So there is a guy in Malibu that spots sharks w drone. As a community of surfers I think we should have a universal shark sign. Maybe have drone spin above shark to notify surfer that a shark is right there. Just an idea. Safety first
I had commented awhile ago that there should be flares equipped to the drone that could be launched. Although it could cause a mass panic which might incite an attack if everyone starts paddling for shore like crazy
Yeah for sure but at the same time if someone panics and starts swimming frantically, it might trigger the sharks instincts. I think in this case, ignorance was bliss.
The sea is one of the most important things in my life. I will be 60 next month and I spent many, many hours each summer swimming in Southern California waters. Growing up there was awesome back then. Later, when my husband and I moved close to the Gulf of Mexico it was the same there. Many vacations spent in Hawaii and the Caribbean. Now we live in central Florida and split our time between the Atlantic and the Gulf Coasts. We see and swim with a ton of sea life. It’s not trying to hurt people. A life lived in fear is a life half-lived.
I see you've not been out in real life for a while since you seemingly have never seen ppl hunting for discounts, thus confusing a curious "just browsing, what's that?"-shark with ppl hunting for discounts. That speed is not discount. 😅 Watch some "Black Friday" videos at least. THAT'S speed. You'll see same n faster speed if a shark is serious. 🫣
Oh my goodness! You nailed it! I've spent my life on beaches and I know this comment is pure truth. I've never heard it put this way so thank you for sharing
In it hell, I've been telling everybody for years you step 3 ft in the ocean and your towards the bottom of the food chain. Absolutely nothing not one single thing about a human is designed to survive in water.
The last time I surfed was in Manhattan Beech. A seal suddenly sprang outta the cold water onto my long board. An eerie feeling took over. Ugh. That was 2014. That night on the news a great white attacked a surfer an hour north of us in Malibu. That was my last surf. 🦭🏄♂️🦈
It wasn't a problem back then because seals were being actively hunted. Fisher men would shoot the seals to protect their catch. After the Marine protection act in the 1970s seals made a major come back over the next 30 years. Now S. Cal is infested with seals and the sharks follow.
I've heard it said that for every 30 minutes you're in the water you come with 10-20 feet of a shark. Idk if it's true,but when I do the math,,I'm damn lucky to be alive😂
@michaeldose2041 thank you for explaining! Only one that makes sense and the fact they are more protected. I played in oceans of NE Florida all the 70's & 80's, no sharks near shore, could hop in springs with out fear of alligators (believe me we haven't taken their space, every body of water has more than ever) 3 people attacked in one day!
I’m sure surfers 🏄♀️ know the dangers and it’s part of the challenge and rush that they get from surfing. Never have myself, but I’ve seen people who thrive off of challenging danger at different stages. My own challenges have definitely changed over time, and I’ve crossed a lot off of my bucket list that I’ve realized are beyond my ability, but I still admire people who go 4 it. The 104 lady who crossed skydiving off of her bucket list and passed two weeks later is my hero, but I’m still not going regardless. I’m happy to watch. Enjoy yourself surfing. It’s a thrill to watch!!🏄♀️🏄🏄♂️🌊
Surfing is the ultimate feeling of connecting with Mother Earth and her oceans. The very first time you feel the ocean propelling you towards the beach you will likely be hooked. At least that was my experience. I became a wave junkie and sometimes I just had to have it feel better. The feeling of something lurking beneath you is definitely always there, although when the surf is pumpin’ that feeling subsides for awhile.
OH. YES YOU DO ; however ;; ,, “”THE JAWS” , music is not playing … and the thrill of riding ocean waves ,, (. even just bodyboarding ) CHALLENGES. YOU AND GIVES YOU EVERYTHING OF THRILL , SPEED , DROP ,, BEING BOWLED GOING THRU FAST HURRICANE LIKE RAIN , WORTH THE POSSIBLY OF DEATH !
