Baja Bernie
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Ken Bondy and other divers
Take a look at this fool..................http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/xjbfz_nage-avec-le-grand-blanc
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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jerry
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they seem to have a lot of guts and are not afraid to see them??
jerry and judi
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Sallysouth
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Good Grief! I can imagine playing with my neighbors' dogs but playing with TWO Great Whites!! How could they have been sure they wouldn't start
chomping on them at any moment? When the photographer got the shot of the whole inside of the sharks' mouth , what happened next!? What the heck, did
they give those sharks a bunch of Valium or what??? Amazing video Bernie!!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Paulina
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Darren and I just met with Ken and his dive buddy Gary this morning for coffee in Morro Bay. I don't think that these are the kind of underwater
beauties that they were planning on photographing off the North T pier!
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\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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marv sherrill
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Probably a bang stick - shotgun shell that goes off on impact - might stop a great white- or maybe not....
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Wiles
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The way the sharks came up the 'scent or chum trail' to the diver and then quickly turn away suggests to me the device held by the divers is some type
of repellent either chemical, sonic, or electrical.
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Skipjack Joe
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They're so cute. And what friendly smiles.
Mike Nelson would have liked this show.
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Crusoe
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Coming up to the scent trail.....Ok then...... Why do the sharks allow the diver to physicaly touch them and hold their tails and fins and swim with
the divers?There is something really unnatural here in shark behavior.......Once when I was diving off Kandavu Island in Figi in 1982 with my old man
Figian friend Estino, he told me that as a young man they were all taught to show absolutely no fear when sharks appeared ,and if ever confronted you
attack them and they will leave. The shark senses through some animate (he claimed electrical nerve impulse signal) that you were in no way afraid of
them. There must be something to it because he was in his early 70s and had been free diving for his entire life for food to eat each day and had
many great shark stories. Mostly about agressive Tiger sharks, but some about Great Whites as well.That is an increddible video.Those Frenchman are
truly nutso! And very lucky to still be alive to tell and photograph the tale!!
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