# Dude goes skinny-dipping in a shark tank
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016 "2018-10-16T07:11:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/1 "2018-10-16T07:11:22Z")
…at the [aquarium in Toronto](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/believe-it-or-not-man-enters-ripley-s-aquarium-strips-naked-and-jumps-into-shark-tank-1.4134201).
I… don’t know what to think.
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/2 "2018-10-16T07:15:10Z")
Hold my beer.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/3 "2018-10-16T08:26:20Z")
Wow. How dumb/drunk can you be?
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/5 "2018-10-16T09:28:05Z")
… at Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto…
Believe it, or not.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/7 "2018-10-16T10:01:47Z")
Most shark attacks are mistaken identity - in murky water, we might look like a seal. Sharks generally don’t want to eat humans, too boney. Especially if they’re sharks that are used to humans swimming around them to take care of the aquarium.
And I don’t see being naked adding any danger - having on a t-shirt and pants wouldn’t protect anything.
I’d probably do it on a dare (and definitely for money) if there were no legal repercussions. Seems like it’d be an experience.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/8 "2018-10-16T11:03:28Z")
Being naked speaks to the guy’s frame of mind — or mindlessness, as the case probably was.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/9 "2018-10-16T12:22:26Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> Most shark attacks are mistaken identity - in murky water, we might look like a seal. Sharks generally don’t want to eat humans, too boney. Especially if they’re sharks that are used to humans swimming around them to take care of the aquarium.
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> And I don’t see being naked adding any danger - having on a t-shirt and pants wouldn’t protect anything.
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> I’d probably do it on a dare (and definitely for money) if there were no legal repercussions. Seems like it’d be an experience.
I agree & would do it for free, or at least if someone paid my [way](https://www.adventureaquarium.com/Aquarium-Admission/Adventures). If it was that dangerous they wouldn’t invite the general public to pay to do it.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/10 "2018-10-16T14:35:29Z")
He must be related to the “fuck that alligator” guy.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dude-goes-skinny-dipping-in-a-shark-tank/823016/11 "2018-10-16T14:38:01Z")
Things went better for him than for the guy who’s last (coherent) words were “[fuck that alligator.](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/texas-man-ignores-alligator-warning)”