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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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This looks shopped, …
This looks shopped, you can tell by some of the pixels.
That’s why we don’t …
That’s why we don’t have fins or gills.
Where else?
Where else?
you couldn’t pay me …
you couldn’t pay me enough to do that. kudos to you.
once i was …
once i was bboarding at bondi and a shark started to eat me so i ate it
HAHA cage made in …
HAHA cage made in China!!! love it.
haha dude that …
haha dude that sucks getting your hand bit off for flicking it off
my friend fliped a …
my friend fliped a shark off and the shark ate his hand
I would be like Wow …
I would be like Wow! I’m on fire today, & then like is my heart beating like crazy or is it not working at all?
Where’d the shark …
Where’d the shark go…? Ohhh.
The cage was made …
The cage was made in China!
fuck that
that
cheap plastic cage ?
cheap plastic cage ?
I would seriously …
I would seriously myself if that happened to me
wow like in jaws …
wow like in jaws but fo real!
I would like to see …
I would like to see the person who calmy and relaxed would take on that situation though..
Yup, s’all fun & …
Yup, s’all fun & games until somebody loses a leg.
Me too! It would be …
Me too! It would be worse if you were a fish!
omg i think i would …
omg i think i would die of a heart attack if that happened 2 me!
hahaha the dude …
hahaha the dude freaked out! could have lost an arm or a leg. Poor stupid guy. he’d should to lay down in the cage and relax
well dumbass stop …
well dumbass stop luring and antagonizing the thing……..
People kill millions of shark anually, while they only kill about 3 or 4 people in the same amount of time.
I understand the whole “kill the that with/ killed this person”, but d oyou have to kill ALL of them???
I mean it IS THEIR territory
@anticabbage
that …
@anticabbage
that must be sexy…
i shrks
i shrks
@Walkthroughmania23 …
@Walkthroughmania23 This is obviously Harry Houdini reincarnated into a shark because that was an amazing disappearing act. Now you see me *Bubbles come on screen* now you don’t hahaah
i saw thr same on …
i saw thr same on animal planet
Lawrence groth runs the shoddy outfit that almost killed those two divers. Because of that video and thanks to his outfit shark diving international the Mexican navy banned all chumming at that site.
This was not the first or even third time his company has featured a shark on his cages. Nicely done Larry now for your next great shark trick?