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A diver has revealed how not to become a shark’s dinner – but her advice (and close encounter) may make your fins tremble.
Kayleigh Nicole Grant, who runs Kaimana Ocean Safari in Hawaii, posted a surprising video on TikTok, where she goes by @mermaidkayleigh, showing people how to prevent a shark attack.
Instead of panicking and swimming away from sharks, he said people should stare into a shark’s eyes and then reach out and touch them if necessary.
“Sharks have natural instincts and splashing, panicking and swimming away from them can trigger their prey drive. “It’s best to stay calm, stand your ground, make eye contact, and if necessary, push them away,” he captioned the clip, which has more than 16.4 million views since it was posted in mid-November.
In the video, she demonstrates how swimming away from a tiger shark activates its “prey drive” and sends the shark toward her.
However, once the shark gets close, it grabs its nose and pushes it to the side.
The commentators were surprised by how good their demonstration went and didn’t think they would be able to stay calm if they found themselves in the same situation.
Swimming away from a shark can activate its prey drive. Kayleigh Nicole/Instagram Scholarship
“Very good advice, thank you. Unfortunately, I would immediately go into cardiac arrest, so I can’t impose my dominance anyway,” one person said.
“I think if a shark followed me, I would forget how to breathe,” said another.
“You can tell by his eyes that he was definitely prepared to attack too 😂,” wrote a third.
The Post has contacted Grant for comment.
Standing your ground in the face of a shark is the way to prevent an attack. Kayleigh Nicole/Instagram Scholarship
Grant’s advice is backed by other experts who say splashing can trigger a shark’s prey drive.
“Refrain from excessive splashing, especially in one spot. “Sharks can hear the low-frequency sounds of splashing and can investigate to see if a fish or prey is in danger,” the Florida Museum explained on its website.
While Grant uses his hand to push the shark away in the video, that should be a last resort, according to experts.
“Use everything you have at your disposal (surfboard, diving equipment, fishing equipment) to avoid using your bare hands to attack the shark,” explained the Victorian Fisheries Authority.
Grant pushed the shark’s nose and it turned around. Kayleigh Nicole/Instagram Scholarship
“If you must use your hands, focus on attacking the eyes, nose, and gills,” the site continued.
So far this year, there have been 76 publicly reported and verified shark attacks, including nine provoked and 10 fatal, according to Tracking Sharks.
Shark bites can be provoked or unprovoked, with the latter being the most common.
Don’t be prey, keep it away. Kayleigh Nicole/Instagram Scholarship
“Provocated bites occur when a human somehow initiates an interaction with a shark. These include cases where people are bitten after harassing or attempting to handle sharks, bites that occur when unhooking or removing a shark from a fishing net, etc.,” the Florida Museum explained.
“Unprovoked bites are defined as incidents in which a bite occurs on a live human in the shark’s natural habitat without human provocation of the shark. These represent the most natural examples of shark behavior and are our most used data category in research. These events include; mistaken identity hit and run in low visibility conditions, investigation and, in rare cases, predation,” the museum continued.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn