Great alternative to see sharks in their natural state and environment. How nature should be seen and enjoyed. Great job guys.

that is really cool that they figured out that by not trading a feeding frenzy you actually see the fish being a fish not a feeding machine

The seal population has grown up here in New England and the Great White has followed. There has been more sightings last year than in previous years so this coming summer is going to be interesting to see how everyone reacts to the new members of the community...

It's documented, and proven, that an increasing number of sharks in the ocean has shown no increase in the number of shark attacks on humans; however, this same study shows that the increased number of shark attacks is directly related to the increased number of people now accessing the ocean.

Baiting sharks definitely does make them more dangerous. They have memories & can be confused by our behaviour.

Shark finning should be illegal all over the world. Shark fin soup literally has no flavor other than the seasoning added to the broth by the cook. The fin itself has no flavor at all & has the texture & appearance of rubber bands. Eating the fin is like chewing pieces of rubber band. The soup is strictly a status symbol.

Why do you think "PLEASE DON'T FEED THE BEARS " is the gold standard rule.

It’s so ironic that the people who call themselves, “Shark Conservationists” are the same people who are establishing a learned behaviour of the sharks, identifying humans, as their food source. It takes very little time before more & more sharks learn to see humans as their natural prey. In the water, humans emit a particular electromagnetic pattern & heartbeat that is recognizable to a shark. If a shark with that learned behaviour happens to be swimming near an area of humans, that learned behaviour is still in the shark, & they go after what they now feel, is food.

Awesome video! Thank you!

Those Tiger Sharks and the Hammerhead known as "patches" are from Tiger Beach. A place known for its docile sharks, most sharks are used to divers and tolerate them and have learned to associate divers with being hand fed.

I've always said chumming up sharks was very dumb especially with they doing it by hand!!!. And to think they didn't think they would go for people that's not divers. I'm very glade to hear that some countries have banned it altogether!!!!!!

So much for us looking after the world, I guess.

I agree I think baiting should change

In my mind adding new shark species to the endangered list is not solving the problem. The problem is industrial fishing with their huge factory ships. as long as industriel fishing is not banned world wide, the problem will not go away. In fact over the last decades it is only growing. And their would be a lot of benefits. Normal Fisherman would make more money due to educated fishing and most importantly the biggest supplier of plastic to the ocean, which is the fishing industry with their fishing nets, 50% of the plastic in the ocean is nets, would be gone. So in all to add species to the endangered list is important, but only for the goal to stop industrial fishing. And yes there is even more to that. A lot needs to be changed too, to ensure this goal.

Incredible!

great job

They should have banned that practice along time ago! Killing sharks for their fins is a travesty and should be banned as well

Although the shark cage shown in this video would protect divers from very large sharks like Great Whites smaller extremely dangerous sharks would be able to fit through the large gaps in the bars. An unfortunate diver could find himself trapped in a cage with a bull shark, a Mako shark, a Oceanic Whitetip shark or a young Tiger shark. Those gaps between the bard have to be large so photographers can fit television cameras through them but they could also allow sharks in.

What I don’t understand why the researchers say the sharks are congregating in areas but they have no clue of what they are doing in those specific areas, breeding, mating or giving birth etc. My thoughts are They place camera traps all over the world that snap pictures or video when a certain size animal passes by the cameras or video areas. Some of these camera or video traps work for a year or more before they have to be checked and batteries replaced. Some of them are set up for the images to go right to a computer so the battery’s last even longer or they do not need batteries at all they use satellites. Why can’t they figure out how to set up these type of camera or video traps under water?? Just like the ones put in deep jungles and rain forest that get flooded all the time etc. Sometimes they catch nothing but sometimes they do!!! I remember some research was going on in Africa with camera traps because someone said they spotted a type of antelope that had thought to be extinct for more then 100 years. 1 scientist refused to give up and put up a bunch of camera traps, and checked them every 6 months or year. Years went by, but he refused to give up and for 8 years he saw no sign of the antelope at all. Till on the 8th year while checking his camera video traps on the computer a small 10 or 15 animal herd of the extinct antelopes came walking past. Now they are highly protected and are genetically helping them by using semen that was collected and saved from zoos. They have 3 wild herds now. If it was not for the tenacity of this one researcher these rare antelopes might really be extinct by now. With camera traps and video traps they may not learn why they are congregating in these different areas, BUT maybe just maybe they will. It may not happen over night but anything is possible.

