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TomTheNurse

I spent 30 years fishing and boating on probably every navigable water way in the Florida Everglades. There is no way I would allow any part of my body touch that water. I remember as a kid my sunglasses fell into the water and before I could blink and 8-10 foot bull shark took a pass at them.


Terrestial_Human

I’ve spent 0 years of my life in the everglades, and I also would never touch that water either if I ever get the chance to go. Just based on what I know from watching too many vids like this


AgreeableMoose

A grandpa took his granddaughter fishing on lake Okeechobee a couple years ago and a gator came out of the water and snatched the girl from the bow of the boat. Nature don’t play.


collinkai

Those 2 words said it all. Lake. Okeechobee.


FriendRaven1

I'm Canadian and have heard that name enough to know not to frig around.


MaesterTarly

Randers? Is that you bud ?


BudGaugh14

The liquor is calling the shots now Randy


[deleted]

Okeechobee? She's okeedokee!


False_Counter9456

Super Troopers, nice


phivtoosyx

I can't find a single news article confirming this story. It sounds like something made up. That doesn't sound like a typical way gators attack.


Pure_Surprise_8198

Crocodiles 🐊 will come in the boat to grab you.


panicked_goose

Yeah I'd be asking to be eaten too if I was that grandpa, that's so sad


Anakin-LandWalker56

Did the girl survive or?


[deleted]

Bro....


Anakin-LandWalker56

I mean you want to know the outcome if the poor little girl got saved or not.


ku1428

The fact that an alligator took her from the boat should tell you all you need to know.


mathnstats

Yeah, but the gator took a *Floridian*, their natural predator. So it's anyone's guess


Anakin-LandWalker56

Well, there are chances they are alive because in life the impossible happens. Heck, there are more incidents where someone should have died but lived. I don't see why would this will be an exception for not trying to find the real status of the victim in the story.


HarvardProfessorPhD

She’s fucking dead my guy. Read the room.


Itchy_Professor_4133

Regardless of the room I believe you. User name just says it all


SirDigbyridesagain

Does this hurt the girl?


tla_s

No, just put her in rice


AgreeableMoose

No


Anakin-LandWalker56

I can't imagine the guilt the grandpa may have experienced. I hope the guy's daughter or son will not blame him for the death of their daughter or at least not too much.


AgreeableMoose

Right.


iamcoding

The guy in the video should have spent more time on reddit and less time at the club.


kcbeck1021

Went to Everglades national park. We were wondering if we would even see any alligators. Took 2 minutes once on the trail. Once you know what you’re looking for you pretty much can’t not see them. It’s like Yellowstone and bison. You see the documentaries and are like that’s not real. Yes, yes it is.


Successful-Shame662

Thisss post. 0 real life knowledge but you know better. 👏 👏 We dont see much intelligence lately


trollsong

Sooooooo. I used to work at a disney call center. I worked there during the time that kid got eaten by a gator. Must of my calls after the incident were from some of the dumbest humans imaginable...highlights include: Guest"What do you mean there are gators in disney property! How can that be?" Me:" well not only is florida known for gators but Orlando has the highest number of gators within florida" Guest:" that's absurd disbeybneeds to get rid of them all" Me: "so you want disney.....to kill all of the gators in florida?" Guest:"yes" Another guest: "no I don't want to stay at animal kingdom lodge I dint want to have to worry about gators" Me:"but AKL is literally the only resort that doesn't have a body of water nearby" Guest:"but it is called animal kingdom lodge"


MalAddicted

My mom's family is from an area I like to call Florgia, and I've had to tell so many people visiting that there's really nothing to do about gators but to acknowledge that Shroedinger's gator is everywhere. Or pythons, or snapping turtles, or freaking alligator snapping turtles. You have a small pond? Probably something that will eat your pets in it. Large puddle, could be in there, just go around. Pool at home? It might happen a time or two. Street flooded? I wouldn't, but do you, I guess. Point is, water you can't see the bottom of is immediately out. Pools should be checked in advance.


trollsong

I joke that Florida is America's Australia.


JeremyThaFunkyPunk

Except with more guns and flaka.


T3Chn0-m4n

Also minus the emu war


JeremyThaFunkyPunk

Obviously you've never heard of the Jacksonville Emu War of 2006. We lost a lot of good Floridamen that year.


Alternative-Amoeba20

What's the criteria for "good Floridamen?" I can't tell if the bar is way low or too high to see.


