Oh no! I'm never going to be able to fall asleep around you guy's! The dog is looking at me like i've lost my mind. Expect men in white jackets. "Hello? My human is looking at a small thing and is howling. I think she sprung a leak too!"
No, the Shark simply thought the driver had food and it wanted it, since fishermen in that area tend to feed them small fish and krill, they've come to associate divers with free food
Butterflies do not attack dipshit. You are scaring yourself with fantasy stories inside your own head. Cant stand ppl that cry and be scared about actually nothing.
I think he was just playing with the diver or the bubbles or maybe he saw a flock of plankton that we cannot see. the shark is very gentle and not aggressive at all
I know you made this comment two years ago Andy I know that it is a joke - I laughed a lot, but a whale shark has over 4000 needle-like teeth used for filter feeding.
These are literally the gentlest fish in the sea. In-fact there is only one known location in the world where these gentle giants make a permanent presence, Cenderawasih Bay. The water is so deep there, the food so rich, and the water so calm that they can live there permanently among the fisherman who revere them as ancient ancestors and feed them heaves of fish. When whale sharks are being fed they also tend to bring in a lot of fish activity in the general vicinity and thus fisherman call them spirits of the ocean and are a sign of luck. Here's your fact of the day.
The whale shark isn't attacking him. It only wants food from him because divers in that area often feed the sharks krill and fish. Hes like where's my food at and the diver is like I don't have any food get away from me!!!! lol XD
Samuel T. Steiner you would be surprised dude, this happened to me once with a whale shark, they are peaceful animals but it scares the shit out of you in the moment haha
Yoatzin Anaya I know I would be scared if some 20t snail was pushing me around. - Thats also why I stay in my natural habitat where there is air and no giant sardines.
I have been noticing the more I watch these kinds of videos that sea creatures tend to be quite curious creatures, much like this whale shark. Always makes me smile so much every time. lol :)
the uploader / diver is very much in question here i agree. this is not normal behavior for a whale shark, it appears to be acting under provocation but the video doesnt show the first part of the interaction. Judging by the injury on its head which is visible at 1:26 i would say the diver may be responsible for its injury and the whale shark was acting out of duress.
@@MrSushicon What's your evidence for (1) Not normal behaviour for a whale shark (2) Animal was acting under provocation (3) The diver may be responsible for the shark's head injury, therefore animal was acting out of duress. I saw no such thing! As a diver for 50 years who's encountered whale sharks on several occasions I can verify that if there aren't a whole load of divers around then they'll engage with one or two divers as long as the diver doesn't go out of his way to harass them, which I saw no evidence of in that clip. Over 20 years ago I was one of only 2 guests plus a divemaster on a liveaboard transitting from the Sudan to Egypt in the Red Sea, diving to view hammerhead sharks, when a 30 foot whale shark headed over to us and interacted with us for over 20 minutes, swimming back & forth all on its own terms with no harassment from us. Five years ago from the dive skiff of a liveaboard in the Tubbataha Reefs, Sulu Sea, the Philippines, I lost a weight pouch back-rolling into the water, so abandoned the dive while the remainder carried on, leaving me to get back onboard the dive tender. After 15 minutes I spotted a shark fin at the surface 20 metres away, so putting on just mask & fins I quietly slipped into the water, GoPro in hand, snorkelling over to where I'd seen the 15 foot, juvenile shark. I stayed stock still as it approached and made a pass at me about 1 metre away, before it swam under the chase boat, circled round 360 degrees and headed straight for me again, this time making head on contact, before I lifted myself off its back, half way out of the water, laughing like a drain! So, in the right circumstances they can be inquisitive and I've got video footage to prove it which one day I'll put it on RU-vid to prove it!
30 minute tank drained on 10 minutes; lots of deep draws on that encounter. Never a comfortable feeling when that much attention is being paid to you by such a big animal. Majestic creatures they are.
You're extremely lucky to have been that close to such a beautiful animal, that would be an experience I'd never forget, that is definitely one of my dreams.
