Oh no! I'm never going to be able to fall asleep around you guy's! The dog is looking at me like i've lost my mind. Expect men in white jackets. "Hello? My human is looking at a small thing and is howling. I think she sprung a leak too!"
No, the Shark simply thought the driver had food and it wanted it, since fishermen in that area tend to feed them small fish and krill, they've come to associate divers with free food
The whale shark isn't attacking him. It only wants food from him because divers in that area often feed the sharks krill and fish. Hes like where's my food at and the diver is like I don't have any food get away from me!!!! lol XD
Butterflies do not attack dipshit. You are scaring yourself with fantasy stories inside your own head. Cant stand ppl that cry and be scared about actually nothing.
Samuel T. Steiner you would be surprised dude, this happened to me once with a whale shark, they are peaceful animals but it scares the shit out of you in the moment haha
Yoatzin Anaya I know I would be scared if some 20t snail was pushing me around. - Thats also why I stay in my natural habitat where there is air and no giant sardines.
I think he was just playing with the diver or the bubbles or maybe he saw a flock of plankton that we cannot see. the shark is very gentle and not aggressive at all
These are literally the gentlest fish in the sea. In-fact there is only one known location in the world where these gentle giants make a permanent presence, Cenderawasih Bay. The water is so deep there, the food so rich, and the water so calm that they can live there permanently among the fisherman who revere them as ancient ancestors and feed them heaves of fish. When whale sharks are being fed they also tend to bring in a lot of fish activity in the general vicinity and thus fisherman call them spirits of the ocean and are a sign of luck. Here's your fact of the day.
I have been noticing the more I watch these kinds of videos that sea creatures tend to be quite curious creatures, much like this whale shark. Always makes me smile so much every time. lol :)
the uploader / diver is very much in question here i agree. this is not normal behavior for a whale shark, it appears to be acting under provocation but the video doesnt show the first part of the interaction. Judging by the injury on its head which is visible at 1:26 i would say the diver may be responsible for its injury and the whale shark was acting out of duress.
@@MrSushicon What's your evidence for (1) Not normal behaviour for a whale shark (2) Animal was acting under provocation (3) The diver may be responsible for the shark's head injury, therefore animal was acting out of duress. I saw no such thing! As a diver for 50 years who's encountered whale sharks on several occasions I can verify that if there aren't a whole load of divers around then they'll engage with one or two divers as long as the diver doesn't go out of his way to harass them, which I saw no evidence of in that clip. Over 20 years ago I was one of only 2 guests plus a divemaster on a liveaboard transitting from the Sudan to Egypt in the Red Sea, diving to view hammerhead sharks, when a 30 foot whale shark headed over to us and interacted with us for over 20 minutes, swimming back & forth all on its own terms with no harassment from us. Five years ago from the dive skiff of a liveaboard in the Tubbataha Reefs, Sulu Sea, the Philippines, I lost a weight pouch back-rolling into the water, so abandoned the dive while the remainder carried on, leaving me to get back onboard the dive tender. After 15 minutes I spotted a shark fin at the surface 20 metres away, so putting on just mask & fins I quietly slipped into the water, GoPro in hand, snorkelling over to where I'd seen the 15 foot, juvenile shark. I stayed stock still as it approached and made a pass at me about 1 metre away, before it swam under the chase boat, circled round 360 degrees and headed straight for me again, this time making head on contact, before I lifted myself off its back, half way out of the water, laughing like a drain! So, in the right circumstances they can be inquisitive and I've got video footage to prove it which one day I'll put it on TH-cam to prove it!
I know you made this comment two years ago Andy I know that it is a joke - I laughed a lot, but a whale shark has over 4000 needle-like teeth used for filter feeding.
30 minute tank drained on 10 minutes; lots of deep draws on that encounter. Never a comfortable feeling when that much attention is being paid to you by such a big animal. Majestic creatures they are.
Even though this guy probably isn't in any real danger I would still be absolutely terrified if I were being chased underwater by an enormous sea creature lol
He's not attacking him! He's like "Um....excuse me..yes you with the suit on...please....you are in my way...I am in fact on a schedule that I would not like to miss I have dinner plans! Um...excuse me..sir or madame, I can never tell with your bloody race....please....just please move along...yes yes, I am aware of my weight, but I accept myself, as should you...now please just move slightly to your right I wish to move..."
Watched your video before we went to stay at Xcaret in Mexico. Wanted to do this anyway, but got a lot from your video thanks. You were right. It was just an amazing experience. Thank you.
Such beautiful graceful creatures. This guy was just curious about what these weird bipedal things were doing swimming around blowing all those bubbles lol
james alex It's actually a shark, it says on it's wiki and you can tell it's a shark from it's tail movement; a whale's tail moves up and down, while a shark's tail moves side to side. This is just called the whale shark because it's the size of a whale. So next time you try to point out a fact, LOOK IT UP FIRST!
