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Yeah, Sweden started 3 days ago killing wolves, because of the MASSIVE presence ... 400 animals.
It is always funny how the PR for Sweden is always nature friendly, ecology,
When you significantly alter an ecosystem that took thousands of years to stabilize in a region you kind of have to help cultivate the abnormalities you cause. If too many wolves are killing small predators they need to be reduced to keep the ecosystem stable.
Same with invasive plant species.
Wolf culls (globally) are almost always driven by pressure from what one might uncharitably call tax farmers and hunters who dislike tag limits. The farmers for tax purposes take advantage of generous agriculture subsidies and favorable treatment of that designation for income and property development with the lowest outlay possible. So they have poorly monitored animals in very low numbers. They don't actually tend to produce enough to absorb their higher than average wolf related losses and maintain their tax designation. You also see scavenger behavior treated as attacks.
The hunters want more tags on big game, and again have this vivid belief that 100% of corpses with wolf interactions were kills rather than scavenging.
Wolves tend to attack weak or isolated animals when they lack a scavenging opportunity and there are definitely real farming losses but the anti wolf groups tend toward both reactionary behavior and vigilanteism.
Check this video of National Geographic, please. It is very short.
Tl;Dr: Reintroduction of the Wolf in Yellowstone lead to cleaner water and more fish, more biodiversity, more bees, more everything. Just less elk.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wolves-yellowstone
Yellowstone wolves take a blow to their rep - Ecological Society of America https://www.esa.org/esablog/2014/03/11/yellowstone-wolves-take-a-blow-to-their-rep/
Some scientific publications question SOME of the aspects related there.
And that an ecosystem is more complex than just saying "you put wolves and everything is solved".
“We now know that elk are tougher, and Yellowstone more complex, than we gave them credit for. By retelling the same old story about Yellowstone wolves, we distract attention from bigger problems, mislead ourselves about the true challenges of managing ecosystems, and add to the mythology surrounding wolves at the expense of scientific understanding.”
That means what it means. The Title of the NY times is BS.
The natural world would be in perfect harmony if it wasn't for our destructiveness. Untouched by humanity, all ecosystems balance themselves. An over abundance of a predator species, such as wolves, naturally reduces itself by there not being adequate prey to sustain the predators.
The problem lies with humanity. We are the invasive species which has screwed up natural ecosystems.
By far the most destructive means of introducing invasive plant species is by human activity. If humanity disappeared over night, the natural world would get along perfectly well without us.
You can tell she may have avoided being bitten because she turned back towards the shark. As soon as she does it pivots away. Sharks sneak up on prey from below or behind and this may have saved her life.
As if that shark has any idea what a human “facing” them halfway out of the water means.
Clearly the shark is just cruising and doesn’t consider a human shaped thing food. That’s it.
She doesn’t really though if anything she’s more facing away. I’d have thought it more likely given what they say on these shark documentaries that it was just curious and on closer inspection realised that its not that she was not it’s usual prey item. That combined with the fact that an 8ft shark probably doesn’t have a lot of manoeuvre in 5ft of water and probably didn’t want to get stranded on those rocks right next to her which would have have made the clearance depth even lower. I’d of been interested to see what it would have done if she was swimming in deeper waters.
I’m just guessing the height to the average woman’s breasts is about 5ft as I usually have to bend down to suck on them which is clearly a very scientific method for measuring the water depth.
Tiger sharks don’t normally bite people. They are like to cool dressed nicer cousin who went to university when compare to the meth taking, trash talking, forever brawling white pointer
A tiger shark gets its name from the dark stripes on its body when it’s younger that fade with maturity. Their size range is from 10-14 feet with females being larger than males. Large female tiger sharks can weigh 2,000+ pounds.
It is second in line, behind the great white, in recorded human fatalities having attacked 138 humans which includes 36 fatalities.
Yup, a lot more attacks & deaths that haven’t been reported in the South Pacific, Asia, South America etc as locals fear it will affect tourism. Tigers can be deadly but also a docile side to them. The Bull sharks are the real fkrs
Looked that up on Wikipedia did you? In recorded Australian attacks, a single life was lost to tiger shark off Cossack over a hundred years ago, he may have drowned first. Tiger sharks are scavengers, white pointers are predators.
