull/Oceanic Whitetip sharks are man-eating sharks. JAWS has nothing to do with it; your "math" is flat out wrong. Far from a case of "mistaken identity" (no scientific proof it exists at all), the aforementioned species of shark eat people as a function of their generalist feeder, apex predator ecological niche. So you can talk like you know what you are saying, but you are a blind person singing about the sun.
@burgersforreal Also both Steven Spielberg, the writer of the script have both said in interviews that they would have never made the movie if they knew the effect on how people would see sharks. Jaws is wrong in every form of the word. By the year 2048 scientists believe that majority of fish are going to be extinct. This is because of shark finning and whaling. Long story short; Sharks go extinct > Fish overpopulate > Fish eat all plankton > Fish starve > Oceans go stagnant > We die.
I think you have left out one huge factor... humans... WE are the new 'sharks'. In fact, I think there is a MUCH greater chance that humans will pick the oceans clean and kill everything else with polution LONG before your fish overpopulation scenario plays out. If the oceans go lifeless it will not be due to a scarcity of sharks but a SURPLUS of humans (and the polution we produce).
@smokinthebest i know i was kidding about jaws being real...but yeah the jersey shore attacks..imagine today? all the guido's? LOL "oh shit bro...yo bro theres a moving thing in the water bro what do we do bro" "yo my makup came off bro"
boneheads! great keep training the large tigers and white tips to associate humans with food. yes, they have balls the size of grapefruits, but what is the cost of such conditioning? Reminding me of Pavlow's bell with the dogs. god help the lonely swimmer at the beach when the conditioned sharks come looking for their hand out? they will panic and then become a statistic!
@navydiver190 I dove in Beqa Lagoon. One thing you all don't know is the diving club gives 15% of its income to the village that controls the lagoon and in return, there is no fishing with nets. Not so far away from Fiji, you have fleet of japanese, taiwanese and chinese boats using the largest nets on earth to catch everything that swims, targeting mainly sharks for their fins. Because of these dives, the lagoon, sharks and other fish around are protected.
WOW these guys must've pee in their wetsuit while being surrounded by sharks... when their air runs out and they need to ascend... I wonder what sharks do? Attack them?
nice music...makes me cum in my boxers...and than i always have to take it and wash it in the dish washer...its mad annoying..but feels good at the same time
These pictures were surely made close to Aliwal Shoal ( South Africa ) ; The animals become really frenzy as you see.Too many direct contacts indicate the risk of an attack !
Now , the feeding is no more direct but through a drifted drum fullfilled with sardins , thunas heads ) : tigers , blacktips, come also very close to the divers but not so aggressive.. look at my pictures under " tiger sharks
at Aliwal Shoal " and compare the difference in the behaviour of these animals !
These sharks seam placid because they have bean eating. But if there (sharks) attitude changed it could be real ugly. Unless i had a good understanding of them at the time i might retreat away . sharks are blistering bloody fast if they want something. as you can see they are a bit docile but still the divers are protecting there assas he he. i would be to. theses guys have done this befor :)
Simply amazing, these animals are incredible. After having dived with black tips and duskies I can totally imagine how these people must have felt, even though this is totally on another level. I must say that I am a bit concerned about what the effect of handfeeding might be in the long run. Most people reacting here seem to share that concern. I guess we'll have to keep researching this. That said, I think that these films have a positive effect on the public's oppinion about sharks!
4:42 ... That was fuckin' close! Beautiful pictures ... but some scenes really make my blood run cold. I guess, to command all the courage is not enough to do things like this - one has to be pretty crazy ... and a real hardcore adrenalin-junkie.
visit fijisharkdiving.blogspot (dot) com for info on those Sharks and the people who feed them, and also, for comments on the topic of conditioning and associating.
In a nutshell, the dive has been operating for ten years and thousands of divers and snorkelers have visited the reef with and without food. There has never been any accident or threat, not there nor in the vicinity. When there's no food, the Sharks don't even bother to show up.
Was there, hehe. A big hello to my buddies of Aqua Trek from Eric Chevalier, especially to Tukai (who's beeing doing this for 10 years. I remember telling him AFTER a dive on the boat while waiting to dive again , "so...do you think it's dangerous ?" , he said: "yes' . So we smiled, then I asked : "have you seen anyone bit by a shark or die ? ", and he said : " yes " , so we laughed and then we said , "ok the surface interval time is over, let's go back and dive " .
humans are good at taking independent creatures, making them dependent, and then blaming them for getting greedy - this is an accident waiting to happen, but it won't be the feeders - it will be someone else swimming on the reef without a bucket of fish carcasses.
Some sharks in aquariums react different on someone they know and someone they don't know.