Whale sharks are gentle creatures. The whale shark was not trying to attack the diver he was clearly playing with him. As you can see in the video the diver was swimming away from her and she kept following there was intention there for her to hurt the diver. In actual fact it was wrong of the diver to get in the water anyway because the female whale shark had her live young swimming underneath her. So this could also been her way of telling the diver to back away from her babies.
My brother just came back from the Philippines, he was swimming with Whale Sharks. He said it was one of the best things he's done . Thanks for uploading this video, I enjoyed it.
You're extremely lucky to have been that close to such a beautiful animal, that would be an experience I'd never forget, that is definitely one of my dreams.
That looks like a juvenile. A curious, slightly bossy younger shark. Good thing they're such a sweet species. It's probably best he wasn't even bigger than that, because a large adult's massive strong mouth trying to gently explore a diver like that could cause accidental damage to his tank or hoses.
I've seen this video and done a bit of research. Apparently whale sharks in this area are used to tourists diving and feeding them, so this one was probably looking for a snack. In any case, whale sharks aren't very threatening to humans. Not only are they filter feeders and very docile, but their throats are only the size of a grapefruit.
+Aspie Otaku Tough call because it was persistent and it's common to see many people take rides on these magnificent creatures and maybe it got to a point where it had enough and because it's such a docile animal, that was the only way for it to show its dissatisfaction with humans coming so close to it and "harassing" it all the time? Who knows, but luckily thank goodness it doesn't have any sharp teeth in that gaping mouth! Yikes! lol
Perhaps territorial in the sense of a "pack". That would be the only instance I would consider any form of territoriality to be a remote possibility in the sense that the pack of whale sharks was intruded by an outside species (in this case a human) but even that is not proven, just a theory. But as far as territoriality with sharks, I agree with Mike that concept does not exist with sharks in the vast ocean and seas. Only hierarchy has been studied and found to be true in the sense that the BIGGEST shark takes precedence over any area or activity. You've seen plenty of videos where there would be many sharks feeding from chum and bait off a boat and all of a sudden they all disappear......because a few seconds later a MUCH bigger shark shows up to the same area. That's hierarchy and not territoriality.
+GoMiGman Nah, that whale shark wasn't attacking or being offensive, big aquatic animals like whales and the whale shark move A LOT faster when they are attacking (just because they are big and docile it doesn't mean they cannot move really fast when they intend to attack). That animal looked more like one huge aquatic dog playing with the diver (you know, when dogs play by softly biting their owners). It certainly showed some interest in the flippers and the bubbles.
123leyang321 Sorry, agree to disagree. It looked like it was angry at their persistence an anger at too much getting close that without real big teeth, it let him know that it was persistent that it had enough. I don't believe speed had any factor in this I was with one way back in 1984 in the Red Sea while Israel was withdrawing and pillaging whatever if could because if was unhappy it couldn't steal that land and that incredible sea life that come with it. My swim lasted about 13 minutes and I was booted off by a viscous body movement and I was freaked out as if took me a good 15 minutes to swim back to the charter we had and was super afraid of white tips lol. But it was great and a long time ago I was a teenager now I'm close to 50. These animals do get aggravated believe me and there are A LOT of people who come close to them and irritate them. So how else can they show heir frustration?
whale sharks eat everything by opening there mouth and sucking water in creating a vacuum once it does it closes it mouth removing the water from its body and eating the rest.They are quite blind so it makes sense
Xi It wasn't attacking him. It was likely playing in the bubbles that he was exhaling, they like that. They eat plankton, that's obvious. Their 3,000 tiny teeth are of little use.
This whale shark has clearly been injured, you can see a laceration on its head at 00:26 and again clearly at 01:26 with blood coming out. Did the diver or their boat injure the whale shark? The uploader / diver is very much in question.
I swam with whale sharks on the island of Cebu. They are completely harmless but are extremely attracted to bubbles as you can see in exhibit A. While I was scuba diving beside them, the natives told us not to blow bubbles unless we wanted their attention.
Glenn Sagaert MrBootydaddy Lee Thé Lee's right. Whale Sharks, while their mouths can be around five feet wide, have very small throats and it'd be impossible for one to actually swallow a human (or anything much larger than something like a golfball).
I don't think it's attacking the diver, but many people are saying that it's attracted to the bubbles. I think it's trying to keep the diver away from the children that you saw under the shark in the beginning.
