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Discovery Shark Week

markysimmo

markysimmo

Johnny nice-tits
As usual been a week of fantastic shows, currently working my way through the latest ones..

I love Great White's, incredible machines, anybody on here ever cage dived with them ???

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I've been studying sharks since I was six years old, just trying to gain as much knowledge about these incredible animals throughout my life.

Still haven't managed to get in the water (knowingly) with a Great White, but number one on my bucket list is diving in open water with them without a cage!
 
Watched one about Abalone divers, one they interviewed in the show was eaten by 2 sharks at the end of the show, yikes
 
Not the same, but, went on a Dolphin Safari just off Zanzibar, couldn't really get close, as soon as some surfaced about 10 boats of tourists all dived in scaring them away. Did get near enough to watch one dive down though, was tops.

But, got really sunburnt and my wife got seasick, hers was so bad she couldn't even go in the water! My sunburn hurt so much I couldn't enjoy the next week chilling in Zanzibar after a safari in Tanzania...

Tip1 - wear sunblock (although I don't usually, prefer to gently let the skin adjust, if I do only mineral based organic stuff, but that even tends to have titanium dioxide in which is a suspected carcinogen).

Tip2 - make sure you don't get seasick!
 
Gifter said:
Tip1 - wear sunblock (although I don't usually, prefer to gently let the skin adjust, if I do only mineral based organic stuff, but that even tends to have titanium dioxide in which is a suspected carcinogen).
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Are you for real?

That is pretty dangerous mate, i had lashings on in the summer in the south of france but found that because i sweat so much cycling up the mountains that it was washing away. Sunblock is massively important.

Im looking into trying some Raspberry Ketone Bean have you heard anything good about them Gifter?
 
Sunblock rather than burning yes, agreed of course, I always take Lavera stuff away with me on Hols. But for me the best is to give yourself time to adjust (ie going maybe only 30minutes first day, 40 second etc depending on temperature, here in the UK the early summer can do just that). There is some really really bad ingredients in standard sunblock, as I said even the mineral based organic stuff has suspected carcinogen(s) in it.

Plus the Vitamin D is really vital to us.

Never read anything about the raspberry stuff, you fat again?!
 
Gifter said:
Sunblock rather than burning yes, agreed of course, I always take Lavera stuff away with me on Hols. But for me the best is to give yourself time to adjust (ie going maybe only 30minutes first day, 40 second etc depending on temperature, here in the UK the early summer can do just that). There is some really really bad ingredients in standard sunblock, as I said even the mineral based organic stuff has suspected carcinogen(s) in it.

Plus the Vitamin D is really vital to us.

Never read anything about the raspberry stuff, you fat again?!
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ha fat no although after the cycling 4 eeks ago i have barely been back on the bike, done a little surfing and some weight in the evening. No it is more for the stomach meant to keep you regular, i often get bad wind after the evening meal, used to blame it on the dog but he died.
 
markysimmo said:
As usual been a week of fantastic shows, currently working my way through the latest ones..

I love Great White's, incredible machines, anybody on here ever cage dived with them ???

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I volunteered back in 2003 for a shark research programme called "whitesharktrust" which is two hours from Cape Town to the east (Gansbaai). Amazing experience. We didn't have a cage on our boat but were using bait lines to attract white sharks, average of about 7 a day varying in length from 3m to 5m.

I got to go down in a cage one day and spent a couple of minutes under with them. No cage bashing scary experiences and to be honest I didn't get to relax down there as it was all too quick but for a tourist that would have been a couple of hundred quid.

That photo of the guy free diving with a white shark is probably Andre Hartman who runs a cage diving company himself. Made millions out of Discovery channel docos being filmed and he's more than up for jumping in without a cage. He's also a raging booze hound and smokes plants of green. Lucky to still have both legs is my opinion.
 
AuroRaman said:
Still haven't managed to get in the water (knowingly) with a Great White, but number one on my bucket list is diving in open water with them without a cage!
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Might be best to make that the last one you cross off (or get someone else to cross off), Auro ;)
 
Seedy Ron said:
Might be best to make that the last one you cross off (or get someone else to cross off), Auro ;)
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Haha! My missus isn't happy. I've also talked whilst drunk about being bitten by a shark on purpose 'in a controlled environment' and wanting my remains fed to them. I'm not a weirdo, honest. Plus, they're not the biggest fans of human flesh so it might end up being a futile gesture.

Got my PADI so the next step is my underwater filming certificate. I can't get into open water with them unless I pay huge bucks and I'm not going to attempt it without pros around me, so hoping to add that side to my cameraman cv and get work. Might as well get paid if I'm going to harass Great Whites on purpose ;)

Marky mate, great thread. I could talk sharks for months on end! Whilst we're in OZ we're going to try swimming with Whale Sharks and Great White cage diving. Considering my love of sharks, I've only managed to get in vaguely close proximity in open water with a Bronze Whaler in NZ. It was scared off by our regulator bubbles unfortunately.

We've had the pleasure of seeing a pod of Humbacks breach right in front of our tiny boat just a short distance from the coast in Manly. The better half managed to get some insane photos, will post them up when I get home I. The piccy thread.

Also, haven't forgotten I need to link you to accounts on Instagram. Sorry, slipped my mind.
 
Went snorkelling in the Maldives once and was surrounded by Black Tip Reef Sharks, they only grow to about 5 feet and were far more scared of me than a person would be of it, it was a wonderful experience.
 
It's a beautifully shot video, and was surely an incredibly spiritual moment for her. But, she talks about the value of nature and a realisation of how wonderful life is whilst engaging in the act of killing another living being previously in the video (spear-fishing).

The ridiculousness of her ignorance and the video is exemplified by the comment, 'at any given moment, she could have turned round and eaten me...'
 
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