Whenever a shark comes too close and some body contact is likely, it is necessary to touch the shark the correct way. The procedure is called "Face-Guide-Push-Move."

If you believe all the "experts" out there of how to withdraw when a shark shows up, you should do it "fast, quick..." But the opposite is true. An approaching shark will not turn around and swim off should you swim as fast as you can away from it but the opposite... Unfortunately the internet is full of wrongful advices when it comes to the interaction with sharks. And withdrawing is one of them.

Whenever we are in contact with a shark, environmental factors play an important role. Although some are more obvious than others (visibility, current, surface, bottom, reef...), many of those have never been scientifically explored, thus plenty of these factors are mere assumptions. Nevertheless, due to the number of observations a fair amount of these factors can be seen as a fact.

Sharks choose their way of approaching, revealing their intentions. The better a pattern is understood, the easier it is for a person to interact with this particular shark.

A shark does not just swim up to a person, by chance, it chooses a certain approach pattern. Each of these patterns have a meaning. They all possess an entry and an exit point, making it easy to predict the pattern once the entry point has been defined. Should the pattern be interrupted (and the shark does not follow the pattern anymore), a new factor came into play which can often quickly be determined. Understanding a shark's intention is paramount to any interaction with these animals, and the chosen approach pattern of a shark offers important informations.

Most people are afraid of sharks but don't really know why. Several fears and their causes come together when facing a shark. This episode looks into the different forms of fear when being in contact with a shark, and how those fears can be overcome.

Everybody believes that surfers are bitten by white sharks because they resemble seals. Well that theory is not correct as our latest scientific publication in the 'Journal of Marine Biology' shows.

The internet is full with suggestions and recommendations of what to do when a shark comes too close. Most of them are wrong. Here, I give a rundown of suggestions that really work. All of them have been tested over and over.

In this episode I talk about how it all started, what hurdles I had to take, the problems I had and what the early goals were.

Human motion can be very attractive to sharks, but not just the sound component but water displacement, as well. Thus, whenever a shark comes closer it uses its inner ears as well as the lateral line system. Here I describe the use of these two organs and how we should move in the closer vicinity of present sharks.