[Capt. Tom]

or they think something is killing the sharks in the area- so they scoot- Mythbbusters did a show with dead shark scent- it does work- but only for about 5 minutes unless you keep releasing some when they start to return-

Hunger is the best sauce, and that may apply to certain sharks who will act differently than we want them to behave. -Tom

[Bob434]

yeah in the mythbusters show- they weren’t sure if other sharks would react the same- but speculatd that they would, as the stuff they used was synthetic i guess- and not a specific species of rotting shark-