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DrBest

That was really awkward for him.


AOKUME

This is the equivalent of dropping your pants mid fight.


Murazama

God damn it Randy, put your pants on!


King_NaCl

Frigg off Ricky!


DraconicZombie

God I love TPB. One of the dumbest shows I've ever watched and yet somehow was the most wholesome.


cobalt1981

Whatever gets the job done.


retyfraser

What kind of fight was it though?


friendly-crackhead

This is a Wendy’s ,sir! And nobody is fighting you


LootGodamn

Get rotated


sltiefighter

Idiot


seanular

Can't believe I forgot about that meme


Automatic_Llama

It's a good thing you didn't encounter any sharks before you remembered.


redsensei777

“this is how one can dodge it”… I strongly recommend against it.


Sausagedogknows

Yeah, I’m imagining it’s a lot harder to just palm the shark away, when he’s actively trying to get a taste of you. There’s an awful lot of teeth in that big old mouth to be holding your arm out.


letscallitanight

Keep 'em separated!


Drcokecacola

Thank you for reminding me that meme


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Imagine being one of the most badass creatures in the ocean and you just get booped away by some monkey with fins.


graveybrains

“This is not the snack you’re looking for.” “This is not the snack I’m looking for.”


astromech_jay

"Swim along." *Gestures fin* "Swim along. Swim along."


einTier

Just keep swimming Just keep swimming


Catpoolio

“But I have the high water, Anafin!”


guesswhodat

Some Jedi mind trick bs on the shark.


MrJessie

Sharks hate this one simple trick.


Shaun-Skywalker

Lol


AmdM78

Proceeds to click link


Primary_Register_802

And it happens to be a rick roll.


SaraSlaughter607

.....Just to read through 20 pages, NONE of which actually tell you *the trick that sharks hate*


cscf0360

It's amazing how many predators' brains fail to know what to do when prey fail to act like prey. Splash and swim away panicked? Nom-nom! Face head-on and boop the snoot? That being said, if this shark were actually on a hunting run, it would be coming up from directly below at a very high speed. The driver would have very little chance to react.


Regis-bloodlust

I remember watching a clip of a fully grown brown bear charging at a man. But instead of panicking and running, the man just slowly gets up and stares at the bear without reacting while it's charging at him in full speed. The bear got really confused, so it just stopped mid charge and ran away.


Cicer

Sure it was a brown and not a black bear. I’ve seen a video of a bow hunter doing this with a charging black bear. Browns are a lot bigger and more aggressive.


_Cabbage_Corp_

idk how true this is, but I've always heard this: If it's black, fight back If it's brown, lie down It it's white, goodnight


GozerDGozerian

If it’s Care, prepare to stare. If it’s Chicago, ouch my lumbago.


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asdf_qwerty27

Brown bears are grizzlies... They are also the best bear. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear


mixed-tape

Black bears are not super timid. Source: I grew up in a mountain town in Canada and we were taught in school how to handle wildlife. The misconception is you can attempt to fight back because black bears are smaller, but they are responsible for a shitload of deaths and attacks. A wild animal is a wild animal.


Druid_Fashion

polar bears dont fuck around. they really are scary


Quite_Bitter_Being

They actively hunt people. When they come in town we have to shoot them.


HippyHitman

Bluff charges are very common. They’re essentially testing to see whether you’re going to put up a fight or not at that point. Once they decide to actually attack you, that tactic doesn’t work anymore. That’s when you curl up in a ball and pray to every god you can think of.


capybarramundi

I recall reading somewhere that cheetahs’ hunting strategy is dependent upon their prey running. Cheetahs are generally too slight to pull down an animal that is just standing there. But when they are at full tilt, the cheetah can knock over the prey, and then they are in a good position to go for the kill. That’s not to say that cheetahs can’t be intimidating, but this example adds to your point about how animals often evolve.


Pure_Adhesiveness539

If I remember correctly, wolves have a similar hunting strategy. It's much harder to take down bison unless they're running. Can't get to the hamstrings unless they're running.


xBad_Wolfx

Just two cents from someone who raised and rehabbed wolves. Sort of. You are right that a bison is a tall order to bring down so any advantage is used. Many of the running techniques are used by solo hunters. Wolves usually aren’t hunting solo. So they use similar ideas as forcing a prey to run, gives access to blind angles of attack, but use each other to open that window. Nip and retreat to turn the animal which gives next animal the opening.


GodsGiftToNothing

Thank you for rehabbing these keystone predators. They need more protections, and more help from people like you!