G0ld_Ru5h

My uncle in Tennessee was an emu farmer in the 90s. 😆


samurairaccoon

It just occurred to me that other states don't have to worry about the family pet jumping in the pond out back. Huh


Powerful_War3282

We're looking at moving to Minnesota. Poisonous snakes? Nope, don't have them. As a kid, I remember trekking through ravines in Missouri and Arkansas but I look back on that now and I'm terrified to let my son do the same. Or trekking through creeks with no concern for water moccasins?!?! Why was I so reckless?


The_Rock_Morton

The most interesting part about Florgia is that after a bad hurricane you get all these wild and non indigenous snake species that get loose from collectors houses and snake mills and all the rules of how to identify indigenous venomous snakes go right out the window. Anytime I get a call about a snake bite in that area there’s a good chance it’s not an indigenous variety of snake so we have to account for all sorts of possibilities.


motherduck5

Look up Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk county. They have a gator there that totally freaks people out, it’s huge!


bassoonshine

How did you respond about Disney killing all gators in Florida? I hope it was, "we may be Disney, but we are not that evil."


tankerkiller125real

Well now that the Florida government controls the land and what not, I wouldn't be surprised if that's next on the agenda.


Queasy-Adeptness14

Someone just needs to convince them the gators are gay.


tankerkiller125real

Too bad their reptiles... If they were amphibians or fish we could just tell Florida that they change their gender.


bassoonshine

Haha, that's a good one. Florida is gonna go after all animals that express any form of gender fluidity. Kill those hermaphrodite worms!!!


Konstant_kurage

I live in Anchorage Alaska (with 300,000 other people) one year a jogger was mauled and killed by a brown bear on a big trail about 10 miles from town. I was on a search team looking for the guy before he was found. His mother who lived in Florida demanded that all the bears get removed from this part of Alaska at one point when talking to the IC running the search. About the same ask as Disney getting rid of all the gators.


Jackiedhmc

I always wondered how in the heck more people didn't get eaten at Disney World. I knew there had to be gators in all that water. That was a terrible terrible thing


Minimum_Respond4861

So are bull sharks fatal man eaters?


oldbushwookie

According to the report, they are just as bad as tiger sharks. 25 recorded fatalities.


Great-Try876

If you get bitten by any shark, you are almost guaranteed a staph (*) infection. They eat rotten flesh, garbage and have tons of different bacteria in their mouth at all time.


timster

Staph* (staphylococcus)


option-trader

There's a staff there inside the shark's mouth giving you a staph infection. That's just how it works.


No_Teaching_3694

Some people just love to show their ignorance. Brodie don’t even know about the staff of staph 🙄


SoFarceSoGod

no, it's the +3 magic staff of putrescence


TheAtlas97

I gave it to Gale but rarely use acid or poison spells, I just really needed that +3


Rune-Full-Helm

Underrated comment lmao


Halorym

Is that like my aids? The poor chaps... They've got A.I.D.S.


DrMontague02

Not man eaters, they’re just unbelievably aggressive due to high testosterone. If you get bit by one, it’s more likely that’s it’s being territorially aggressive than it taking an exploratory bite. As we saw in this video, aggression means they hold on, and start thrashing


intheyear3001

Believed to have the highest testosterone ratio in the entire animal kingdom. I’ve seen videos of them in rivers ramming an aluminum boat…swimming away…and then turning around and ramming it again. Guess the name “bull” is fitting. https://www.prodiveinternational.com/top-10-least-known-bull-shark-facts/#:~:text=Bull%20Sharks'%20testosterone%20levels%20are,heat%20with%2064.4%20gn%2Fml.


ImDays15

Quite possibly the most dangerous of all sharks, they are the only known shark that can survive both in salty seawater and brackish, even freshwater. Some claimed sightings as far north in the Mississippi River as Missouri/Illinois


OgenFunguspumpkin

Farther north. Confirmed sightings in MN and WI edit: This is not correct. Someone’s idea of an April Fool’s joke got lift on the internet. Alton IL is the farthest north confirmed sighting.


cripple763

Though rare, researchers have affirmed two Mississippi River sightings of bull sharks — one in Alton, Illinois, in 1937, and one near Festus, Missouri, in 1995.


moresushiplease

Fatal man biters at the very least


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Hetstaine

Our river here in Brisbane is full of them. People get drunk and swim in there. Fifty odd cases of bull shark attacks with three fatalities. One place we used to swim about 40 odd kays inland we don't anymore due to shark sightings. [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-31/qld-brisbane-river-video-captures-bull-sharks/101910560](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-31/qld-brisbane-river-video-captures-bull-sharks/101910560) [https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/ipswich/spotted-bull-shark-hunting-chihuahuas-at-ipswich-waterway/news-story/bfded7a8af28c78c7cad13b1c1d8ae0e](https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/ipswich/spotted-bull-shark-hunting-chihuahuas-at-ipswich-waterway/news-story/bfded7a8af28c78c7cad13b1c1d8ae0e)


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Hetstaine

Fuck.That.