These juvenile Great White Sharks are definitely not stalking these surfers. It's unfortunate when attacks happen but more often than not, it truly is mistaken identity. Now IMHO, Tigers and Bulls are a bit different! Tigers will eat anything and Bull Sharks are just insane!
Drones with alert systems are already in the works. No prototypes have released yet but they are being made. Such an excellent idea. It will save many lives.
@@karidennis6154 that's what laws are for. You don't see civilians rocking legit police bars very often and when you do they get slapped with a felony.
Ok but if they attack people we have right to kill them, i did that but not great white, few makos i caught when we were working on a fishing boats. One was almost 3 meters
Have a friend that owns a helicopter tour biz. I’ve been surfing & swimming in PCB’s waters most of my life & have always known that I wasn’t alone whenever I was out there. However, I have to say I was a bit shocked when he took me up & I got to see for myself just how close I’ve always been to being a menu option for them. We flew down the shoreline, from east to west & the amount of bull sharks I saw was staggering. So many oblivious swimmers arms length away from having their last worst day. I still go out, but I say a little prayer beforehand just in case.
I’ve Been saying for a LONG TIME that Drones should have Speakers on them and you can talk thru the Remote and it would be very easy to do! It could Truly help immensely!
@@lindanguyen6880 This is what I'm thinking too. Your average person is going to panic and start splashing and thrashing to try to get to land as quickly as possible and that more than anything is going to encourage an attack.
Yea! A comment below says it would cause ".....panic unnecessarily." It's followed with ".....thrashing.....encourage attack". I say Problem Solved, a-la Darwinism.
Also sharks don't eat people they don't find them tasty if you will. Most shark attacks and being more like bites some worse than others, but no one has been ate.
@Pzero619: Guess you never heard of Simon Nellist in Sydney, Australia eaten by a great white or Vladimer in Red Sea eaten by tiger shark, or Shelly Durbin eaten by a great white....ETC!!!
@Texcen: Yes, it was extremely horrible. That poor man. What a terrible way to die being eaten alive. I'll never get that out of my mind ever. I will not go in the ocean ever again after seeing that, too. May he RIP.
It would be very important to establish a protocol that when a drone pilot sees a shark, he does a special manouver to advertise everybody. Like tilting the drone left and right quickly so that surfers can see it and then place the drone on top of the shark showing its position and the direction its moving
Must admit I’ve never seen “a man in a grey suit” (a shark) when surfing. However, when I was very young, I literally dived from some rocks onto the biggest ray i have ever seen. The older kid I was with, armed with just a hand spear, dived into defend me, however, when I safely got back onto the rocks, I looked around to see my would-be savior literally walking on water he got to dry land so quick. He reckons with my dive, I woke up the beast from a midday snooze, and by the time he dived in, the ray’s fight or flight instinct was just starting to kick. That was over 50 years ago, but I remember it like yesterday.
Rays aren't really dangerous. The crocodile hunter was very unlucky because sting rays usually sting legs that step on them but he got stung in his heart. Manta rays have no stingers but they are the biggest rays and tourists pay to swim with them because they are harmless.
My dad was swimming in the ocean & the water was pretty murky that morning (not a great idea). He had his goggles on & at one point, he said he could see a huge shadowy mass coming toward him. Terrified, he thought: This is it. This is how I d1e. He tried not to panic & make a bunch of sudden movements, but he started to swim away. He kept looking back at the mass as it quickly moved closer, then: Boom, it suddenly dispersed & he was surrounded by tons of fish. I can't imagine that kind of fear, but I would also never swim in the ocean lol.
