Man Has Been Friends With Tiger Shark For Over 22 Years | The Dodo Faith = Restored 

Emma: "Excuse me! Coming through, I see my human over there!"

@@Aelitagurl haha I love your comment!! 😍😍

@@Aelitagurl The human who feeds her 😂🤣😂. I wonder what would happen if he didn't bring food or if he turned his back to her. I wonder if it would still be just like a golden retriever 😂🤣😂

Just like your dog! Amazing!

@@Aelitagurl for some reason I imagine her saying that in Dory's voice 💀💀

^*heroic, not Heroic

Don't minimize that award.

@@spanqueluv9er pipe down technical thomas

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 ok who asked

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 -🤡🤓

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 🤡

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 u hate yourself?

is it in the sense of her being really cute or in the sense of her being really big

The overwhelming majority of shark footage involves animals that have been sent into a frenzy with seal oil and fish blood. All the old stuff was like that and I believe even a lot of National Geographic footage of sharks breaching after hitting a drone or lure involves burley in the water. It is misleading and shows a very distorted view of how sharks actually behave in the wild. It is important to remember that they are apex predators, of course, and not harmless. They don't active prey on humans though, but an exploratory bite from a shark of any size will cause a fatal haemorrhage.

Look up Christina Zenato the shark whisperer. She is another who removes hooks from sharks. She says the sharks bring their "friends" to get their hooks removed as if they know she will help them. Very fascinating because they are wild. My fish know I can help them when they are sick but they know I do everything for them so that really isn't surprising.

@@davidhoover4063 Thanks, she's very interesting.

They’re not that smart. Below average at best when compared to sea life. They aren’t marine mammals. I’m not saying they don’t have some intelligence, and that this man may not be safer around her than your average diver, but the more he jumps into the water like this, the greater the chance that he’s going to get attacked.

​@nothingbutsilicone1142 she would've eaten him by now lmao its been 22 years 🤡

That’s how white sharks eyes go when they bite something in case the prey fights back and goes for the eye if it’s rolled back the lens won’t get damage and risk blindness.

@@thisisgoodnews8043 SERIOUSLY!!!!! It's Emma the golden retriever 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Indeed! I thought I was the only one who noticed it... she seems so content when she does it (Doesn't seem like just protecting her eyes... Like when your cat or dog has that happy, slow blink)!

@@gabriellakaterina6782 FYI, sharks don't have human emotions. You might understand them better if you don't do that

@@adriankalitka3762 They have emotions. Though, likely not exactly as humans since our brains are obviously different. However they probably experience basic level emotions

Agreed. Her eyes are uniquely adorable.

Totally agree with the "Disney" character. It's almost like she's smiling.

The really remarkable thing to me is how little those come down, and how slowly. A tiger shark's second eyelids shut automatically to protect them from impact, either while hitting a thing or while biting into a thing as any stray bits bounce off. Emma is genuinely relaxed bumping into this diver.

Disney 🤮

I like tiger sharks bc they don’t have that scary open mouth like great whites that shows their teeth lol

A handful of people think that?

It depends on the type of hook. It looks like most of the hooks that these sharks have are heavy stainless steel which just doesn't corrode. Alot of the smaller hooks used for freshwater are coated steel and will definitely rust fairly quickly. I have caught countless bass and other freshwater fish that had hooks that were rusted almost completely and just broke with a small tug from pliers.

@@coreyhamby2989 But it's not a reason to promote "no kill" fishing, which is torture.

Even if they rusted, that would take ages

Hooks not made from stainless steel do rust out and it is rather rapid once started.

Yeah, I watched a similar video, but it was a woman who had the same kind of relationship with them. As well as a whale.

@@echospaw899 The other one I saw was a woman, too. I don't remember if the woman in the video I saw had a bond with a whale, too. I wouldn't doubt that it could have been the same woman.

@@anyascelticcreations her name is Christina Zenato

@@varucasalt4063 Cool. Thanks. 😊

I doubt the shark could actually know that was him in that suit🙄

All the scuba divers look exactly the same in their gear. I can't imagine how a shark can differentiate them.

Crap. I was actually thinking this would be a cool thing to do. Sharks are like the Pit Bulls of the ocean; their bodies are too often conflated with intent by humans.

@@GinodiFonzo lol

@@4seeableTV they do have an incredible sense of smell. Remember they can smell blood from a quarter of a mile away. I’ve seen other videos about this guy and Emma, and she’s been able to recognize him even if he’s in a different diving suit.

exactly, Rebecca. You'll also notice that all interactions were on the floor. Safest place to be. Tigers have attacked and do attack humans. And not just because they think it's something else. They are very intelligent creatures. But even just a "test bite" can be deadly, so I'll def be leaving hook removal and petting to the professionals. :D

No. I wish everyone could do really bad things, all the time.

@@lunafencoven what the hell?