These interesting fish are ramoras: large, gray, parasitic fish usually found stuck to the sides of sharks, manta rays, and other large species. Remoras are not dangerous to their hosts. They simply attach to the larger animal and hitch a ride. While attached to a host, remoras snack on scraps of meals and waste matter from the larger creature. In some cases, remoras will clean bacteria and small parasites from the host. Unattached remoras can make themselves obnoxious to divers. Perhaps not the brightest of creatures, remoras seem to attach to anything large and moving. Divers fit into this category. Remoras have been known to attach to a diver's tank or body. As long as the diver is covered by a wetsuit, the remora does no harm. Most encounters with free-swimming remoras are comical, as they mistakenly attempt to suck onto a diver's tank and limbs. However, a remora that attaches directly to a diver's skin may scrape him.
Le Trebuchet The relationship between sharks and remoras is symbiotic, since the remora gets to hitch a ride on the shark, while the shark gets cleaned by the remora. If it were a parasite, the shark would either gain no benefit, or it would be detrimental to the shark's well-being.
Lee H. A parasite is "any animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant and gets food or protection from it." (Merriam-Webster) This need not be detrimental to its host; and, indeed, in the case of the remora, is of benefit to both. However, it is not the remora's intention to be of benefit to its host; its purpose is purely parasitic..
These animals are one of the largest filter feeders in the ocean. This is a prime example of why they say to snorkel with whale sharks and not scuba dive. They find their plankton prey through a variety of cues and one of them is the vibrations from tiny organisms. The divers bubbles are mimicking tiny organisms and the juvenile (based on its size) is just interested in finding its meal. The diver is in no trouble at all because the whale shark could now swallow much less get the diver in its mouth in order to harm him. I feel bad for the whale shark because he is being teased with a fake food source and wasting its time on the diver instead of getting the meal that it traveled so long for!
The whale is getting food anyway, how could you even say such stupid bullshit? Stop thinking of animals as if they were fucking humans, they don't care if a diver is swimming close to them, plus that doesn't affect their lives in any way
+Cas boom Don't forget they're much stronger than you though. I actually don't think you're supposed to be swimming that close to them, or (god I'm being so general, sorry) people would prefer you don't. Idk, I have to re-read up on that :P
This is real but the whale shark wasn’t attacking the diver. people lived there used to feed the whale shark but when the diver came the whale shark was like “hey where is my free food?” And begging him to give him free food
Whale shark: "Hey, didn't I see you at that all-you-can-eat-buffet under the fishing boat last month? The one with the huge nets." Diver thinks to himself: "Ummm, no. That was someone else." Whale shark: "Thank-you for letting us out of the nets." Diver: "Okay. Just let me get out of your way." Whale Shark: "Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you. Nice bubbles!"
I would say the whale shark was interested in the Diver and tried to play with him. although for the diver it first looked like attacking.. whale sharks don't have sharp enough theet to rip a human apart thought..
So the video is called "Whale Shark Attacks Diver" yet at the end of the video you explain it was only playing? Obviously trawling for youtube hits (pun intended). But yeah being followed around by a toothless gentle giant looks so dangerous, they barely escaped that vicious attack.
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Awww, that was the most adorable shark attack I've ever seen.
Dan the Man XD
Well whale sharks aren’t even supposed to attack
How many have you seen?
I’m scared from a small fish, even if the whale shark was playing I would’ve probably fainted.
See a basking shark
I was chased by a sloth once.
18 hours of my life I'll never get back.
you are hilARious
@Milbrandt. Stay cool, man. It only wanted to mate with you !
Milbrandt hahahahaha!
What a fucking lad
Oh no! I'm never going to be able to fall asleep around you guy's! The dog is looking at me like i've lost my mind. Expect men in white jackets. "Hello? My human is looking at a small thing and is howling. I think she sprung a leak too!"
"I bet you don't have the guts to touch a human!" - "Really? Look at me!"
"Mooove bitch! Get out the way! Get out the way bitch get out the way!!" - Whale Shark
weenermeat
Haha!
No it's more like "Feed me, feed me, feeeed meeee..." lol (because of the pieces of fish the diver is giving to the shark)
+weenermeat more like, swiggidy swoody Im commin for da boodah
Slowest attack in history.
Ha ha
+SiliconOnSapphire
lol
+SiliconOnSapphire Second only to the man that was chased down by a pack of wild tortoises.
This is not a real attack that's why it just a whale wanting some fish
right? lol it didn't seem very scary. it was actually annoying me how persistent it was regardless how slow it was going. lol
Whale shark: "BUBBLES!!!!!!!!!!"
Whale shark love bubbles.
THE CORN CREW really???
@@notreally5255 yes they can indicate schools of plankton which the sharks love to eat
bex0r ohhh I see! Thank you
@@notreally5255 in other videos you'll see them much on the bubbles, it's adorable! 😂
clickbait title.
