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Teaches them to associate food with humans in the water. and that, some locals believe, is encouraging great whites to try to eat swimmers and surfers. craig boven thinks cage diving could be why a great white almost killed him. boven was diving for lobster on this beach near cape town in 2005 when he was attacked. i just clamped on on both of my arms, chicame out of that impact, i was still inside his mouth and he was slowly swimming with me. the shark was dragging him out to sea. after he overcame the shock of what was happening to him, he began to fight back. so i started putting my knees into his belly and i saw that that was having some effect on him and i head-butted him with my mask on his nose and carried on this tussle for quite a ....
Both states. but shark tour operators in south africa point out that even though shark tourism has risen dramatically in the past decade, shark attacks have not. on average, there are around five attacks on humans every year in south africa. but craig boven and others insist the behavior of sharks is changing. normally if a shark bites a human, they release them. but the shark that attacked boven did not. and in the last four years there have been at least two deadly attacks in which the sharks eat their victims whole. so who s right? unfortunately, the science to support either position isn t easy to come by. for all of our fear and fascination with great whites, they remain a mystery. there s so much we simply don t know about their behavior. they ve never been seen mating or giving birth, for example. and though they re classified as an endangered species, we don t even know how many of them there ....