@@lunafencoven are you high

they can but they are too busy with beeing ignorant and selfish

They can. Maybe not as impressive but just as important to the one they helped out. I accidentally scared a sparrow off the side walk to get dinged by a passing car. Luckily the little one was only seemingly stunned. I used a Kleenex to pick him up out of the road & then after looking at him & examining his wings for injuries I was pretty sure he was going to be ok. So I made the decision that it was better for him to be placed behind cover in a tree. It was a little chilly, to me anyway, so I covered him with the Kleenexes & left him. Hopefully he was ok. I think he was. But unless clearly injured I didn't want to take him on the bus clear across town without a dark box to put him in for recovery. So I tried to balance what was right for him. Otherwise if at home I'd have probably put him in a dark quiet box in my closet with a little container of water & left him for an hour or so. If obviously injured I'd have contacted a rehabber for him. But he was already coming around & looking around. His wings seemed ok. So decided it wasn't worth the risk of stress killing him. Again multiple buses for around 2 hours. But if I'd left him in the hospital driveway there was a good chance he'd have been killed. So my actions were important to that little cutie. But obviously no where near as impressive as being friends with me a certain adorable shark for 2 decades. Oh I also made very sure to thoroughly clean my hands with the rubbing alcohol I carry as a sanitizer afterwards.

Until *CHOMP*

Wellll....if you can swim with the sharks you are quite capable, but to be the actual shark is being divine in one's field. So I guess we give them credit subconsciously with iconography at every level:)

I mean sharks have personalities like people, some are chill, and recognise human faces, and others are dicks who eat human faces (its not really mistaken identity when the shark pops its head out of the water to scope you out first).

Don't be so naive....sharks are not sweet they are predators. Smh

@@p1nk318, but they are domesticated. Smh

Very beautiful ^^

Which does not mean you should go and try to befriend one. This won't end well.

@@BadassHater1 I exactly right it wouldn't end well we need to leave the wild wild alone great comment

@WORLD OF FAMILY GUY man please stop you're just stealing content maybe do something productive

@@kofalofa6648 Like go and try petting a shark and tell us how friendly they are. I'm sure sure Jim's right that they're just like golden retrievers 😂

Same. The fascinate me, but I also scream bloody murder and start shaking and crying when I run headfirst into a shark shaped Christmas decorations (yes, that actually happened; my relationship with sharks is complicated).

That's probably a good thing. Large, predatory sharks are dangerous, even if they rarely they attack humans, why risk it? The last thing anyone, especially sharks, need is for a huge number of people seeing videos like this, and approaching them, without knowing what they're doing. There would inevitably be deaths. I am very happy that these hooks are being removed, but it makes me cringe to think of how wild animals would react to someone approaching them wrong trying to help. Leave it to the professionals.

Same here.

@@emordnilap4747 Homo sapiens is the most dangerous animal species in the world by far…😬

I'm the same. Would love to swim with them but terrified of running into one at the beach.

Dude stop spamming with that bs reply damn.

I knew a guy like that. Most people were afraid of him. But he was a big teddy bear to me.

lovely comment

I knew a guy a guy like that too. It turned out that he was a pedophile 😂🤣😂

If you ever get a hook in your mouth one of the kids will get it out! haha. I imagine they see you as a big protector as opposed to a threat. Whatever it is you have a great responsibility, and they will forever react to larger or intimidating people based on how you treat them.

Absolutely right 👍💯

@@gailhasler8435 like when a lion and a man start to love each other.

@David Goodfellow Will do, thanks 👍

Agreed. Very, very inspirational.

He's also very lucky that he doesn't turn his back to her

Teared up? Get a grip.

maybe she can smell him (or taste him, since they're in the water) the way cats and dogs do

Smell definitely.

Non-human animals are often much better at recognising us than the other way around. Local pigeons befriended me after my last quaker parrot passed away (see below). First it was only two. Word got around in the pigeon community. I have no idea how they do it, but they recognize me, also often in other streets, while I usually am completely unable to recognize them unless they look remarkably different from other pigeons. The two I just mentioned have also totally surprised me one day when I made a human "come over" gesture to which they responded instantly (they flew over to me from another rooftop); it did not even strike me as odd at the time. It's happened more than once. But how on earth did they know what I meant? I've encountered one of them in another street once, told him to follow me that I would give him food, and lo and behold, sure enough, he was at my door when I later went outside with some food. One evening, after I had been away for a few weeks or so, I suddenly looked up and from my office window, that same pigeon (who knows me quite well) was on a roof where pigeons never sit but from where they can look into my office. He clearly wanted to know whether I was back; at least that is what it looked like. Never seen a pigeon on that roof since either. (They can see over huge distances.) (I am still quite friendly with two and have meanwhile adopted a slightly handicapped one who I rehabbed and then stayed. She still goes for chats and frolics in the air with her pals, but she lives in my place.) I knew almost nothing about pigeons until about five years ago, when I looked up one day (from sanding a table in my main room) and there was a pigeon indoors, on my windowsill, in my microgreens tray, quietly observing me. I knew almost nothing about birds in general either until I "accidentally" ended up volunteering at a bird hospital because I wanted to grow roots in the local community, in Florida in the 1990s, and called around for volunteering opportunities. A bird hospital was simply the first to call me back. I later adopted two non-releasable quaker parrots from them and they taught me a lot. Among other things, I learned that many non-human animals are quite patient with us and sometimes wonder if we will ever get it, that they too are sentient beings who know things and make observations and decisions and draw conclusions. Humans are an arrogant species. We believe that our kind of knowledge is the only kind there is and that it can only be transmitted through human languages, while so many non-human species have been on the planet so much longer than the human species and communicate too and have different skills and abilities that are not necessarily inferior to ours. (They must also know a lot more about the planet than we do, by the way.)