The shark may have mistaken the air bubbles for phytoplankton.
No, the Shark simply thought the driver had food and it wanted it, since fishermen in that area tend to feed them small fish and krill, they've come to associate divers with free food
You both seem right thou...
@@seandewar47 always these DRIVERS and their food... Maybe it was The Transporter who gave him a package of shrimps 😂
@@IronWarrior95 yeah yeah, grammar error aside, what I said is still correct
Indeed
"Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Cthulhu?
shine2rust LOL
Bwahahaha
Meredith B lol, triggered.
Jesus is fake...sorry.
Don't feed the troll.
The Whale was like: OH MY SHARK, THERES SO MANY BUBBLES! Nom nom nom
The whale shark isn't attacking him. It only wants food from him because divers in that area often feed the sharks krill and fish.
Hes like where's my food at and the diver is like I don't have any food get away from me!!!! lol XD
I was just about to say that and it's true
your very smart. and how did you now that there was food around him?
Wow this comment is so old I'm checking out at 2020 lmao
that reply tho
Who's Bill?
I was attacked by butterfly once ,i am terrified till today.🤗
Butterflies do not attack dipshit. You are scaring yourself with fantasy stories inside your own head.
Cant stand ppl that cry and be scared about actually nothing.
Davida Majako whoooooshhhhhhhhh
(On mom’s account again)
r/woooosh
Davida Majako it’s called a joke
@@davidamajako961 Wow 😮🙄
Damn that was brutal!
Almost as brutal as when I got mauled by a snail!
Dude, don't joke around, my family was killed by a Kiwi bird once
NintenPLUSH lol
Samuel T. Steiner you would be surprised dude, this happened to me once with a whale shark, they are peaceful animals but it scares the shit out of you in the moment haha
Yoatzin Anaya I know I would be scared if some 20t snail was pushing me around. - Thats also why I stay in my natural habitat where there is air and no giant sardines.
Samuel T. Steiner touche sir
I love how one guy is "being attacked" and the other is just sat there filming XD
+Sarah Sherwood This is the 21st century
+Sarah Sherwood whats he going to do to a whale shark?? XD
+Wyatt Rude Ride it into battle?
+Sarah Sherwood : Somebody has to record the stupidity and horror :)
Chased him down to the depths of hell too lol
I think he was just playing with the diver or the bubbles or maybe he saw a flock of plankton that we cannot see. the shark is very gentle and not aggressive at all
These are literally the gentlest fish in the sea. In-fact there is only one known location in the world where these gentle giants make a permanent presence, Cenderawasih Bay. The water is so deep there, the food so rich, and the water so calm that they can live there permanently among the fisherman who revere them as ancient ancestors and feed them heaves of fish. When whale sharks are being fed they also tend to bring in a lot of fish activity in the general vicinity and thus fisherman call them spirits of the ocean and are a sign of luck. Here's your fact of the day.
I have been noticing the more I watch these kinds of videos that sea creatures tend to be quite curious creatures, much like this whale shark. Always makes me smile so much every time. lol :)
WHALE SHARK ATTACKS DIVER!!
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More like the whale sharks going " excuse me sir you are in my way "
Yeah.. More like; get the hell off, of my dinner table.
Sgt.James Doakes Nah man. The whale shark is clearly swimming towards the diver on purpose.
Ephraim Karavan and ur jealous because they don't pay attention to you... poor boy,,, have to stick to rosey
Ephraim Karavan Dude, whale sharks don't attack humans. They just push them out of the way and swallow plankton.
Sharkbaitgoldie I don't want no fucking gay people paying attention to me you piece of shit. They can go fuck themselves.
Whale sharks look like a huge loaf of bread
I know what you mean! I bought a loaf of bread yesterday and thought how much it looked like a whale shark!
Wow, Spino .. you must be seriously hungry if you think a Whale Shark looks like a loaf of bread!! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!
Lol
They have the brain of a loaf of bread, thats for sure
I will never recover from the snail attack that crippled me
It's not an attack, it looks like it's just very curious about the bubbles or might possibly think they are food. Quite beautiful animals.
I think its playing with the bubbles of the diver
Yes, this is explained at the end of the video.
the uploader / diver is very much in question here i agree. this is not normal behavior for a whale shark, it appears to be acting under provocation but the video doesnt show the first part of the interaction. Judging by the injury on its head which is visible at 1:26 i would say the diver may be responsible for its injury and the whale shark was acting out of duress.
@@MrSushicon What's your evidence for (1) Not normal behaviour for a whale shark (2) Animal was acting under provocation (3) The diver may be responsible for the shark's head injury, therefore animal was acting out of duress. I saw no such thing!