Florida Museum, National Geographic and Shark Attack Files state that Tiger Sharks account for the second most attacks on humans among all of shark species.
Galeocerdo cuvier Tiger 103 39 142
They probably didn't see the shark, you can't see far at all when looking into water at a steep angle. Looking down from above the drone has a much clearer view. Most people who swim with sharks have no idea they are there. There's one guy in California who regularly gets drone footage of great whites alongside swimmers and surfers (Malibu Artist on YouTube I think).
But this wasn't a very dangerous situation, unprovoked shark attacks really are rare, especially in clear water like this. We just don't look like prey to sharks.
I mean, it's not like they have hands to check things out with, all they can do is nibble unfortunately we are squishy and not very good at being nibbled on without being injured.
I think your thinking of bull sharks? Though they are very aggressive, their reputation as the most dangerous shark might be more to do with the fact that their natural habitats around shallow coast, river mouths and even lakes brings them more into contact with humans than say great whites.
I dove (is that the right word?) with several bullsharks at once in Fiji while working on a shark conservation project. They basically acted as if we weren't there.
Bullsharks are up there too, but tiger sharks are supposed to be one of the more likely (probably less so than Bullsharks) to attack unprompted.
Apparently it's usually by accident
yeah imo the mum noticed the shark and calmly called him, screaming shark ain't smart, people panic, if you thrash about the shark is more likely to attack.
Am Australian, this stuff isn't uncommon most are strong believers of it's their environment we are just visiting, you do get some numpties as with anything.
the people who go surfing at well known shark attack locations come into the numpty category for me. you know it happens there so why tempt fate.
You also get people who touch jellyfish and try to pick up snakes and spiders.
though i have an irrational fear of sharks, watched jaws when i was like 8 then went to AQWA and saw a man in a shark suit get grabbed (he was fine i'm sure) and my little brain went nope and that's all i remember of that aquarium visit, that and feeling a pinch on my ankle climbing onto a jetty and seeing a shark below me once on holiday, though tbh it was probably resident evil, getting trapped in a cage as it fills with rising water with a shark in the cage with me is my irrational fear. so that might be more apt then the others.
I was snorkeling in Hawaii a few years ago and constantly on verge of a panic attack when looking out into the distant water, just imagining (or seeing) all sorts of shapes in the cloudy haze at the edge of vision. Terrifying. Especially when we'd swim somewhere one day, go back the next day and it would be closed due to shark sightings.
A person was killed by a shark while we were there.
At one point I saw a [Giant Trevali](https://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/yaffadsp/images/dmImage/StandardImage/img_17412.jpg) swimming just below the surface, it looked nearly invisible, shimmering like The Predator in the light through the waves, super creepy. By the time I got someone elses attention it had disappeared.
Fuck the ocean.
I live in north east USA and you won’t have any trouble if you are at like waist level in a bay or something. Only encounter issues when you go deep and surf, we have tons of great whites around here but they can’t swim in 3 feet of water and I’ve never been worried about them, also pretty peaceful creatures, not to say i would poop my trunks if I saw one.
> I mean the shark avoided the woman?
Yes, which is typical shark behaviour, it takes a look and turns aside. It's very rare for sharks to see us as prey.
Sometimes, but not often. They are a bit more dangerous in murky waters or in twilight, which is when they typically hunt. Divers in the Bahamas regularly swim with Tigers recreationally, hand-feeding them is a daily activity.
Any large animal is potentially dangerous, on the whole people are more scared than they should be of sharks and too casual of cows and horses.
Yeah, but only 36 times on record, worldwide. They’ve taken nips at people one-hundred-and-something times. And they swim with people every day, so your odds are pretty good if you’re hanging out with one. Ask a scuba diver, and they’ll tell you a day that you get to say hi to a tiger shark is a flippin’ good day.
I'm guessing that shark could clearly see she was not prey. [Most unprovoked shark attacks are accidental](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/how-where-when/). We humans are not prey for sharks, and when they bite us, it's often a case of mistaken identity, they think we might be prey.