If they have been interacting with the same caretaker for years, they will come much closer and be less aggressive to that person in coparison to a "stranger"
the research on sharks getting dependet are still in development.
The only thing i know is that sharks are actually able to remember a certain person and that they will recognize that person and they can get used to that person. This will cause the sharks to come closer to that person without showing any fear. Sharks usually avoid humans and even when theyre courious they won't come closer than twice their own lengh. Many spectacular pictures were taken with baited sharks. They beave differently
Not to argue, but I am very confident this was not filmed in an aquarium. These apprear to be very much in the open ocean. Perhaps Palau? I can see in some of the shots a diver with a very large spear gun "just in case." Awesome video!
this comment of mine had nothing to do with this video.
Someone asked the question if sharks can get dependent to someone and how their behavior changes if they meet the same person many times. and this comment was my answer.
and yes this could very well be somewhere in the asian pacific
That's exactly what I thought. This is stupid for many, many reasons. The sharks are being trained to associate humans with food. They are putting everyone who goes into these waters needlessly at risk. They are also setting the sharks up to attack a swimmer or diver and the backlash and culling that typically follows an attack. It's really irresponsible and I think that this company should be held liable for any shark attack in these waters.
@lordtroffalot another idiot chiming in. Let me guess, you live in New York and still think Obama should be able to hold onto his "Nobel Peace Prize." Don't run your mouth unless you have data to back it up. Try me.
Heh, watch your six. I'm glad I'm not spearfishing in that water. Those sharks now equate people with food. Better have something pointy to poke them back with.
I WOULD NOT FEEL SORRY FOR THESE GUYS IF THE SHARKS KILLED THEM they are showing the world that its possible to dive and get close to tiger sharks REALLY REALLY STUPID I wonder how many fools will follow there lead and end up without limbs or dead
hey there are bulls snd tigers in the vid. watch the teeth and one shark shark has the typical tiger "stripes" and you can distinguish the head shape of the sharks.
'Course you do...they like you too (with a bit of seasoning if they could have it their way!Lol!)
Only joking of course...
On a serious note, it's brave of you cause the closest thing to that I've done, was the (somewhat controversial) Great White shark cage diving in South Africa, but I'm hoping to do my certification soon and get to experience similar stuff in the future.
As I said, they generally behave themselves better than reef sharks whalers etc. Sharks are relitivly smart compared to most other sea creatures, they know the divers are feeding them, they are smart enough to know that the diver feeds them not think food-diver, yes they might get pushy looking for a feed if a diver jumps in without food? but meh. I have thousands of logged dive hours and have seen hundreds of sharks and i dive in vis of 2m in tiger shark areas still have 2 arms 2 legs
Don't assume I don't know what I am talking about. They are dangerous..... no shit! captain obvious! I am dangerous too.... So are you. Doesn't change the fact.... I re-iterate..... I would rather be in the water with a tiger than a lot of other sharks.... what don't you understand? I am not scared of Tiger sharks, I have never had one scare me, only one of the many I have seen gave me ANY trouble.
Wrong cccccc888888, look at 1:20 stripes. That's a tiger.,,,and holy crap, look at how obese they are from all the divers. Not good to train sharks to associate divers with food. that's how we have problems here in Hawaii. But good vid.
When they come too close it could happen that they bump or do a test bite on you to check what you are.
They just want to know if you are possible prey or not.(a diver doesn't swimm away when a shark coms up to 1 meter and this is no prey behavior but people don't act like other predators too-- so they want to know what you are)
And if they get punched on the nose they take that as a sign to back off and let you unharmed. Thats sort of "shark-language"
This is an amazing video to show just how gentle sharks can be....and how the media has done such a huge disservice to show them as angry, man-eating predators.
the 1st song is so nice..its those kind of songs where u just float in a boat in hawaii or sumthin..or floating in the water...with no sharks..well thts not possible
This is footage from The Shark Dive by Beqa Adventure Divers in Fiji. The feeders have a combined 30,000 dives, thousands of which spent interacting with these same Sharks. In over 10 years, there hasn't been a single incident on the dive itself, nor anywhere in the area - so much for conditioning the Sharks. In fact, when there's no food, they don't even turn up!
On the contrary, this dive is mellow, fun, exhilarating and safe - and it dispels the myth that Sharks are mindless killer machines!
I agree with everyone who has a problem with this video. It is obviously exciting to watch and probably much more to experience but the divers in the video are selfish. The future divers these sharks encounter probably will not be fortunate enough to have a steel mesh glove and hook to defend themselves with.
The impressive thing about this video is the interaction with such a large tiger shark - that's a 10-12 foot specimen and these divers know how to keep it at bay while feeding and filming it.