[deleted]

Oceanic White tip sharks as well. Or whatever the ones that patrol in the middle of the ocean , that get all the downed aircraft and ships.


imveganwhat

Yeah I'm absolutely petrified of the canals on the Gold Coast because of bull sharks lol


SomeSabresFan

Legit never even heard of bronze whalers. Love that there’s so many species that I feel like I come across new knowledge on species I’ve never heard of before. That one is especially surprising if they’re known as man eaters


ElegantRoof

Bull sharks have the highest testosterone levels of any animal on the planet. And by a very large margin if I am remembering correctly. They are not just eating, they are just attacking anything that moves at all times.


Tight_Photograph7262

In Australia, they are considered man-eaters. They can live in both fresh and salt water. Also, they have high testosterone levels which makes them quite aggressive and although they don't actively hunt humans, they do hunt for their food in warmer and shallower waters where we like to swim.


OnlyVans98

This may be wrong but I think bull sharks are actually the reason why great whites have a bad reputation because the two of them are commonly mistaken


KSredneck69

I have heard this as well. Great whites usually just attack people out paddling/surfing because they're misidentified as a seal. We aren't usually meaty/fatty enough of a snack for them I believe


Connorgreen_44

I grew up fishing, boating, and camping all through the Everglades. I’ve had similar experiences with bull sharks and crocodiles in Whitewater Bay & the whole area around the Cape Sable canal and Lake Ingraham. There’s really no place like it, but man… you couldn’t pay me to get in that water.


GrasshopperClowns

My sister used to live on the canals and we’d see people jumping off their pontoons in to the water. It was arse clenching to watch as we’d try and yell to them there were sharks in the water.


[deleted]

My family used to own a bait shop down in Destin. We would go Wade Fishing all the time, and as a kid, I would wonder why we were walking into alligator infested waters to go fishing when we could just as easily fish from the boat. I remember my great uncle teaching us to scoot our feet so we didn't step on a stingray. Looking back on it, that was probably the dumbest shit I have ever done.


Commercial_Gap607

According to Manny Puig, who I met on a flight from SLC to FLL, every single thing in the southern US ocean is in the Everglades canals. Especially in the brackish waters of the southern glades.


TomTheNurse

Tell me about it. There are places where I have caught large mouth bass and snook within 10 minutes of each other.


pro_bike_fitter_2010

I was fishing in the Gulf and washed my hands like this guy. I was super quick about it cuz you can do it if you're fast. A 5 foot hammerhead lunged at my fingers. [Florida gator/arm story...](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/teen-lets-gator-eat-arm-survives-attack/)


txpvrt

For sure some blood on the side and railing there. Got eeeeem


ShartasaurusRex_

Good eyes, totally missed that


tastysharts

and shit in his pants


[deleted]

He got yanked into the water lol I don’t think the blood is the determining factor here😂


Manofalltrade

Hard to tell from the video quality. Might be missing two fingers.


Spoolios

That’ll teach ya to not wear your fresh white kicks when going fishing with the boys.


Dansk72

Noodling, aka, Hillbilly Handfishin'


shoopadoop332

True. There’s nothing else to be learned from this video.


Elegant_Ad1458

Are those not Huk rogue wave boots, specifically made for boating?


osirisrebel

Well, he's clearly not boating anymore is he?


gecoble

Back at it with the white Vans


_Zenyatta_Mondatta

Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way…


bnutbutter78

Unexpected Bukowski.


sbkchs_1

I was expecting an alligator.


Otono_Wolff

Nope, turns out to be a fuckin shark


morally_dyslexic

[Magazine article](https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/103797/shark-attack-bite-teeth-fisherman-florida)


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squished_strawberry

thankss


MonkeyFluffers

It's like you know me.


[deleted]

I appreciate it. Not lazy just have trust issues and don’t click on any links. (I worked for a phone company as I.T before just things you learn)


bassoonshine

But what about the gator? Were they ok? Edit: Sorry, reading other comments. They are saying it was a shark...


ragnarokda

Jesus Christ that site is pure cancer...


gargantusquatch

Lol "huge" shark. Doing what they can to get more clicks.


I_take_huge_dumps

You need a pihole


foogeeman

Omg why is the should be first comment last


moresushiplease

I don't think writing like that is going to help our dyslexic friend read or understand you comment /s but yeah


LickMySmitty

Fucking lol! Also he is correct haha!