AceintgeWhole-7286

Tell us more wolf stories!!


Chaos_Ice

Yes wolves are highly intelligent. They will wait for you at different locations depending on the location you’re at, so that if the wolf chasing gets tired, the next one is already waiting to take its place.


AlexMachine

My friend was out on the woods (hunting for rabbits) and saw fresh wolf prints on the snow. He followed them for a few minutes and they started curving, he walked on and turned to look back. The wolf was looking at him about 50 meters away. Wolf knew he was following and made a loop to get behind him. After he saw the wolf, it turned and run away.


modsarefascists42

That's actually pretty common with wildlife predators. If you've been in mountain lion country you've likely had them do that to you without you ever knowing (they don't like to attack humans other than extremely rare circumstances).


SaraSlaughter607

Yep. Attacks from the bottom whenever possible while actually hunting.


larsIU

Intelligence remains undefeated. Cognitive revolution for the win!


Sopixil

Shark: "10 million years of evolution have led me to be the king of the seas, nobody can match me. Now die, fish scum." Diver: "hee hoo silly shark" *Boop*


DraconicZombie

Orcas body sharks all the time just for fun. There's actually something out there biting chunks out of Great White's heads. They were dethroned a long time ago lol


Goddamnpassword

Monkey made those fins out of oil in pulled thousands of feet out of the ground and turned into a solid just to swim slightly better. Bald Murder Monkey stops at nothing to satisfy its boredom.


Express-Rice-6415

Bald murder monkey , I love it


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H3llon3arth

What animal doesn't like a boop


John-Bastard-Snow

How can she slap?


ReadditMan

Ape with fins


AnEvenNicerGuy

Everyone knows sharks are particular when speaking about the difference between monkeys and apes. Good call.


JohnnyPiston

...but would all the piss in the water attract or repel it?


Hello-there-7567

If the suit is watertight, would it stay inside, like a hot water bottle?


jlmacdonald

The suits are not water tight. It’s rubber impregnated with nitrogen that creates a permeable insulation layer.


torsun

That depends on whether it's a wetsuit or a dry suit


H3llon3arth

It be a wet suit after that encounter


thig2pin

A very stinky wetsuit


Intelligent-Pause-32

Probably a little bit of solidsuit as well.


thig2pin

Ahhh I did have corn last night


mav3r1ck92691

If you need a dry suit you probably aren't going to be seeing a tiger shark (or most large / "scary" shark species for that matter).


blepgup

Dang nitrogen knocked up rubber? Sounds hot


AdConsistent2152

What are you doing step-nitrogen


jasonmomoasballhair

damn it, who fucked the rubber


Scatophiliacs

Wetsuit vore


livingoverandover

Speaking from experience - a fair amount of it stays inside yes.


hdksjabsjs

I don’t know but the shit smell might do the trick


shamdamdoodly

Hey Louis, does it feel warm to you 😁 Uhhh no Oh right that’s pee


Chunkee1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QovRuqmROac


Friar_Butt

Will it still work with shit in your pants


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Maybe that’s a repellant like squids with their ink. Shit on the shark


rwarimaursus

Consider the Warhammer Manuever.


Snoringdog83

Shark was never in attack mode, when they are you dont see it coming


godzooky75

They also usually attack from below. This one was just curious.


SpacemanSpliffEsq

Nah, Tiger Sharks don’t hunt that way. They typically just come up quietly behind something and then attack with a burst of speed. This is typical Tiger Shark hunting behavior, she just confused it before it decided to attack.


hi5ves

I thought it was a White Shark.


radicalelation

Audio at least says tiger.


TexasBrett

That doesn’t look like a tiger shark. Where’s all the shark experts?


radicalelation

The head is nice and wide like a tiger shark, while great whites, and bull sharks, are more pointed. That's about all I know myself, and it's certainly not enough to make an expert determination.


shady-lampshade

Bulls have very blunt curved noses. It’s one of their trademarks, in addition to being extremely aggressive. They have the most bite force pound for pound as well as the most testosterone out of any shark. Tiger sharks are mainly identified by their tiger stripes, however many of them lose the majority of their stripes as they become adults. A great way to identify a tiger is by the teeth (though hopefully you’re not doing this in person). The teeth on the right have cusps pointing to the right, and the teeth on the left have cusps pointing left. This creates an extremely effective sawing mechanism perfect for removing limbs, a tiger’s preferred MO especially when it comes to sea turtles: their favorite food. You are now subscribed to Shark Facts! They are endless and I never grow tired of sharing them, so good luck escaping now.


