Sharks Behavior Observations by Marine Biologist Ramon Llaneza in The Bahamas

Ramon and Magin are embarking on an exciting underwater expedition, we are looking for sharks in the Bahamas. We are interested in learning about shark behavior. Once we got to the reef, we prepared our diving equipment and planned the dive. We dove in a place where sharks approximately 11 reef sharks surrounded us. At every moment while swimming, sharks are confronted with a variety of stimuli. They constantly make decisions on how to respond to these stimuli.They then began to display behavior making rough turns and swimming faster around us. My dad reminded me to swim calmly because this kind of shark behavior was just a response to our movements and the vibrations we were causing while swimming. It was amazing how fast they responded, displaying the behavior associated with selective attention to the sound stimuli. We need to support the worldwide effort to give sharks a chance to survive. But we as a society can advance the cause immeasurably if we remove the idea of the shark as killing machine and stop the shark-killing. Mass killing of sharks could cause detrimental effects in underwater ecosystems. This is very unfortunate because the study of sharks has offered scientists new information about different areas of science. This is why the critical issue is saving these beautiful predators and the ecosystem they create and maintaining balance undersea. Diving with sharks has been a unique experience. Hopefully some of you will try it and experience the adventure just to be in close encounter with yourself and with this unique & amazing animal. We all need to learn more and understand why they attack and end the fear that drives us to destroy them.

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Another wonderful dive video.