Something must be done fast to protect All Sharks,illegal "finning"must be punished hard,boats sunk,and jail time for the fishermen,when I see a Shark put back in the water,ALIVE.....With no fins,it pisses me off so badly,I feel hate......

It’s not mistaken identity. It’s low hanging fruit. More clumsy, slow, weak prey on the surface are being identified as good by the sharks. Also, massive fishing is also changing the availability of food. Animals are adapting to human contact. And it’s no surprise the strong and the swift are eating the weak and the slow. You wouldn’t swim with crocodiles in the Nile. Why would you swim with sharks? There’s been a lot more time for crocs to learn to eat people. More people in the water mean more time for sharks to learn about the new food.

Baiting oceanic white tips is really stupid. They definitely aren't the type of shark we want to have habituated to humans. They're the sharks that typically attack & eat ppl in the water, after plane crashes &/or shipwrecks.

Sharks have been around for 450 million years, everytime you go in the water you take your life in your hands. If these sharks were targeting us, there would be an attack every time anyone went into the sea, however "We" human's always blame the sharks for doing what sharks do, It is just sad to see these needed predators being punished and killed for us.

25:00 the great whites there look like the ones from ( finding nemo)

Shark "where's my tuna sandwich"

A friend of mine went cage diving with sharks and he said that I would love it but after seeing this I have absolutely changed my mind because with the never ending bad luck I get I would most likely end up dinner for the sharks on a once in a lifetime trip!

Take any fin from a shark and it's design is changed, the fin doesn't grow back so you end up killing the shark becasue it can't swim. More of us are in the water, yes, but we still don't understand the ocean and we cannot go to the depths the animals can without much training and taking our own oxygen supply down. If we are to understand these creatures, we must overcome the barriers first and stop the methods of chumming.

Wow excellent observation.. in theory technique on the behavior of great whites interacting with humans.. and I can tell you for my experience of watching Shark week documentaries for over 20 years.. definitely behavior and body language.. is it significant difference from chumming..👍 thank you and nice job

18 ft Great White Slams into you from below like a Torpedo lifting you out of the water with your Body clamped in its Huge Jaws of Large sharp teeth...This type of Primal Fear situation is as Terrifying as it gets...Swimming and Surfing in the Ocean is borderline Insanity in my opinion regardless of how Rare Shark attacks are

When I see pictures of the sharks being hacked up just for their fins I am so appalled at what people will do for money!

We've taught sharks to connect boats with food through chumming the waters for paying cage divers and sightseers 🤔

Over fishing is reducing their food source. So with an increase in the number of people swimming, new food source. Duh!

Save a tree. Eat a beaver. 🦈

Shark baiting isn't what's causing "more" shark attacks if that's what they're assuming. It's the steady influx of seals that are now protected which has seen a gigantic population growth which has contributed to a lot more to encounters with sharks, and seal hunting isn't just limited to the Great White which is the most well known seal hunter of the shark species. The seals like to stay and are now areas in which people like to swim and be around in and due to that sharks will now patrol these areas with greater integrity which would also of course potentially raise human to shark encounters even more so than before. This is because a steady strong supply of prey also benefits the predators whom feed on them.

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People need to take your lead and not chum waters anymore

Of course baiting sharks is teaching them to connect humans with food! BUT, tons of money is being made today in dozens of ocean resorts by baiting sharks and taking divers down in shark cages or even without! And as long as that much money is being made off of the practice, don't expect guests to be told the truth about it! We DO know also, that more pinnipeds are moving down south from the Arctic and other northern areas, partly because the ice floes they haul out on to rest are melting! (That's one reason why polar bears are starving and turning to predate on pets in settlements in the north and even children, if they can!) There are now pinniupeds from the Arctic, flocking to islands off the west coast of America, and on the east coast of America, down from the Labrador Sea all the way to the gulf of Mexico! The climate of Planet Earth has never ever been static! We've had many chages over millions of years -- floods, ice ages, droughts, huge volcanic activity, whole continents moving -- many changes over the 4, 1/2 billion years since Earth began!