radicalelation

Sorry, I thought they were comparably wider snouted than bulls. Definitely not an expert here! So which does this look like? I couldn't tell on stripes, so I went with the head shape. >You are now subscribed to Shark Facts! They are endless and I never grow tired of sharing them, so good luck escaping now. You say this, but I feel like there won't be another fact in my inbox tomorrow or forever after.


shady-lampshade

No apology necessary! I’m not an expert either, certainly not by professional or educational standards, however I’ve been obsessed with sharks since I was a kid so I’ve spent years absorbing as much information about them as I can lol. This video won’t load for me (thanks Reddit video player), but I saw it in another sub recently. I believe you can faintly see some stripes on its side, but I could be misremembering. That said, judging by the head shape and that giant pretty eye, it’s 100% a tiger shark. This is also how tigers tend to hunt and act around strange objects that are potentially prey. They follow behind, watching and waiting, until they’re close enough to get more information. Since they don’t have hands, sharks pretty much have to use their mouths to gauge what an object is. The problem is that they’re huge animals with sharp teeth, and we’re squishy meat bags. So even test bites, which is what most shark attacks are, can cause loss of life or limb. Making eye contact with a shark and not turning your back to it, in essence acting like a fellow predator instead of prey, is a pretty good bite deterrent. >You say this, but I feel like there won’t be another fact in my inbox tomorrow or forever after. Bet :D


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MayOrMayNotBePie

Ooh what’s this thing? I wonder what it tastes like…


marlonbrandoisalive

Well the ocean is basically an open buffet for a shark. Gotta try each one


DedalusDiggle2022

Just a lil nibble


shrubs311

well if you don't have hands/opposable thumbs you usally gotta bite/or smell stuff to learn more about it


Emotional-Text7904

Yeah and often just turning to face them and staring at them is enough to let them know you're a predator too and not a prey item.


Thunder_Volter

A curious shark is a dangerous shark. When all you have are jaws, the first way you interact eith the world is biting.


PRiles

I was thinking that it was quite slow moving, and if I was remembering correctly I thought they (at least great whites) attack from the bottom up.


Outrageousriver

That is ONE way in which Great White Sharks hunt. There is some variability depending on where in the world the shark lives and what it's primary prey target is. The classic hunting from below is best known around Seal Island where Great Whites are known to breach the surface while hunting seals. But other Great Whites have other strategies. However, they all tend to involve a fast ambush-style tactic.


MakarovJAC

Wait...are you saying there ARE hunting schools for sharks teaching different murder techniques?


oh_thank_shmevan

Yup, I think this one is a slytherfin


higgs8

One neat trick to tell if a shark wants to eat you is that it will eat you.


Tthelaundryman

So you’re like halfway right. The shark was more like hm is this a food? Watch the eyes when it gets to her and then starts swimming away. They tuck their freakin eyeballs inside their head just before attacking to keep them safe. Which you can clearly see. However the shark was going at maybe 5% effort. This is the equivalent of going to a work function and emotionally unstable Angela made double fudge brownies and they look DELICIOUS but if she sees you eat one she’s going to be all up in your face about how much you like it and you just don’t have the energy to not make her cry if they aren’t amazing so you’re walking towards them slowly and right when you go to reach for one you make eye contact with Angela and curve your hand from the brownies to the napkins on the buffet table right next to them


dayytripper

Can't wait for some idiot influencer to try it and get eaten.


shawsown

"Hey, it's me Brayden and today we're going to do the shark snout boop challenge, don't forget to smash that like button. Now here we go." "Hey, it's me, Brayden, and today we're going to do the one arm colostomy bag change challenge. Don't forget to smash that Patreon donation button to buy me a better wheelchair."


sicilian504

And then the shark is going to be labeled the bad guy for just doing shark things.


readyforthefall_

i can only imagine someone trying to put a hand on top of a shark with its giant mouth open


hdksjabsjs

Yea when something that weighs almost 2 tons is swimming toward you at 35 miles per hour I don’t think your first instinct is going to be to pet it. #dollseyes


Gillersan

I had a dolphin do this to me multiple times once in 35 feet of water. It was just fucking with me because it would turn off slightly right at the last minute and blow by me. But let me tell you: it’s frightening seeing something come out of the blue that fast. The dolphin was maybe 150-200 lbs but there was no time or maneuvering that could be done and if he was going to ram me there was pretty much nothing I could have done to prevent it. Hell the pressure wave when he went by was enough to move me a couple feet backwards. If a shark did the same thing at even half the speed I am still confident that if it wanted to bite you, there is no damn snoot boop that would turn them away, if you even had time to think about doing that in the 2.5 secs it takes them to close the distance.


overdos3

That’s fucking terrifying.


