Of the bunch of encounters I’ve seen barracudas there was only one that one seemed to take an interest in me. It was really weird. It was down in the Virgin Islands, and he was huge. He started following me back to this boat we were using as our dive boat. Only time I’ve ever been actually scared. But I literally have seen hundreds and they just kind of float there and chill with the current and hang out. The hammerhead I saw which was swimming around and left after a few minutes - actually it may have been like a scalloped head shark but they look almost the same so it’s hard to tell a difference.
Pretty much 100% of the time sharks leave you the fūck alone unless you’re somewhere where they developed a conditioned response to being fed, like certain areas in the Bahamas, but that is offshore.
if I ever get the time, and I can talk my wife into it, I want to go down to the Galapagos islands and dive there. During certain times of the year they have literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hammerhead sharks, big ones, that school and you just dive under them and just watch them go above. It’s a pretty inspiring sight, I’ve seen it like on some of those National Geographic type shows