I know many people disagree with the practice of shark baiting but it still makes for impressive film footage. Where is this btw?
I have the utmost respect for those magnificent creatures and those divers as well.... and everytime I hit the water and dive I keep in the back of my mind that one day I'll go face to face in front of one of those big guys....but what those divers hereare doing here is wrong and every time humans played with mother nature they lost... If you look carefully at around 4:41-4:44 it was just a matter of seconds or merely luck and this whole thing could've turned into a disaster...
I would LOVE to get involved doing this!
rynomacamillion 2 weeks ago
I would say they have balls feeding Bull sharks let alone swimming with them!
bulldogsfan12 1 month ago
Some great video footage - but wow, what an incredibly controversial activity!!
Personally as a biologist, I strongly disagree with feeding and human conditioning of wildlife. There were some interesting findings in a recent study by Clua et al (2010) "Behavioural response of sicklefin lemon sharks Negaprion acutidens to underwater feeding for ecotourism purposes".
1. Ecological changes through aggregation & reduction in shark mobility
2. Increase in inter & intra-specific aggression
bluecornerdive 2 months ago
that s cool. what s the best time to do it
stephdiver 5 months ago
Dangerous...yet, beautiful!
JoshA1977 5 months ago
To all those stating that these diving activities are conditioning sharks to associate humans with a food source and that this will increase the rate of attacks, please point us in the direction of the relevant scientific literature on the subject.
Additionally, why don't you stop rubbishing a dive operation you don't know anything about, one that provides for the local community, protects the sharks, and whose actions cannot be attributed to an increase in shark attacks in Fiji.
UmpireRandall 5 months ago
What is the second song?
gwsim 6 months ago
@gwsim It says the song titles and Artist underneath the video views, both by Enigma. Even has an Amazon likn to buy. Duh!
kennedy78757 5 months ago
i need the title of the first song please!
can anyone tell me ?????????????
iKillGreatWhites 6 months ago
While I think White (and many Tiger) sharks tend to behave in a more (ahem) "peaceful" manner when given free fish handouts, the fact of the matter is that (as this video proves) humans have no control over the situation and these highly aggressive predators could easily realize a feeding opportunity at our expense (e.g., Groh or Ritter attack). The sharks in the open ocean? They will eat anything, including us. It is their ecological niche to do so. All the contrary jabber here means nothing.
kmkfiction2 6 months ago
Tell me, why is it that the people that purport to "know" sharks the best are the ones that cite bee sting/elephant/ coconut mortality statistics instead of sociobiology? What, does hand feeding sharks or tagging them give one special insight into their behavior? It doesn't. Sharks occupy a ruthless place in the world. JAWS tapped into people's justifiable fear of certain sharks, i.e., they eat us. No? What happened to Lloyd Skinner or the USS Indianapolis sailors? Your assent changes nothing.
kmkfiction2 6 months ago
One of the best vídeos in YouTube ever!! Classic.
ayrtongildieguez 7 months ago
Fat sharks.
KleineHansel 7 months ago
you people obviously know nothing about diving with sharks, when was the last time someone was attacked while feeding sharks? now compare the last time someone was attacked surfing, bodyboarding, swimming. you have not educated your self & are commenting on this without the facts. Sharks are just another fish & JAWS was a movie just like jurrasic park
crazyaboutmike 10 months ago
Stupid action, what about 'innocent' people who don't have a bucket full of fish and hooks to protect them.
Henk1970a 10 months ago
when I was in fiji I made a video and its edited by a national geographic intern check it out I have sharks running into my camera!
bucky7badger7 10 months ago
the last week i do this is awesome
gueritodiego 11 months ago
honestly, because of this video, everytime i listen to this song on my ipod, i think of tigers sharks! THANK YOU :)!!!!
fcdrre1 11 months ago
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loulou111a 11 months ago
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loulou111a 11 months ago
Great video. Beautiful sharks. It's sad how many have signs and injuries indicative of having escaped a fisherman's line. That Bull especially. Poor girl couldn't even hold on to the fish.
yourcommentsarelame 1 year ago
Sirs!This is a very exciting spectacle.But! I think that what you are doing harm sharks.I watched a lot of shots from Beqa.We see that the sharks (tiger and bull) - Obesity!They are unaccustomed to hunt.The shape of their bodies are not natural. Certainly a great attraction. Risk,adrenaline,beauty ...and MONEY.But I am afraid that this will end badly for the population of sharks in the region. Divemaster myself.Fiji was not once on the various islands.of course to scuba diving.Wasnot in the Beqa
lidia24242 1 year ago
cada uno es libre de suicidarse ..mira que meterse entre tiburones toro madre mia estais grillaos de la cabezaaaa
ovetusvetusta 1 year ago
That tiger was Pissed off at 2:25! And at 3:59, he just took the man's stick! Never F with a tiger!
herbdoggy 1 year ago
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herbdoggy 1 year ago
what's happening at 5:19?
how deep are you...?... looks like 60+ feet...due to darker colors....
is the viz usually this murky?