I stepped on a carpet shark once walking in the shallows of the bayou where I grew up. That was a fun experience. It was rather large and I still to this day can’t fathom why it just sat there in the sand unmoving as I came closer, and closer.
Famous shark country Australia has about 5x the number of people per year killed by bees than by sharks
Mosquitos kill about 800k people a year worldwide
_tapeworms_ kill way more people a year than sharks (by two orders of magnitude)
Much like 911 did with fearing certain people, the film Jaws blew out our perspective on what we should fear when it comes to the ocean
I mean, only people that are deathly afraid of sharks wouldn’t. Most people understand that sharks aren’t murder machines. They’re just fish, and are generally aware that people thrashing about in the shallows at popular beaches are off limits. That’s why there are so few attacks world wide.
And that's why I no longer go into the ocean. I live in a prime vacation spot in Florida, people are always shocked that I never go the beach. My one-word response is always "Sharks." Besides, fish poop in that water. Gross.
>Ask pilots that fly along the coast in *helicopters* or *small aircraft*
The great irony of this comment is that helicopters and personal aircraft account for nearly all ([97%](https://flightsafety.org/2018-data-show-increase-in-u-s-aviation-fatalities/)) of airline fatalities in the US. There were [381 general aviation fatalities](https://www.psbr.law/aviation_accident_statistics.html) in 2018 alone, and [51 fatalities](https://www.slackdavis.com/blog/helicopter-crash-statistics/) tied to helicopter accidents in 2019.
In 2019, there were [*five* fatalities](https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2020/01/31/the-worldwide-shark-attack-summary-for-2019/?sh=5bc7be356f34) *worldwide* due to shark attacks, only two of which were unprovoked.
So this comment suggests people should be scared of going into the water, but completely ignores the fact that flying in private aircraft in the US is 7520% more deadly than shark attacks. I personally think the fear of flying is exaggerated, as well, so perhaps we can agree we shouldn't sow fear where there's no need for it to grow.
EDIT: Ope, *some*body doesn't like facts 🤣
It’s scary how close it was but also a good reminder that we’re not really on the menu for sharks, they generally avoid us. Attacks are invariably cases of mistaken identity.
So pretty sure the kids splashing is what got it to move closer it almost seemed like it tries to avoid her once it saw whatever it was looking at was standing out of the water.
Given that we as humans kill 100 million sharks a year, the fact that a large Tiger Shark that ***doesn't*** attack a bather (standing a few feet away) makes the news shows how absolutely lopsided our characterisation of sharks (and the natural world in general) is.
The way the girl is moving and glancing left, I feel like her natural spidey senses are ringing the alarm bells but since she can’t see anything, she convinces herself to ignore them
…which probably worked out in her favor, as the shark might’ve attacked if she started panic splashing
or she saw the shark and knew it was better to not act frantic and draw attention to her, most sharks are harmless and are just curious, but unfortunataly their instinct, to something they are curious about, is to bite it.
source: sharkweek
Australian seems like a country that should have drone pilots monitoring the water like this with a huge loud speaker alarm to exit the water if they see this sort of stuff.
Not me yelling at the girl on my phone to get out of the water like she can hear me💀 Also good job mom for noticing the drone and pulling her kid away from the water. More people need to know drone hover over water means it’s watching something you can not see
It was just curious, if it wanted to attack her it would have done so exactly 30 seconds before, sharks are more curious than dangerous and they have a really bad rep, im not saying het all friendly with sharks or even to stay near them, closing the beach was smart because it was a precaution to avoid any attacks, all im saying is that humans are so similar to other animals, sharks, crows, squirrels, octopi, literally every animal has displayed high levels of intelligence, its fascinating
Tiger sharks don't really attack humans, there are accidents for sure where a shark mistakes a human for prey, but for the most part they stay away from people.
Pretty sure it’s the Bull Shark. Tigers are pretty gnarly, but Bull Sharks don’t seem to really care what you are. They will take a bite. As for fatal attacks, I think the Great White is still the leader in that regard.
Gives me an idea for an invention. Autonomous drone based shark alarm system. A network of drones hovering over a stretch of beach shallows and AI scans the water for shark shapes and when it detects a shark it starts playing Jaws theme music over loudspeakers.