Why is all the comments about shark finning, did anyone read the title?. A shark can smell a drop of blood from miles away, which makes them more aggressive because they think there is an easy prey and most people chum the water only a few miles away from land. Let me wave your favourite food in front of you and soon as your about to take a bite i'll rip it away from your mouth, see how you feel about it, you can't blame the shark for biting the hand that never fed him and dressing like a seal dosen't help

I love sharks 🦈

No way I will get in any cage like that

they wanna eat shark fins where flies laid their eggs on to? Bah. the sound alone of them fly around gives me food poison anxiety

I FELLY SADDDD

why are they killing these humble beasts??

Understandable that Sharks now associate us with Food

I know who narrating this he is good

Damn nature u scary!!😮

The U.S. exports at least 40% of the shark products that are on the international market.

Sharks (particularly Great Whites) always remind me of dogs.

Chumming is dangerous, as sharks aren't stupid. They will associate food with humans. Not a good outcome for anyone.

Stop trying to be all friendly and feed them because then they see people as a food source and that never ends well.

Poor Sharks 🦈

the cage seems dangerous as it is opened o the top and there is a large space in the centre.

the odd part is is a great white sharks the bitess are so few and far between I mean you might get 16 bites in 20 years but they're fatal or they're extremely destructive where I live close to the Ponce inlet in Central Florida that's the shark attack capital of the world we have bull sharks tiger sharks but are not quite tragic there more just inconveniences on one weekend in Ponce inlet in the summer we can get 16 shark bites in two and a half days

I was hoping for discussion of this important issue but instead we got a few bits of anecdotal evidence and none of the damning evidence out there against chumming was shown…? Bizarre and disappointing ! Also the photographer interviewed was annoying

It’s sad man has to ruin and kill these beautiful animals

Duh I wonder whether dressing like a seal and feeding sharks and chumming waters with ppl in cages causes sharks to associate ppl with food?! 🤔 FFS

Hah - narrator says global warming. scientist says protected species population is growing and so does those that prey on them.

ANYTHING that humans do, that impact & more importantly, CHANGE the behavioural, mental, & physical states of ANY animal, should be banned & be punishable by law. I just watched a documentary about an idiot who used to be a Bull-Rider & then decided that swimming with sharks would give him a huge Adrenaline Boost. Then, he decided it would be a great money maker. Now, they bait/chum the entire surrounding waters & the divers go in. After years of this, sharks have learned how to pull the bait off the hooks & swim away. These guys pretend they aren’t baiting, but they actually are. Even if these tours stopped baiting & relied on the electromagnetic signals & heartbeats of the divers to attract the sharks, they are creating a situation where sharks learn the feel of humans & become drawn to them. This might seem okay when humans are in cages, but there are so many humans in the water in so many places. If any of the sharks nearby have the learned attraction to humans, then humans get hurt or die.

I believe baiting sharks for tourism had a lot, if not everything, to do with the 21 year old female from California, being fatally attacked by three tiger sharks in the Bahamas. Such a terrible shame.

Uumm, what's going on?! Possibly 9000 photographers & those taking them there& invading THEIR space?! How stupid

The rule do not feed the wild should apply to all. It make wild animals even sharks associate humans with food.

Man bottom line is people be in there water they know what we is. They can see real good under water

Why would anyone want to eat a fuckin shark fin

9:06....You are soooooo nuts! You've grown up, and yet you've learned nothing about life and it's dangers....and to make things worst...you're bragging of it, what's more to it! I don't envy you at all!

CITIES is only interested in opposing the take of shark and not a conservation program that would work for the sharks and people

get me out ofhere there is a shark

There seems to be a uptick in the amount of sharks (often great whites) attacking boats and biting them. I wonder if this is a reaction to the cage diving 'shark tourism'...Is it stretching things too far to say that these sharks that are baited to come close to boats now have the association with boats and food, especially tuna which is one of their favourite foods?... there is also the agitation factor that stirs up and brings sharks close to boats to grab a bite of tuna... Are they being conditioned to associate boats - agitation and food.? Is that why they sometimes get aggressive around boats now?

Yum shark fin soup😋yes shark baiting does lead to more attacks. Seen plenty of ppl making videos doing it on KZfaq making sharks agro.

