Filming a Great White Shark For First Time, No Cage, Armed With a Snorkel and GoPro
Snorkeling 7 years ago 493,798 views
Upon deciding to start filming for a documentary on shark conservation and marine life I also wanted to swim with a Great White Shark as it was on on bucket list. This was the first shark I have seen underwater and was the first time filming for the intended film. To be tested by this massive beast was not what I expected although I was warned!!!!! What an epic start to my journey of underwater film making. Filmed in Lucky Bay near Esperance, Western Australia. Subscribe for more action!! Scuba course in 2 weeks, YeeeeeeeeW!!!!! I have over 300 skydives and the Adrenalin does not compare. Give it a go and subscribe for more action. For licensing / permission to use: Contact - licensing@jukinmedia.com
10. comment for Filming a Great White Shark For First Time, No Cage, Armed With a Snorkel and GoPro
edit: to think about shark wont eat you they only want seals :P
"Honey, you alright? Watching shark videos again?"
"Yeah. I'm ok though."
"Sleeping with the light on again tonight I assume?."
"Sorry honey".
She's was a small white but you've got balls of steel mate.
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30. comment for Filming a Great White Shark For First Time, No Cage, Armed With a Snorkel and GoPro
What a great shark video, one of he best I've ever seen.
I was already diving with sharks but i think in this Situation i would shit in my wetsuit
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It sounds like you shot a fish; my questions are, where was your spear and do you think would it had made a difference having it if the shark had become even more aggressive.
I always carry a spear but not sure of it's value with the sharks that cause concern.
Lastly, I would say you could do the exact same thing again, with a different outcome.
Safe Dives!
Very, very jealous.
And to those saying it's fake-- Look how shaky the footage is! His hands cant stay still he's so nervous! haha
That's some crazy shit right there.
Can you show yourself in the water at the SAME time as the shark? I want proof, because i want to know how great white sharks react to snorklers/scuba divers if the shark is just swimming around them.. I must know the truth or I cant sleep.
By the way, in what country is this in? great shots by the way
100. comment for Filming a Great White Shark For First Time, No Cage, Armed With a Snorkel and GoPro
Or not. Either way, awesome
What model were you you shooting with?
took the bait
Theres too many little details that don't add up,..
Id love to beleive that this man just has balls and nerves of steel, and incredible snorkling/diving skills, but without proof... yea..
Post the unedited footage please ;)
The lines you see are from his fish livewell or keepbox, which is floating in the surface, spear fishermen use this to deposit their catch before diving to hunt again, this is probably what attracted the shark in the first place.
And you know people snorkeling or free diving still need to blow bubbles right? in fact dispelling air is one of the best ways to spook an inquisitive shark, they hate bubbles.
vids and go scuba diving, so that you can learn what scuba bubbles look
like, what a scuba regulator sounds like and that you can't go diving
with an oxygen tank, because pure oxygen is toxic. Down to 50m scuba
diving uses *compressed air* tanks.
No one has given any clear indicator how he filmed this either. We know it was on a gopro, but are we talking handheld with a backdoor floaty on it? Or are we thinking chest mount? Head mount? In the shot on shore at the end we see him hand holding in selfie style, but no where in the shark clip is this the case. We never see his second hand in the frame, we never see his feet which would be clearly in shot if he was maintaining buoyancy to get those shots where he is pointing downward but moving backwards.
If he was on the surface where are the splashes of his feet from kicking? And where is the other hand as he is swimming? How exactly is he moving? Turning? He clearly is moving with the shark to compose his shots, but that is not a snorkelers movements. Particularly one who is within hands reach of a great white.
Theres no way a person could handhold a gopro that steadily with one hand while snorkelling on the surface with no splashing.
Anyway, I've made my point a bunch of times, not everyone will or has to agree with me, that's cool, but I'm suggesting there is more to this story than Ash is having us believe.
Until he either comes out with what actually happened and how this footage was shot we will never know.
Cheers for the interesting conversations tho everyone!!
That and the cut shot at the end are leaning me towards this not being the full story.
I'm not even going to bother anymore.
Earned yourself a sub.
Good luck with the scuba course as well.
He's not in deep water at all, 4m max, go watch a few free diving / spearfishing videos, people go way deeper & can hold their breath longer than this.
And in regard to the cut in the video there's probably 2+ (of quite boring I'd imagine) minutes of him very VERY slowly making his back to the rocks while keeping his eyes peeled.
I'm usually pretty skeptical of this sort of stuff too, but this is legit IMO.
For him to go chasing an encounter like this blows me away. The guy either has balls of steel or is an absolute nut job. Probably a bit of both.
This seems pretty genuine to me though.
After the shark comes into view he starts to ascend to the surface, the sound you hear at 0.37 is him purging his snorkel of water and taking in a breath.
He's on the surface for the rest of the vid.
The anchor you're talking about is actually his spear gun lying on the bottom, attached with rope to a float on the surface (watch the end of the video)
This guy doesn't look honest enough for me to rely on his word.
https://www.australiantraveller.com/sa/eyre-peninsula/port-lincoln/the-truth-about-shark-diving/
Wow I wonder why this shark is so confident, not scared, and not so curious with it's mouth.
I don't think him looking at the shark had anything to do with it. Notice that the shark never made any attempt to come in from behind; it always approached head-on, and didn't turn away once it knew it had been spotted, like most sharks do.
Then again, Great Whites tend to have a "confidence" about them. Where, say, a Blue Shark will dart away in a completely different direction once their cover is blown, a Great White will turn slowly while still swimming in your general direction. But the shark in this video goes beyond even that; it doesn't turn until it's mere feet away from the dude, and even then it passes by remarkably close. The behavior is eerily similar to a dolphin or Orca.
If it actually was a threat display, this guy would've been attacked, no question. That body language is shark-speak for "Go away", and he didn't. Great Whites don't do idle threats. If the threat posture doesn't do the job, the next "warning" will be a bite, just like they do to other sharks.
This was just curiosity, plain and simple. A young shark checking out something new in its environment. This guy is just lucky that the shark decided to satisfy its curiosity visually instead of physically. Since they lack hands/paws or other appendages, sharks typically use their mouths to find out what something is. Unfortunately, with something like a Great White, what may be an "exploratory nip" to them can take a mighty big chunk out of us squishy humans.
He is that "deep" to film the fish. Then the shark came and he started filming the shark. as he reaches the surface at 0:36 you can hear him blowing out his snorkel.
So how should that be fake? Not even one cut or anything...
Only because he wasnt doing a selfie with the shark???
I'm a freediver myself and I filmed lots of sharks where I myself am not visible in the video... Does that mean it is fake? Of course not
Better educate yourself before posting stupid stuff!
Didn't you risk your life with those silly escapology routines.
Your wetsuit may have saved you from getting a bite - that's the same behaviour as observed in the tests. Really wanted to know what you were but really couldn't see you very well.
She was just checking him out, showed no real aggression at all.
His calm demeanor & wetty colour kept it that way I'd say.
Amazing footage, you wouldn't catch me spearing anywhere down south that's for sure.
Honestly it does not make sense why a white shark would track and kill three, maybe four, people since they are notoriously picky eaters. After all they perfer fatty foods like marine mammals and large fish and often use specific hunting to obtain said prey. However it makes sense for a tiger shark since they are generalist feeders and while not as aggressive as a white or bull will are not opposed to taking people as food and may follow them over significant distance since they take prey wherever they can find it.
It was a good movie, one of the best shark horror movies infact, but using movies as a representative of white shark behavior is not the best strategy. Anyways hope that clears things up and provides some insight. I hope you have a good one.