10 Facts About Shark-proof cage

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Shark cage diving is underwater diving or snorkeling where the observer remains inside a protective cage designed to prevent sharks from making contact with the divers.

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Shark Shark-proof cage diving is used for scientific observation, underwater cinematography, and as a tourist activity.

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Shark-proof cage is a metal cage used by an underwater diver to observe dangerous types of sharks up close in relative safety.

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Shark-proof cage is used in the controversial exercise of shark baiting, where tourists are lowered in a cage while the tour guides bait the water to attract sharks or stimulate certain behavior.

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5.

Peter Gimbel was one filmmaker involved in the design of a shark-proof cage which was used during the production of Blue water, white death.

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Shark Shark-proof cage diving is popular in the Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California.

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In 2005, a British tourist, Mark Currie, was exposed to a high risk of injury or death when a 5-metre great white shark bit through the bars of a shark Shark-proof cage being used during a recreational shark dive off the coast of South Africa.

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Shark-proof cage did this by hitting it on the head with an iron pole.

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Currie quickly swam out of the top of the Shark-proof cage and was pulled to safety by the boat's captain, who fended off the shark with blows to its head.

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In 2007, a commercial shark Shark-proof cage was destroyed off the coast of Guadalupe Island after a 4.

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