Hello this is Kevin McMurray with TrackingSharks.com today we're looking at a
video where a diver is surprised by a white shark. This video first came to light back in 2017.
At the time, I recall the video's original description showed it was from South Africa.
It was quickly pulled down and put back up, and posted again. Since that time, I've seen it
in various places, but no real luck on finding out who shot it or where it's officially from.
When we look at the video, we start off with some greenish water here.
South Africa does have some brackish looking water in some places.
It could also be from Australia, but who's to say, but for this case, we will say it is South Africa,
which would make sense...or could make sense. So the first thing was see, we look at the
diver in the water. He is dressed up in a black wetsuit. It looks pretty thick. He's got some
old-school lead weights, solid lead weights around his waste. This just helps him stay underwater.
He is diving and umbilical cord system. So basically what this means is that he has a surface
air supply. Where air is pumped down from a compressor, through the hoses into his regulator.
In his right hand is what looks like abalone knife. The diver s go down and spend hours
down there searching for the abalone and pry them up using the knife. Load them up into baskets and
take them to the surface. I would agree that 100% that this guy looks like he is an abalone diver.
Abalone diving is a dangerous occupation. There are a lot of sharks and just the ocean in general
is tough to deal with. It looks the diver has a new camera set-up or new camera
or he is attached a camera to his umbilical cord. Maybe with some type of float or someway
to keep it pointed at him when he pulls on the hose as he does his work. I'm not 100% on that,
but based on what were seeing the camera set-up makes a lot of sense. some people think it's
fake because he turns to look at the camera right before the shark approaches. To me I think he is
just checking the camera to make sure the camera is functioning. In the background here we can see
the white shark is starting to approach as the guy facing the camera. A few seconds later the shark
is closer, the diver is still examing the camera on his left leg, you can see the umbilical cord,
which would kinda almost line with where the center of the camera would be.
As we move forward, he is starting to exhale and the shark approaches and opens it's mouth.
Since sharks do not have hands, one of the ways the tell what objects are is by their mouths.
We call this a test bite. They bite in an object, we see it a lot in tiger sharks and other sharks.
Not only are they felling what the object is, but they are also tasting it at the same time
to see if it's prey or what it is. Trying to understand their environment. The shark's
mouth is agape a little bit and it looks like it tags the diver right on top of the head.
You can see the diver is grabbing his head because he is not sure what it is. So it doesn't look like
CGI to me. I'm not a CGI expert, but it the shark looks real. One particular interesting thing,
the shark is a male. so that usually something that cgi videos do not show
the actual sexing of the shark. so with said the video ends. So basically what I think we have hear
is an abalone diver playing with his new camera and he a large white shark that swims across.
one thing that is interesting is that you can see on the approach the pectoral fins are to the side.
As he goes right over the divers head, he kinda drops them, so like he is going
to change swim stance. What happened afterwards. Im sure the diver made it back safely.We
haven't shark attacks, or b9ite in the time on abalone divers so. and 2 the footage
came back. My guess is the shark swam off and after this account the diver left the water.
It's hard to say for sure what exactly happened. Thank you for watching. If there are any videos
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