3117ss 1 year ago
@3117ss Depth is around 100 feet.
loulou111a 11 months ago
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That is ONE!!! bloody fat! tiger shark!
MrPuddingate 1 year ago
THAT!!!!! is one bloody fat figer shark
MrPuddingate 1 year ago
Good idea to have a garbage can when diving with tiger sharks.
TigerMeadows 1 year ago 2
Try giving the sharks kebabs next time lol
yellowhelloable 1 year ago
idiots. fighting off a tiger with a plastic bucket.... dont feed sharks!
DiggingNorway 1 year ago
awesome! wonder how would it be like feeding great whites,
specsurf 1 year ago
was this song in the beginning of tropic thunder?
hellabeast34 1 year ago
Are you out of your freakin mind! How is anything but a cheap thrill and and then something very bad going to result from this behavior! Morans!
andrewaburnett 1 year ago
It's not so much they're conditioning sharks to believe: with humans comes food. It's the fact that they're conditioning the sharks to think humans are safe. They aren't and most humans want to get rid of these majestic animals. It's absolutely disgusting what's happening to them.
Nattaquer 1 year ago 2
those ppl are brave souls...if i was there you would have been brown stuff floating around from me shitting myself.............
burgersforreal 1 year ago
@burgersforreal Why? Sharks dont eat humans.
Eatmybologna 1 year ago
@Eatmybologna dude there has been lots of shark attacks in the past...the movie jaws is based on a true story
burgersforreal 1 year ago
@burgersforreal No you are incredibly wrong.The movie Jaws is not based on any form of a fact. 6 people die a year from shark attacks. Elephants kill 100 people each year. You do the math. Sharks attack us because they think we are a seal or something appetizing. 96% of recorded fatal shark attacks are from blood loss not because the victim has been eaten or any flesh even removed. When a shark attacks us they take an exploratory bite, realize we are not edible and go away. Educate yourself.
Eatmybologna 1 year ago 8
@Eatmybologna
You are incredibly foolish. White/Tiger/Bull/Oceanic Whitetip sharks are man-eating sharks. JAWS has nothing to do with it; your "math" is flat out wrong. Far from a case of "mistaken identity" (no scientific proof it exists at all), the aforementioned species of shark eat people as a function of their generalist feeder, apex predator ecological niche. So you can talk like you know what you are saying, but you are a blind person singing about the sun.
kmkfiction2 6 months ago
@burgersforreal Also both Steven Spielberg, the writer of the script have both said in interviews that they would have never made the movie if they knew the effect on how people would see sharks. Jaws is wrong in every form of the word. By the year 2048 scientists believe that majority of fish are going to be extinct. This is because of shark finning and whaling. Long story short; Sharks go extinct > Fish overpopulate > Fish eat all plankton > Fish starve > Oceans go stagnant > We die.
Eatmybologna 1 year ago 8
@Eatmybologna
I think you have left out one huge factor... humans... WE are the new 'sharks'. In fact, I think there is a MUCH greater chance that humans will pick the oceans clean and kill everything else with polution LONG before your fish overpopulation scenario plays out. If the oceans go lifeless it will not be due to a scarcity of sharks but a SURPLUS of humans (and the polution we produce).
latinamajor 7 months ago
@burgersforreal its based on a string of attacks by a bull shark
smokinthebest 1 year ago
@smokinthebest i know i was kidding about jaws being real...but yeah the jersey shore attacks..imagine today? all the guido's? LOL "oh shit bro...yo bro theres a moving thing in the water bro what do we do bro" "yo my makup came off bro"
burgersforreal 1 year ago
i use to do shark feeding with this guys and i think i was @4:55 great experience big vinaka to the BAD boys keep it up guys .....
minirie1223 1 year ago
idiots
harang69 1 year ago
boneheads! great keep training the large tigers and white tips to associate humans with food. yes, they have balls the size of grapefruits, but what is the cost of such conditioning? Reminding me of Pavlow's bell with the dogs. god help the lonely swimmer at the beach when the conditioned sharks come looking for their hand out? they will panic and then become a statistic!
navydiver190 1 year ago
@navydiver190 I dove in Beqa Lagoon. One thing you all don't know is the diving club gives 15% of its income to the village that controls the lagoon and in return, there is no fishing with nets. Not so far away from Fiji, you have fleet of japanese, taiwanese and chinese boats using the largest nets on earth to catch everything that swims, targeting mainly sharks for their fins. Because of these dives, the lagoon, sharks and other fish around are protected.
loulou111a 11 months ago
way to go....let's all help sharks to associate humans with food - brilliant!
effsixteenblock50 1 year ago
those guys really have some guts...i could never do this..id have a boner attack
burgersforreal 1 year ago
Crap music for this excellent video
gearbow 1 year ago
WOW these guys must've pee in their wetsuit while being surrounded by sharks... when their air runs out and they need to ascend... I wonder what sharks do? Attack them?
bbdqsony 1 year ago
Don't try this at home.
