Are you ready for a thrilling and unforgettable adventure? In this video, you’ll get to witness something truly extraordinary – swimming with sharks on Oahu’s North Shore, without a cage! You’ll learn about shark conservation and get up close and personal with these amazing creatures.
The video features an exciting tour with Deep Blue Eco Tours, a reputable company that offers this exhilarating experience multiple times a day. You’ll also get to meet the knowledgeable and friendly crew who will ensure your safety and comfort throughout the adventure.
The North Shore of Oahu is known for its stunning natural beauty and serene ambiance, making it an ideal location for such an exhilarating activity. The video showcases the breathtaking landscapes and tranquil vibes of the North Shore, providing a glimpse into the serene side of Hawaii.
As you watch the video, you’ll witness the majesty of the gopo sharks, tiger sharks, and other species that call the waters off the North Shore home. The divers share their experiences and dispel myths about these incredible creatures, emphasizing the peaceful coexistence between humans and sharks.
Whether you’re a thrill-seeker or simply intrigued by the wonders of marine life, this video is sure to captivate and inspire you.
So, if you’re ready to embark on an adventure unlike any other, join us on this thrilling journey and witness the beauty of swimming with sharks on Oahu’s North Shore – without a cage!
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So the gopo sharks are the most common species that we have so these guys right here they’re about 8 to 10 ft I don’t know how many but I saw one tiger shark for sure I like eight
Gpos and eight Galapagos right now as we were coming up there was a little baby one so what we ask you guys to do is to use your voice to spread awareness um the best thing you can do
Is tell everyone what you did today you guys went with like eight goopo sharks a tiger shark people have never even seen a shark in real life so I’m just telling people about your experience um how we can easily and peacefully coexist how they’re not the man eating monster there
Like Jaws in the media p tray in the be what’s up everybody welcome back to another beautiful day here on the island of Hawaii now today I’m actually on the NorthShore it’s bright and early it’s 9:30 a.m. and today I have a very special video planned for you guys because we’re going
To be doing something that well to be honest I never thought I’d actually do in my life we’re going to be swimming with sharks here on the NorthShore of Hawaii now this is actually an activity that’s very popular here in Hawaii and tourists from all around the world come here
Every single day to do this both in a cage and without a cage today we’re going to be doing it take a guess without a cage now it took a little bit of convincing because to be honest with you
Guys sharks well you know we all have like this misunderstanding that sharks are just incredibly dangerous animals and too many sharks are their biggest fears So today we’re going to learn a little bit more about these amazing animals and of course get up close and personal with them with a
Company called Deep Blue Echo tours now they’re actually one of the most popular tour companies here in the region they do tours several times a day from this beautiful Port that we’re at right now in the NorthShore and I’ll leave all of their contact information down below so that
You can reach on out if you find this video interesting and if this well catches your eye because I have a feeling this is not going to be for everybody but it should be exciting so join
Me for an awesome adventure from here in aahu so the boat is actually not here just yet but let me just tell you guys this side of the island is super impressive everybody told us that well
This is one of the most beautiful sides of the island and I can already see why it’s a lot more calmer there’s not any big huge buildings and Why Kiki Beach where we’ve actually been staying the
Last few days you’re always hearing music um to be honest people partying having fun which is totally fine but it’s nice to feel like you know the local Island Vibes and this town that we’re in right now
That I actually can’t pronounce but I’ll leave the name of right here at the bottom is actually super cal and as we were driving in you can see all of the different mountains the Dole Plantation
Was actually just off side of the road um on the same bus route that we actually took to get here so it’s quite impressive that you can actually visit a lot of the tourist attractions here on aahu simply by taking the city bus so seriously um take that into consideration when planning your
Trip here in aahu now you can actually purchase this card called a Holo card or a Holo card I’m not too sure how you pronounce it either but you can purchase this card at a store called ABC stores and they’re actually located absolutely everywhere it’s kind of like a 7-Eleven it’s a
One-Stop shop and the card cost $7.50 for a day pass but for the initial purchase you actually have to pay $2 for the card but every single day you can walk on in there and reload them
And trust me it definitely is convenient because each time you get on a bus it’s $3 even if you get on the bus and just ride it two three stops um it adds up quite quick like for example on the
Way here this morning I actually had to get off the bus for an emergency stop at the bathroom at Starbucks I know a little bit too much information but we ended up spending $18 for the both of us
To get all the way down here because why because chrisopher got his Holo card in the hotel typical Chris things you know what I’m saying but yeah this place is gorgeous I think next time I visit
Aahu I’m definitely going to plan to stay a few days here in the NorthShore it’s so beautiful and definitely a lot more a lot more relaxing The Vibes I was actually looking forward to here in
