What these two men do to help sharks is pretty amazing! Friends Cameron Nimmo and Chris Cameron have made it their mission to help sharks that have been pierced with fishing hooks and remove them from their mouths, noses, and bodies. By flipping a shark onto its back, the animal goes into a trance-like state, which allows the men to pull out the nasty hooks.
In this video, they came across a silky shark with a hook protruding from its mouth and show the technique they use to remove it!
They wrote on YouTube:
“Cameron is seen over stimulating the ampullae of Lorenzini which is a sensory organ located in the nose of sharks use for electrical signal detection. When over stimulated is places the sharks into a sleep like state allowing Chris just seconds to reach in and grab the lodged hook to pull it out.”
“Both divers observed that the shark’s eating habits were being affected by the hook which was not rusting out. Once removed, the shark stayed with the divers for hours passing by closely and locking eyes as if to say “thank you”.
Hooks are often left in the sharks after being caught and released by fishermen. The men are part of a diving group, who go by the name Shark Addicts. They say on average about 75 percent of the ten to twenty sharks they encounter have hooks in them. They hope their videos will raise awareness about sharks’ precarious position in the ecosystem and show that humans pose more of a threat to them than they do to us.
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