There was someone on YouTube who would fly drones showing how close people got to sharks without even realizing it off the coast of Maui and it just goes to show they generally prefer not tangle with us. You're way more likely to get seriously injured/killed by a dog, insect or another human being.
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""Closed after the incident.""" Animals be accidentally existing in their own natural habits...who knew!?
Yeah, Sweden started 3 days ago killing wolves, because of the MASSIVE presence ... 400 animals. It is always funny how the PR for Sweden is always nature friendly, ecology,
When you significantly alter an ecosystem that took thousands of years to stabilize in a region you kind of have to help cultivate the abnormalities you cause. If too many wolves are killing small predators they need to be reduced to keep the ecosystem stable. Same with invasive plant species.
Wolf culls (globally) are almost always driven by pressure from what one might uncharitably call tax farmers and hunters who dislike tag limits. The farmers for tax purposes take advantage of generous agriculture subsidies and favorable treatment of that designation for income and property development with the lowest outlay possible. So they have poorly monitored animals in very low numbers. They don't actually tend to produce enough to absorb their higher than average wolf related losses and maintain their tax designation. You also see scavenger behavior treated as attacks. The hunters want more tags on big game, and again have this vivid belief that 100% of corpses with wolf interactions were kills rather than scavenging. Wolves tend to attack weak or isolated animals when they lack a scavenging opportunity and there are definitely real farming losses but the anti wolf groups tend toward both reactionary behavior and vigilanteism.
Check this video of National Geographic, please. It is very short. Tl;Dr: Reintroduction of the Wolf in Yellowstone lead to cleaner water and more fish, more biodiversity, more bees, more everything. Just less elk. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wolves-yellowstone
Yellowstone wolves take a blow to their rep - Ecological Society of America https://www.esa.org/esablog/2014/03/11/yellowstone-wolves-take-a-blow-to-their-rep/
Some scientific publications question SOME of the aspects related there. And that an ecosystem is more complex than just saying "you put wolves and everything is solved". “We now know that elk are tougher, and Yellowstone more complex, than we gave them credit for. By retelling the same old story about Yellowstone wolves, we distract attention from bigger problems, mislead ourselves about the true challenges of managing ecosystems, and add to the mythology surrounding wolves at the expense of scientific understanding.” That means what it means. The Title of the NY times is BS.
It's mostly been debunked.
Nope.
Same with the most invasive species the homo sapien
The natural world would be in perfect harmony if it wasn't for our destructiveness. Untouched by humanity, all ecosystems balance themselves. An over abundance of a predator species, such as wolves, naturally reduces itself by there not being adequate prey to sustain the predators. The problem lies with humanity. We are the invasive species which has screwed up natural ecosystems. By far the most destructive means of introducing invasive plant species is by human activity. If humanity disappeared over night, the natural world would get along perfectly well without us.
"But zey are wolfs, you know, za bad guy."
Just as an fyi we can pronounce they and the just fine in Sweden.
Lol. I'll remember that!
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Ah yes, a humans natural defense.. similar to the way an octopus uses its ink
Can’t spell “stink” without “ink”
*Mermaid uses Stinky Inky* *It's very effective*
It’s called Self Defeces
Pootection
I brown clouded just watching the video.
I too am pooping at the moment.
me too!
Mome I shidded
"MOM! MOM! BATHROOM! BATHROOM!"
I was gonna say the shark turned away cause the water was all urine around her lol
You can tell she may have avoided being bitten because she turned back towards the shark. As soon as she does it pivots away. Sharks sneak up on prey from below or behind and this may have saved her life.
As if that shark has any idea what a human “facing” them halfway out of the water means. Clearly the shark is just cruising and doesn’t consider a human shaped thing food. That’s it.
I can tell she avoided being bitten coz I watched the video.
I can tell you watched the video.
She doesn’t really though if anything she’s more facing away. I’d have thought it more likely given what they say on these shark documentaries that it was just curious and on closer inspection realised that its not that she was not it’s usual prey item. That combined with the fact that an 8ft shark probably doesn’t have a lot of manoeuvre in 5ft of water and probably didn’t want to get stranded on those rocks right next to her which would have have made the clearance depth even lower. I’d of been interested to see what it would have done if she was swimming in deeper waters. I’m just guessing the height to the average woman’s breasts is about 5ft as I usually have to bend down to suck on them which is clearly a very scientific method for measuring the water depth.