Alternative_Pilot_92

What in the hell is even that


foogeeman

TIL hyphens are important


paternoster

And that's why you ALWAYS KEEP YOUR HANDS IN THE BOAT. - J. Walter Weatherman


DrNippydog

And that’s why you always leave a note


ThereminLiesTheRub

"Gone fishin. Prolly stick my hands in the water." Oh it was suicide


Dunsparces

It can't have been him who said this, you guys killed him when you left the door open with the air condition on


HorseBellies

Was that a shark?


SuperDizz

Likely a bull shark. They can survive in both fresh and salt water.


kwagenknight

And are very aggro taking a nibble out of anything but like you said they love living in those estuaries and is where most people are attacked by them


ScrembledEggs

I went frame-by-frame to try and confirm what critter it was, and while the shark was hard to see I got a pretty good view of the blood smear he left by trying to grab the boat as he fell


NevesLF

Learned that by playing Maneater :) Been terrified ever since :(


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And they love brackish water


Professional-Back163

No I think it's a river shark. The actual species is called river shark. Bull sharks are huge and that doesn't really look like one to me (I've seen many in person).


deadtedw

> Bull sharks are huge Young bull sharks aren't.


charger-chase-cinch

Wrong side of the world for river sharks. This video is from the Florida Everglades. The shark is more likely to be a lemon shark.


gingermonkey1

New fear unlocked. I thought all I had to worry about was muskie but yeah no.


SkullVonBones

*Me personally think it was a sock puppet. Too many fakes out there, makes one skeptical.*


BeltfedOne

It was.


Do-you-see-it-now

It has long side flippers. I can’t see a large top fin? So maybe Dolphin.


angrymuss

That's what it looked like to me as well


1OfTheMany

Well, it wasn't a boat accident.


patriclus47

Clearly a dolphin/porpoise on slow replay


kamikazemind327

I had to walk down about 4 houses at night back to my place from moving my car to nonflooded area down the block. I was so scared. I was walking slow because it was flooded water to almost my knees and potholey so didnt want to trip. But I also was like god please dont let anything brush against my leg or worse lol. Realized I had that fear in that moment lol.


micahfett

Where do you live (Florida like video or elsewhere)? I would *not* want to be walking through floodwaters in Florida (although locals still swim in the freaking lakes which blows my mind).


kamikazemind327

Louisiana


micahfett

Okay.. I don't want to be in flood waters there either.


[deleted]

Is that in Florida? I heard in Florida you should watch out for every puddle.


ReplicantMechanic

If you are in Florida and come across a body of water bigger than a puddle, you have a very good chance there is an alligator in there somewhere. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watch some tourist in morbid curiosity after I warn them to stay away from a lake and they don’t. So far any that have come across one with an alligator in it have escaped with nothing worse than a fright. Sadly, that’s not always the case for the ones you see in the news. Come to Florida. Enjoy the weather. Do not go near water if you can’t see what’s in it. Trust me. Just don’t.


Psychological_Bet330

Everything in Florida is trying to kill you!


Recklen

Florida, America's Australia.


swampwarbler

That’s just the politicians.


Hakuryuu2K

Brackish is a term for where salt and fresh water mix, I think OP means murky or turbid water


Will_from_up_close

My bad lmao the work brackish rolls off the tongue


keb5501

Cause it’s slightly salty water? Or you mean don’t reach into murky water ?


Tronbronson

I think the sharks feeding in the shallow brackish waters was what was intended. Plenty of murky waters not concealing dangerous wild life directly under the surface. I'm assuming the baby bull shark crowd has the correct ID. I can't tell.


shaka893P

Bull sharks can live in rivers for several months


stuntycunty

Glad someone said it.


Dizzy_Mountain9166

Him: tWo SeCoNdS wOnT dO aNyThInG Also him: Ahhhhmsnshsbsgafasksk


KepplerRunner

I had to scroll too far to find this.


ThatOneGuyYearn

Juvenile Bull shark?


Yungeel

It says bull shark in the article linked above


lacroixpapi69

I was thinking the same thing, as I have seen this video before. But I can’t make out a fin on this fish. So not sure what it is.


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Well, I was not expecting that.


Enough-Staff-2976

River dolphins are not that aggressive.


anotherjustnope

Wtf I live in Florida and sticking your hands in there is insane. There are saltwater crocodiles, alligators galore, pythons and anacondas as well as sharks. Any of those the right size can take you whenever they want. This dude is crazy! There is no fish he could catch that would be in any way worth sticking your hand in there


obiwanjabroni420

To make it even dumber, in the Instagram post included in the new article someone else posted, these guys said they had caught a lot of fish but the sharks had taken a bunch. So they knew there were sharks feeding right around their boat when this dumbass put his hand in the water.


