Posted on 12/31/2005 5:09:15 PM PST by Mongeaux
Forty-five minutes into Wednesday's tour three miles off Haleiwa, four people in a shark cage started screaming with excitement.
The crew looked to see what all the commotion was about and saw a large animal approaching.
"It was so incredibly big, we thought it was a baby humpback whale," said Jimmy Hall, owner of Hawaii Shark Encounters.
Hall and his crew soon realized that the animal was not a whale, but a great white shark, 18 to 20 feet long. They too got excited, scrambled for their video and still cameras, entered the cage with the tourists and started snapping and recording.
After about 10 minutes of recording video and noticing that the large animal was not behaving aggressively, Hall realized this was his chance to fulfill a lifelong dream.
He exited the cage to swim with a great white shark.
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Lucky thing "Jaws Sr." wasn't interested in a scooby snack.
This guy is a future Darwin Award winner.
Photoshop, perhaps? No one is THAT stupid.
no I can link you to the video he shot with that little camera he has in his hand in the pics.
It reminds of those old pictures of the tourists at Yellowstone getting out of their cars to feed the bears, then little Johhny gets bit, and everyone blames the bear.
Musta had a little too much pacalolo...
Sharks will bite things as a way of assessing what an object is. One bite from something that big means you are likely to bleed out in a matter of minutes.
Sorry but the ghoul in me wishes his stupidity would have been rewarded in a more "dis-arming" sort of way........
I'd like to see that...
"Farewell and adieu to you fair spanish ladies"
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http://www.magicarchive.com/jawsbunnies.swf
(right-click on the link and save it to your drive - it runs better that way. and then click on the bunny at the end of the show)
(is it possible to post a live link to a SWF file on here?)
THANKS! :)
He exited the cage to swim with a great white shark.
Darwin Award candidate... but God looks out for fools sometimes.
imo, the guy is a tad off to go swim with a great white, but it was a really neat video to watch. I was wondering about the scars on her sides, but the article confirmed what I was figuring.
personally, I get a little nervous swimming in the Indian and Banana Rivers down in FL, since there are bull sharks in there.
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