TigerMeadows 1 year ago 2
That's Fiji!
See Fijisharkdive (dot) com!
dasharkfiji 1 year ago 2
what a video people ! that place looks live heaven.!! i love it... Where is that?
SuperEasytiger 1 year ago
that aint no tiger shark. fuckin thing looks retarded
23usmc23 2 years ago
so whats supposed to be the skark on minute 2.05??
in this video are many tiger sharks, look closer
TheAnimaliberation 1 year ago
i wrote the comment to soon. i was refering to the ones at the begining. i dont know what those things were
23usmc23 1 year ago
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sideholio 1 year ago
The first one is a bull u could see it from the belly
Princessbah20 2 years ago
the tigers are definitely more intimate than the bulls or maybe more aggressive. kinda hard to tell
dexterUNB 2 years ago
does someone know's any other good site than youtube?
slippan21 2 years ago
phat phishes
TigerMeadows 2 years ago
oops! I just made that mistake as well! spoke to soon..I meant the first one too
petagirl86 2 years ago
that looks like a bull shark, tiger one's have stripes on them!
petagirl86 2 years ago
there are many tiger shark in it, look closer!
TheAnimaliberation 1 year ago
My favorite song. Love Enigma, Great video.
jgong8638 2 years ago
that's not a tiger shark, it looks like it might be a bull shark, i'm not sure but it's definitely not a tiger
ThatsTheTicket218 2 years ago
i meant the first one
ThatsTheTicket218 2 years ago
nice music...makes me cum in my boxers...and than i always have to take it and wash it in the dish washer...its mad annoying..but feels good at the same time
burgersforreal 2 years ago
this reassures me the earth is intact and not eroded away from all of mans nonsense
howardhofelich 2 years ago
Trippy music
Wolvve 2 years ago
Je serais incapable de faire ce que font les plongeurs, je suis impressionnée!!
FunkyPoussin 2 years ago
These pictures were surely made close to Aliwal Shoal ( South Africa ) ; The animals become really frenzy as you see.Too many direct contacts indicate the risk of an attack !
Now , the feeding is no more direct but through a drifted drum fullfilled with sardins , thunas heads ) : tigers , blacktips, come also very close to the divers but not so aggressive.. look at my pictures under " tiger sharks
at Aliwal Shoal " and compare the difference in the behaviour of these animals !
oppenjack 2 years ago
the first song is Sadness from Enigma and the second is enae Volare Mezzo from Era
ALLORA125 2 years ago
These sharks seam placid because they have bean eating. But if there (sharks) attitude changed it could be real ugly. Unless i had a good understanding of them at the time i might retreat away . sharks are blistering bloody fast if they want something. as you can see they are a bit docile but still the divers are protecting there assas he he. i would be to. theses guys have done this befor :)
fishmut 2 years ago
Absolutely Amazing!!!!!
SammyR0505 2 years ago
Simply amazing, these animals are incredible. After having dived with black tips and duskies I can totally imagine how these people must have felt, even though this is totally on another level. I must say that I am a bit concerned about what the effect of handfeeding might be in the long run. Most people reacting here seem to share that concern. I guess we'll have to keep researching this. That said, I think that these films have a positive effect on the public's oppinion about sharks!
Thoom4u 2 years ago
What is the music to this? It's beautiful!
Angylle 2 years ago 2
you mind your own business, I hate people who stick thier damn noses where it does not belong. Keep it where the sun does not shine
howardhofelich 2 years ago
That is a huge, HUGE, shark. I couldn't tell if it was a male or a female, I didn't see it's clasper
TheLoneWolf52 2 years ago
Fantastic mixture of phucking massive tigers & bulls, wow!!!
Shistermyster 2 years ago
MEGLADON I BETTER
K3554R 2 years ago
LOL, doing your 5 at 5 would be interesting....
dstick1 2 years ago
great vid, carnt wait to do it next year
shamidiver 2 years ago
4:42 ... That was fuckin' close! Beautiful pictures ... but some scenes really make my blood run cold. I guess, to command all the courage is not enough to do things like this - one has to be pretty crazy ... and a real hardcore adrenalin-junkie.
hasseNicknames 2 years ago
I've seen this over and over again (my brother loves this video!), but what is the second song?
