There a couple of problems with this.

What happens if u punch a shark in the nose. In the extremely rare instance of a prolonged negative encounter the stereotypical advice is to punch the shark on the nose. As it turns out this is usually a very bad idea that can result in losing your fingers hand or even arm. What is a sharks weakness.

Thats okay but remember that just underneath the nose is a mouth says Peirce. Punching him in the face going for his eyes try to keep your hands out of his mouth. Now imagine a dip in the ocean.

Popping a shark on the tip of its nose should make it retreat at least temporarily. 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. I had read years ago that in such situations the best way to avert an overly-interested shark is to punch or bump its snout.

The rumor is that a good hard punch to the snout is going to send a shark reeling. If that fails claw. As any armchair ichthyologist will tell you the most sensitive part of a shark is its electroreceptive snout.

0134 Unlike other animal attacks if you happen to get attacked by a shark you need to strategically strike back. 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. An aggressive shark often will return however and each subsequent hit to the snout will be less effective.

Have you ever tried punching underwater. The reason could be the tiny electrical receptors called ampullae of Lorenzini that speckle the area around sharks noses and mouths. One is that its super hard to punch anything underwater making a good thump on the nose pretty unrealistic.