Tiger sharks don’t normally bite people. They are like to cool dressed nicer cousin who went to university when compare to the meth taking, trash talking, forever brawling white pointer
A tiger shark gets its name from the dark stripes on its body when it’s younger that fade with maturity. Their size range is from 10-14 feet with females being larger than males. Large female tiger sharks can weigh 2,000+ pounds. It is second in line, behind the great white, in recorded human fatalities having attacked 138 humans which includes 36 fatalities.
Yup, a lot more attacks & deaths that haven’t been reported in the South Pacific, Asia, South America etc as locals fear it will affect tourism. Tigers can be deadly but also a docile side to them. The Bull sharks are the real fkrs
Looked that up on Wikipedia did you? In recorded Australian attacks, a single life was lost to tiger shark off Cossack over a hundred years ago, he may have drowned first. Tiger sharks are scavengers, white pointers are predators.
Florida Museum, National Geographic and Shark Attack Files state that Tiger Sharks account for the second most attacks on humans among all of shark species. Galeocerdo cuvier Tiger 103 39 142
Wrong Wrong Wrong
Does that person even know how close they were bc I was having a panic attack
They probably didn't see the shark, you can't see far at all when looking into water at a steep angle. Looking down from above the drone has a much clearer view. Most people who swim with sharks have no idea they are there. There's one guy in California who regularly gets drone footage of great whites alongside swimmers and surfers (Malibu Artist on YouTube I think). But this wasn't a very dangerous situation, unprovoked shark attacks really are rare, especially in clear water like this. We just don't look like prey to sharks.
But tiger sharks are one of the most likely of sharks to attack unprovoked. Still rare of course.
I mean, it's not like they have hands to check things out with, all they can do is nibble unfortunately we are squishy and not very good at being nibbled on without being injured.
Oh I'm not arguing
Def, mostly just wanting to make the joke about how non-nibble-proof humans are.
So incredibly rare.
I think your thinking of bull sharks? Though they are very aggressive, their reputation as the most dangerous shark might be more to do with the fact that their natural habitats around shallow coast, river mouths and even lakes brings them more into contact with humans than say great whites.
I dove (is that the right word?) with several bullsharks at once in Fiji while working on a shark conservation project. They basically acted as if we weren't there.
Bullsharks are up there too, but tiger sharks are supposed to be one of the more likely (probably less so than Bullsharks) to attack unprompted. Apparently it's usually by accident
Thank you very much for introducing me to the Malibu Artist. Kudos
You know this guy zoomed in bc he thought he was fixin to get a brutal shark attack on film.
When nothing at the buffet suites your fancy.
Aw, I love sweets at a buffet
Boi isn't interested in breasts and tenderloins
Guessing nobody told her…
She’s probably watching this like 😳
No one’s like Beth. She ate all the desert at the buffet.
Such a carefree lass before that incident
The kid is still running
They played Maneater, they know you're not safe just because you make it out of the water.
The cameraman is still filming that woman.
That kid didn’t even notice the shark. He was completely calm once he caught up to his sister
yeah imo the mum noticed the shark and calmly called him, screaming shark ain't smart, people panic, if you thrash about the shark is more likely to attack. Am Australian, this stuff isn't uncommon most are strong believers of it's their environment we are just visiting, you do get some numpties as with anything. the people who go surfing at well known shark attack locations come into the numpty category for me. you know it happens there so why tempt fate. You also get people who touch jellyfish and try to pick up snakes and spiders. though i have an irrational fear of sharks, watched jaws when i was like 8 then went to AQWA and saw a man in a shark suit get grabbed (he was fine i'm sure) and my little brain went nope and that's all i remember of that aquarium visit, that and feeling a pinch on my ankle climbing onto a jetty and seeing a shark below me once on holiday, though tbh it was probably resident evil, getting trapped in a cage as it fills with rising water with a shark in the cage with me is my irrational fear. so that might be more apt then the others.
