I'm an advanced scuba diver, what do I fear most?

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Dresden14

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Yeah, orca's... I've swam freely with makos, blues, tigers, bulls, reefs, nurse, and leopards. I've never seen a white thankfully, but I do go out in boats here off california where they purposely chum the waters and we "wait" for the sharks to come, it's only a matter of time????? If not, im sure ill cage dive them sometime.

But in summary, what I fear the most above all, is orcas. I would rather encounter a white shark in open water, as opposed orcas. & I know there's a shit ton of whites here in socal.

In b4:
Reasoning: orcas are black and great whites are white.

Anyway, watch the vid - it's blasted on yahoo.

Killer whale steals halibut from angler's hook | GrindTV.com
 


I always get paranoid when I let my dog swim in the puget sound cause I can just imagine an orca coming up and swallowing her whole.
 
shindig said:
I always get paranoid when I let my dog swim in the puget sound cause I can just imagine an orca coming up and swallowing her whole.
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Unlike what the OP is talking about that's actually a legitimate concern. I'm from close to you and I've heard multiple occasions, not so much of orcas, but of seals and sea lions luring dogs out of distance from shore then pulling their legs down to drown them
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZekt7F1FKk]Whale watching from canoe - YouTube[/ame]
 
When I lived in Hawaii, we'd go diving and spear fishing when we found time.

We've seen a lot of different wildlife, but on one occasion we saw a ~9ft Tiger shark. Nope.

The deep sea creeps me out.

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I'm with you boat burner...OZ and NZ has a shitload of sharks of all varieties and i'm creeped out by them...especially on the Gold Coast with all the Bull Sharks feeding in the canals and then coming out the seaway on the change of tide...pretty hairy riding over them on the Jet Ski when you can see how many are in the damn water...and those fuckers love to bite anything...garbage cans of the sea they are.
 
I'm sure there's a youtube clip somewhere showing an Orca beating the fuck out of a great white - they're the kings of the seas, hunting in packs.

Interesting fact - killer whales are actually a species of dolphin, not whale.
 
Been in the water with orcas plenty, never even had a close call. Used to be a guide for shark dives (reef, nurse, bull, whale, tiger, leopard, blue) and never had any problems with them either. Now I dive places with zero marine life. But I'd definitely keep a dog out of the water if I knew orcas were around, when they want to kill they're dicks about it.
 
"I don't believe in Pewep, but I'm afraid of him!"

- Dean Keaton (Usual Suspects)
 
I remember back in elementary school we'd see slides of pitch black waters and fish that looked like monsters if you went deep enough. Possible to dive that deep?
 
pdxdvr said:
Been in the water with orcas plenty, never even had a close call. Used to be a guide for shark dives (reef, nurse, bull, whale, tiger, leopard, blue) and never had any problems with them either. Now I dive places with zero marine life. But I'd definitely keep a dog out of the water if I knew orcas were around, when they want to kill they're dicks about it.
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.... Where do you dive??? I'd love to dive with a whale shark. I gotta Nikon d7000 with a tokina 12-24 and us ds161s with an Ikelite housing. Only took it on one dive though so far. But anyway, yeah orcas for some reason seem a lot more serious compared to even white sharks. I remember free diving once without a tank of course, swimming with fucking seals. It all a sudden got all quiet and all the seals bailed. Never had that "checkmate" / "your fucked" type feeling before (was 3/4 mile out, la jolly shores, California). Anyway, yeah they skur the ever living shit out of me.

But I can swim in bloody, purposely chummed waters off a boat waiting for sharks. So go figure

Forgive typos, on iPad
 
I saw the orcas in Puget Sound, all of the others between the Caribbean and Fiji, and whale sharks off Isla Mujeres near Cancun. I'm living in Playa del Carmen now, whale sharks are in season between a few weeks ago and usually September. That's a great camera setup you have there, I'm sure you could get some great whale shark pics without even trying. Down here, it's just snorkeling with them, but I believe in SE asia you can get in with them on scuba. I haven't done whites yet, it's on the list though. Right now my focus is on cave diving. Different kind of scary for sure. Like when you see a shadow from someone behind you out of the corner of your eye. I've had more interesting calls with seals than sharks, they've tried to rather vigorously hump my tank before. That was when I was volunteering at an aquarium though. Seals and sea lions can be shits.
 
Dresden14 said:
.... Where do you dive??? I'd love to dive with a whale shark. I gotta Nikon d7000 with a tokina 12-24 and us ds161s with an Ikelite housing. Only took it on one dive though so far. But anyway, yeah orcas for some reason seem a lot more serious compared to even white sharks. I remember free diving once without a tank of course, swimming with fucking seals. It all a sudden got all quiet and all the seals bailed. Never had that "checkmate" / "your fucked" type feeling before (was 3/4 mile out, la jolly shores, California). Anyway, yeah they skur the ever living shit out of me.
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Sick camera, that must make diving 10x better, so much cool shit underwater.

I got certified in la jolla when I was a kid. The first time I went in there, it was murky as hell and there were leopard or tiger sharks all over the place and since you could only see shadowy blobs gliding around and I was scared shitless. We always went on the south side of the cove, swam out a couple hundred yards and then went down. Good memories there.

You should check out southern baja, not the resort shit, we used to go to this place that was fucking heaven for spear diving, southeast of La Paz, there's this dangerous cliffside dirt road where your tires overhang a massive cliff at parts, and then once you get down to the flat ground there are a dozen coves, each completely different, and at the end is a fishing village where the only electric is from a generator. We had 3' long squid get stuck in one cove during a full moon and ate what we didn't use for bait. The place was called "Punta agua verde", didn't see it on google maps, but it was fucking heaven. We just had an inflatable boat. One year we brought minnow traps and an oxygen tank(to fill aquarium bag with oxygen so they don't die) and smuggled back amazing fish for our aquariums.
 
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