How Not To Cage Dive

Shortly after I posted the blog about cage diving I came across this video that I just had to post.

DiscoveryNetworks YouTube channel offers up a short preview clip of the upcoming show "Jaws Comes Home," which features footage of several blue sharks (Prionace glauca) and one 18' female white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) feeding on the carcass of a whale.

Researcher Greg Skomal and cameraman Nick Caloyianis take a risky opportunity to film the encounter from with a cage.  This particular cage set-up is supported by buoys to keep the cage from sinking to the bottom of the ocean.  The underwater filming starts with the great white feeding on the carcass of the whale, but then it quickly changes its interest to the orange buoys (which the narrator dramatically describes as "attacking," which in my opinion is a little extreme, more like curiosity), however,  this curiosity of the shark cased it to become trapped between the surface and the top of the cage.

Hopefully, in the future this particular cage will be redesign to better protect not only the humans inside but also the sharks.