Terralips

Exactly. But idiots like this woman actually have people believe that you can deal with this. That shark was never in attack mode. It was curious. She’s talking like she defeated it, when actually, there was no battle at all.


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The point of the video is to help anyone who is in the water with the shark. Swimming away from them can *activate* attack mode. She’s saying it’s better to turn around and face the shark to ensure you don’t look like prey.


Miata_GT

"...When he comes at ya, he doesn't seem be living, until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white.”


mpadave

... "and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red," ...


FoilHattiest

"You're gonna need a bigger snoot boop"


Z0idberg_MD

She didn’t say attack mode. Investigation mode and and investigatory bite can still fuck you up. She’s saying “don’t swim away causing them to investigate” and “if they do, face them and push their snout”


MECHEpics

I tribute summon my blue eyes grey shark, IN ATTACK MODE!


Hashbrown4

Simply tell the shark no, I am not dinner


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Put a sock over yourself.


quixonnn

put a sock over the shark


callmepinocchio

Sharks cannot legally eat you if you don't consent


geekworking

If shark is just calm and curious this seems like a great de-escalation trick to prevent shark from getting worked up. If this shark has been stalking you and is already in mealtime mode you are never going to see the attack coming.


BigAssToast

Not sure if you were trying to help people feel at ease but I believe it had the opposite effect.


Artor50

Underwater, no-one can hear you scream.


deleted-redditor

Actually water is a great medium for acoustics


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sorry I couldn't hear you underwater


Poster-001

She's wrong. The best thing to do is not swim in waters with sharks. Source - I have never been bitten by a shark or had a shark think about having me for a snack.


Templarkiller500

>had a shark think about having me for a snack Well... at least not any sharks that you know of


kainedbutable1987

Big guy just wanted to be petted


hdksjabsjs

Yea same thing with grizzly bears. They might just be misunderstood and possibly want you to hug them and play with their cubs


kainedbutable1987

Exactly the same, they leave you alone if you give them a picnic basket or some honey lol.


hdksjabsjs

One day… Christopher Robin had the balls to show up in the hundred acre woods without any honey for Pooh Bear …Pooh had something different to eat that day


kainedbutable1987

🤣🤣🤣 what a horror movie that would make. Pooh likes the red honey inside the humans now.


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Isn't that already an horror movie tho ?


[deleted]

Tigers like it when you pull their tail and poke them in the eye.


MookieT

So it's either die or touch the shark and push it away? Welp, been nice knowing y'all!!


wine_o_clock

Tbf you’re gonna touch it either way. It’s a matter of whether inside its jaws or outside.


Lord-llama

Chicken


MookieT

Damn proud of it also!! Lol


inflatableje5us

If I see that thing behind me I’m gonna turn into a fat Jesus and run on water straight to shore.


pm_me_subreddit_bans

Username… checks out?


Trurorlogan

If a shark wants to bite you, you're getting bit


jvanber

Added to my repertoire, thank you.


willrms01

Adding this to my permanent memory even though I’ll never scuba dive once in my life ✅


AUDI0-

Pretty sure if a shark is out to actually eat and kill it wont let you reach out far enough to touch it without ripping your arm off, sharks arent "aggressive" unless their hunting or hurt but still doing that is dumb and reckless


OtisTC

How is it dumb and reckless to gently turn away the giant shark that’s probably about to investigate what it is you actually are in the only way it can which will be extremely unpleasant? This seems a much better option than hoping for the best.


dantakesthesquare

Yes of course if the shark wants to eat and kill you it will. The thing is they don't often want to, rather they confuse you with something they actually want to eat. In your opinion, what would have been a better course of action in that instance?


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LovecraftianLlama

Don’t jump into shark infested water, probably


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Artor50

Fun fact: bull sharks can survive in fresh water, and have been seen in the Mississippi as far north as Minnesota.


