Great whites

[SHAFT]

Anyone ever see a great white up close and in person?

[Reltov420]

About 30 feet away from a sailboat I was on. Impressive as hell. They look bigger in person than on T.V.

[Back]

I've only seen a pic of Methias.

[Sylvan Dreams]

Only in an aquarium

[Androidpk]

No but it's on my bucket list, cage diving.

[gs4-PauperSid]

Saw estimated 14ft tiger sharks from cage (captains estimate, not mine--it was 25 ft if it was a 3 foot i tell ya!). Pretty amazing to see. Guides say usually only get to see Galapagos sharks and black tips, was in Oct and we got lucky.

Crazy thing was how something that size can get so close to you without you being able to see or hear them. And even in Hawaii's clear blue water, they just rapidly disappear into the background when they swim off. Could really see the stripes too. The cage had big clear plexiglass windows too. Was an incredible 'nature' experience.--and I didnt blow chunks like some other haoli tourist did. :)

http://www.hawaiisharkencounters.com/

Great whites arent typical there, but they have actually spotted one and have pics.

-j

[Gelston]

Only in an aquarium

In an aquarium? They usually don't put them in there because for some reason they die pretty quick.

[Drew]

I've seen a bull shark which scared the crap out of me, never a great white though (hope to keep it that way). Also a buddy of mine had his leg near ripped off by a bull shark when he was spearfishing.

[Gelston]

I think Bull sharks are supposed to be one of the most aggressive ones out there. A Great White is supposedly not that aggressive towards a human if it can identify it is a human... Although sometimes its way of identifying is by taking a bite, and a shark that size kills easy.

[Stanley Burrell]

Bull sharks are ridiculous. If I ever "thought" a beached/caught one was dead, I'd fire howitzers at it from a wide distance just to make sure. I've seen a great white at an aquarium because it was an accidental catch and I don't think they knew wtf to do with it at the time.

I used to be really water-savvy, most dangerous encounter would probably be a school of random barracudas. I've always played it safe, my ... interesting mother (and her mother) jump in the beach with a red and purple flag and poke man'o'wars. Crazy Argentinians.

[diethx]

Fuck. that.

[Archigeek]

I've only seen a reef shark up close and personal, while diving the Great Barrier Reef. Those are no threat at all as far as I know. This one was about 6' long and probably less than 100 pounds?

My sister is an avid and quite amazing diver, (SCUBA dives about 3 weeks out of the year on average), and was diving in the Gulf of California when a whale shark swam over them. She said, "all the sudden it got dark." They looked up and there was this gigantic thing swimming right over the top of them. While those things are pretty tame and eat tiny stuff, they are gigantic and have mouths almost the size small cars.