Mithrandir94 2 years ago
questions?
visit fijisharkdiving.blogspot (dot) com for info on those Sharks and the people who feed them, and also, for comments on the topic of conditioning and associating.
In a nutshell, the dive has been operating for ten years and thousands of divers and snorkelers have visited the reef with and without food. There has never been any accident or threat, not there nor in the vicinity. When there's no food, the Sharks don't even bother to show up.
That's the facts - all else is speculation.
dasharx 2 years ago
did you take some of this footage in fiji with beqa divers
vrykyl666 2 years ago
YES BY MIKE NEUMANN
makawakan 2 years ago
Was there, hehe. A big hello to my buddies of Aqua Trek from Eric Chevalier, especially to Tukai (who's beeing doing this for 10 years. I remember telling him AFTER a dive on the boat while waiting to dive again , "so...do you think it's dangerous ?" , he said: "yes' . So we smiled, then I asked : "have you seen anyone bit by a shark or die ? ", and he said : " yes " , so we laughed and then we said , "ok the surface interval time is over, let's go back and dive " .
loulou111a 11 months ago
@makawakan As the people below have stated. You're a fucking idiot.
Eatmybologna 11 months ago
@Eatmybologna because he swims with sharks?
fcdrre1 10 months ago
@fcdrre1 because he's conditioning sharks in such a way that they will relate humans and food.
Eatmybologna 10 months ago
@fcdrre1 lol. well how else is he supposed to do it? i mean he's feeding them. whats the difference?
fcdrre1 10 months ago
this was ron and valerie taylor right?
Matty73 2 years ago
Awesome Video and as a diver, these are magnificent animals!!!!!!!!!
Ricardosnook 2 years ago 2
nice vid man,whos track by please?
fusilier45 2 years ago
too many ppl just think that sharks are bloody killers
watch sharkwater. good docu and it shows the real monster on earth
dsplz 2 years ago
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I think the best thing to do if attacked by a shark would be to just play dead.
mbm13213 2 years ago
humans are good at taking independent creatures, making them dependent, and then blaming them for getting greedy - this is an accident waiting to happen, but it won't be the feeders - it will be someone else swimming on the reef without a bucket of fish carcasses.
vajrayana0 2 years ago 19
incredible; these men are mad. I never see that with tiger shark. Congratulation
480crman 2 years ago
they are definitely pushing there luck, but I would love to see a shark that has ever been made dependent on humans
AKaustog 2 years ago
Some sharks in aquariums react different on someone they know and someone they don't know.
If they have been interacting with the same caretaker for years, they will come much closer and be less aggressive to that person in coparison to a "stranger"
BugMagnet 2 years ago
would you say that's dependent? Or that the shark still wouldn't attack that person under the right circumstances?
AKaustog 2 years ago
the research on sharks getting dependet are still in development.
The only thing i know is that sharks are actually able to remember a certain person and that they will recognize that person and they can get used to that person. This will cause the sharks to come closer to that person without showing any fear. Sharks usually avoid humans and even when theyre courious they won't come closer than twice their own lengh. Many spectacular pictures were taken with baited sharks. They beave differently
BugMagnet 2 years ago
Not to argue, but I am very confident this was not filmed in an aquarium. These apprear to be very much in the open ocean. Perhaps Palau? I can see in some of the shots a diver with a very large spear gun "just in case." Awesome video!
Irelandrbi 2 years ago
this comment of mine had nothing to do with this video.
Someone asked the question if sharks can get dependent to someone and how their behavior changes if they meet the same person many times. and this comment was my answer.
and yes this could very well be somewhere in the asian pacific
BugMagnet 2 years ago
@vajrayana0 exactly !! feeding wild animals is stupid they dont need us they are smarter than us but the human race dont get that --'
luvyouOonot11 8 months ago
@vajrayana0
That's exactly what I thought. This is stupid for many, many reasons. The sharks are being trained to associate humans with food. They are putting everyone who goes into these waters needlessly at risk. They are also setting the sharks up to attack a swimmer or diver and the backlash and culling that typically follows an attack. It's really irresponsible and I think that this company should be held liable for any shark attack in these waters.
latinamajor 7 months ago
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tumalditamadrecolon 2 years ago
Watched this vid about 30 times because as a diver with over 600 dives it facinates me.
Took me a while to figure it out but .... from the size of their extended stomaches these sharks are so well fed they've become tame.