He want stalking him it's a juvenile they only eat stingrays and smaller fish until they reach around 11 feet because there jaws are basically fused shut and they can't open jaw fully so they don't start going after bigger prey until around 11 feet when there jaw opens and gets full bite range and Jaws become seperate pieces
I grew up like 3 miles from Lake Michigan. People don't realize how big it is. Well you have no worries about sharks or anything else except lots of fish depending on which beach you go to. No ocean for me
Can only tell the safety factor for sure if they eat you or not. If you don't get eaten, you were 100% safe. Love from Australia (otherwise known as Straya as the locals call it).
we are not top of the food chain on land either!! its just sheer numbers that makes us formidable. so many animals see us as meat balloons but are intimidated to enter nieghborhoods and communities, if we lived in cabins that wernt so dense in numbers u would see how weak and vulnerable we are.
@sneekyshot1 yes I agree but without weapons we are so easy to kill it's ridiculous. I just hate hearing that top of the food chain crap, if we were sent back to Hunter gatherer times most of us would die off rather quickly
I am sure this has happened to me many times in Cape Town and i didnt even know it, we have certain areas where we have shark spotters who stand on hills with flags to alert surfers of shark sightings.
All cute fine and dandy, until one is hungry due to not catching those fast seals, and decides you are much easier prey. Maybe not a high percentage, but when you're the one being chosen by the great white shark percentages no longer matter.
Sharks having honed their hunting skills since dinosaurs were on earth do NOT confused a very slow moving human on a surfboard with an agile and quick multidirectional moving seal. Please stop promulgating that lie. We know better in 2024.
@@Despond can't blame him for repeating this cliché theory, too many people thinking sharks are maneaters... Although the Oceanic Whitetip shark is aggressive in nature, and might actually be hunting humans...
A quick tip, there are always things around you in the water, just because you cant see them, doesnt mean they arent there. Even at knee depth there are schools of fish that you cant see, its wild
I'm Australian and I've been surfing for many decades. I've been surfing amongst 150 sharks at Easter time. I saw the footage from the shark spotting plane on the TV 📺 news when I got home. The next day a surfer was killed at the beach next to the one I was surfing at. You just have to understand sharks in the core of your being. Bells 🔔 Beach at Easter is not a wise move. It's sharks mating season at that time. This shark 🦈 in the video looks young and small.
Серферу повезло. Либо ББА была сытая либо по какой-то причине решила не нападать. Серферы - самая частая жертва нападения акул либо ранним утром либо вечером - любимое время охоты акул. Акула атакует с глубины, есть устойчивая версия, что ББА просто путает серфера с любимой едой - тюленями,так как на доске, свесив руки и ноги в воду силуэт серфера похож на силуэт тюленя!
He isn’t lucky he didn’t get attacked sharks surround surfers every single day without attacking. It is immensely rare to be attacked by a shark. It’s insane to me that people still think that if a shark is there it’s most likely going to attack
In addition to drone alerts, what about a surfboard with an electric current. Diana Nygard's boat was equipped with some type of device that protected her while she swam at night. I saw the movie and it was a close call because it looked like a couple of great whites were heading directly for her. They had to scramble because the connection had come apart, but once they reconnected it (in the nick of time), the sharks took off!
Myth sharks are not interested in humans hungry or not ,if anything the video shows that sharks encounter humans way more frequently and way closer that we believe and that they just dont give a F about us 🦈
@@mikehogan5087 1 chance out of 300 M ,you have one chance out 1032 to die in car accident ! If you ask me dying violently is never a pleasant experience and if you ask what is the most unpleasant experience , i have never known someone dying from a shark attack i ve known several that died from trafic accidents some several months later in an ocean of pain ...
Actually, a recent study by CSULB Marine Biology dept determined that off LA and OC county beaches in California, it's 90% of the time that adolescent white sharks 6 to 10 feet in length are very close to swimmers and surfers BUT in 18 months of observation by drone there was not one incident of sharks attacking
This video just proves what I have always said about sharks,if we were on there menu we would have 10's or hundreds of fatalities daily but there has been so much footage showing that sharks swim so close to humans without them even being aware and just goes about there business,yes In some cases I do believe sharks don't mistake identity but those attacks are rare in comparison to fatal attacks
These creatures are doing what is natural to them. The ocean is their home. If they are hungry they will ear. These surfers should respect this beauty who quietly passed them by.