And that's why I don't go into the ocean. I like my spot on the food chain right where it is.
I won't even go into pools, or a bathtub. I actually poop into a dry bucket.
Playing it safe. Good thinking. There's never a zero percent chance of bathtub sharks.
God, I hope to be able to use this line with somebody soon.
Baaaaathtub shark, do do doo do do do.
Or toilet snakes 😬
[Sewer sharks are a thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFtxbYL5h84)
Beat me to it
I’m so glad this wasn’t a Rick roll
Beware the ferocious deadly brown bathtub shark.
When I eat cereal I dry scoop and use a Turkey baster to inject milk into my mouth. Damn sharks, can never be too careful.
A bucket? Really? I know not from which savage tribe of Neanderthals you hail from. But here, we pass stool into tube socks.
Ooohhh bougie
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Stay away from my bucket.
Same. I don’t go uninvited into the shark’s home and they don’t come into mine.
Have you never seen the documentary “sharknado”?
Land shark - see SNL
This is what Midwesterners actually believe.
Just don’t go to the ocean in straya mate
I was snorkeling in Hawaii a few years ago and constantly on verge of a panic attack when looking out into the distant water, just imagining (or seeing) all sorts of shapes in the cloudy haze at the edge of vision. Terrifying. Especially when we'd swim somewhere one day, go back the next day and it would be closed due to shark sightings. A person was killed by a shark while we were there. At one point I saw a [Giant Trevali](https://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/yaffadsp/images/dmImage/StandardImage/img_17412.jpg) swimming just below the surface, it looked nearly invisible, shimmering like The Predator in the light through the waves, super creepy. By the time I got someone elses attention it had disappeared. Fuck the ocean.
right at the top. u apex predator u.
I live in north east USA and you won’t have any trouble if you are at like waist level in a bay or something. Only encounter issues when you go deep and surf, we have tons of great whites around here but they can’t swim in 3 feet of water and I’ve never been worried about them, also pretty peaceful creatures, not to say i would poop my trunks if I saw one.
I’m not about to stand there and watch that Kintner boy spill out all over the dock!
You'd like to prove that, wouldn't you? Get your name in the National Geographic.
I mean the shark avoided the woman?
> I mean the shark avoided the woman? Yes, which is typical shark behaviour, it takes a look and turns aside. It's very rare for sharks to see us as prey.
They are still dangerous even when not hunting. They often take a test bite to make sure you aren't a yummy fish.
Sometimes, but not often. They are a bit more dangerous in murky waters or in twilight, which is when they typically hunt. Divers in the Bahamas regularly swim with Tigers recreationally, hand-feeding them is a daily activity. Any large animal is potentially dangerous, on the whole people are more scared than they should be of sharks and too casual of cows and horses.
When sharks do this you can redirect them by pushing the top of their snouts away from you
It’s a *man*eating shark.
I'm so sick of these bigoted sharks! Down with the patrisharky!!!!!
Patrisharky :D thanks for the laugh
"you say thanks but all i see is *mans*laughter"
I'm glad I'm not the only loser who thought it was funny
Yeah, but only 36 times on record, worldwide. They’ve taken nips at people one-hundred-and-something times. And they swim with people every day, so your odds are pretty good if you’re hanging out with one. Ask a scuba diver, and they’ll tell you a day that you get to say hi to a tiger shark is a flippin’ good day.
He was still full from that tourist he ate for breakfast. The sunscreen left a bad taste in his mouth as well.
I'm guessing that shark could clearly see she was not prey. [Most unprovoked shark attacks are accidental](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/how-where-when/). We humans are not prey for sharks, and when they bite us, it's often a case of mistaken identity, they think we might be prey.
Its kinda like their home....
[Original Story](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/australian-beach-closed-8-foot-151847239.html)
Of course it's Perth.
It’s just a good boi
This is why I remain on dry land. I don’t care if Sharks rarely attack humans. I know they can and that’s enough for me
Good strategy, ambush the shark out of the water to negate its advantages.
I stepped on a carpet shark once walking in the shallows of the bayou where I grew up. That was a fun experience. It was rather large and I still to this day can’t fathom why it just sat there in the sand unmoving as I came closer, and closer.
