Being decapitated by a great white sounds completely fucking insane

"It could have been a boating accident."-Amity Island Medical Examiner

At least it wasn't a shark with a fricken laser beam attached to it's head...

Stated odds for specific events is soooooo stupid. Your behavior changes your odds of specific events happening to you significantly. For instance, getting struck by lightning is seen as rare so your odds are very low it will ever happen to you but if you make a habit of standing outside in thunderstorms, your odds of getting hit change dramatically.

I live in the “Shark Attack Capital of the World” and most attacks are from blacktip, tiger, and bull sharks. Add on we have a pond in our backyard with alligators in it and people still want to swim here. I’ve seen an 8-10 foot gator sunbathing in our backyard!

Not going to say it would matter to a shark, but having "eyes" on the back of your head to deter ambush predator strikes is absolutely a real thing. Zookeepers that keep big cats have found that their animals would almost always wait until a person is facing the opposite direction for a significant amount of time, and then they would go for the pounce. Wear a pair of glasses with "eyes" painted on them on the back of your head, and the animals have a much harder time figuring out if the person is truly facing away from them or not.

This is why there are a lot of species of animal that have evolved to have large black and white circles on their backs.

So the takeaway is that I am safe with sharks because I am not Manuel ...

100% believe that goggles on the back of your head could deter an attack. I was almost GW food, summer of 91' Morro Bay Ca. I was only 14. Swam out passed the breakers, realized The swim back was far and didnt want to tire out so I started back. Few minutes in I got tired so I lay face down in the ocean, in a jesus pose I guess. For some reason I decided to open my eyes and there it was. I was in deep water. It was 100% a GW.  It was easily 3.5 meters. after my life flashed before my eyes and the reality of my death was certain to me, I decided to just start slowly swimming toward shore BUT I never took my eyes off of it unless it descended out of sight into the the jade abyss and then reappear again...I never took my eyes off of it. closest it came to me was from directly below and approx. 5 or 6 feet from me. not a rocket launch approach like nose aimed at me but pacing me.  Ive mentioned this in the comments of the Morro Bay shark attack in 2020/2021? on xmas day and locals responded that keeping my sight trained on it at all times is very likely what tipped the chances or expiring that day. Scariest thing in my 50 years on earth. Grew up surfing and being in the ocean. Ive never...gone back into it since that day.

You can never take into account all those that just go missing while diving for food in the countless islands in the pacific that are just not reported because there is little to no development there. So there likely far more each year than people want to admit.

Getting decapitated by a shark has the same odds as getting hit by lightening the same day you win the lottery. Sharks attacking divers happens when divers enter the food chain. I lost a whole stringer of fish to a big ass tigershark here in NC. I was spearfishing when it came by the first time, so i decided to head up, the second time it came by it was fast moving and coming up from underneath me. I tossed the stringer, shark took it. I lost the fish but kept my hand, fair trade.

Spielberg said one of his biggest regrets was making Jaws because of how many people started killing off sharks after the movie came out from fear.

What?!?!?!  Gus doesn’t have a PhD in sharks?!?!?! 🤯

You also have to take into account how few interactions the average has with sharks. This sounds like the pitbull argument

I have swam the gulf in every condition, each season, in Florida. Never had an issue. We cleaned my friend's parents boat, and I was bit on my leg by a Bull shark in a tiny intercostal area near an overpass. I know we made major mistakes, we were kids as well. Have since been obsessed with sharks, spent years digging up their fossils in rivers. They're amazing creatures.

This is why divers need orca friends.

10% of 5 is 0.5, which is a half. The other half is inside the shark.

If my name was Manuel, I wouldn't even get close to a swimming pool at this point.

Hey Gus, hey Woody!

Thanks for being out there — I really appreciate your content. It actually gave me the confidence to start open water diving, and it even sparked my curiosity about cave diving. Super inspiring stuff.

I also noticed not every new OW instructor seems to know your channel, which has led to some pretty interesting conversations on my side 😄 Kind of funny how different online learning and formal training perspectives can be.

Really grateful also for the intro to people like Edd Sorenson and Mike Young — learning about their mindset and experience has been super inspiring.

Thanks for helping make my early dives feel safe from the beginning!!

Thank God Manuel didn’t have enough time to suffer.
RIP Manuel 🙏🏼

Woody: "Let's find out why does Manuel no longer have a head!". OMG that was brutal! 🤣