"Doing little sharky things" is an excellent description of what sharks do.
SHARKS tempted by BIKINI CLAD Thanksgiving BABES
Half-naked women will swim with great white sharks in an experiment conducted by a marine biologist to understand the fish's hunting patterns. Dr Ryan Johnson told ABC News's Nightline programme that he wanted to dispel what he considers to be rotten myths about the powerful sea creatures. He has dived with sharks countless …
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Thursday 24th November 2011 16:11 GMT Heironymous Coward
Wrong group
I have nothing against attractive young women working while wearing bikinis, in fact I am all for this practice becoming as mainstream as them wearing sandals. However, I can't help but think that this project is putting those few who are already genetically pre-disposed to working in bikinis at some risk, thus reducing the likelyhood of them passing down their genes to future generations.
Wouldn't it be better to safeguard them? I would prefer, say, to find these young ladies work wearing a biniki in an office downtown somewhere, perhaps in or next to an IT department.
And let a group of young, male, attractive bodybuilders work with the Great Whites, thus raising MY odds of passing my genes along - perhaps with one of the aforementioned bikini-clad beauties...
P.S. is it Friday already??
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Thursday 24th November 2011 17:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
Mmmm...
Some years back I was scuba diving near Fish Hoek. Fortunately I was as unfit as I am now and used my tank of air in no time. Half an hour after getting out of the water someone else diving there was killed by a shark. I'm not so sure you can simply say "down boy" to a shark. However, a diving manual I had at the time had a chapter on what to do in a shark attack. The writer admitted he'd never experienced one, but said he wasn't too worried, as the shark "would never find him in the brown cloud that would form around him."
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Thursday 24th November 2011 17:11 GMT rinsure
tigers and whites
I'm sceptical about the benefit of having girls in bikinis proving what other people have been doing for a while.
True pioneers in this are people like William Winram and Frederic Buyle - check out Fred's pics here: http://nektos.net/
I think Mike Rutzen was doing things like this years ago, too.
Still, the girls will look better in bikinis, eh?
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Thursday 24th November 2011 21:51 GMT Kobus Botes
...as has Ron and Valerie Taylor
http://www.ronvaltaylor.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_%26_Valerie_Taylor
I remember an article from a dive magazine in the early eighties, where they stuffed dead fish into an arm, wearing a light chain mail suit, to prove that sharks were mindful of breaking teeth and would not blindly try to rip off the arm in trying to get at food.
See here for more detail: http://www.scubaherald.com/valerie-taylor-70-years-and-still-playing-with-sharks/
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Friday 25th November 2011 05:09 GMT Wombling_Free
Sharks are lovely
There's nothing wrong with swimming with sharks - they are gorgeous in the water, quite friendly and inquisitive; certainly much smarter than the average fish.
Just don't go in at the times they like to feed - dawn & dusk or on grey days - which is when the vast majority of shark attacks occur. They like to hunt by silhouetting their prey against the sky, while remaining invisible themselves, so bright daylight from above is no problem. Night is not so good, mainly because you can't see them. Bright moonlight is risky.
Swimming - particularly 'noisy' swimming, like trashing around, surf-board paddling - at those times is the equivalent of going for a walk wearing nothing but a suit made of raw lamb chops in lion park.
Basic rules to stay alive; always good to learn them.
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Friday 25th November 2011 07:00 GMT Mark 65
"He reportedly "ignored" the warnings that the shark was close to the shore. Michael Cohen, 42, lost one leg in the attack and his other leg was severed below the knee."
I've never understood the logic of people who ignore such warnings especially when they are in foreign climes being told by the locals. Still, won't do that again will he?
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Friday 25th November 2011 10:43 GMT cs94njw
Hang on a second.
He's saying White Sharks are harmless, except that he was worried because:
"It happened to be the one time I entered into ‘white shark waters’ without some form of protection (spear gun or a poking stick) and I was alone," he explained."
"The shark tested me for about 20 minutes circling and approaching me"
"I was obviously breathing hard (due to nervous energy) on my scuba and I had the awful predicament of making myself very vulnerable to the shark by surfacing in its presence, or staying put, and running out of air"
So someone who knew about sharks, still pooping himself when he saw one, and was running out of air, just about managed to escape a shark alive.
And the random bikini girl will do better because?...
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