Scuba divers come face to face with great white sharks to NS

When John Brooks stepped into his weightsuit and statched his scuba tank to dive on Hubards, NS on Wednesday, the 75 -year -old never expected to find himself within the reach of a top hunter.

“We get out of here,” Brooks remember that a great white shark entered the line of his vision, closer to touch. “This is his home. It is not ours.”

Brooks, who were born in Massachusetts and raised, but now live in Florida, visiting Nova Scotia with his wife for the first time.

Look Moment 2 Scuba Divers A Great White Shark Spot

A relative novice with less than 50 divers under his belt, he was on a directed diver in water near Fox Point Beach, Halifax, on a drive of about 40 minutes from NS, with Torpedo rays coach Eric Peterson when he faced sharks.

“We are floating together, suddenly Eric has pulled me from his strap and he points and I look and I see and it was a wonderful creature, it was just beautiful, but at the same time, it likes, ‘It’s a shark! What a cat!”

Peterson has completed at least 500 dives in remote places as Indonesia, Thailand and Caribbean. But until Wednesday, he had never seen a great white shark in the wild.

“It just came out in the Merc, and (we) saw these big black eyes and this cheshyer smile,” he remembered on Thursday.

Peterson believes that shark was likely to be a teenager and estimated that it was about three meters long.

While facing one, the key, he said, to be calm and sedentary.

Peterson said, “We were just sitting down on our knees and just let the shark come up and let us sniff,” Peterson said.

“It came directly to us, such as playing chicken game, she had to stare down, and then she went to the left, disappeared, and twice came out of the Muck, but this time she went up and went up on us, and we think she was sniffing our bubbles.”

Rendezavas lasted for just two or three minutes, said Peterson, but memory will continue to roam for a lifetime.

However, his colleagues are feeling a little jealous, he said. In its first year in torpedo rays, luck has been in their favor.

He said, “The diver on which we were … this is the place where we teach.” “We must have been 1,000 times and no one has ever seen any great white, so the rest of the shop is still burning with jealousy.”

According to a shark researcher and veterinarian Chris Harvey-Clarke, who recently retired from Dalhousie University, the scenes of Great White sharks in Nova Scotia have been rapidly common in the last few years.

He said in an interview, “It will now be the ninth diving encounter in Maritimes in three years, which is just unprecedented.” Sea afternoon On Thursday.

Harvey-Clarke said that another great white appeared on Wednesday, said Pads Head of Harvey-Clarke at the Indian Harbor.

He said that while researchers have many hypotheses why we are seeing more great white sharks, there is a need to do more research.

“We do not have very good science on the numbers that we are seeing, but just from the observation frequency seems that we are seeing more than what we are looking, we say a decade ago.”

Still feeling enthusiastic

A day after amazing vision, Brooks still felt the discussion.

“I (still) get shocks above and below my spine,” he said. “I didn’t expect to find one here. Or I got it.”

This is just the latest shock in a thrilling life for Brooks. He has served in the Vietnam War, run several marathons, operated on his motorcycle in the United States and parts of Canada, and even survived a bad accident and lived to tell the story.

Meeting a great white shark was not in his bucket list – perhaps for how much it was not likely – but he is happy to check it now.

What’s next?

He likes to do something that he has never done before – parachuting.

“Wouldn’t this be amazing?” He said.

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