As a diver for 50 years who's encountered whale sharks on several occasions I can verify that if there aren't a whole load of divers around then they'll engage with one or two divers as long as the diver doesn't go out of his way to harass them, which I saw no evidence of in that clip.
Over 20 years ago I was one of only 2 guests plus a divemaster on a liveaboard transitting from the Sudan to Egypt in the Red Sea, diving to view hammerhead sharks, when a 30 foot whale shark headed over to us and interacted with us for over 20 minutes, swimming back & forth all on its own terms with no harassment from us.
Five years ago from the dive skiff of a liveaboard in the Tubbataha Reefs, Sulu Sea, the Philippines, I lost a weight pouch back-rolling into the water, so abandoned the dive while the remainder carried on, leaving me to get back onboard the dive tender. After 15 minutes I spotted a shark fin at the surface 20 metres away, so putting on just mask & fins I quietly slipped into the water, GoPro in hand, snorkelling over to where I'd seen the 15 foot, juvenile shark. I stayed stock still as it approached and made a pass at me about 1 metre away, before it swam under the chase boat, circled round 360 degrees and headed straight for me again, this time making head on contact, before I lifted myself off its back, half way out of the water, laughing like a drain!
So, in the right circumstances they can be inquisitive and I've got video footage to prove it which one day I'll put it on TH-cam to prove it!
Cool !!! Must be of concern for that diver with constant change in depths being up and down and back up without decompression .
From the makers of JAWS comes......GUMS!
Literally laughing out loud!
Shark!! Probably?
This broke the internet!
Creative af xD lol
I know you made this comment two years ago Andy I know that it is a joke - I laughed a lot, but a whale shark has over 4000 needle-like teeth used for filter feeding.
30 minute tank drained on 10 minutes; lots of deep draws on that encounter. Never a comfortable feeling when that much attention is being paid to you by such a big animal. Majestic creatures they are.
Even though this guy probably isn't in any real danger I would still be absolutely terrified if I were being chased underwater by an enormous sea creature lol
Whale sharks are the llamas of the marine world.
LOL
Haha Yes XD
xD
lol
OMFG YASSSS
He's not attacking him! He's like "Um....excuse me..yes you with the suit on...please....you are in my way...I am in fact on a schedule that I would not like to miss I have dinner plans! Um...excuse me..sir or madame, I can never tell with your bloody race....please....just please move along...yes yes, I am aware of my weight, but I accept myself, as should you...now please just move slightly to your right I wish to move..."
I love this " comment " . 🐋
What an amazing experience. They're gentle giants.❤
Imagine getting accused of assault when all you eat are plankton
Whale shark: WERE IS MY FOOD
scuba diver: go away I don't have food
whale shark:BUT I WANT FOOD
scuba diver:BUT I DON'T HAVE FOOD! XD
Diver: Here, play with some bubbles instead... they're fun!
Perhaps the shark is attracted to the bubbles which resemble small krill or plankton?
maybe is a kinda massage when you are under his body
Na he probably just got in his way
The real answer is that he excspects food from the diver there’s a video that debunks the title
That was awesome! Whale sharks are very special and beautiful creatures. I think this one wanted a kiss and a nose rub.
Watched your video before we went to stay at Xcaret in Mexico. Wanted to do this anyway, but got a lot from your video thanks. You were right. It was just an amazing experience. Thank you.
Such beautiful graceful creatures. This guy was just curious about what these weird bipedal things were doing swimming around blowing all those bubbles lol
Watch to the end, he was playing with the bubbles. :3
Does anyone else think this is cute
Jason Karr Its adorable.
or maybe he was sick of being filmed. Like the goddamn paparazzi
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😂😉😉😉😉👊
just play
Would someone comment me back once the "Shark attack " begins?
00:44
That's the most action I've ever seen outta one of those things. They usually just pass by like a freakin' bus. I woulda been scared to death!
Today on worlds slowest shark attacks.
james alex shark is a fish. so by saying its not a shark you are saying you are stupid. common knowledge sharks=fish whales=mammals
james alex It's actually a shark, it says on it's wiki and you can tell it's a shark from it's tail movement; a whale's tail moves up and down, while a shark's tail moves side to side. This is just called the whale shark because it's the size of a whale. So next time you try to point out a fact, LOOK IT UP FIRST!
LordMantis101 the whale shark is a fish like all other sharks.
LOL exactly. I was watching and thought "...wow, this is the slowest and most gentle "attack" I've ever seen..."
Shark: DUDE, GET OUT OF THE WAY, YOU'RE SCARING MY FOOD!
Poor Whale shark, he just want to say "hi" 😶
Whale sharks are gentle creatures. The whale shark was not trying to attack the diver he was clearly playing with him. As you can see in the video the diver was swimming away from her and she kept following there was intention there for her to hurt the diver. In actual fact it was wrong of the diver to get in the water anyway because the female whale shark had her live young swimming underneath her. So this could also been her way of telling the diver to back away from her babies.
