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My mother in law is worse than that shark)
I am sure she is far worse. Sand Tigers (or sometimes just called Sand Sharks) despite their fearsome appearance, are quite docile as sharks go. They are everywhere off our coast and have never been implicated in attacks on anyone, unlike Bull Sharks who have attacked several people and have been classified as man-eaters. I shot this image while on a decompression dive on USS Oriskany. She was about 6 feet long and quite curious and stayed with us for pretty much the entire dive, never once showing any aggression toward us. When we went to our decompression stop, she followed us up there too. When we finally got into the boat she followed us all the way to the surface. We had some sandwiches on board so we tossed a few of them overboard and she promptly devoured them. The salami in one probably gave her a bad case or heartburn!
Sharks get a really bad rap, most of it very ill deserved. Whenever I dive I consider the dive a waste unless I see some. We have a pretty fair number of Hammerheads too, and they too have never shown any aggression towards us. I do get a little nervous around Bulls, but if you don't do anything stupid they have always left us alone.
And DO NOT dive with anyone with a spear gun. The only time I came close to getting bitten was around 1987 when I finally relented and let my dive buddy bring his speargun along on a wreck dive off the NC coast. He speared a large grouper and filled the water with blood. We had a Tiger drop it's pectorals on us and that was when I went for my knife. If he had gotten close enough I would have buried it to the hilt in him, all 8" of it. I simply refuse to get in the water with anyone with a spear gun.
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Both good ones...I like #2 though....