What Andy Casagrande has said about Great white shark

Casagrande believes Mick Fanning's leash likely prevented the shark from biting him at Jeffreys Bay.

“I mean it was probably his leash that potentially prevented him from actually getting bit”

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Casagrande says he feels less nervous underwater with visible sharks than floating at the surface where he cannot see them.

“I feel way more comfortable under the water with sharks and obviously being able to see them than ever floating at the surface”

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Casagrande says sharks that are chummed or fed become habituated to boats and people.

“Anywhere where you get sharks that are being fed, whether it's chummed for fishing, chummed for diving, they do. They become habituated”

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Casagrande proposes using AI and environmental variables to predict the probability of negative shark encounters at particular beaches.

“if we could learn, like, what makes a place more dangerous than another place, even use AI to predict, like, shark attack – what's the word? Predict like negative shark encounter probability”

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Casagrande reports detecting two great whites tagged a thousand miles and two years apart arriving at the same offshore Naples tower on the same night within an hour of each other.

“both of these great white sharks showed up at the exact same day on the exact same night within an hour of each other at 10 o'clock at night on this offshore like rig system, this Navy tower”

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Casagrande says sharks' fearsome reputation vastly exceeds their actual lethality, killing fewer than ten people a year.

“it's like they have the best marketing team on the planet they kill less than single digits every year yet they're the biggest baddest motherfuckers monsters ever to have lived”

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Casagrande argues sharks matter because they balance ocean ecosystems that supply most of the oxygen humans breathe.

“Sharks, they're balancing the oceans, right? And without the oceans being healthy, we have less air to breathe”

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Casagrande says no one has documented great whites mating and that fin-mounted remote cameras are the likeliest way to capture it.

“no one has ever documented great whites getting it on”

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Casagrande says humans are clearly not on sharks' menu because otherwise attacks would be a daily occurrence.

“clearly we're not on the menu because if we were and sharks realized that humans were a viable prey item, there would be attacks every single day”

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