Even though this guy probably isn't in any real danger I would still be absolutely terrified if I were being chased underwater by an enormous sea creature lol
He's not attacking him! He's like "Um....excuse me..yes you with the suit on...please....you are in my way...I am in fact on a schedule that I would not like to miss I have dinner plans! Um...excuse me..sir or madame, I can never tell with your bloody race....please....just please move along...yes yes, I am aware of my weight, but I accept myself, as should you...now please just move slightly to your right I wish to move..."
Watched your video before we went to stay at Xcaret in Mexico. Wanted to do this anyway, but got a lot from your video thanks. You were right. It was just an amazing experience. Thank you.
Such beautiful graceful creatures. This guy was just curious about what these weird bipedal things were doing swimming around blowing all those bubbles lol
james alex It's actually a shark, it says on it's wiki and you can tell it's a shark from it's tail movement; a whale's tail moves up and down, while a shark's tail moves side to side. This is just called the whale shark because it's the size of a whale. So next time you try to point out a fact, LOOK IT UP FIRST!
Whale sharks are gentle creatures. The whale shark was not trying to attack the diver he was clearly playing with him. As you can see in the video the diver was swimming away from her and she kept following there was intention there for her to hurt the diver. In actual fact it was wrong of the diver to get in the water anyway because the female whale shark had her live young swimming underneath her. So this could also been her way of telling the diver to back away from her babies.
My brother just came back from the Philippines, he was swimming with Whale Sharks. He said it was one of the best things he's done . Thanks for uploading this video, I enjoyed it.
whale sharks eat everything by opening there mouth and sucking water in creating a vacuum once it does it closes it mouth removing the water from its body and eating the rest.They are quite blind so it makes sense
Xi It wasn't attacking him. It was likely playing in the bubbles that he was exhaling, they like that. They eat plankton, that's obvious. Their 3,000 tiny teeth are of little use.
That looks like a juvenile. A curious, slightly bossy younger shark. Good thing they're such a sweet species. It's probably best he wasn't even bigger than that, because a large adult's massive strong mouth trying to gently explore a diver like that could cause accidental damage to his tank or hoses.
+Aspie Otaku Tough call because it was persistent and it's common to see many people take rides on these magnificent creatures and maybe it got to a point where it had enough and because it's such a docile animal, that was the only way for it to show its dissatisfaction with humans coming so close to it and "harassing" it all the time? Who knows, but luckily thank goodness it doesn't have any sharp teeth in that gaping mouth! Yikes! lol
Perhaps territorial in the sense of a "pack". That would be the only instance I would consider any form of territoriality to be a remote possibility in the sense that the pack of whale sharks was intruded by an outside species (in this case a human) but even that is not proven, just a theory. But as far as territoriality with sharks, I agree with Mike that concept does not exist with sharks in the vast ocean and seas. Only hierarchy has been studied and found to be true in the sense that the BIGGEST shark takes precedence over any area or activity. You've seen plenty of videos where there would be many sharks feeding from chum and bait off a boat and all of a sudden they all disappear......because a few seconds later a MUCH bigger shark shows up to the same area. That's hierarchy and not territoriality.
+GoMiGman Nah, that whale shark wasn't attacking or being offensive, big aquatic animals like whales and the whale shark move A LOT faster when they are attacking (just because they are big and docile it doesn't mean they cannot move really fast when they intend to attack). That animal looked more like one huge aquatic dog playing with the diver (you know, when dogs play by softly biting their owners). It certainly showed some interest in the flippers and the bubbles.
123leyang321 Sorry, agree to disagree. It looked like it was angry at their persistence an anger at too much getting close that without real big teeth, it let him know that it was persistent that it had enough. I don't believe speed had any factor in this I was with one way back in 1984 in the Red Sea while Israel was withdrawing and pillaging whatever if could because if was unhappy it couldn't steal that land and that incredible sea life that come with it. My swim lasted about 13 minutes and I was booted off by a viscous body movement and I was freaked out as if took me a good 15 minutes to swim back to the charter we had and was super afraid of white tips lol. But it was great and a long time ago I was a teenager now I'm close to 50. These animals do get aggravated believe me and there are A LOT of people who come close to them and irritate them. So how else can they show heir frustration?