@@psalm91rdwlkfpgrl Smell is basically tasting from a distance.

There is a woman that removes hooks from sharks mouths too and they recognize her too.

you can add religion to that mix.

I pity for those poor sharks who got killed...

Nancy Bernard hello, I really like your comment especially when you say you love all animals, are you vegan ?

You should ask Jim if he could turn his back to his friend Emma or to stop bringing them food and see if they're still like a golden retriever? People should stop thinking that everything has human emotions. I'm sure you think that you're safe around wild dolphins too

@@jjradV You don't have to be vegan to love animals. Mankind has always had pets and eaten meat. Human beings are complex creatures that can love even inanimate objects. We are part of the ecosystem, we are animals too. We all live off each other.

@@saltycat662 what are your thoughts about factory farms?

@@saltycat662 that's because you choose which animals to love AND which animals to murder & slaughter for your insignificant fleeting taste buds. I bet you've totally forgotten about what you had for lunch 2 days ago. Just because 'humans are complex and are capable of loving even inanimate objects', does that mean we should reduce certain animals to inanimate objects without any sentience or feelings so that humans feel better about exploiting and ultimately kill them? Funny you should acknowledge that we're animals too. But only when it's convenient to do so. When it's in your interest and favour to use & abuse non-human animals, you'd say they're not like us. When you agree to horrible things like animal experimentation/vivisection, you'd say they're like us, therefore any scientific results should likewise apply to human animals. When you say you love chickens, you don't actually love chickens for who they are. You just love how they taste. To tie it all back, you're kinda right. You don't have to be vegan to love animals. You just HAVE TO learn a little respect and have some basic decency to leave animals alone. Don't use, abuse, misuse, exploit, harm, torture and slaughter them for any purpose at all.

This is so true Paige. My precious momma who passed in August of 2021 ALWAYS taught me compassion for ALL LIVING BEINGS. We are the ones invading their space. To say an animal doesn’t have feelings is beyond me. Love from my home to yours-Katie

Every animal has human emotions. I don't understand why people just don't get that?

@@adriankalitka3762 They have emotions but not exactly like humans. We have the concept of consequence and deep thought. They are a bit more simplified in their thought process. But they still do feel, think and have a spirit.

@@saltycat662 You had me until spirit 😂

@@saltycat662 They have a soul, not a spirit. Man has both.

It's alot of BOOPS

Sometimes.... .look at the Vladimir Popov video. The female tiger shark supposedly had just given birth. He was swimming in deep ocean water off of Egypt. His family videoed his death. The shark bites off his arms and lower face. Thankfully he died in just over a minute. Unfortunately they hunted the shark...killed it and removed, Vladimir's head torso and arms from inside the shark. The moral of the story is: You have to know what you are doing to swim with sharks.

Shutting their eyelids is a literal reflex when bumping into things. Stop idiotically projecting human feelings and emotions onto animals.

@卐-Lakehuntist-卐 are you high or just a white Supreme jail inmate? Getthefuckoffhere🖕

We only think that they need us for food and shelter. I'm sure I'm wrong though since there are no ferel cat colonies or 'wild dog' packs that are roaming around

^ This

@@Sipsipsippinonlambtears "This"??? I meant sharks in general. I wasn't referring to "this" shark in particular.

@@kevinp8108 i think they were agreeing with you

@@redschafer7804 Yeah, I'm agreeing with OP. I'm not afraid of how sharks look, I'm just afraid of the possibility they might attack me lol.

Same. I actually think sharks are awesome and I know most species rarely bite humans. But I do feel anxious about the thought of a shark mistaking me for their favorite prey item. 😅

NO just NO! Smh

Sharks have pretty good noses so she probably recognized him through smelling

Sharks have very sensitive electrical signal receptors in their nose known as the Ampullae of Lorenzini. My guess is that they might be able to distinguish between our electrical signals. I don't think its sight or smell.

@@deltatango-six7941 I think it’s both, Emma had plenty of time to learn what he smells and zaps like when he was removing the hooks

I wouldn't.... if I was in a cage, like yk, safe cage-diving

Troy W hello, great comment,are you vegan ?

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