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Shark Free Divers and Influencers - The Women Who Boop Sharks on the Nose
I feel like I say this a lot, but absolutely 100% of the benefits of touching animals and effectively 0% risk of being eaten by them are available by purchasing an infant golden retriever.
I feel like I say this a lot, but absolutely 100% of the benefits of touching animals and effectively 0% risk of being eaten by them are available by purchasing an infant golden retriever.
I don't get it either. I get liking sharks, being in awe of sharks, etc. but why the need to touch them? It's not like they're cute and fluffy like a cat or a dog. In fact, sharks seem objectively unpleasant to touch due to the little spikes on their skin (just looked it up and they're called dermal denticles).
Ocean Ramsey and Kayleigh Nicole Grant actually do have dogs (not sure about Andriana Marine), but it would be almost impossible to make an influencer career out of petting dogs. Millions of people pet dogs every day. These three make their living off the shock value of doing something that most people are smart enough not to do. And because they have X amount of years' experience doing it without a bite, they are emboldened to keep going, overly reliant on their own abilities... as though that is the only factor in any interaction with a wild animal.
Ocean Ramsey has posted a flurry of videos about diving with great whites over the past week. This is kind of surprising to me, because while making the OP I didn’t come across much footage of any of these ladies diving with great whites.
There is of course Ocean Ramsey’s famous 2019 swim with a great white that was picked up by mainstream media. Kayleigh Nicole Grant was also on that dive, and has a video recounting that experience on her channel. I am including it before I get into Ocean’s recent great white videos, both for Kayleigh’s narrative about the experience (she seems more down to Earth than Ocean and provides interesting detail), as well as her warning against diving with great whites.
Jan. 28, 2024 "Swimming with a great white out of the cage"
TLDW: The 2019 dive was a very unique situation because the great white had just engorged itself on a whale carcass. The shark was essentially in a food coma and moving very slowly. Towards the end of the video, Kayleigh Nicole Grant says, “In fact, there is no tour operator in the world that is going to take you outside of the cage with a great white because of their size and capabilities.”
Keep that last quote in mind, because in one of Ocean’s recent great white videos, she clearly has guests in the water with her.
In the video below, Ocean Ramsey actually redirects the great white. There are what look like tourists in the background, so I am assuming that this is on one of their One Ocean Diving tours.
Oct. 21, 2024 "WHAT TO DO IF YOU ENCOUNTER A WHITE SHARK !!"
I think this thread would've been better as a "People Playing with Dangerous Animals" thread. This shark stuff is too specific to provide much interesting content.
I think this thread would've been better as a "People Playing with Dangerous Animals" thread. This shark stuff is too specific to provide much interesting content.
I get your point. The three women featured take the same risks over and over, and no matter how close they come to disaster, they luck out of serious injury or death. It’s kind of crazy how repetitive watching a diver come face-to-face with tiger shark jaws can become when the subjects of this thread do it so often. Their content will only “escalate” into something truly horrifying when something happens to one of them (which I’m honestly not rooting for, but I just don’t see how three people frequently taking dumb risks with large apex predators all escape unscathed forever). So when something eventually happens to one of these women, just remember that you heard it here first.
Ocean Ramsey has taken to diving (and dancing) with stingrays. I can believe that they are fairly docile, but it still seems pretty risky to me considering the number and how close she is in proximity to all of them. She’s just one wrong move away from being Steve Irwin’ed.
Pretty run of the mill Ocean Ramsey shark video below, but including due to the sheer number of sharks. I’m not sure how you can make eye contact and front like you’re a predator (advice that always seemed laughable to me) with that many sharks circling you.
Kayleigh Nicole Grant recently posted some “wild and intense” few moments of a dive with 9 tiger sharks, complete with a leapfrog over a tiger shark near the end of the first video.
You can see them upping the ante when they play around with great whites. Completely delusional to think that you can have any control over a shark that massive when you're in the water with it.
You can see them upping the ante when they play around with great whites. Completely delusional to think that you can have any control over a shark that massive when you're in the water with it.
Even the other two are smart enough not to dive out of the cage with Great Whites, so I was surprised to see that it looks like Ocean has started to do so regularly. What does she get out of it? Is it a clout thing? I really don't know. Now that she's done it, I wonder if Kayleigh Nicole Grant and Andriana Marine will follow her example, since everything else they do is clearly inspired by Ocean. And if so, that might speed up the countdown to disaster.
