Shark Keeps Telling Diver He Is Not Welcome In This Part Of The Sea

Diving is such an incredible activity. Getting to experience an environment that is completely different from your own, a place where you wouldn’t survive without the proper gear, it is a thrill unlike any other. Knowing that you rely solely on the oxygen tank and yours and the skill of those with you to survive, it really gets the blood pumping.

Some go diving in a group, others go by themselves. Armed with every possible safety precaution necessary, these brave folks delve into the deep parts of the seas, searching to see how the ocean’s residents live. Some are curious, others not so much. But out of all those that are curious to see what is this peculiar creature that is invading their space, some can make more damage with their interest than others.

Imagine coming face to face with a shark? Paul Thompson did on his recent dive into the Red Sea near Elphinstone reef, when a frisky oceanic whitetip shark came straight for him. The slow-moving, but highly aggressive shark went straight for the light on Paul’s camera, bumping into it over and over several times.

Paul, clearly aware of the shark’s aggressive nature, shouts as loud as he can through his mouthpiece, evidently in an attempt to scare the creature away from him. Eventually, it works, as the shark was probably not interested in this prey. Suffice it to say, Paul got lucky.

The oceanic whitetip shark or lesser white shark was portrayed in 1831 by a naturalist by the name of René-Primevère Lesson, who named the shark Carcharhinus maou. It was next portrayed by Cuban Felipe Poey in 1861 as Squalus longimanus. The name Pterolamiops longimanus has likewise been utilized. The species sobriquet longimanus alludes to the extent of its pectoral blades (longimanus interprets from Latin as "long hands"). The oceanic whitetip shark has numerous regular names in English: Brown Milbert's sandbar shark, dark-colored shark, nigano shark, oceanic white-tipped whaler, and whitetip shark.

Regardless of the more prominent notoriety of the great white shark and different sharks routinely discovered closer the shore, the oceanic whitetip is suspected to be in charge of numerous deadly shark bites on people, because of predation on survivors of wrecks or downed planes. Such occurrences are excluded in like manner shark-bite lists for the twentieth and 21st centuries, and therefore, the oceanic whitetip does not have the highest number of 'recorded' attacks.

However, do sharks eat people? Sharks have been known to assault people when they are confounded or inquisitive. On the off chance that a shark sees a human sprinkling in the water, it might attempt to examine, prompting a coincidental assault. All things considered, sharks have more to fear from people than we do of them. People chase sharks for their meat, inner organs, and skin to make items, for example, shark balance soup, oils, and calfskin. In general, sharks do not eat people! Well, that is a relief!

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