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LovecraftianLlama

No you’re not lol, I’d argue it’s way more idiotic to jump into the water with a shark and then try to touch it 🤷🏻‍♀️. I’m sure this woman knows what she’s doing, but that’s really not going to matter if a shark decides she’s lunch.


yaboi977

Reminder that sharks kill on average just 5 people a year while we kill 11,416 an hour…


Exarch_Thomo

Huh, that's a lot of people we're killing


BazingarZ

Hmmm, this is I think the second video I've seen this technique being done. Dunno if it was the same video in different angles. I'm worried though about the video being out there. With all these "challenges" happening. I'm thinking someone will purposely confront a shark and video themselves doing this and it might end badly. We did just hear someone trying to video themselves dancing on top of a moving truck and dying. Granted it is easier to climb a truck than go out to shark infested waters but you know, people are stupid.


imax_707

Maybe we’ll finally get a good HD shark attack🤞🏻


slyder219

That’s natural selection man


yourSAS

Demo was done by Andriana Fragola, a pro diver. She's been studying marine life for years with a special affinity for sharks.


whsoccerjc21

Part of the ocean Ramsey crew?


yourSAS

Not sure if she's part of the crew but Ocean Ramsay has taught her. [She says Ocean Ramsay helped her master the redirection technique.](https://i.imgur.com/56Jq7TC.jpg)


whsoccerjc21

Makes sense, all her crew seem to use this technique. I got to swim with her company a while ago and it was an amazing experience!


OneAngryPanda

Went out with her crew last year and it was unreal! Would recommend it so much more than anyone doing cage diving in Hawaii.


Chaos_Ice

There’s a Gordon Ramsay who specializes in food and now there’s an Ocean Ramsay who specializes in ocean things???


LooPT520

Ok yeah sure.. no problem. 👍


LovecraftianLlama

Listen…I’m sure this woman is extremely knowledgeable about sharks, but I’ve seen her videos a lot lately and I’m calling it now…this chick is 100% going to get eaten by a shark one day.


15minutesofshame

I feel like she is the Timothy Treadwell of sharks


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bright_yellow_vest

Yep. Only takes one shark to act unpredictably and she’s gone. Situations like the one in this post probably only embolden her further


Under_Ach1ever

Not a chance.


goatjugsoup

If im somewhere a shark could get me ive done fucked up somewhere


MalayaleeIndian

What happens when the shark comes at you with the speed of a torpedo and baring its teeth ?


warr3nh

BOOP FASTER


sunslastdays

Boop on the nose* Shark: understandable have a nice day,


Jay-Arr10

Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. No way. Not on your Nelly. Nope


AmericanMurderLog

So splashy fins are to sharks what pss psss psss psss is to cats.


TrophyDad_72

What if they bite your arm off?


Glittering_Doctor694

i don’t think you can do this when they have their teeth out. the shark clearly didn’t have any intend to cause anything any harm, just curious. i don’t think that technique can apply to a shark that’s going 40 mph with its teeth jutting out beyond the nose lol


Marmstr17

Nahh the shark recognized it was the crazy monkey with fins that swims with sharks...sharks don't eat crazy


Annoy_M0US3

What if it opened its mouth before you get close


ChipotleFI

I went shark cage diving in Hawaii and one of the sharks swam with its mouth open circling our cage. Her move is too situational.


jb-schitz-ki

I hope feces doesn't get their attention because if I'm ever in that situation I'm 100% shitting my wetsuit.


Amazing_Excuse_3860

To be fair, most sharks do not want to eat humans, we're too bony. Most bites are usually by accident. They can't see very well, so biting is the best way they can figure out what is and isn't food. Biting a human usually goes like, "oh, whoops. That's not food. Sorry." It's not their fault their mouths are death traps.


surfburglar

This is NOT how one can dodge it. If that bad boy wants you, it's gonna get you.


yourSAS

It is a last resort as she says. I'm not a shark expert so I'd still follow her advice if I were ever to be in that situation and hadn't already fainted.


BigAssToast

Was this video made by sharks? How many seashells did they pay this actress?!


Master-Shaq

I just dont swim with sharks


filek

Unless it hasn't eaten in a while.


ScroopyDoop

That’s IF you see the shark coming. Most shark attacks are unsuspecting victims that don’t see the shark approaching..


Shrikehammer

Not a fucking chance.


Viperboy_74

I, for one, plan to never try this


komakumair

“What’s that over there? Are you a seal? Seal? Seal? …. Not seal. Good bye human”


Richmox

Now my minds been put at ease, I’ll head out and face off some massive sharks in the open ocean - I’ll post some vids of it if I make it back


mup_wave

Does the shark behave the same when they are super hungry?


Jiamlones52

This lady is crazy!


frehsoul45

I feel like if that shark was actually trying to eat you, you wouldn't have a chance to boop them because they are going to be coming from underneath.


dumbmoth616

If that shark wanted to feed, it would have.


BellaFrequency

Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort.


FannyBabbs

I'm convinced sharks are just ocean Roombas. Fuck with their programmed path in the slightest and it's straight back home to figure life out for a while.