Woman swims with great white sharks

**ShyMer** · 02-23-2013, 08:58 AM

My mom sent me this article this morning.

sounds like an awesome experience, but I still question the wisdom of this.

Thoughts anyone?

**MerAnthony** · 02-23-2013, 10:05 AM

NO THANKS!! I think I will pass on swimming with Great Whites. It reminds me of JAWS to much.

**AniaR** · 02-23-2013, 08:44 PM

Hannah Fraser swam with them in her tail. She's talked about it a few times in interviews. There was a video that went viral on FB for a while of a woman scientist chatting away on a boat about understanding animal behaviour, and she reaches over and PETS a great white shark who keeps bobbing his head up no kidding like a dog at the side of the boat. She does make some sort of discretion statement. I'm trying to find it on youtube with no luck, but in searching for it there's actually loads of videos of people doing it.

I think it's just like the people who touch or pick up venomous or other dangerous animals. I think you got a 50/50 change... lol you gonna die or walk away! lol

**AniaR** · 02-23-2013, 08:46 PM

**Dacora** · 02-23-2013, 09:14 PM

I think its awesome. Even though it can be dangerous its one of my goals in life to swim with such amazing beings.

**Mermaid Allie** · 02-23-2013, 10:18 PM

I think that they're just a very solitary animal. Not very dangerous unless you seem to be a threat or food. Honestly I think that if you were diving with one it wouldn't bother you unless you antagonised it but I don't really know if I would get in the water with a great white on purpose. It's a bit risky. But I would DEFINATELY go in one of those dive tanks with sharks. I love sharks. Something about their mysterious and powerful nature really mesmerises me.

**New York Mermaid** · 02-23-2013, 11:52 PM

I personally would love to swim with a great white shark without a cage, after learning so much about shark behavior it still interests me, ive swam with a 7 foot hammerhead and it still amazing to me. Sharks like these arent usually going to attack unless their hungry, curious or threatened. Its always risky with all animals, heck the ocean is risky itself, because you never know what may happen.

I still plan for 2015 to dive over in guadalupe island with a great white.

**AptaMer** · 02-24-2013, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by AniaR

There was a video that went viral on FB for a while of a woman scientist chatting away on a boat about understanding animal behaviour, and she reaches over and PETS a great white shark who keeps bobbing his head up no kidding like a dog at the side of the boat. She does make some sort of discretion statement. I'm trying to find it on youtube with no luck, but in searching for it there's actually loads of videos of people doing it.

That lady in the video you showed, Valerie Tylor, is one of the most gonzo divers that ever swam. Here's a video of her befriending a Moray Eel.

http://youtu.be/npP8maVti7o

**AptaMer** · 02-24-2013, 12:21 AM

Valerie Taylor and her husband Ron were the inventors of the chainmail shark protection suit. Her's a video of Valerie Taylor testing out the protection suit by getting a shark to attack her.

She's not harmed, but if you want to see how an attacking shark would try to kill a person, this shows how the shark would try to do it.

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