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Nurse sharks are able to suck their food into their mouths with impressive force. Check out these different slo-mo angles and show off your shark knowledge by explaining what the appendages on the mouth are and how they work. Footage shot by Skyler Thomas on #GoPro in Bimini, French Polynesia, and Tiger Beach for White Shark Video #shark #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #nurseshark #sharkseating

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Ever hitched a ride with a great white shark while you both cruised through a bunch of other sharks?! Walter Bernardis has. For many of us it's hard to believe this video is real. In waters filled with tiger sharks, oceanic blacktips, and some bull sharks, Walter spots a white shark and dives down to it for a quick cruise. Wouldn't it be interesting to have the perspective of a white shark, particularly while passing through the proximity of other predators? Check out Africanwatersports.co.za to learn about going diving with Walter. #africanwatersports #walterbernardis #tigershark #oceanicblacktip #greatwhiteshark #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #factsnotfear #fear #whiteshark #greatwhiteshark #cageless @africanwatersports

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Ever had three white sharks simultaneously "materialize" below you, circle, then vanish again as though they had never been there? Talk about a humbling experience! And talk about an animal truly in its element. How long did it take you to really see each one as they appeared? I have never had a greater appreciation for their counter shading and ability to appear and disappear like ghosts than when I was hovering in the open, deep, blue waters of the Pacific. Adding to the mystique is that they don't really seem to swim so much as glide like apparitions ...simply coming and going without perceptible tail motion or effort. This is broll footage I shot that was never used in the documentary I was lucky enough to be part of filming in 2013. #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #factsnotfear #fear #whiteshark #greatwhiteshark #cageless

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Slow motion sharks! Yay! There's so much to appreciate about the shark in these slo-mo sequences shot by @danabbottsharks while on location for the film 'Monsters' in Aliwal Shoal. 1. The lines and evident musculature of the oceanic black tip 2. Sunlight playing on the skin 3. Apex predators kindly choosing not to bite me even as I sit in their path 4. In the last segment notice how the shark doesn't use any more energy than necessary to get each of the 3 pieces of bait...just casually gliding, slight turns, and the mouth opens just enough to get the food; there's no exaggerated, wide-open, "menacing cavern of teeth" like you see in the movies. #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #factsnotfear #fear #oceanicblacktip #aliwalshoal Filmed while out with @africanwatersports

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In this interview, a dive master and shark advocate explains that at one time he felt very differently about sharks, proving that all of us have to overcome our unfounded fears and get past the incorrect education we've been indoctrinated with. But this begs the question; where did your negative education come from? Does anyone remember exactly when you developed your fear of sharks? Filmed at @blueoceandiveresort in Umkomaas. Interview shot by @danabbottsharks Abbott​ and @ollie_putnam Shark dive clip shot by Dan Abbott. #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #factsnotfear #fear #whiteshark #greatwhiteshark #paddleboard

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If SHARKS were a REAL problem I would never take my dog out on the ocean with me on a paddle board. Disregard for my safety is one thing, but serving him up as a potential snack is not something I'm capable of. The truth is that a shark encounter is the least danger we encounter every single day, even the days we go in the ocean. Fear is an emotion. it's up to us as intelligent animals to decipher the difference between our fear levels and actual danger. Check out that #sharkminutes shirt! #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #factsnotfear #fear #whiteshark #greatwhiteshark #paddleboard #doglove

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This is complete speculation, but it is fun to notice possible personality traits in these sharks. For example, it seems to me that I see Zapata leave his mouth agape as he passes by the the bait more often than any other white shark I've seen in Guadalupe. They all do it at some point or other, but when Zapata does it I imagine him playing like, "I don't care that I missed the bait, I wasn't really trying...see, I was just swimming by with my mouth open." I've also seen him more than any other individual shark over the years in Guadalupe so that also adds to my tendency to analyze his behavior. So, anyone else wanna weigh in on this @sharkdivingxperts, @greatwhiteadventure , @andy_dellios @joeromeiro333 ?? Clips of Zapata filmed by @whitesharkvideo in 2009, 2013, and 2015. #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #zapata #whiteshark #guadalupe

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None of the famous "players", such as Emma or Tarantino showed up while I was tiger shark diving in the Bahamas, which allowed me to see the gradual progression of "comfort levels" displayed by new tiger sharks that were unfamiliar with us. At first, even though they were the biggest of the shark species there, they stayed the furthest away, barely within eyesight. After seemingly assessing the situation some of them ventured further in while others continued to stay away. In this moment one makes a pass through the divers and allows itself to be touched gently on the face. I'm not going to say the shark did or didn't like it, but it certainly didn't seem like an adverse reaction. Although tiger sharks are often categorized as some of the most aggressive sharks, those who dive with them would argue against that. It almost seems like they are torn between both a shy and inquisitive nature. THREE SPECIES of shark appear in this clip. Can you name them all? Filmed at #TigerBeach in 2015 by @whitesharkvideo while out with @jim_abernethy. #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies

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Sometimes people read into some of my posts and perhaps see what they want to see, replacing my words / thoughts with their own. Sometimes they think they are being helpful by saying something like, "Cool, I never knew sharks were harmless!" Or they refute me in a nonexistent argument, such as, "You shouldn't say sharks are harmless!" I never have and never will say that sharks are harmless. Few things on this planet, including ourselves, are harmless. The sad reality is that a very large percent of our population believes that sharks want nothing more than to "get us" and are spending their days "lurking" in the ocean waiting for the opportunity to feed on us. Just getting people to realize that such ridiculous notions aren't true is a big step in the right direction. They aren't harmless but they also aren't what they've been made out to be. Can sharks kill us? Absolutely. Have they ever? Yes...Just less than almost anything else on this planet, including our own species. Will they ever again? Yes. Just at a lower rate than almost anything else on this planet, including ourselves. If sharks were the monsters they've been made out to be, rather than complaining about the occasional bite, we wouldn't be able to go into the ocean AT ALL! Photo of me and oceanic white tip by @steve_hinczynski #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexist

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My favorite part has to be everyone on the boat laughing and celebrating that a shark lunged at my face, ha ha. You are guilty Walter and Raven! :). If you look again, the shark didn't "lunge at my face", actually, it went for a piece of bait which aligned it with my path, then it turned away without doing me any harm. Here's the dialogue: "I can see the beautiful dorsal fins of the oceanic black tips we just went diving with. I can feel them bumping my legs below me, they're surrounding me, going around me. At any time obviously, these sharks, as apex predators, could take me out...effortlessly. Why aren't they? Well, these are the questions you have to ask to begin rethinking the shark, to think about their role on this planet. It has nothing to do with us...it has nothing to do with killing us or eating us. Obviously it's choosing the fish - not only is it choosing the fish, it's making a specific effort not to make a mistake of biting something it doesn't want to bite. Why would that benefit the shark? It doesn't. They don't go out looking for us. They don't even want to bite us when they have the opportunity to bite us. We don't need nets. (off camera) Yes! That was brilliant! Underwater shots by Dan Abbott. #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexist

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Let's take a poll. Is this clip a trailer for the next shark horror movie coming out of Hollywood? Or a clip from a public video presentation by a shark education/conservation company? #shark #sharkcull #nosharkcull #coexist #wsv #whitesharkvideo #sharkdiving #drowning #sentient #monsters #monstersfilm #underestimatinganimals #skylerthomas #wedontneednets #coexistence #tigershark #greatwhitelies #factsnotfear #fear #whiteshark #greatwhiteshark #cageless #natalsharksboard #fakeeducation #fakeconservation #sharksboardeducation Filmed by Skyler Thomas in 2015 @sharkangels @nosharkcullofficial