A sharks hide is very tough and its his course as 60 grit sandpaper if you punch a shark in the nose youre going to cut your hand up.

What happens if you punch a shark in the nose. Now imagine a dip in the ocean. What happens if you punch a shark in the nose. Despite the old saying that aiming for the snout is the best strategy a sharks most sensitive areas are really its eyes and its gills.

Lets look at the numbers. Discovery Channels highly anticipated Shark Week has begun and INSIDE EDITION spent some time swimming with sharks and got some tips from shark expert Andy. So punching is okay but aim for the peeper instead of the sniffer.

It was really more of a polite shove to get the shark to pass to one side. Which will excite the shark through sense of smell. If a shark bites you what we recommend is you should hit the shark in the eye in the nose or stick your hand in the gills says Chris Lowe of the California State University Long Beach Shark Lab in an instructional video.

THE FACTS -- Forget for a moment that the odds of being attacked by a shark at the beach are minuscule. THE CLAIM -- Fight off a shark by punching it in the nose. As any armchair ichthyologist will tell you the most sensitive part of a shark is its electroreceptive snout.

While shark noses are sensitive their gills and eyes are much more vulnerable. Punching one in the nose probably wont do enough damage to stun it and youve got the added problem of being a little too close for comfort to its enormous gaping jaws source. So I made my hand into a fist and as the shark continued straight at me I lightly bumped its snout when the shark was about one foot away.

Watch me play games livehttptwitchtvthejustinflynn -- wwwtwitchtvthejustinflynnc2947307utm_campaignarchive_exportutm_sourcethejustinflynnutm_. If a shark bites you what we recommend is you should hit the shark in the eye in the nose or stick your hand in the gills says Chris Lowe of the California State University Long Beach Shark Lab in an instructional video. This has given rise to the belief that a sharp punch in the nose will repel almost any shark attack.