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Man who was in metal cage that shark broke into still thinks they're 'beautiful and cute'

The shark crashed into the cage, breaking part of it and carried on inside.

A DIVER WHOSE near miss with a great white shark became a viral video sensation, viewed more than 15 million times on Youtube, says the ocean’s apex predator is “beautiful”.

Chan Ming was on a shark-watching excursion off the Mexican coast when the animal broke into the metal cage protecting him.

Despite their fearsome reputation, sharks do not normally feed on humans, and have to be drawn in with bait.

The shark seized the bait and crashed into the cage, breaking part of it. Unable to swim backwards, it carried on inside, where Chan was alone.

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The advertising executive and part-time diving instructor told AFP that he tried hard to stay calm, “because if I get panicked it will be very horrible in there”.

When the great white shark was breaking into the cage, the inside of its mouth was getting jammed in the cage, and at that moment I was thinking ‘Hey, don’t think about coming in here’.

The video shows the shark apparently bleeding as it thrashes its way out through a gap on top of the cage, which was opened by a crew member.

An agonising 20 seconds pass before Chan, who is from Hong Kong but lives in Shanghai, emerges safely.

The harrowing incident did little to diminish Chan’s fondness for the great white and he went back into the water the next day.

The 51-year-old said, “You know in Chinese we say that ‘Where you fell down, (is) where you need to stand up’.

I still think the shark, the great white, is so beautiful, they’re very beautiful and cute.

In a company statement posted on Facebook, operator Solmar V Luxury Live-Aboard said the shark did not suffer any serious injuries.

“Shark breaches of this magnitude are a one in a million occurrence,” it said.

As unfortunate as it was, it was still an accident.

The company – whose priority is to offer “unique life experiences” – said its cages have been reinforced following the breach, and bait would be thrown further away from them in future.

After his 4 October brush with the great white Chan wrote on his Facebook page that he had been “reborn” and was savouring Cantonese noodle soup and beer, adding: “Everyday are good days.”

- © AFP, 2016

Read: Irishman up for Pride of Australia Medal after he saves friend from great white shark attack>

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    Mute Donnachaín Ní Uallacháin
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    Jun 27th 2017, 10:49 PM

    Where are the pro-life brigade? Why don’t they stand at airports with signs and images of rape to protect the victims of sex trafficking? Wouldn’t that be a better use of their energy and time?

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:05 PM

    @Donnachaín Ní Uallacháin: most of them were a victim already in their own countries and by the way would any of them able to read the signs?

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    Jun 27th 2017, 10:50 PM

    Does the fact that more trafficked people are being identified not mean the system is getting better at finding them?? Or am I missing something?

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    Jun 27th 2017, 10:56 PM

    @Lurfic: no it means that the government pathetic way to stop trafficking by punishing the buyer clearly isn’t working and is driving it further underground making it more dangerous for those involved.

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:15 PM

    @Nucky: So Nucky is saying we should punish the trafficked.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 9:04 AM

    @Lurfic: No you are not missing anything nor do The IMI ever miss an opportunity to criticise a chance to slag off Ireland nor do they miss a chance to collect the funding we give them.

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:03 PM

    The ICI are against legalised prostitution which would reduce the number of trafficking so I don’t see why they are saying that more needs to be done. They are a government funded organisation so putting out these statements are routine regardless of statistics.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 12:32 AM

    @Dj: the anti trafficking legislation is woefully inadequate and as part of the ff pd’s programme for government was supposed to be brought in line with what they have in the uk. However, it was never implementedand still haven’t been implemented.

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:08 PM

    The sex trade being kept illegal and swept under the carpet by an alliance of feminists and the Christian Taliban of course has nothing to do with giving gangsters ever more control of things…

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:06 PM

    Seems to me the only way to bring this to the surface is to.male it legal and tax it, like certain drugs, sometimes if you stop fighting it by embracing it will sort out a major part of the problem,

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    Jun 28th 2017, 12:10 AM

    @Mick Hannigan: Except that these women – and they are mostly wome- have no right to work here,….they are immigrants- so it is kept underground no matter what legislation we bring in..

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    Jun 28th 2017, 7:32 AM

    @EvieXVI: if you legalised it, the buyers would likely use legal sources meaning there will no longer be profit in trafficking people here for Sex. Help the men and women involved now, yes absolutely. But also concentrate on ensuring no others will be trafficked here for sex in future. And by legalising and taxing it, things will be much more in the open.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 8:39 AM

    @Mick Hannigan: That doesn’t work. When prostitution is legalised the number of people (women and children) skyrockets.

    Read up on it. The most effective thing at reducing human trafficking is to make the purchasing and sale of sex illegal, the next most effective is making the purchasing of sex illegal and the sale of sex decriminalised.

    Here in Germany prostitution is completely legal, and they have one of the worst problems in the world with human trafficking for sex. There are also many children being trafficked for sex.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 8:45 AM

    @sue: Unfortunately, that’s not what happens. It sounds like it would be a good idea, but it just doesn’t work that way.

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:10 PM

    Ireland could of been a great safe country, how people of all ages have been brought in here illegal sold on for God knows what. Like our crime our media still doesn’t print the full story. Even when it was happening for years they didn’t. Ireland been a new country only really booming since the Celtic Tiger era . Could of stoped all these issues by looking at other countries when they grew.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 9:15 AM

    @: *have

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:26 PM

    You can go anywhere in Dublin with a smart phone and get an escort / dodgy massage with trafficked women. Quick search and you are less than 10minutes from finding someone through the millions of classified ads online. A friend was in Spain recently where prostitution is legal and searched on his phone but couldn’t find anything like the same extent here and how much easier it was here.

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:53 PM

    @James Baxter: Yes, a friend.

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    Mute Time to Wake Up
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    Jun 28th 2017, 12:21 AM

    The realities of the country we live in :( and the “irish brides”

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:39 PM

    ah right yeah….’a friend’

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    Jun 27th 2017, 11:09 PM

    Ye don’t hear much about those people held captive, Neath I think it was, twenty odd there was, all their pay was paid into one bank account by a waste disposal company.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 10:49 AM

    Wondering……..me being a retired Nurse, Do the people using these sex workers, women & men….have regular health checkups ??
    Only saying. I think they should.

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    Jun 28th 2017, 10:22 PM

    Trafficking is slavery and people found guilty of it should be charged with slavery and kidnapping. They should also be given life sentences, BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM! Feminist groups have convinced the government to give any prostitute who’s been arrested by the guards and CLAIMS that they’ve been trafficked refugee status if they’re here illegally, instead of deporting them as would normally happen. I would be interested to know how many people IF ANY were convicted for trafficking them. What interests me more is why would they want prostitutes who have already applied for asylum to be treated in the same way. Unless for the same reason. If I have any of this wrong . Please reply

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    Jun 28th 2017, 10:24 PM

    @Michael: ^ny misogynistic granda

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    Jun 28th 2017, 11:00 PM

    @Michael: If you have a rebuttal argument make it . If anything I said is untrue SHOW US.
    NAME CALLING IS JUST IGNORANCE !

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