My brother just came back from the Philippines, he was swimming with Whale Sharks. He said it was one of the best things he's done . Thanks for uploading this video, I enjoyed it.
Wow what an intense attack! Almost as intense as the time tree attacked me by dropping a leaf on me. Scary stuff.
xxSvenxx1 or like when the tree violently dropped an acorn near me! I nearly died!!
0:28 o.O KISS ME
🎤 Beneath the milky twilight 🤣
At least you admitted at the end that it was simply playing with them, instead of attacking them
You're extremely lucky to have been that close to such a beautiful animal, that would be an experience I'd never forget, that is definitely one of my dreams.
A real viscous attack, he barely escaped with his life
+Lukas Moczek Sarcasm, he was being sarcastic.
+Lukas Moczek
it can drag you down.
EXTREMELY SLOW MOTION, I WAS TERRIFIED, I WAS WAILING!
People, really it can't even swallow you it has a small throat!
If this were in syrup instead of water, it would be a viscous attack.
That looks like a juvenile. A curious, slightly bossy younger shark. Good thing they're such a sweet species. It's probably best he wasn't even bigger than that, because a large adult's massive strong mouth trying to gently explore a diver like that could cause accidental damage to his tank or hoses.
I've seen this video and done a bit of research. Apparently whale sharks in this area are used to tourists diving and feeding them, so this one was probably looking for a snack.
In any case, whale sharks aren't very threatening to humans. Not only are they filter feeders and very docile, but their throats are only the size of a grapefruit.
It wasnt attacking you it was just being curious it may have wanted to be your friend!
***** its still harmless to people and maybe wants to be the divers friend! Whale sharks are kind and not aggressive same with basking sharks!
+Aspie Otaku Tough call because it was persistent and it's common to see many people take rides on these magnificent creatures and maybe it got to a point where it had enough and because it's such a docile animal, that was the only way for it to show its dissatisfaction with humans coming so close to it and "harassing" it all the time? Who knows, but luckily thank goodness it doesn't have any sharp teeth in that gaping mouth! Yikes! lol
Perhaps territorial in the sense of a "pack". That would be the only instance I would consider any form of territoriality to be a remote possibility in the sense that the pack of whale sharks was intruded by an outside species (in this case a human) but even that is not proven, just a theory. But as far as territoriality with sharks, I agree with Mike that concept does not exist with sharks in the vast ocean and seas. Only hierarchy has been studied and found to be true in the sense that the BIGGEST shark takes precedence over any area or activity. You've seen plenty of videos where there would be many sharks feeding from chum and bait off a boat and all of a sudden they all disappear......because a few seconds later a MUCH bigger shark shows up to the same area. That's hierarchy and not territoriality.
+GoMiGman
Nah, that whale shark wasn't attacking or being offensive, big aquatic animals like whales and the whale shark move A LOT faster when they are attacking (just because they are big and docile it doesn't mean they cannot move really fast when they intend to attack).
That animal looked more like one huge aquatic dog playing with the diver (you know, when dogs play by softly biting their owners). It certainly showed some interest in the flippers and the bubbles.
123leyang321 Sorry, agree to disagree. It looked like it was angry at their persistence an anger at too much getting close that without real big teeth, it let him know that it was persistent that it had enough. I don't believe speed had any factor in this I was with one way back in 1984 in the Red Sea while Israel was withdrawing and pillaging whatever if could because if was unhappy it couldn't steal that land and that incredible sea life that come with it. My swim lasted about 13 minutes and I was booted off by a viscous body movement and I was freaked out as if took me a good 15 minutes to swim back to the charter we had and was super afraid of white tips lol. But it was great and a long time ago I was a teenager now I'm close to 50. These animals do get aggravated believe me and there are A LOT of people who come close to them and irritate them. So how else can they show heir frustration?
How was the whale shark attacking the diver? Whale sharks are toothless. They don't attack humans.
actually they have around 3,000 teeth. They are very tiny tho
whale sharks eat everything by opening there mouth and sucking water in creating a vacuum once it does it closes it mouth removing the water from its body and eating the rest.They are quite blind so it makes sense
It was just Curious about the diver
African Vulture it was sucking the life out of him
Xi It wasn't attacking him. It was likely playing in the bubbles that he was exhaling, they like that. They eat plankton, that's obvious. Their 3,000 tiny teeth are of little use.
Whale shark: wheres my food?
Diver: i dont have any
Whale sharks adorably reminding us that they’re still sharks
They are actually friendly and very curious animals.
