Joe Rogan on Shark Attacks

was the what was going on in San Diego when that guy got bitten half by a shark a couple years back they were training for something yeah that's a funny you remember that that was May of 2008 I remember that like it was yesterday so at the time I lived in San Francisco and this is actually just before I swam the Maui thing now that I think about it that was 10 years ago I swam the Maui thing in June of oh six at June of oh eight so I'm doing all my training in a swimming pool up in San Francisco because I don't want to acclimate to very cold water I actually want to be in warm water but I needed one long ocean swim of like 14 or 15 miles as my like last training swim so I came down to San Diego to do it and just by bad luck I came down a few days after that guy was killed now this was a guy I didn't know him but he was a triathlete training with a triathlon group that they would go out and swim every morning and I know the beach exactly where it happened in Solana Beach and unfortunately like most people who get attacked by great whites they have a very they always attack the same way which is below and behind stealth bite up and and then they they retreat so they're trying to basically injure the prey so their prey exsanguinate sand then they take off and then they wait till you bleed out so they never saw the shark but you could tell from the bite marks it was I actually had a friend who was on the beach and saw him when he came out and he was basically dead when he got to shore he had he had bled to death the problem is so in this case the shark had bit him and cut through his femoral arteries and veins and the saltwater prevents you from having any hemostasis so it exacerbates the blood loss so that's generally how folks perish when they're had a great what I'm out of the water you know a bunch of other swimmers came to his rescue and luckily that commotion prevents the sharks from wanting to come back so three days later I go out and I'm swimming at that Beach because I swim from my training swim was La Jolla up to Solana Beach and back and I got to tell you like three days after a guy dies where you're swimming it is it was about one of the most mentally challenging training swims to be like because you can't see like the water at that part of the beach is so murky you know and you're only a couple hundred yards offshore that like you can barely see your hands when you're swimming and so you're just thinking is this the day I'm not interested in that gee I can't see why yeah there's just something about sharks - I mean they're to me one of the most terrifying things but first of all we're so inept in the water I mean even a person like you is a great swimmer yeah we're joke yeah what we are in comparison to what they are it's just you're you're throwing yourself into the world of a super predator and to know that one just jacked a person just a few days before and you're out there swimming around yeah although I will say this you know when it's all said and done all of the close encounters I've had probably the scariest moment I've ever had in the water was doing a swim from Santa Rosa to Santa Barbara so Santa Rosa Island which is the second for this North Channel Island you got San Miguel Santa Rosa Santa Cruz and Anacapa represent the top four Channel Islands so we did this November swim it was a nighttime thing against women from Santa Rosa Island to Santa Barbara and at about 5:00 in the morning maybe 6:00 in the morning you're just starting to get enough light where you can see and you're out there so you really have amazing visibility and I look down probably 40 feet and I see this enormous thing swimming like this which is how sharks swim and I see the dorsal fin in the position that freaks me out and the tails this way but all of that is shark right and I like you know like lift up out of the water kind of hyperventilate for a second and I'm thinking to myself alright you got to make a judgment call here if that's really a great white you probably ought to get out of the water but if you the moment you are out of the water that's it the swim is over like you just spend like months doing this like it's run so then I convinced myself and I think I'm right I think it was a dolphin on its side because a dolphin on its side would its fin would get tail fin would be the same way and could swim that way so and then I just kept swimming but I mean that scared the [ __ ] out of me well they have seen quite a few of them off the coast of Malibu there's other tons there's no question that like they're there they are way more plentiful than we realize and all you do is talk to the fishermen like the fishermen will tell you they're like you look off Coronado I mean it's like there's non-stop great whites really oh yeah why are you freaking me out Peter the good news is they see us all the time and most the time they realize we're not what they want yeah they want seals yeah whenever they attack us they're making a mistake now is there a like a suit you can wear like Kevlar suit to protect protects you from getting bitten in half no but this is so funny you bring this up I became obsessed with this thing called the Oh what was it called Christ you you put the thing on your ankle like you had like a little velcro thing you'd wrap it on your ankle um had a tail like this long you know like four foot long thing and it was charged and it sends out an electrical impulse that disturbs the [ __ ] out of the Sharks the Sharks nose is an organ that senses electricity so when a shark like that it could be pitch black it could be soot water and they can still scope you you know from hundreds of yards away based on the electrical activity of your heart and that organ is their nose so this little thing I forgot what it was called like the shark taser or some [ __ ] it puts out a signal that like tases them and they don't want to get within like oh there it is chainsaw here the world's first shark deterrent bands called the shark bands worn on the wrist or ankle I don't know I thought it had a different name but because the one that I was gonna get and did a ton of research into had a really long tail hanging off it and that became the problem he's his patented magnetic technology to repel sharks so the tail was a problem because of the drag no because it would it sounds silly but it would come up and zap you in the nuts it's like so it became unbearable to practice swimming in this thing here every 37 seconds you'd get zapped by the tail and I was just like as I like how it says reduce the risk oh yeah hey can I get some numbers please did you see reduce by how much by one seven or statistically and then it also is a leash for your surfboard too you can use one of those to trap it to your strap it to your ankle yeah no it's gonna come to me like in an hour I'll remember what this silly thing was Jamie I'll probably find it off of Catalina I know it's one of the best shark fishing places in the world I have a friend of mine who told me that if you think about like wild places on earth that are just overrun with predators and terrifying like predator prey activity Catalina Island is one of the top spots in the world I was like what are you talking about he's like I'm telling you man the shark fishing off Catalina Island is [ __ ] insane and then I watched a television show just you know synchronicity a couple days later and it was these guys shark fishing off of Catalina I was like what in the [ __ ] I could have never guessed they're catching Makos mostly yeah and and it's actually my recollection because we swam around Catalina once as well the backside is way more aggressive than the front side the side that faces the Pacific side they'd rather that's right yeah there's way more easy stuff yeah I think that's exactly where they were yeah it looked pretty nuts I mean they were bringing in these 15-foot sharks I was like what and the [ __ ] these are just floating around out there

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Published: Tue Apr 24 2018