Uh, Not A Good Idea…
Friday, June 13th, 2008
This you gotta see… watch the video of these guys frolicking with some pretty big sharks in Hawaii.
Thanks Amy!
This you gotta see… watch the video of these guys frolicking with some pretty big sharks in Hawaii.
Thanks Amy!
That’s pretty intense. Would’ve been cool to be there and see those huge sharks up close.
Any idea what kind they were?
I think its a swell idea.
Luke: Hammerheads!
Wow! You rarely hear about shark encounters where the sharks *didn’t* attack.
well don’t they think they are so cool! I won’t be surprised when the next time they actually do get bit!!! And Markus how do you know they are hammerheads??
Actually, the big Shark in the video you can tell is a hammerhead because his fin is so tall.
Those douchebags are idiots! Too bad one of the sharks didn’t bite their nuts off.
This is just more proof that sharks DO NOT attack humans as their prey. You guyes are such sissies; they are in like 2 ft. of water - you won’t die if they give you a little test nip. I would have LOVED to be in the water so close to them - if it had been me, the video footage would have been much more up-close and we’d be able to tell what kind of sharks they were for sure!!
yeah - if the guys werent leaving the water, the woman should have handed them the vid camera. the size of the dorsal fin is not a characteristic of any of the 9 species of hammerheads however so it would be nice to find out what kind of sharks they really were.
The great hammerhead is a very large shark with the characteristic hammer-shaped head from which it gets its common name. The font margin of the head is nearly straight with a shallow notch in the center in adult great hammerheads, distinguishing it from the smooth hammerhead and scalloped hammerhead. The first dorsal fin is very tall with a pointed tip and strongly falcate in shape while the second dorsal is also high with a strongly concave rear margin. The origin of the first dorsal fin is opposite or slightly behind the pectoral fin axil with the free rear tip falling short to above the origin of the pelvic fins. The rear margins of the pelvic fins are concave and falcate in shape, not seen in scalloped hammerhead (S. lewini). The posterior edge of the anal fin is deeply notched.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/GreatHammerhead/GHammerhead.html
yes but that still doesn’t single out that it was a hammerhead silly! Just because it had high dorsal fins…did you check if there were any other sharks with the characteristic high dorsal fin???
Is there anyway for me absolutely positively prove that they were all Hammerheads? No. How would I do that? I wasn’t there.
All I know is that the largest Shark in the video has a dorsal fin consistent to what a Great Hammerhead Shark dorsal fin looks like.
Also, that area is known for hammerheads.
“Every summer we have an influx of hammerheads into Kaneohe Bay and other shallow areas like Pearl Harbor and Hawaii Kai and they come in and the females have their babies and the big females go back out into the open ocean and the babies, the pups grow up in Kaneohe Bay,” said Kim Holland, University of Hawaii Researcher.