This whale shark has clearly been injured, you can see a laceration on its head at 00:26 and again clearly at 01:26 with blood coming out. Did the diver or their boat injure the whale shark? The uploader / diver is very much in question.
Glenn Sagaert MrBootydaddy Lee Thé Lee's right. Whale Sharks, while their mouths can be around five feet wide, have very small throats and it'd be impossible for one to actually swallow a human (or anything much larger than something like a golfball).
I would say the whale shark was interested in the Diver and tried to play with him. although for the diver it first looked like attacking.. whale sharks don't have sharp enough theet to rip a human apart thought..
I don't think it's attacking the diver, but many people are saying that it's attracted to the bubbles. I think it's trying to keep the diver away from the children that you saw under the shark in the beginning.
These interesting fish are ramoras: large, gray, parasitic fish usually found stuck to the sides of sharks, manta rays, and other large species. Remoras are not dangerous to their hosts. They simply attach to the larger animal and hitch a ride. While attached to a host, remoras snack on scraps of meals and waste matter from the larger creature. In some cases, remoras will clean bacteria and small parasites from the host. Unattached remoras can make themselves obnoxious to divers. Perhaps not the brightest of creatures, remoras seem to attach to anything large and moving. Divers fit into this category. Remoras have been known to attach to a diver's tank or body. As long as the diver is covered by a wetsuit, the remora does no harm. Most encounters with free-swimming remoras are comical, as they mistakenly attempt to suck onto a diver's tank and limbs. However, a remora that attaches directly to a diver's skin may scrape him.
Le Trebuchet The relationship between sharks and remoras is symbiotic, since the remora gets to hitch a ride on the shark, while the shark gets cleaned by the remora. If it were a parasite, the shark would either gain no benefit, or it would be detrimental to the shark's well-being.
Lee H. A parasite is "any animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant and gets food or protection from it." (Merriam-Webster) This need not be detrimental to its host; and, indeed, in the case of the remora, is of benefit to both. However, it is not the remora's intention to be of benefit to its host; its purpose is purely parasitic..
I've seen this video and done a bit of research. Apparently whale sharks in this area are used to tourists diving and feeding them, so this one was probably looking for a snack. In any case, whale sharks aren't very threatening to humans. Not only are they filter feeders and very docile, but their throats are only the size of a grapefruit.
I swam with whale sharks on the island of Cebu. They are completely harmless but are extremely attracted to bubbles as you can see in exhibit A. While I was scuba diving beside them, the natives told us not to blow bubbles unless we wanted their attention.
These animals are one of the largest filter feeders in the ocean. This is a prime example of why they say to snorkel with whale sharks and not scuba dive. They find their plankton prey through a variety of cues and one of them is the vibrations from tiny organisms. The divers bubbles are mimicking tiny organisms and the juvenile (based on its size) is just interested in finding its meal. The diver is in no trouble at all because the whale shark could now swallow much less get the diver in its mouth in order to harm him. I feel bad for the whale shark because he is being teased with a fake food source and wasting its time on the diver instead of getting the meal that it traveled so long for!
The whale is getting food anyway, how could you even say such stupid bullshit? Stop thinking of animals as if they were fucking humans, they don't care if a diver is swimming close to them, plus that doesn't affect their lives in any way
Never can understand why people want to harass these creatures?? Keep your distance and stop intruding in on them !!! You always get briefed before a dive. Stay away from the coral, etc. THE WORSE DIVERS are the ones with cameras, NO RESPECT what so ever !!!! Pisses me off to no end !!!
+Cas boom Don't forget they're much stronger than you though. I actually don't think you're supposed to be swimming that close to them, or (god I'm being so general, sorry) people would prefer you don't. Idk, I have to re-read up on that :P
