Great White Shark Accident

Video Title :	Great White Shark Accident
Description :	A 2 ton, 15 foot Great White barrels into my cage and brakes through the bars... Patrick Walsh - Filming Paul Damgaard - Avoiding Sharks Mouth CC - The Shark "On November 4th we had an incident that was pretty darned exciting. CC, or Cut Caudal, one of our regular sharks, accidentally ran into one of the main cages on the Searcher. CC came up nearly vertical about 20 feet away from the cage and grabbed one of the hang baits, which he is known to do on a regular basis. However, on this particular day he swam right into the portside cage's viewing window. As CC took the bait he instinctively rolled his eyes back, couldn't see where he was going and accidentally swam directly into the viewing window. CC's entire head went inside the cage and he was stopped just short of his pectoral fins. Well, we all know that white sharks have no reverse and CC was too far in to turn around. He tried to turn, but he could not quite get his snout to clear the corner. He rolled on his side and began to thrash up and down trying to free himself. Being a rather large white shark he just ended up making the opening bigger by simply removing the front of the cage so he could get out of the cage. CC literally removed all the lower front vertical bars and the horizontal bar that connects all of the vertical bars to the main frame of the front cage panel and then swam away. What was amazing is that it took only about 10 seconds to do this. What was even more amazing was that there were 2 divers in the cage at the time and they thought that this was the coolest thing they had ever experienced and walked away completely unscathed. The divers also said that CC was just fine too! We were all very relieved that no one was injured. We were also pleased that our divers listened to the safety briefing prior to diving and followed the instructions and evacuated the cage when this incident occurred. One diver utilized the emergency escape hatch and somehow managed to film the entire event. We learned something from this and we will take appropriate measures to prevent this from happening again. When we said, "You can get face-to-face with the ultimate predator" this is not what we had in mind! The Searcher's cages are 6 years old now and we have learned a great deal since we first built them. We are going to take this opportunity to design and build new state-of-the-art cages that will be safer and stronger. We will unveil the new cages in spring 2008." Great White Shark Adventures
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Rating :	4.69
Keywords, Tags :	Great White GreatWhite Shark Cage Diving Ocean Near Death Mexico Adventures Isla de Guadalupe Searcher Jaws experience
Video Length :	1 : 26

Comments :

wow you must have pooped yourself when that shark came towards you!! lol. They are beautiful creatures. I dont think i'd go cage diving just incase they confuse me for a tasty seal! lol.

wise man, I agree with you 100%!

just goes to prove that white sharks aren't really interested in eating people.if they wanted to get into the cage this vid proves they can do it no problem at all. shark cage diving is actually a good thing. in the past a fisherman may have caught the shark and sold its jaws and teeth for up to £20000. not bad for a days fishing. letting the shark live and charging people to see these amazing creatures ensures that the fisherman still gets his money and everybody including the shark is happy.

0.19- you can see just how big the shark is compared to the man. Must have crapped yourselves.

good vid.my brother dives all over the world and seeks sharks out.he knows the dangers but enjoys being with such amazing animals.yes research is needed before we eliminate yet another species.me,im a speargun fisherman,being selective and taking only what i want to eat.sharks scare the shit out of me!!!!!!!

Steven Spielberg's Jaws

No cage is going to stop a shark that big hitting it at 15mph, simple physics. However that shark did not appear anywhere close to 2 tons, probably more like 14' 2500lbs.

DMC your a wanker mate, he was probs filming these to study them? or maybe he was feeding them DUHHHH!!!!

scary, i would not be to happy

First of all you are only digging yourself deeper with your profanity and ignorant remarks. Secondly, it is not people like me... Shark populations around the world are decreasing do to overfishing and finning. The fact is that without dive operations like the one I was on, many of these sharks might already be killed. A great deal of positive research is being done, and most of these sharks are now able to be tracked do to the efforts of shark dive operations like Shark Dive International.