Oh man I'm glad to see there's a thread on this type of idiot. Frustrating because they're fish experts and I'm just a guy that goes fishing and had an aquarium, but whenever I see them pushing a shark away and acting like they're in charge, I see a crayfish waving its claws at a large bass:
If he's actually hungry, you're toast.
EDIT: I assume most people have seen this video but for those who haven't...
Oh man I'm glad to see there's a thread on this type of idiot. Frustrating because they're fish experts and I'm just a guy that goes fishing and had an aquarium, but whenever I see them pushing a shark away and acting like they're in charge, I see a crayfish waving its claws at a large bass:
The algorithm fed me this video the other day of a tiger shark speeding towards the shore after a sea turtle. It really gives you a good idea of how fast these things can move when they are hunting. We really are at their mercy when we enter the water.
There's an apocryphal idea of punching a shark in the nose to stop an attack or drive it away which I believe is actually not as effective as people say, but they're still highly sensitive there as its one of their primary sense organs so it has a lot of nerve endings. I would've thought touching a sensitive area like that at all would provoke a negative response, but I guess these ladies are all still alive so they can't get too annoyed about it. Still playing with fire though, it's like going up to a lion and trying to pat its mane.
In the video below, Ocean Ramsey actually redirects the great white. There are what look like tourists in the background, so I am assuming that this is on one of their One Ocean Diving tours.
This video has been haunting me since I first saw it and I have so many questions. Did these people know there was a great white in the water? (doesn’t seem like it) If not why didn‘t she tell the people with bright fins not to enter the water when she saw the shark? Why would she allow clients to bring bright fins on a shark dive if sharks are attracted to them?? Really interesting thread FWIW, even with how niche it is.
As others have mentioned they give grizzly man vibes. That’s part of their appeal. Overall it’s not a good practice but I can see why they have wide appeal with men and women.
There is of course Ocean Ramsey’s famous 2019 swim with a great white that was picked up by mainstream media. Kayleigh Nicole Grant was also on that dive, and has a video recounting that experience on her channel. I am including it before I get into Ocean’s recent great white videos, both for Kayleigh’s narrative about the experience (she seems more down to Earth than Ocean and provides interesting detail), as well as her warning against diving with great whites.
I’ve seen a few videos of people getting eaten by great whites, what Kayleig and her team did was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. It’s only a matter of time they or someone like them messes up and someone dies.
I did a cage dive on the north shore a year or so before covid, and it was magical. It was as much fun as skydiving. I love the deep blue color of the ocean there, and seeing all of the sharks was intense. You couldn't pay me to do what they're doing in these shots though. Makes me want to take some extra time off and go do it again though.
When I started writing this thread, I was originally going to make it about shark divers in general doing stupid things, some of which included men. But the more I worked on the post, the more the scope narrowed down to these three because they best fulfilled the criteria that made it fun to write: frequent and high-quality shark free diving footage combined with cringy influencer behavior.
For example, there was another woman on my original list of YouTube/Instagram accounts, but the more I looked into her, she was just a marine biologist who sometimes free dove with sharks, and her content did not revolve around that. Another who didn’t make the cut was a Florida manTM who did a lot of diving (albeit in scuba gear) with sharks, going so far as to even feed the sharks while diving, but then I realized that even though he had a lot of followers and exhibited some influencer behavior, he hadn’t posted in two years (just out of curiosity, I checked the local obituaries to see if he had succumbed to his hobby, but couldn’t find anything). There were a couple of other cases like Florida man's, so it seems like some people actually have the good sense to quit while they’re ahead.
Thankfully for us, that is not the case with these three, who show no sign of stopping.
Andriana Marine
I have never seen this “technique”, so what I think is going on here is that the shark came at her with more force that she expected and she had to adjust.
Nothing too crazy in this one, but I thought it was worth including because towards the end she says that that the sharks are leaving her alone because they respect her as “equal apex predator"... which I thought nicely encapsulates the delusion of this phenomenon.
Great thread, OP. Tim Tradwell taught these people nothing, apex predators are not UwU misunderstood softies and they are not your friends. Werner Herzog put it best in his documentary on Grizzly man when he said nature isn't harmonious and there's no magical secret world of bears, the same thing applies to sharks.
I want to see one of these dumb bitches tangle with an oceanic white tip. They are by far actually the deadliest sharks of all time, it's just that they primarily eat ship wreck victims and have been greatly diminished by long-lineing.
I expect they would happily engage it and loose atleast an arm.
Do you really want to give this advice to mentally unstable white women who clearly have no problem with abusing animals?
At least with a shark, there is a chance it will take a bite out of them, and nothing of value will be lost.