Why doesn’t someone build a strong glass pier type structure that goes down 50-60 feet where people can walk and see the sharks in their natural habitat where it doesn’t effect the sharks and doesn’t hurt the sharks. Build it off the side of the edge of isle de Guadeloupe where it goes down and then when it gets to the ocean floor, build it 30-40 feet out so ppl can look at the sharks. Makes sense to me

Bs there's no comparison human & seal. I respect sharks we need sharks but one the ocean is their world and there apex predators. The ocean is there world and humans invaded it. . .😁

Feeding sharks is insane, they're primitive creatures that react to stimulus, especially hand feeding, their going to equate humans with food, some victims have their hands or arms bitten off, obviously it doesn't mean it's from feeding, but put it this way, it doesn't help.

i wonder isnt the liver of the shark good meat to eat???? im asking because in china they eat shark fins and they wast the rest of its corps in the sea!!! i aint eat fish or anything that lives in water,but for those who eat fish especially sharks,why wont they eat the liver and kill the sharks just for their up fin???? the liver is a great amound of white fish meat as i can see!!!!

Ive ben saying that cage diving is the worst thing for the sharks ocean Ramsey swimms with big giant great whites dosent have problem and dose not feed them now the think boats and people mean food

Sharks don’t want to be around people we suck... lil dicky was right we treat our planet like shit

The truth is very difficult to come to terms with sometimes and it is very simple. Sharks attack humans because they are territorial and don't like the way humans think they can own the oceans, yes, they do not want you swimming or surfing in their waters. It is exactly the same thing as if a stranger came into your house and claimed they owned it. What would you do in that situation?

eat more Human Hand Soup!

To the shark it probably looks like these people are stuck in a cage and can't get out..wonder what is going thru it's mind?

So which one is it? White sharks have great eye sight and are intelligent animals? Or are they mistaking us, with 2 legs, 2 arms, and no whiskers for a big fat seal? I don't eat junk food, but once in a blue moon, I will. I think the sharks do the same and once in a blue moon they go for a Bristish guy or an American tourist.

That cage looked too open for me. Needs MORE bars.

"Global warming?"😂 Havent they pivoted toward a more convenient label?

The Chinese have a lot to answer for

stop killing sharks & whales its really cruel thank you for this video, thank you for your service in helping our sea life

I am so into sharks, so much that I’m going to be reincarnated as a great white! 💋💕❤️💗💓

where were the videos taken with the shark fins on that drying rack? If i seen that guy with a hook through his eye ......the one pulling the shark in by his eyes...i wouldnt even stop to help.....oh my ...people.....i guess we are really barbaric

Lost me when he said "Global Warming"

It’s funny how people tryna find a way to make food out of a animal This is why there doing this!

So they keep talking about finning and killing sharks for their fins...I didn't hear one mention of who's driving the market. "International trade"...they're talking about China. They're comparing the finning of sharks for soup to Thanksgiving turkeys, which are farm grown.

If you put people in the water near sharks that have migrated back to their feeding frenzy or chumming, its natural Selection if you die. You had a choice not to go cagediving in busy water where the scientist chums to get a great white to be housebroken pets. Humans equal Dinner. And every year or every 2 years, those sharks migrate back to where they are fed. So the blame goes to the Humans, the scientist and fishermans that chum for tourism. My condolences to any humans that lost someone close

Isn't the grey nurse the largest shark in the sea ?

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100% think Chummping has to be BAND!!! Leave are Oceans 🌊 alone!!! Leave the sharks alone!! The ocean isn’t for us! Land is for Humans!!

there should be a contract to sign before venturing into predator territory for people with a death wish. If you want to swim with sharks they have every right rip you apart If you want to walk with bears your flesh is fair game for them to maim etc.

They eat us we eat them

Sharks are killd in the thusens. We forget we are an animal as well. We are not spesell. We kan be food to. Its not persenall.

Although the shark cage shown in this video would protect divers from very large sharks like Great Whites smaller extremely dangerous sharks would be able to fit through the large gaps in the bars. An unfortunate diver could find himself trapped in a cage with a bull shark, a Mako shark, a Oceanic Whitetip shark or a young Tiger shark. Those gaps between the bars have to be large so photographers can fit television cameras through them but they could also allow sharks in.