Anyone catch this program on the discovery channels shark week? Does anyone have any theories about whats going on? Some say it may be a sensory overload that induces a catatonic state,but the how or why is not exactly understood.:cool:

http://fatknowledge.blogspot.com/2007/08/shark-tonic.html

It may work today.

It may work tomorrow.

But I'll bet you dollars to pesos that one thing will hold true.

One day, that dude is gettin' f'd up...

It may work today.

It may work tomorrow.

But I'll bet you dollars to pesos that one thing will hold true.

One day, that dude is gettin' f'd up...

Some people get f$cked up taking a bath. "Death comes to us all", Besides this dude has on a chainmail shark suit.:chuck:

Not with the tiger sharks and white sharks he didnt! (chainmail suit). I will bet it gets more and more common in the future that divers (freedivers especially) will be able to dive safely with large apex predator sharks because of this guy and a few other researchers. Tonic was just the icing on the cake.

Anyone catch this program on the discovery channels shark week? Does anyone have any theories about whats going on? Some say it may be a sensory overload that induces a catatonic state,but the how or why is not exactly understood.:cool:
I missed that one. Did the show explain what he had on his hand?
The ampullae of lorenzini are located in the location that he is fondling :eek:, so sensory overload may be at play here.

In another show that was on last week, Mike Rowe was assisting with an autopsy, and they squeezed the "snot" out of the ampullae. The function of the snot was to transmit electrical charges into a receptor. Obviously, this is designed to work with extremely low voltages, so a higher voltage could cause an overload.

Or something.

I missed that one. Did the show explain what he had on his hand?
The ampullae of lorenzini are located in the location that he is fondling :eek:, so sensory overload may be at play here.

In another show that was on last week, Mike Rowe was assisting with an autopsy, and they squeezed the "snot" out of the ampullae. The function of the snot was to transmit electrical charges into a receptor. Obviously, this is designed to work with extremely low voltages, so a higher voltage could cause an overload.

Or something.

Yeah, it is sensory overload... It is unknown what exactly is happening but it might have something to do with mating. For large sharks it appears to work easier on females. Infact, during the show they mentioned that tonic on large sharks would be easier on "players" being that they are less agressive and more intersted in the divers than on eating. These "players" were female and were almost submisive towards the divers when tonic was applied.

Anyone catch this program on the discovery channels shark week? Does anyone have any theories about whats going on? Some say it may be a sensory overload that induces a catatonic state,but the how or why is not exactly understood.:cool:

Yea, that episode on shark week completely blew me away. It seemed that the carribiean reef sharks sought the divers out like dogs looking to be scratched.

That he even just swam with the big boys, whites & tigers, deserves a :chuck:

The guy has balls for sure but I didn't get the point. Why the hell does he want to pet a White Shark?

I can't help but think about the guy that USE TO "study" grizzly bears. We'll read about this shark guy too.

I thought it was a great show and also think that this might help divers in the future. He wasn't far from getting that white shark into the tonic stage. I bet alot of it had to do with the type of shark he was dealing with and it therefore made him quite nervous.
Very cool show, surprised that wasn't on shark week.

When he had the tiger in the tonic stage and sank 50 something feet with the shark in his hands was quite amazing. And that wasn't a small shark either.

That picture at the top of thread is pretty sweet by the way.

I didn't catch the show until last night and it was pretty amazing. That tiger he handled was enormous. I can't see taking the risk but it must be amazing to have control of a beast like that even if only for a few seconds.

The guy has balls for sure but I didn't get the point. Why the hell does he want to pet a White Shark?

I would want to pet a white shark, but I think I would be too nervous.Seeing someone else do it at least makes it possible. He's not the only person to do this either,many researchers are studying these peculiar effects. I'm not sure if I would call Manny Puig a "researcher", but he has done some very cool stuff with sharks and other apex-predators. The Grizzly man Timothy Treadwill had lived among bears for over 13 years. Thats a pretty long time, and yeah he was kind of crunchy and at times sounded like some kind of bear hugger but that may partially be attributed to the fact that he was a long time heroin and cocaine addict and credited his recovery to his love for these creatures.I may be naive,but that is some pretty cool sh$t.I hope I leave this world having done something at least half as amazing as these guys, hell half of what some of our board members do.