Rebreather attract sharks?

saturation

If you have any insight comparing your Rebreather with OC experience. Do you think the RB actually attracts sharks to you for some reason or they are less repelled by your presence?

Electronics?
Bubble-lessness?

dantheman

Years ago before I went Rebreather, I read a story in ?? mag about an
initial Rebreather experience. The author dove a wall and encountered
sharks. His rather belated self-consciousness came out as:
"I must have looked like a big turtle."

This has always stayed with me...

I've been harassed on deco by a hammerhead. On OC.
I had plenty of regs available to shoo him/her/it away.

Just one more thing to be paranoid about when bubbleless ...
--dan

Skipbreather

I dove OC for over 30 years before I came over to the dark side. I can say without reservation that diving RBs does indeed attract more sharks, by at least one order of magnitude. The really scary part is that they bypass you and the rig- they go directly for your wallet and thoroughly shred it. Then your savings. Then they bore a SERIOUS hole into what’s left of your credit rating……….

ROB DAVIE

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2stoned

Shiny objects might attract attention (looks like fish scales).
They go for shiny wet-suits on free-divers and shiny steel rings on the all black DIR-divers.

As I understand it, a shark is more attracted to fish oil (fat) in the water than to blood
(that is why you attract sharks with crushed little oily fishes).
As the shark approaches the smell of feeding (blood) may put him in a frenzy.
Most dangerous sharks will swim around, check you out and poke you to feel you out, then maybe take a careful gentle bite to taste weather you are edible/standard-menu. (seldom fatal, most often injuries to lower leg)
Some of the bigger ones may sneak attack you, taking a more violent approach and subsequently leave a larger wound, which can be fatal.

When the shark attacks he goes blind, feeling his way through sensing electrical muscle current in his pray, through sensors in his nose.
This is where there might be a chance to stop him: SharkShield

Wonder if the http://www.sharkshield.com will interfere with the electronics on rebreathers.

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saturation

I know it sounds silly but I'm following up the accident in 2002 on Eric Reichardt, where GSAF concluded he was attacked in-water while on his rebreather.

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=8278

Because the article is no longer available from the original link there is this from the newsgroups:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.s...424e0007983c00

julie

Hey Guys and giriles ! !

I will let you know if the big old sharks (especially the Tiger sharks ) like the Tigger Meg once i eventually get it in the sea somewere nice abroard. and more to the point it looks like that will be April on the red sea trip..

Julie
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PeteS

Well my "Collins Pocket Guide to Coral Reef Fishes" has this to say about Grey Reef Sharks:-

"Among the most likely of sharks to attack divers, but generally gives a single non-fatal bite."

So that's alright then.......

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Steve

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Deep Thought

Ken

Sharks have feeling too… and from one shark’s perspective, consider that I had to fight off the plague of moths that flew out of your wallet when it was finally opened; I mean some of the currency in his wallet has kings and not presidents on it!

But seriously I have dove with sharks on o.c. and closed circuit and the sharks know you are there regardless of the bubbles. Consider Cocos where you can dive amidst hundreds of hammerhead sharks, white tips, Galapagos and others??? – seen or unseen. As soon as divers enter the water, the sharks scatter – poof! If you are patient and lay still, very still, they will return by singles then by mass. I have seen photos by divers on o.c. that have great interaction with sharks in Cocos, and I think it has a fair degree with how you interact in the environment. If you get up and start swimming around the sharks swim further off, if you swim slowly and don’t rush after the animals they relax…

On other occasions, at different seas, I have found sharks and rays that swim up to you unaware that you are there until the moment of close contact. So yes bubbles are a factor but not a limiting factor in enjoying marine life encounters. Having a ccr at Cocos allowed me the time to relax and wait for the sharks to return without worrying about running out of gas

ron

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