How To Stay Safe While Swimming With Sharks

This Sunday marks the start of Shark Week on Discovery and Discovery+, and to get us ready, NBC national correspondent Miguel Almaguer headed to Hawaii to visit shark expert Ocean Ramsey, who gets up close and personal with sharks and explains what you should do if you ever come face to face with one.

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[Rosstradamus]

I’ve swam with sharks.They are one of the most misunderstood creatures on this planet.

[thatguy]

Don't forget to do a video about how to stay while playing with tigers, lions, wolfs, bears and other dangerous animals.

[tinaperez]

How about I be "afraid of a world without sharks" AND be afraid of sharks? We can do both and it saves the sharks AND me!!! 🤨

[kellyturner]

A shark expert was on the news here after a deadly great white shark attack and he said if a great white is circling around you to Don't panic don't punch it or anything just keep eye contact with it and calmly swim away! I would love to see him take his own advice when there's a huge shark stalking him! Lol crazy

[ccburro]

Miguel—you are brave. Even with Ocean Ramsey with you and the safety info, there are no guarantees re what will happen.

[laurenkrist]

Oh I know the answer to this...don't swim with sharks. You're welcome.

[graciousdesr]

My heartbeat would be up the roof all the time.. my gosh

[mikeg]

I’m afraid of a world without sharks, but I’m still afraid of sharks. Not irrationally, but every time I swim in the ocean I know I’m taking a risk, and I know if I encounter a shark, my awareness and behavior afterwards can mean the difference between life and death. They’re majestic, they’re necessary, but they’re also apex predators. I’m sure it’s more or less safe to swim with sharks like in this video, but if you purposefully go swimming with sharks and get bit, that is a provoked attack. And I ain’t provoking no mf’in sharks.

[andysummersthxcinemaandmyc]

new york swamped with flooding but.... are there any sharks and sharknados about ?

[spacecaptain]

Who cares if it was a "mistake"? If a shark eats your leg, or something, the last thing you care about is whether or not it was personal!

[Delipooh]

These were Galapagos sharks, what about bull and tiger sharks?

[clee]

It's very safe until it is not. If a shark is swimming toward to, it just wants to say HELLO, trust me on that one !

[Wavyx]

Her life insurance premium is $100k/month lol

[wickedtreefarm]

Sharks are safer than bears. Stay out of the forests!

[weirdvlogs]

No lifeguard told me to try not to splash in the water 🤔

[spikes]

Well you dont wanna go in with a paper cut so thats #1

[scottieeasley]

Oceans Ramsey is not an oceanographer.

[quingonjinn]

Yeah, you shouldn’t swim next to a shark

[Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth]

3:13 <——— Really? She needs to read Genesis chapter 1, because there was vegetation and trees before the LORD put the creatures in the seas! Also we people of color do NOT swim with sharks! 🦈