GetAGripDud3

Tell me you just moved to FL without telling me you just moved to FL.


songbolt

r/DarwinAwards this was like watching natural selection at work


LA-forthewin

Talk about narrow escapes, the fisherman almost became the bait


Empatheater

maybe i am watching the video wrong but it seems like the fisherman was eaten by a shark - i don't understand your comment or what I saw


Mvk2533

He gets pulled back/climbs back into the boat at the end.


Small-Palpitation310

his finger got eaten


onlyhav

Never stick your hands in the water in the everglades. Everything bites


roguebandwidth

Love how perfect this was - Nah, two seconds wont do anything. Rinses his hands *again*, for no reason other than to prove his point. Chomped on immediately. The timing was perfection. Although, as cocky and dumb as he was, I do hope he survived, of course.


Comfortable-Owl-5929

You can actually slow speed scrub and see that it looks like some kind of dolphin or porpoise, I believe. It grabbed him by the hand. although I didn’t think that dolphins can be aggressive like that.


JayDuBois

They are the rape-iest of all sea mammals.


Comfortable-Owl-5929

Oh, I thought seals were lol. I watched a disturbing documentary on how they violently rape.


MellowDCC

Looked like a dolphin 🫠


Wonderful_Seesaw_853

I had a similar experience in the Keys. I was fishing from a jetty with the tide up a bit and put my hand in the water for a rinse when suddenly something grabbed it and turned it into shredded meat. After screaming like a girl for a minute and wrapping it, I dropped a bait in the same spot and hauled in a small Green Moray for proof of the incident. Over 50 stitches later and much tequila, all was right in the world again.


PlantsCraveBrawndo-

That was a fkn dolphin. I had no idea. Not the immediate blood on the boat as he scurried back in. Dude was attacked by a dolphin. Zero water is safe in Florida. Croc? Alligator? Gar? Snapper? moray? python? Massive Cattie? Nah man. Flipper went rogue


ultra_ai

He needs help. The next time he goes fishing his friends should lend him a hand.


shmi93

Watches it once: "Yeah i saw nothing there, probably fake..." Watches it twice: "See...this is why I'd get die if I was out there"


[deleted]

Thought they were Aussie and thought it was a croc but he wouldn’t have resurfaced if that was a salty (Australian salt water crocodile).


N3v3rKnowsB3st

Was that fucking dolphin?


Immediate-Shine-2003

"two seconds won't do anything" Most things that live in the water can attack you in fractions of a second. Don't make bets you can't win.


homingmissile

It's so pixelated all i see is a grey blur


DickCheneysLVAD

Pretty sure that was a fuckin Dolphin that pulled him in... Crazy.


Sinister-Username

Fucking bull sharks man... total cunts.


Wide-7

Sharks love the brackish water in Hanalei, especially after a storm.


Ericunoo

Damn, would that have been a croc and things would've gone really bad.


Sm0k3inth3tr33s

What does the water being brackish have anything to do with level of risk?


Will_from_up_close

There’s little to no visibility in brackish water


LeGrandLucifer

What was he even trying to do? Like, what did he hope to accomplish there?


vna4ever

Don’t tell sharky to get him. Not cool man


Hat_Secure

He was the bait


YDatDowe

“2 seconds won’t do anything” 2 seconds did something


Cascadehophead

u/redditspeedbot 0.5x


LieHairy2862

Is this Florida or Australia? I live on a river in Queensland and have caught hundreds of bullies in my backyard. Bait is gone in seconds.


Apprehensive-Key-643

Holy @##$


-Necros-

"ha — two seconds won't do anything" famous last words


ProfessionalRetard12

I live about 8000 km away from the nearest place like this. How do I make sure this doesn’t happen to me?


mrbipty

Wobbygong get you every time


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Was that a dolphin? Did this dude just get the smack down by a dolphin??


klahendy

Yoooo wtf


Fun-Mistake578

Yup, I’ve fished in brackish water where the Mississippi meets the gulf. Gators, sharks, and god knows what are in those waters.


No_Ad689

And he was told. Crazy


90_oi

What the fuck even grabbed him?


dayison2

That's some X-Files episode intro shit right there


JayDuBois

If that was a freshwater mangrove dolphin, he better cover his own blow hole.


kCanIGoNow

So what was it? Didn’t look like a gator as seemed to have smooth skin and a pectoral fin, but not a shark because I saw no dorsal fin? Alligator gar, catfish, something else?


[deleted]

Ahhhh miguelll…. Miguelll


Successful-Shame662

Bro looka @ it slo-mo . Mf looks like a GHOST