(2017-12-17, 10:35 AM)Pollux Wrote: [ -> ]“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...”
- Jaws
This diver almost lost his head when a Great White shark came up behind him and headbutted him from behind.
If the shark would have been up for a little snack he would just had to open its jaws a little bit more and it could have taken this guys head clean off, and he wouldn't have known what hit him.
And look at the size of it!!
Great Whites are obviously the ones you have to look out for, along with Mako Sharks & Tiger Sharks. But sharks don't generally like the taste of humans so if they do bite, it's more to see what the human is! So the theory goes anyway.
I actually had a sort of ESP experience underwater funnily enough. I was diving at a place called 'Manta Point' in Nusa Penida, Bali. This was a location where the famed Manta Rays are commonly found, as it is a cleaning station for them, where little fish can clean their gills and what not.
The dive was about to end as our air reserves were getting low and we were getting close to our 'No Decompression Limit'. So we headed back to the entry point, where our dive boat was waiting for us to surface. The visibility wasn't great that day, say about 5-8 meters which is not typical for that site, so that meant it was a little darker than usual. As we were nearing our exit point, I was thinking that it was pretty disapointing to not have seen the Manta's on that day, when I got the distinct impression that I was communicating with something in my head. It felt playful and over the course of 5 minutes as we were heading back, I got 'impulses' of impressions from this 'thought form'. It's quite hard to describe this stuff as it was quite subtle, yet distinct too. Almost like you weren't sure if it was just your mind being all creative, or a genuine experience.
I then remember feeling very clearly, that something was behind me. I turned around and out of the dark water, came SEVEN Manta Rays, who started to swim around our group in an ascending circle.
I was genuinely amazed in the true sense of the word, though the subtle 'communication' with them before they appeared, if that is what truly was going on, didn't come until later after I was out the water, as realised what was going on.
They swam around us in this amazing ascending circle and we were literally hovering there neutrally buoyant in sheer amazement. Then they split off and decided to play a game of chicken with us! One would swim at you until he/she broke off at the last minute and played with the other Manta's. They were apparently very aware of their positioning and our body space as they never brushed us or bumped into us. Finally they left us to be, and we ascended to the surface and to the waiting dive boat, where we couldn't get the words out fast enough to the others on the surface
I'll never forget that dive.