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I don't know... :eek: If that were me in the cage, I'd have involuntarily produced a cloud of brown stuff that would cut down the visibility!!   :lol:

 

 

Yeah, uh that wetsuit will have to go straight into the trash...or better yet - incinerate.

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that footage from the divers camera will be awesome!

 

oh, and how did he not get injured in the cage with all that tail flapping and stuff ?

joh, brown wetsuit please! - have done this at gansbaai and am glad it didn't run out this way!

 

okie in the orange did well to open the roof, but apart from take his hat off there was very little he could do!

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that footage from the divers camera will be awesome!

 

oh, and how did he not get injured in the cage with all that tail flapping and stuff ?

explained in the video description

 

So this shark lunged at the bait, accidentally hit the side of the cage, was most likely confused and not able to swim backwards, it thrust forward and broke the metal rail of the cage. There was a single diver inside the cage. He ended up outside the bottom of the cage, looking down on two great white sharks. The diver is a very experienced dive instructor, remained calm, and when the shark thrashed back outside the cage, the diver calmly swam back up and climbed out completely uninjured.

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explained in the video description

 

So this shark lunged at the bait, accidentally hit the side of the cage, was most likely confused and not able to swim backwards, it thrust forward and broke the metal rail of the cage. There was a single diver inside the cage. He ended up outside the bottom of the cage, looking down on two great white sharks. The diver is a very experienced dive instructor, remained calm, and when the shark thrashed back outside the cage, the diver calmly swam back up and climbed out completely uninjured.

hang on, the bottom of the cage was open ? or it broke open ?

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explained in the video description

 

So this shark lunged at the bait, accidentally hit the side of the cage, was most likely confused and not able to swim backwards, it thrust forward and broke the metal rail of the cage. There was a single diver inside the cage. He ended up outside the bottom of the cage, looking down on two great white sharks. The diver is a very experienced dive instructor, remained calm, and when the shark thrashed back outside the cage, the diver calmly swam back up and climbed out completely uninjured.

That part confuses me in bold. I will actually call BS on that.

 

To break the cage bar is no mean feat, I think it would need a much bigger shark than this one, possibly even one with a big acetylene torch as well. Breaking into cages was a great "Jaws" movie trick, in real life its very unlikely. 

 

I think Slowbee is correct, the bottom of the cage was open and either the shark swam in and the diver dropped out or he was never in there in the first place, because then he would be looking "UP" and not down as the commentary says.

 

I doubt there is any way a shark could have pushed its way into a cage and the diver swam out the same gap. It makes for a riveting video but I think there is a little selective editing and captioning going on.   

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