It's the idea of seeing one while you're swimming
and then losing sight of it and not knowing where it went and you could just be spinning round and round in the water looking for it and it could come up from underneath you.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 11:55, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Apparently, you're sposed to punch them on the nose becuase it disorients them.
I don't if this is true though.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Not punch them, push them away by the nose,
they tend to bite things to see what they are, if they then bleed they'll eat you, so just push them away and they'll get bored.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:07, Reply)

apparently shouting at them works
although this is difficult underwater
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:15, Reply)

"RAARRGLUG-GLUG-GLUGgaaaaaaaa"
*chokes and drowns*
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:17, Reply)

better or worse than being eaten by a shark do you think?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Better.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)

or go for the eyes

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:08, Reply)

While this might work for a small reef shark, the kind that wouldn't attack you anyway
it wouldn't work on anything large since a) they are too quick and would bite you before you could hit them and b) you couldn't get enough power into an underwater punch to upset them even if you did manage to get a lucky blow in.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:09, Reply)

It's really hard to punch underwater though
unless you're Angelina Jolie in the second tomb raider film
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Nothing like being circled by a shark:
Crazy surfer films a shark
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:04, Reply)

big balls

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I would die of fright
and it would probably get bored and swim off.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Sharks are a bunch of poofs, at least, all the ones I've dived with are.
Yeah', sure, you get the big huge fuckers who'll bite into you like a chewit, but I ain't ever been diving off the coast of alaska, and don't plan to any time soon.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)