Hawaii my name’s Kai U Michaela right here she’s going to be your safety diver today um so when you’re in the water you’re going to be hanging out with Michaela uh she’ll talk to you guys all about
The sharks make you feel nice and comfortable before we get out there but obviously you guys need anything at all just feel free to ask we’re all here to you know take care of you make this a
Nice fun experience and then Gavin right here he’s going to be your sa uh sorry photographer today um so if you guys are interested in the photo package Gavin does a really awesome job he’ll run you through that process and then similarly Timmy he’s our videographer shoots all of our
Instagram content and everything um so you guys have some really great options today with the photo and video package and then just a few very basic things to note for boat safety um we have
Two fire extinguishers on board one right next to me right here there’s one in the sink in the cabin we also have life vest underneath the seats in the cabin and uh if we needed to contact the Coast
Guard Channel 16 up on the radio here but we’re 3 miles out still in sell service the whole time um run a very safe operation uh Michael will talk to you guys all about it and then we’ll we’ll make
Our way out there so thank you all righty guys how you feeling you ready excited yeah all righty so before we get into the Sharks we’re going to see in kind of their behavior in the water and how
It’s going to work out there a little background information about why we’re able to shark dive out here how we get the Sharks things like that um a lot of places in the world are not able to
Free dive with sharks especially only 3 miles off shore so we’re really really lucky um but basically over the past 75 years or so the crab fishing industry has been really big out of this Harbor so basically wherever we go to shark di in that zone there’s tons of crab traps on the
Bottom and the sharks are kind of conditioned to in any boat enters area they think it’s a crab fishing boat so what these crab fishermen are doing are pulling up their traps and things are falling out or they’re just throwing things over that are not the right species or size regulation
Um so when any bat enters the area the sharks are just going to check it out see what’s happening um and they hope it’s the fishing boat um so all we do is we go out there and we mimic what these
Boats do when they pull their traps so they go in reverse they make a lot of bubbles they make a lot of noise you’ll see us doing that when we get out there um and then once the Sharks notice
We’re in the area they kind of come up from the bottom once we see them trailing our boat that’s our green light to get in with them so um it’s really cool how they’re kind of just waiting
Out there um they don’t see us as Predators I mean as food whatsoever um we are much larger than what they eat so they just see us as other predators in the water um which makes for really good interaction with them um it’s a controlled environment so you guys are completely safe with
All of us um and like Kai said if you guys have any questions anything like that let us know we’re here to make your experience um amazing fun and just get you guys in the water with sharks and
See how amazing they are um but let’s talk about the Sharks we’re going to see so the glago sharks are the most common species that we have so these guys right here they’re about 8 to 10 ft so GPO
Sharks are really slow moving so what they like to do is kind of make circles around us in the boat uh they’re very attractive to the boat so most of the time they’ll be hanging out like right behind
The boat right under the boat um but again like I said they’re the most common species we have um they’re going to be present with us throughout the whole dive most likely so these are the globo
Sharks let’s see what we got next next we have our Sandbar sharks so these guys right here they’re much smaller they’re about 3 to 6 3 to 7 ft um it’s not really the time for sandbar sharks right
Now but there is a possibility that they swim by um like I said they’re much smaller their behavior is also much different than the Glo GH sharks so these guys are very energetic they’re very fast
Moving in the water uh they make sharp turns they move up and down the water coling really quickly nothing to be alarmed about that’s just how they are this species is just really energetic so um if we have these guys you’ll definitely notice their behavior in the water so those are The Sandbar
Sharks next we have our tiger sharks so our tiger sharks are the biggest species we have they’re about 15 to 16 ft and it is Tiger season so there’s a possibility that we see tigers um what
I mean by Tiger season is these bigger sharks are coming down from the other Hawaiian islands and closer to sh and aahu for their puffing season and for mating season so um we see a lot of pregnant
Females we’ve been seeing a lot of juveniles this season so it’s really really cool to see um these large sharks that we don’t get to see a lot um and it’s uh a very lucky dive if you guys do get
To see them so um we did have some this morning so there’s a really good chance that we have them on our next dive today um but basically our protocol with tiger sharks is you guys are just
Going to group up really close together um or hold on to the safety line the most important thing is that no one is off by thems when we have a tiger um just because sometimes they do make
Bold approaches that require physical R Direction um so we will be handling that you guys will just kind of be hanging out observing the tiger as she passes by um but again like I said just no one off
Alone just making sure you guys are listening to us we’ll be communicating with you guys the whole entire time but any questions about tiger sharks basically the front of the boat will be tied to a
Moing which is a really deep anchor so what that means is the back of the boat can be swinging side to side or bouncing up and down of the wind and the waves and things like that um nothing to