Diver annoys the shit out of whale shark.
well you wanted a close up good look..... there ya go!
lol didn't want it to be this terrifying
He protecc
He atacc
But most importantly
He wants the diver to succ
Whale Shark: "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'mmmmmmm goooooooooonnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaa geeeeeeeeeetchaaaaaaaaa IIIIIIIIII'mmmmmm goooooonnnnnnnaaaaaa--- DAMMIT, HUMAN STAY STILL!
This whale shark has clearly been injured, you can see a laceration on its head at 00:26 and again clearly at 01:26 with blood coming out. Did the diver or their boat injure the whale shark? The uploader / diver is very much in question.
Fuck off you stupid animalist, stop being such a smartass
I want to feed you to a shark.
Looks like a fresh wound.
Good eye, even if you are a "stupid animalist".
Gore Blaster but it's a whale shark, it would be like to feed someone to a big snail
"My apologies, sir. I thought you were a large krill."
I swam with whale sharks on the island of Cebu. They are completely harmless but are extremely attracted to bubbles as you can see in exhibit A. While I was scuba diving beside them, the natives told us not to blow bubbles unless we wanted their attention.
I meant I was *snorkeling (hence no bubbles)
"get in ma belly!"
+Hugh Jass My thoughts exactly!
pmmos referance
They eat krill.
Now they eat krill and humans.
nothing else.
*"get in my belly... Plankton"*
diver: you suck I can 360 no skope u
whale: u wot m8?
I like how you referred to xXx360NoScopeFishxX as a whale, because they are fish
***** :)
The diver, who popularized VERY large bowls of shark fin soup, was never heard from again...
0:26 "Hey, you."
"HIIII human! why are you swimming away? give me kisses"
Whale sharks are like giant pups, it was only playing and had no intention of hurting the diver. If it wanted to do some damage... IT COULD!
This whale shark did not attack a diver it was merely curious. I'm speaking as a national geographic researcher here.
Whale sharks don't attack, they're just attractive to bubbles.
This will haunt me forever if I were those divers
I feel ya at least push that shit away from you lol
Hell yeah me too if I was one of those divers. Those Whale Sharks can swallow a man whole.
MrBootydaddy
No it can't. Look it up.
No teeth either BTW. Plankton feeder 100%.
Lee Thé
that mouth looks big enough to fit a grown man
Glenn Sagaert MrBootydaddy Lee Thé Lee's right. Whale Sharks, while their mouths can be around five feet wide, have very small throats and it'd be impossible for one to actually swallow a human (or anything much larger than something like a golfball).
oh my god a whale shark was kissing him
thats brutal dude
"... aaaand cut! Ok guys, next documentary: ants".
Oh my God that was the most brutal attack I've ever seen!
Whale sharks are very gentle giants. Never heard of them attacking a human. This one was curious and they are known to play with divers.
What reason would a filter feeder have to attack a man? Yeah, didn't think so.
the shark says: FEEEEED MEEEE!!! IM HUNGRY!!! :D
+Nicolas Wobst Whale shark eat only plancton.
Andree An i know that but in some places humans feed whale sharks thats what i meant
Not just plancton but small fish aswell
+Nicolas Wobst Watch Bills channel it'll tell you everything.
As a driver I say wow what an experience, but the WS could have easily grabbed the divers foot and dragged him/her into very deep and unsafe depths.
*Gets near babys*
Shark: *defends*
Diver: *surprised pikacho*
I don't think it's attacking the diver, but many people are saying that it's attracted to the bubbles.
I think it's trying to keep the diver away from the children that you saw under the shark in the beginning.
The fish that you saw on the underside of the shark are not "baby" whale sharks but rather fish that will clean other fish.
Matt Swinden What a pro identifier i am right? Hehe. Thanks for telling me.
These interesting fish are ramoras: large, gray, parasitic fish usually found stuck to the sides of sharks, manta rays, and other large species. Remoras are not dangerous to their hosts. They simply attach to the larger animal and hitch a ride. While attached to a host, remoras snack on scraps of meals and waste matter from the larger creature. In some cases, remoras will clean bacteria and small parasites from the host.
Unattached remoras can make themselves obnoxious to divers. Perhaps not the brightest of creatures, remoras seem to attach to anything large and moving. Divers fit into this category. Remoras have been known to attach to a diver's tank or body. As long as the diver is covered by a wetsuit, the remora does no harm. Most encounters with free-swimming remoras are comical, as they mistakenly attempt to suck onto a diver's tank and limbs. However, a remora that attaches directly to a diver's skin may scrape him.
Le Trebuchet
The relationship between sharks and remoras is symbiotic, since the remora gets to hitch a ride on the shark, while the shark gets cleaned by the remora. If it were a parasite, the shark would either gain no benefit, or it would be detrimental to the shark's well-being.