Just watch how some of the Divemasters handle the Tiger, nearly like patting a Labradore puppy.
ramcd00642 2 years ago
You people are sick. Great idea feeding sharks and getting them to associate humans with food.
lordtroffalot 2 years ago 11
@lordtroffalot can only learn so much if u cant get close to them and keep them around.
fcdrre1 10 months ago
@lordtroffalot another idiot chiming in. Let me guess, you live in New York and still think Obama should be able to hold onto his "Nobel Peace Prize." Don't run your mouth unless you have data to back it up. Try me.
erikinhawaii 10 months ago 2
alot of u guys clearly don't know much about sharks, wasn't expecting it either, if you have something stupid to say keep it to youself.
I condone "shark tourism" in all forms especially cage diving... it's bad form.
Now sharks correlate food with divers.
MrKorea 2 years ago
Better to correlate food WITH divers instead of AS divers.. JK
splendid1000 2 years ago
that said
i'll give credit for this wicked footage
MrKorea 2 years ago
Heh, watch your six. I'm glad I'm not spearfishing in that water. Those sharks now equate people with food. Better have something pointy to poke them back with.
beemes86 2 years ago
They probably did so much damage to that reef by standing on it while hassling sharks...
These guys should not be praised by anyone who likes nature.
mmdy 2 years ago 3
oh common....... big deal like any1 cares....
Purestrnoob9 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
thisblackgirl 2 years ago
I WOULD NOT FEEL SORRY FOR THESE GUYS IF THE SHARKS KILLED THEM they are showing the world that its possible to dive and get close to tiger sharks REALLY REALLY STUPID I wonder how many fools will follow there lead and end up without limbs or dead
DONT DO THIS..!
whtlizzard 2 years ago
Amazing these sharks seem so gentle in taking fish from diver.
mickeyh1961 2 years ago
Quel privilege que de nourrir un aussi grand requin tigre.Poussée d'adrenaline assuré.Ce requin est majestueux
maxwaz1975 2 years ago
I go crazy diving with white tip and black tip reefs, and these guys are diving with the #1 and #2 worst sharks. Hey go with it, not me, just yet
bigphillyed 3 years ago
Beautiful (:
Sharks Are Very Amzing
Nd Thr Mah Fave Animals Too (:
mjnadolsky 3 years ago
enigma sadeness
ajetoifcik 3 years ago
Anyone knows this song?
strawberrysick 3 years ago
that fat boy looks like a bull shark
Shadapaga 3 years ago
soz lol i think i got my facts wrong lol
African78 3 years ago
mate i think that they look like bull sharks
there not tiger shark
look at :36 you can see the stocky blunt shape of the head( correct me if im wrong lol)
African78 3 years ago
hey there are bulls snd tigers in the vid. watch the teeth and one shark shark has the typical tiger "stripes" and you can distinguish the head shape of the sharks.
judas301085 3 years ago
i loooove sharks sooo much!!!!
African78 3 years ago
Sharks are amazing.
What is the purpose of the bin?
xrachaelb 3 years ago
Where is this? I must go there!
sngrmnsthsm 3 years ago
Magical! I Love Sharks! 12*s!!
sngrmnsthsm 3 years ago
mikkars250
But no head anymore unfortunately! Lol!
chamoto2 3 years ago
chamoto2
i like sharks
demarspeed199 3 years ago
'Course you do...they like you too (with a bit of seasoning if they could have it their way!Lol!)
Only joking of course...
On a serious note, it's brave of you cause the closest thing to that I've done, was the (somewhat controversial) Great White shark cage diving in South Africa, but I'm hoping to do my certification soon and get to experience similar stuff in the future.
chamoto2 3 years ago
i hate sharks..
demarspeed199 3 years ago
Brilliant reply! LOL!!
chamoto2 3 years ago
thanks. i like sharks
demarspeed199 3 years ago
LOL! :)
superhofnig 3 years ago
As I said, they generally behave themselves better than reef sharks whalers etc. Sharks are relitivly smart compared to most other sea creatures, they know the divers are feeding them, they are smart enough to know that the diver feeds them not think food-diver, yes they might get pushy looking for a feed if a diver jumps in without food? but meh. I have thousands of logged dive hours and have seen hundreds of sharks and i dive in vis of 2m in tiger shark areas still have 2 arms 2 legs
mikkars250 3 years ago
SiGH yourself ala......
How many Tiger Sharks have YOU swam with?