Be alarmed about it’s just very important that we are aware of our surroundings at all time so it’s very important that you guys know which direction you’re swimming in uh where you are in the water
Especially compared to the boat we’re going to try to say about 15 to 20 ft off the back center of the boat um so again like I said just be aware of your surroundings know where you are in the
Water just checking up on the boat making sure you never find yourself at the front half of the boat um but that brings me into the next thing you guys are just going to be following me the
Whole time I go you go or you’re just going to be hanging out on that safety line um but we’re all going to be in a group together kind of just hanging out together um kind of like acting like
A school truck so um just be very aware in the water any questions about [Music] that so it was just a short 20 minute ride from where we uh boarded the boat from the pier and now we’re mored
Up and waiting for these sharks to start appearing and once they do we’ll jump on into the water and see them for the very first time now the reason um well our safety diver actually just explained
That the reason why the Sharks actually come to this area is because there’s all kinds of um crabbing boats here in the area and a lot of times as they’re pulling the crab pots up from the water
Crabs fall out of the cage into the water and the Sharks absolutely loved that I mean who doesn’t love a nice free snack right um that takes little effort so that’s the reason why uh they come up
In the water here in these areas I’m a little bit nervous but to be honest after the little safety brief I’m feeling confidence excited and the views here are stunning guys Hawaii is such a beautiful place the mountains that surround the coastline that we’re in right now are super impressive and
The water is incredibly blue and not like a like a turquoise blue that we just got done seeing in um Thailand this is like a nice I don’t know like a dark blue but beautiful all right guys well we
Just saw our first uh shark pop out of there what would you say that was a Galapago shark shark y oh man easily identifiable right there easily identify and I can’t even talk I just got
Hella nervous seeing that that thing come out of the water damn you know I was a bit calmer after the safety bre but I just saw that and I’m I’m back to where I was before before getting on
The boat we’re going to cue the Jaws theme music here in a second for oh man so we’re in but we’re good hands I’m I’m feeling confident and um he’s going to be the cameraman today and photographer
And then our video guy oh man I’ve never seen a shark this close before this is awesome okay yeah buddy there because well you can only usually see them around the summer months so we came at
A perfect time however I think I’m going to be pretty impressed no matter what kind of shark I see um inside of the water time to get the mask on jump off the back of the boat and it feels so
Funny have the shark encounter for the very first time of my life here in Hawaii excited yes I am you it’s going to be yeah I’m excited I’m excited better yeah me too I’m a little nervous too you [Music] [Applause] [Music] know
[Music] just made it out of water wow guys that was incredible seriously an experience you have 0:12:58.840,1193:02:47.295 [Music] to do when in Hawaii totally worth the journey from wakiki up here as I mentioned it’s super
Easy to access and this is an experience of of a lifetime we were down there for about I don’t know that felt like almost like 45 minutes huh it was a long time longer than 30 it was a
Great time down there we saw uh I don’t know how many but I saw one tiger shark for sure I like eight gpos and eight galpagos right now as we were coming up there was a little baby one
And yeah now they’re all around the boat look at them beautiful beautiful time wow w w thank you guys that was incredible all right now time to reflect on everything that we just saw down there
Such a beautiful experience time to make it back towards the land was awesome thank you yes so we got a tiger shark and a bunch of Glocks so that was really really amazing um but before we get
Back a quick talk about shark conservation kind of just educating you guys on what sharks are going through right now why they’re important things you can do to help um but lot of people aren’t aware of what sharks are going through um they’re being killed at really drastic grades do you guys
Have any idea how many sharks are being killed each year by humans no they’re a random number 100,000 higher half a million sharks higher 5 million higher it’s over 100 million a year so uh sharks are mainly being killed for their fins for their meat and then from things like
Bik catch and Sport Fishing um so basically this is really unsustainable because sharks have very slow reproduction rate so they can’t really keep up with the rate that we are killing them at and this makes them very susceptible to Extinction so most species are IND dangered now which is really
Really horrible and over the past 10 years about 60% of shark populations have declined so it’s a really big problem that a lot of people aren’t aware of um which is why we do this we like giving
You guys this information and you guys can do what you want with it um but like I said chk pinning is probably the biggest problem right now killing about 73 million sharks a year um what they do
Is Target sharks for their fins once they get a shark on board they cut off the fence and then just throw the shark back into the water so it’s a completely cruel practice very very sad uh it’s
Also very wasteful so the fins only make up 2% of the body um and like I said the rest of the body is just wasted so very cruel very wasteful very unsustainable um and these fins are used in
Shark fin soup uh which is a delicacy in Asian countries and basically people of High status eat this soup which is why there’s such a high demand for it um shark meat and shark fins are actually very toxic to us because of the high amounts of mercury that it contains so there’s