For those asking for speakers on drone they actually already have them. They are very expensive though. Some of the local PD’s here in San Diego have them. I’ve been at beach when they fly them over. They should equip the life guard tower with those versions. It could save a couple of lives.
These drone operators should label these drones as shark cams so surfers would know why is there a drone following them and it's not to watch them surf!
All you have to do is use sound blasting in these beach areas using Orcas on a underwater speaker and any shark that hears that won't come anywhere at these beaches. Keeping people safe.
@@jasonmoyer9492I wish people like yourself would just tell us if you know the answer is wrong or has been tried etc instead of just giving a smarmy comment. Have u researched this yourself? If so, why not just teach us. If you haven’t researched this, then why not research it and teach us.
Yah. One more way to keep them from FEEDING. They're apex predators the entire foodchain is kept healthy with this very predation. Fooling even tiny birds with recorded sounds has catastrophic effects on ecological systems.
@@Surprise_Inspection Orca's are 10x smarter than sharks and hunt in packs. even if there was a school of 10 hammerheads that size the orcas would have them as liver appetizers
I used to be afraid that a shark would be hiding down the drain of the swimming pool when I was a kid. 🤣 I would play little games with myself where I would swim up as close as possible then swim away really fast.
It’s actually a good use of drones on beaches where there’s any threat of sharks. For spotting, warning surfers/swimmers, or even just hovering over the damn thing making people aware of its exact location.
@@k9is2sick Still surfers are easy targets, but the sharks don't strike. Surfing has been popular for over a century now, which means sea life will adapt to their presence.
@murfdog19 of course. But a shark can also sense a fish's heart beat through its lateral line, they aren't going to attack something that's heart isn't beating
@@dlwsblancaflor7078they had no idea that the shark was there while the person flying to drone was trying to worn the by flying over and getting close to him to get him to pay attention to the drone and once he looked at the drone the guy flying it flew the drone over in the area of the shark in hopes that the guy on the board would see the shark but he wasnt paying wnough attention to the drone to get the hint. This could have went went so badly and can you imagine being the guy flying the drone on land somewhere or maybe in a boat somewhere but if the shark would have attacked the boy the man with the drone would have not been able to do anything other then to watch and get it on video. I'm glad that didnt happen.
@@samanthadawn3085I think they got the message in the end. You can see someone splashed water where the shark was that probably put off the shark. They knew about the shark but didn't know where at the end. That splash of water saved their lives.
For those who think sharks don't see people as food, let me tell you, sharks know exactly what we are, humans have been in the ocean since the beginning of time, so we are no different than a seal to them. Sharks are just like any predator, if they are hungry and they think they can take you without getting injured, than you are on the menu. Sharks are opportunistic eaters, they prefer easy meals with less risk of injury such as dead animals, but if they think they can take you without getting hurt than you will get hit. They prefer taking live prey from below, or from behind, such as the surfer it pursued. They are smart enough to know that getting injured is certain death for them, so they almost always try to sneak up from below or behind the prey.
This is what I think no matter what people say about them being harmless. I would NEVER put myself at risk of anything in any body of water. I don't even want to imagine being bitten by a shark. Why even risk it! Even the thought of swimming in rivers and lakes terrifies me. There's something terrifying about deep water, especially deep dark water....and now crystal clear aqua water. I prefer the local swimming pool every time. At least I get home for my next meal 😐 and another swim another day 😐 I can't fathom what goes on inside the minds of surfers. Terrifying. I hope these two were safe until they got out of the water. People's suggestions on dropping signs from a drone wouldn't work as the noise of the ocean would override that. A very loud siren would be the next bet for gaining attention of the surfers/swimmers but they should be pre-warned to not panic, to just remain still and calm so that the shark can't smell the fear because, as someone else mentioned, they can smell fear hormones, just like wasps can and will continue to attack you when you panic. With wasps, if you just do slow lengthy sweeps with your arms and remain fearless they tend to get the hint and fly away. What makes someone want to get into a body of deep water full of sharks and risk being bitten in half and eaten alive? I will NEVER understand 😐 Someone mentioned surf pools being created. Fantastic idea!! 💡🏄🏽♀️🏄🏿🏄🏻♂️👍🏽
@@earthed_soulwell the thing is not everyone wants to surf human made waves for one. Some people just want to enjoy nature and also surfers try not to think about sharks in the water. We are very aware we are in the sharks home of course and we respect it. Also it is very unlikely to get eaten by a shark, like VERY rare. We humans kill more sharks than sharks have killed humans in a lifetime. So overall, You are probably more likely to die in a car accident than to be eaten by a shark.