Lee H. A parasite is "any animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant and gets food or protection from it." (Merriam-Webster) This need not be detrimental to its host; and, indeed, in the case of the remora, is of benefit to both. However, it is not the remora's intention to be of benefit to its host; its purpose is purely parasitic..
These animals are one of the largest filter feeders in the ocean. This is a prime example of why they say to snorkel with whale sharks and not scuba dive. They find their plankton prey through a variety of cues and one of them is the vibrations from tiny organisms. The divers bubbles are mimicking tiny organisms and the juvenile (based on its size) is just interested in finding its meal. The diver is in no trouble at all because the whale shark could now swallow much less get the diver in its mouth in order to harm him. I feel bad for the whale shark because he is being teased with a fake food source and wasting its time on the diver instead of getting the meal that it traveled so long for!
Whale sharks are half the size of a Blue whale,and Blue whale can choke on a loaf of bread.
The whale is getting food anyway, how could you even say such stupid bullshit? Stop thinking of animals as if they were fucking humans, they don't care if a diver is swimming close to them, plus that doesn't affect their lives in any way
Fradmin90 your a fucking idiot
Paige Simonis sadly the tourist have been feeding it not annoying i got the awnserd from a whale shark proffeser
Seeing as the the only thing that any whale shark has ever attack is plankton I figured this would fun to watch.
oh my god this is the cutest animal i have ever seen
The shark is interested in the bubbles the man made, not the man himself.
No the whale shark is getting fed
Actually, the whale sharks in this area are used to being feed food, so this whale shark was at the diver asking "hey, where's meh food?". True story
To me it looks like the whale shark is curious not angry.
Naaaaaw i gues he just wanted to play or get the diver of his back but the dont attack
He was following the diver like "how do you like it?!" lol
Mr. Kraft you're right
I thin hè wants to paly
Mr. Kraft I think it’s a she
UM NO did u see he/she's mouth got close how is it trying to play
Whale, that's terrifying.
That man who dives with speedos tho
Whale Shark yawns at diver
If a whale shark ever got aggressive, its because you fking with him, and if he got aggressive, the effort would be zero to take you out.
He was npt agressive
i doubt whale sharks have any real ways to attack something, they don't have teeth, they're slow, etc.
+Cas boom Don't forget they're much stronger than you though. I actually don't think you're supposed to be swimming that close to them, or (god I'm being so general, sorry) people would prefer you don't. Idk, I have to re-read up on that :P
+Cas boom yeah they don't have teeth and they are friendly
Wow, thanks for providing so much information in your description box.
This is real but the whale shark wasn’t attacking the diver. people lived there used to feed the whale shark but when the diver came the whale shark was like “hey where is my free food?” And begging him to give him free food
Shark was like "hey...heyy do you have time for Jesus?"
Maybe it's having a midlife crisis and it thinks it's supposed to be a White shark. Or maybe it just wanted a french kiss.
Diver: Sir Stop Whale Shark: But You Are In My Way
Whale shark: "Hey, didn't I see you at that all-you-can-eat-buffet under the fishing boat last month? The one with the huge nets."
Diver thinks to himself: "Ummm, no. That was someone else."
Whale shark: "Thank-you for letting us out of the nets."
Diver: "Okay. Just let me get out of your way."
Whale Shark: "Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you. Nice bubbles!"
I would say the whale shark was interested in the Diver and tried to play with him. although for the diver it first looked like attacking.. whale sharks don't have sharp enough theet to rip a human apart thought..
RidgeBack Rivers They Don't eat Humans, they attack Fishes... A LOT OF FISHES
I know they don't eat humans XD otherwise idd say if he had bad luck he would get attacked ;)
Coelho Plays Multigames they're filter feeders :/ They don't eat fish. They feed on plankton
***** Like Sardine or Flying Fishes
Yeah probably wanted to play or communicate in some way that feels like it is eating the diver.
So the video is called "Whale Shark Attacks Diver" yet at the end of the video you explain it was only playing? Obviously trawling for youtube hits (pun intended). But yeah being followed around by a toothless gentle giant looks so dangerous, they barely escaped that vicious attack.
Can anyone else hear her screaming under the water? lol That would be a little intimidating, they're just so massive.
Looking at all that vast endless blue FREAKS ME OUT
Whale Sharks are interested in Krill, maybe they thought the bubbles were Krill! XD
No they are getting fed
Bubbles are ticklish to the whale sharks. These divers arent suppose to swim so close to these gentle creatures anyway.
I like how the title has been changed from Whale shark attacks diver into Whale shark plays with diver
I knew it was a cllickbait and yet, I clicked! I'm a sucker for sharks :) The whale sharks are so curious and gentle