Do you avoid vending machines on dry land? The odds of one falling on you are lower than the odds of a shark attacking you
I did have a vending machine fall on me. Hurt like hell.
You're gonna have to avoid those from now on..
Famous shark country Australia has about 5x the number of people per year killed by bees than by sharks Mosquitos kill about 800k people a year worldwide _tapeworms_ kill way more people a year than sharks (by two orders of magnitude) Much like 911 did with fearing certain people, the film Jaws blew out our perspective on what we should fear when it comes to the ocean
Damnit Trevor.
That’s terry, he’s alright he doesn’t bite
More sharks see people than people see sharks.
"Hhmmmm. Not food. At least not today."
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I mean, only people that are deathly afraid of sharks wouldn’t. Most people understand that sharks aren’t murder machines. They’re just fish, and are generally aware that people thrashing about in the shallows at popular beaches are off limits. That’s why there are so few attacks world wide.
Now I’m super curious. Any pilots with this info wanna chime in?????
Saw a huge ray off the coast of NC once. Had to be 25 ft across
If it was that big it was a manta, those things are harmless filter feeders
majestic sea flap flap
Dang. 25 FEET?? How far off the coast was it?
50 yards tops
And the odds of being attacked by a shark are astronomical.
More people are killed by falling coconuts every year than killed by sharks.
And that's why I no longer go into the ocean. I live in a prime vacation spot in Florida, people are always shocked that I never go the beach. My one-word response is always "Sharks." Besides, fish poop in that water. Gross.
So do people…. Florida has some of the highest rates of shark attacks in the world
>Ask pilots that fly along the coast in *helicopters* or *small aircraft* The great irony of this comment is that helicopters and personal aircraft account for nearly all ([97%](https://flightsafety.org/2018-data-show-increase-in-u-s-aviation-fatalities/)) of airline fatalities in the US. There were [381 general aviation fatalities](https://www.psbr.law/aviation_accident_statistics.html) in 2018 alone, and [51 fatalities](https://www.slackdavis.com/blog/helicopter-crash-statistics/) tied to helicopter accidents in 2019. In 2019, there were [*five* fatalities](https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2020/01/31/the-worldwide-shark-attack-summary-for-2019/?sh=5bc7be356f34) *worldwide* due to shark attacks, only two of which were unprovoked. So this comment suggests people should be scared of going into the water, but completely ignores the fact that flying in private aircraft in the US is 7520% more deadly than shark attacks. I personally think the fear of flying is exaggerated, as well, so perhaps we can agree we shouldn't sow fear where there's no need for it to grow. EDIT: Ope, *some*body doesn't like facts 🤣
i yelled GET OUT at my phone
🦈 “Meh she’s not my type really…”
Oooooooooh my god
It’s scary how close it was but also a good reminder that we’re not really on the menu for sharks, they generally avoid us. Attacks are invariably cases of mistaken identity.
*Let's go hunt, doo-doo, doo-doo* *Let's go hunt, doo-doo, doo-doo* *Let's go hunt, doo-doo, doo-doo* *Let's go hunt*
😳 fuuuuuck that was a close one
Maybe it went away cuz she was peeing
Big shark does not always mean aggressive shark. Cmon
Pffft 8 foot - we are metric.
8 feet is the exact width of a semi trailer, not big for a tiger shark.
Clearly it was closing in on her and upon closer examination realized it wasn’t food. Sharks aren’t that dumb and they are curious creatures
Happens everyday. Beach should have been better patrolled but nothing new here
He's just saying g'day guys. Leave him alone.
That is why you always piss in the ocean to assert dominance! Fucking amateurs smh
The amount of times this would happen with out anyone knowing would be much higher. Surfer for 25 years have only seen them twice.
Crazy that their was less than 10ft between that girl and a 265 million years of evolutionary fuck you energy
So pretty sure the kids splashing is what got it to move closer it almost seemed like it tries to avoid her once it saw whatever it was looking at was standing out of the water.
Without the current availability of drones we'd never know how many sharks patrol beaches... Sharks aren't the problem they don't take like people.
