The animal pays no attention to the bait, heads straight for the diver

Mar 23, 2013 21:41 GMT  ·  By

This video below was shot this past March 21 in Gansbaai, South Africa and shows one very hungry (or maybe just curious) great white shark getting its massive head inside a diving cage and trying to bite the diver in it.

Bryan Plummer, who uploaded this video on YouTube, explains that the shark pretty much ignored the bait that had been laid out for it and headed straight to the diving cage.

"He gets his head inside the cage, while fellow diver Roger (who got married the day before), acted quickly to swim below the gaping sharks mouth and to avoid any injury," Bryan wrote in the description for this video.

Ironically enough, it was only a few days back when one study argued that ecotourism stands to negatively affect wildlife. From where I stand, it also has every chance of negatively affecting humans.

Viewer discretion is recommended when watching this video due to its containing some foul language. 

"Apologies for any profanity in the video... it was an out of control situation," Bryan himself says.