RockPile
Contributor
It was “Survival Weekend” on the Discovery channel this weekend. Most of it was wilderness related but there were two back-to-back shows that at least touched on surviving shark attacks.
The first had an expert (that one relatively notorious shark diver with the monster chops, he’s been in a few documentaries, I think) claiming that striking the shark in the nose or eye was very advisable. He didn’t really explain why the nose was a good spot but said that sharks are very sensitive about their eyes because they can’t hunt at all with only one and will cut their loses if one is threatened.
The next show had an expert saying that hitting the nose is very inadvisable as it could make the shark more angry and aggressive. I’d never heard this before. The nose thing has been taught for as long as I can remember.
Well, local experts, which is it? Hitting the nose, not hitting the nose? A headlock and gill noogie?
JB
The first had an expert (that one relatively notorious shark diver with the monster chops, he’s been in a few documentaries, I think) claiming that striking the shark in the nose or eye was very advisable. He didn’t really explain why the nose was a good spot but said that sharks are very sensitive about their eyes because they can’t hunt at all with only one and will cut their loses if one is threatened.
The next show had an expert saying that hitting the nose is very inadvisable as it could make the shark more angry and aggressive. I’d never heard this before. The nose thing has been taught for as long as I can remember.
Well, local experts, which is it? Hitting the nose, not hitting the nose? A headlock and gill noogie?
JB