That's not true, the shark wasn't hunting him at all. You'd be surprised how common it is for sharks to swim near humans on beaches without people even knowing they are there. Considering the amount of opportunities they have to attack us, if they really hunted humans each year they would kill thousands of people a year instead of a dozen.
Unlikely. Shark attacks on people are extremely rare and people in the ocean are within feet of them all the time and don't even realize it. Sharks do have to exist somewhere for the 23 hours a day they're not eating, ya know. A shark was spotted near surfers in Australia and people were freaking out so the news interviewed the surfers who didn't understand what the big deal was. The surfers said they're always around us. The sharks are probably bored and just wanna watch them surf😂 I don't think I've ever scuba dived in fort Lauderdale and not seen a shark...
@@mikemurphy5898 Yeah, real big man talk until one latches onto your thigh. These people are stupid and are just trying to be macho, until they lose a leg.
That Shark was truly checking him out you could tell it was thinking about it Looked extremely interested I'm so grateful at change this mind just horrible That girl that swims with sharks she was showing how even little splashes gets their attention There was 4 or 5 Sharks swimming away from her the minute she started splashing they turned around immediately and was coming straight for her Even the smallest splashes gets their attentit's really scary They take splashing as weakness Injury
We all know that this has happened to us more than twice. Especially south coast Australia. I reckon when ya get that dread feeling, its one close by. Those gut feelings dont lie. Looks like a nice little right.
I get that feeling everytime i go into the ocean, even though i never go further than knee-deep into the water because i‘m terrified of sharks (the last deadly kill by a shark in the red sea the guy was in waist-deep water only 50 meters from shore). Can‘t imagine how these surfers stay so relaxed in an environment full of sharks.
Lived down the bottom of York's SA. So many times just went in because of the vibe. Totally agree mate go with your gut.Oh and those hot still, overcast days in SA. You could almost smell them in the air. A boogie border from 4 houses down from my mum got taken on a day like that at Waipinga.
We've got heaps of big beauties hanging around the WA coast atm. Some have been spotted in the Swan River but on my shark watch app (I'm a lil' obsessed with them😏), most are along the coast. Some big'uns are really close to the shore too. I accidentally kicked a tiger shark that had been under me in the Guildford part of the Swan and if it wanted me, it would've had me piece of piss. It would've been provoked imo. It's just cruising along and cops a kick to its head...or wherever I got the poor bugger. I thought it was a dolphin at the time but others there said otherwise. At least they waited 'til I was outta the water😆. Plus a tiger had been seen in the spot we were fucking around in the day before and had been hanging around. I never really had any fear of them. Or crocs. I know the risks and if I die by being eaten, at least I went out feeding something I love🤷🏻♀️. Or being its toothpick at least.
Like many people said, The Malibu Artist shows us that great whites are around virtually 100% of the time, yet shark attacks are rare. I have no idea why sometimes they do bite people, but it's definitely a rare exception. I was at a shark conservation event and a shark attack survivor, who was attacked in the waters of California. He said he bumped into the shark, the shark was below him and his arm hit it. It bit his leg and by a miracle, not only did he survive, but he didn't lose his leg like some other survivors. According to him, the shark did not chomp down hard, which is what they normally do. Instead, the shark bit into him and swam with him held in its mouth, the shark carried him off like a dog toy. The survivor punched the eyes and gills, and as you know, the shark will let you go if you do that. In the words of that survivor, the ocean is their home, and if we want to enjoy the water, we just have to keep in mind there is a chance this could happen. I guess people could also go to beaches known to not have sharks, but Malibu ain't that.
