Oregon Coast Aquarium: Swimming with Sharks

This "mini-documentary" gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at taking care of sharks in an aquarium setting. The video depicts how volunteer SCUBA divers go into the water with these potentially dangerous wild animals to provide cleaning and maintenance... and have left with a new respect and appreciation for one of the ocean's most important predators!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Oregon Coast Aquarium
• sharks
• SCUBA diving
• habitat
• ocean
• aquarium
• Oregon
• coast
• predators
• marine conservation

[suretobringskills]

Is the striped stick to keep the sharks away? It has a similar pattern to a sea snake, which some sharks know to stay away although their eyesight isn't that good..

[OrCoastAquarium]

@suretobringskills Yes, the striped sticks are to keep the sharks away. I'm not sure about why they are striped, other than they are more easily seen by the sharks that way. I never heard from the divers that they were specifically meant to imitate sea snakes, but it's a good thought.

[tuneman45]

Thanks for the unique inside look at Passages of The Deep