Really no good reason that we should be killing sharks um for consumption especially 73 million a year like that’s crazy to even think about uh but a lot of people also aren’t aware of how important sharks are for the ocean and the ecosystem um so since they’re an apex predator they sit at
The top of the food web and they’re in charge of keeping the whole food web balanced so if we take sharks out of the ocean the whole food web would collapse um and basically the ocean Health would just go downhill really really quickly another thing that people aren’t aware of is how long
Sharks have been evolving for about 400 million million years um that’s another reason why it’s so important that we protect them they have so many roles in the ocean um one of their main roles is to kind of act as like the white blood cells of the immune system by going after animals
Are weak injured and ill and basically what this does is prevents the spread of disease keeps the gene pools healthy prevents overpopulation all of that good stuff um so they’re so important for the ocean ecosystem um and this is affecting us because the ocean produces 80% of our oxygen so we
Do need sharks in the water so that we have clean oxygen to breathe um everything on this planet is connected every future has a right to be here um so what we ask you guys to do is to use your voice
To spread awareness uh the best thing you can do is tell everyone what you did today you guys went with like eight goopo sharks a tiger shark people have never even seen a shark in real life so um
Just telling people about your experience um how we can easily and peacefully coexist how they’re not the man eting monsters like jaws and the media petray and the bee um they get a really bad rep
And um so anything you guys can do to talk about sharks in a positive way kind of change the image of sharks um because people won’t protect what they don’t understand so social media is a great
Way to do that your guys is YouTube um that’s a really good way to get the media out there and tell everyone um about how amazing sharks are and how important they are and things like that um you guys can donate to nonprofit organizations that go to shark conservation uh Beach cleanups
Just anything you guys can do to kind of help the ocean and help the sharks um but thank you guys so much do you guys have any questions questions about what you saw in the water or just sharks
In general h no that was amazing thank you and there were some sharks which were like injured yeah so we see a lot of sharks with injuries most of it is human impact like from fishing or from
Boat props and things like that um sometimes we do see mating scars but most of the time it’s human impact which is really really sad um to see that um but yeah a lot of times when they
Are injured that makes us makes it easier for them to ident for us to identify them um um but it is really really sad to see human impacts on sharks I saw one with a like a fishing line attached to
It there was one with a fishing line and I saw that shark a couple days ago and the line was longer so someone cut it so which is good doing what we can to help the Sharks yeah yep that’s
Unfortunate man it’s crazy to see with your own eyes it is it’s crazy yeah especially the tiger sharks it’s just amazing you guys all saw it right they the cute shark so D the tiger sharks usually
Just roam around like that like in like one tiger sh yeah so yeah they’re usually just alone um but yeah they just kind of roam around sometimes they’re a bit more bold it just depends on um
The tiger shark they’re like humans each shark has a personality so some of them are like really bold and they want to get like up and close some of them just Cruise right below us yeah it was also
Like it was a smaller shark or was it a big fish it was like there was a big there was a big fish tuna a couple of your guys’ pictures you guys see yellow fins in there too huh kind we get
So many things wow that’s amazing but we all made it back in one piece just kidding just kidding I hope you guys had a great dive that was a really good one awes and then we’ll get your shoes out and everything will be good all right so that shark diving Adventure was
Pretty intense honestly it was a lot a lot more chill than I was expecting I thought that I was going to have a panic attack under the water but everything was pretty smooth we had some great instructors and definitely I recommend coming on out and booking a tour with deep Eco
Blues um some of the best the best tour guides we’ve had in a very long time now we’re having some asai and then we’re about to hop onto the bus and make our way back to wakiki let me know
What you guys thought of this video let me know if you guys um would participate in a shark diving Adventure or would you just leave that up to me but seriously if you’re ever in a in a region of the world where they offer shark diving encounters especially without a
Cage I highly recommend it you will not regret it and of course you have to pay for those photo and video packages which you’re which I’m sure you’re going to be seeing both on here and on Instagram
Um by the time this video is posted because yeah they do take around 5 to 7 days but that is an additional add-on that is not included with the tourque but obviously if you’re um jumping into an open water with a bunch of uh tiger sharks and galopago sharks you’re going
To want to take home some memories with you guys but for now I’m going to enjoy my asaio and I’ll see you guys again for another adventure from from here in Hawaii we still have a few more
Days and I have a feeling I’m going to get out there and create a couple more videos for you guys but please uh don’t forget to smash that like button subscribe and I’ll see you guys
Again soon for another video from here in Hawaii later next you are always smarted I was the one to
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