Don't assume I don't know what I am talking about. They are dangerous..... no shit! captain obvious! I am dangerous too.... So are you. Doesn't change the fact.... I re-iterate..... I would rather be in the water with a tiger than a lot of other sharks.... what don't you understand? I am not scared of Tiger sharks, I have never had one scare me, only one of the many I have seen gave me ANY trouble.
mikkars250 3 years ago
Wrong cccccc888888, look at 1:20 stripes. That's a tiger.,,,and holy crap, look at how obese they are from all the divers. Not good to train sharks to associate divers with food. that's how we have problems here in Hawaii. But good vid.
alawaiman 3 years ago
bull shark and not tiger shark
cccccc888888 3 years ago
Que hermoso video lo adoro como me gustaria haber estado alli ese momento amo a los animales !!!!
pukkystar20 3 years ago
FUCCCCCCCCCK, 2.00 that tiger is huge!!
dans601fgti 3 years ago
4:43 - 4:44, is tht guy nuts..hes got some balls punching a shark..damn
burgersforreal 3 years ago
When they come too close it could happen that they bump or do a test bite on you to check what you are.
They just want to know if you are possible prey or not.(a diver doesn't swimm away when a shark coms up to 1 meter and this is no prey behavior but people don't act like other predators too-- so they want to know what you are)
And if they get punched on the nose they take that as a sign to back off and let you unharmed. Thats sort of "shark-language"
BugMagnet 3 years ago
Oh wait i take that back
motoxmatt1377 3 years ago
That is not a tiger shark cause tiger sharks have stripes like a tiger
motoxmatt1377 3 years ago
Tigers, bulls, and reef sharks.. What a treat!! Thanks for sharing...
jorgeambl 2 years ago
pretty sweet, but without the tanx you could have rode um...
shirosaru 3 years ago
This is an amazing video to show just how gentle sharks can be....and how the media has done such a huge disservice to show them as angry, man-eating predators.
ladysblues 3 years ago
this is fuckin nuts, i didn't even know this was possible. i wouldn't want to drop that metal rod.
mreisma 3 years ago
What is the title of the song near the end of this video?
xenesthis13 3 years ago
lol at 4:48 / 6:50 the bull shark's like "shit shit too big TOO BIG!!"
GiveUsTheBeat 3 years ago
dam that is 1 bulky bull shark
GiveUsTheBeat 3 years ago
do you know how big the tiger at 2:15 is? just wondering.
x4457 3 years ago
I dunno ... around 3.5-4m?. It is hell fat and healthy though.
mikkars250 3 years ago
the 1st song is so nice..its those kind of songs where u just float in a boat in hawaii or sumthin..or floating in the water...with no sharks..well thts not possible
demarspeed199 3 years ago
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What is the name of the second song ?
vRaZ1el 3 years ago
This is footage from The Shark Dive by Beqa Adventure Divers in Fiji. The feeders have a combined 30,000 dives, thousands of which spent interacting with these same Sharks. In over 10 years, there hasn't been a single incident on the dive itself, nor anywhere in the area - so much for conditioning the Sharks. In fact, when there's no food, they don't even turn up!
On the contrary, this dive is mellow, fun, exhilarating and safe - and it dispels the myth that Sharks are mindless killer machines!
dasharx 3 years ago
the scariest part i recon would be resurfacing
TUGUNluke 3 years ago
hey i heard this song before....in church
lemonsqueeyfun 3 years ago
yea well the church has good taste than..b/c this is a good song to listen to when relaxing or sumthin
demarspeed199 3 years ago
I agree with everyone who has a problem with this video. It is obviously exciting to watch and probably much more to experience but the divers in the video are selfish. The future divers these sharks encounter probably will not be fortunate enough to have a steel mesh glove and hook to defend themselves with.
ridecrfred 3 years ago
Wow that is amazing!
NataliaDelano 3 years ago
lol 4:43... diver gets scared and punches one of the sharks. i guess dane cook was right.
sheepextreme 3 years ago
I heard that tiger sharks will sometimes eat license plates.
Talldude098 3 years ago
The impressive thing about this video is the interaction with such a large tiger shark - that's a 10-12 foot specimen and these divers know how to keep it at bay while feeding and filming it.
I know many people disagree with the practice of shark baiting but it still makes for impressive film footage. Where is this btw?
Coccolinodc 3 years ago
This video is great! Answers a lot of questions re how divers interact with the sharks, and what to do when they come close. Awesome!
LindsayAM 3 years ago
this is cool because not many people get to look at sharks underwater without becoming food
cnapier610 3 years ago
um ok
music aint the fave
slinkiwaffel 3 years ago
I have the utmost respect for those magnificent creatures and those divers as well.... and everytime I hit the water and dive I keep in the back of my mind that one day I'll go face to face in front of one of those big guys....but what those divers hereare doing here is wrong and every time humans played with mother nature they lost... If you look carefully at around 4:41-4:44 it was just a matter of seconds or merely luck and this whole thing could've turned into a disaster...
getawayFK 3 years ago