Your story is very misleading a shark won't always let you free if you punch him in the eyes and gills... it might or it might not it mostly depends on the species of sharks, that individual and how hungry it is... We see it very often in some places of the red sea that are almost depleted of most of their food sources and were when a starved shark attacks if you aren't close to the shore your chance of surviving or close to zero no matter how strong you punch... Again it is the good reflex to have but assuming you are doing it your survival still really only depends on the shark
What sharks do is bite to tear the skin and then back off and wait for their prey to bleed out until it's too weak to put up a fight. Then they go in for the kill. A shark doesn't want to have to deal with the fangs and claws of its prey. It also gets a taste from that first bite, and humans don't taste like what they want to eat, so they're more likely to just swim away. In the case of deaths from shark attacks, it more likely to die from bleeding to death rather than being eaten whole. Of course, this isn't always the case, but considering how many hundreds of millions of people go into the sea every year, and how rare shark attacks are, obviously, they're not interested in you as a snack. Otherwise, surfing would be suicidal. This shark has probably swum under quite a few surfers in its lifetime, and sharks are swimming under surfers all the time, here or there.
I wade in the ocean. I get my water fix in the tub, pool, water parks. It’s their domain. I’ve always felt that way. Would be great if you could relay verbally or a universal sign, shark is here. I’m ever thankful my son has never showed interest in surfing.
Smart drone operator trying to get the surfers attention and when that don't work he tried to confuse the shark so it would turn the opposite direction of the surfer❤
The shark literally followed his trail when he started paddling and followed from behind in striking formation , it was just a look but for a second that shark DID SEE FOOD
@@mattmattmatt3091 That shark was going to eat them and was trying to decide if it would get hurt in the attack and is it worth it. You going to swim with it to find out, go for it.
You're magnitudes more likely of dying in a commute to work, the grocery store, Mcdonalds drive-thru, etc. Yet we don't even think twice about accepting that risk of death to go grab a couple cheeseburgers... just try to think about it that way and it becomes much easier to accept the risk swimming in the ocean.
At 51 I gave up surfing because of the multiple deaths from Shark attacks at my Local Beaches.. In my decades of Surfing I only saw a shark maybe a half dozen times...! There would have been MANY more I didn't see. Scary.
Did yaad even finish Elentary School. If it has teeth it will bite. No matter if it you biting a sandwich or poodle not to be picked up. DOSENT matter what.device you have will not save a life in time or swimers going to scare shark off. UNLESS the drone turns into a tiny helicopter bring bandaids and tourniquets First rule to be aware of Shark lovers love to Twist truth. Or Beach Owners Property to keep beaches open for money.- The truth is don't get in the water DUH.? As the Livings after thought views and polls will not save that person. Whose childish motto is ride or die by any Apex Predators duh.? Makes as much sense as walking in to a tigar cage. There's a reason why they've been around millions of years because man can't stop them
А если в зоне прибоя есть яма до 25 метров ,в которой любят залегать акулы ,как наши сомы в омутах ? Там надо себя чувствовать и осязать ,как малек в аквариуме с акулами !
That's a big shark. Grew up surfing in FL. When I would see a shark, I would get TF out of the water every time. Shocked this kid saw it and didn't paddle in
@@lucasa.a4495 a hot surfer guy eating by a shark its sad to me, thats why I dont get it how they can manage to go in the water knowing the risks and not caring.
just an idea: attach a phone to it and make the ringtone baby shark do do do do do do , or a speach that warns about the shark, then u just need to call that phone and fly close to the surfers
