1. Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only springs to mind. I seem to remember a few Bond films where they tried to provoke sharks into killing James.

   1. Laser beams. you gotta have frickin’ laser beams on their heads to get things started. Yeah baby!!!!

2. Well, I’ve always wondered about the thinking of Surfers who decide it would be a good idea to don a jet back wet suit, and play in the surf doing a fairly good job of mimicking the activities of Great White’s favorite food — Seals

3. I suspect “provoked” largely refers to fishermen but people do stupid things. Quite a few have been bitten while hand-catching sedentary, non-aggressive lemon sharks. Grab one by the tail on a drunken dare and you get to learn about how flexible cartilaginous fish can be.

4. One shark to the next, “Hey, these are great eating but be sure to spit the mask out”.

   1. Not, “All the vitamins are in that tough hide?”

5. A South Australian man has invented a “sharkproof” wetsuit. It has recently been tested in Australia by a former US Navy SEAL who was once bitten by a shark so badly it required 14 bags of blood to save his life.

   Read about the wetsuit here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10437615/Worlds-shark-proof-WETSUIT-launched-Aussie-company.html

   Better still, stay out of the ocean.

   1. …or at a minimum, stay out of the ocean off the Australian coast, as everything there (not just sharks) wants to kill you.

6. Who decides what constitutes provocation to a shark?

   1. Rough guess, “being in the same zip code” would qualify.

      1. Same zip code and look edible – or threatening.

   2. The shark, of course!

7. Easy, an idiot with a camera (still or motion).

8. Faced with that picture I’d quite like to let it eat a grenade.

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