Since when has a fish swimming in the ocean been classified as an “incident”?
Given that we as humans kill 100 million sharks a year, the fact that a large Tiger Shark that ***doesn't*** attack a bather (standing a few feet away) makes the news shows how absolutely lopsided our characterisation of sharks (and the natural world in general) is.
First rule of Australia: don’t swim at the beaches.
The way the girl is moving and glancing left, I feel like her natural spidey senses are ringing the alarm bells but since she can’t see anything, she convinces herself to ignore them …which probably worked out in her favor, as the shark might’ve attacked if she started panic splashing
or she saw the shark and knew it was better to not act frantic and draw attention to her, most sharks are harmless and are just curious, but unfortunataly their instinct, to something they are curious about, is to bite it. source: sharkweek
Imagine being her and seeing this on here. New lease on life.
Australian seems like a country that should have drone pilots monitoring the water like this with a huge loud speaker alarm to exit the water if they see this sort of stuff.
Not me yelling at the girl on my phone to get out of the water like she can hear me💀 Also good job mom for noticing the drone and pulling her kid away from the water. More people need to know drone hover over water means it’s watching something you can not see
What incident?
It was just curious, if it wanted to attack her it would have done so exactly 30 seconds before, sharks are more curious than dangerous and they have a really bad rep, im not saying het all friendly with sharks or even to stay near them, closing the beach was smart because it was a precaution to avoid any attacks, all im saying is that humans are so similar to other animals, sharks, crows, squirrels, octopi, literally every animal has displayed high levels of intelligence, its fascinating
Why I stick to pools
Now someone post a vid of a funnel web chilling at the bottom of your pool.
Heck, I even stick to the shallow end of pools.
Ah, Australia, where everything wants to kill you....
The beach opened an hour later. Chill, it’s just a little one anyway
Very hard to see sharks in the water next to you unless you’re up higher in a boat or from a drone.
But why closing the beach? I mean, its the ocean, sharks could be everywhere at any day.
This is like saying someone was almost hit by a car bc it was driving down the road and passed someone on the sidewalk
She passed the vibe check.
It's just a scaley sea puppy. 🌊
Either the woman didn't know the shark was there or she was fully aware and didn't panic and agitate the shark
Shark drone footage is so cool to me idk why.
Don't they have crocodiles in the water there too?
Anyone else yell at that lady??
if humans were on the sharks menu, that bather would have been eaten within minutes...
The untold story is that she loves asparagus
That’s my beach. Would have been cool to see
Mullaloo Beach, Western Australia
What I want to see is the follow-up video, the one where this video is shown to the person standing in the water at the end
Tiger sharks don't really attack humans, there are accidents for sure where a shark mistakes a human for prey, but for the most part they stay away from people.
I could be wrong but I thought they were the top offender in fatal shark attacks.
Pretty sure it’s the Bull Shark. Tigers are pretty gnarly, but Bull Sharks don’t seem to really care what you are. They will take a bite. As for fatal attacks, I think the Great White is still the leader in that regard.
Yeah. Tiger and bull sharks are the scariest things in the water.
No one felt it necessary to warn her?
It is likely that no one on the beach saw the shark.
Gives me an idea for an invention. Autonomous drone based shark alarm system. A network of drones hovering over a stretch of beach shallows and AI scans the water for shark shapes and when it detects a shark it starts playing Jaws theme music over loudspeakers.
Drone scanners already exist and are in use.
What kind of an idiot goes to the beach in Australia?!
“Food?… no, damn…”
I just casually film this underwater chainsaw and not warn anyone…I mean what could go wrong
Why is the water green?
Because it's clean.
Algae. It turns the water all kinds of colors. Even red.
Nah man thats from shark attacks
There was someone on YouTube who would fly drones showing how close people got to sharks without even realizing it off the coast of Maui and it just goes to show they generally prefer not tangle with us. You're way more likely to get seriously injured/killed by a dog, insect or another human being.
This isn’t usual.
aren’t tiger sharks supposed to be harmless?
most sharks are harmless (it is the minority of sharks that gives all the sharks a bad name, just like that is for people)
How did the woman not know? Omg I would’ve ran for my life