Posted on 06/10/2024 6:06:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
They're gonna need a bigger boat.
SHARK PING!
candygram
“...including woman who lost her arm”
I’ve watched enough movies and videos to know that one can ALWAYS see the shark’s fin, plus hear the ominous music. So I’m convinced she was trying to take a selfie with the shark. Not very bright.
Maybe the only funny thing chevy chase ever did
This is local news here.
The sharks have always been there.
They typically stay off the shallows, which is usually separated by a sandbar.
But erosion and natural sand drifting can cause the sandbars to disappear for a while, allowing the sharks to come in closer.
If their natural prey isn’t sufficient to keep them offshore, they will come in and seek new food sources.
A picture taken from a advertising sign airplane a few years back showed hundreds of sharks all up and down the coast, just yards away from frolicking tourists.
If they posted that pic on every hotel room door, then people would think twice about going way out in the water...............
People have become lulled into complacency by assumptions that aren’t true - one of which is the trope that wild animals are less dangerous than humans. We get few shark attacks because humans don’t hang around shark habitats much, so run into very few, relative to the thousands of human strangers within rifle range we encounter each day. For the average person, the total number of stranger human encounters in rifle range annually might be a million. Shark encounters per year? Maybe one, or less. On a per encounter basis, large predator attacks on humans are probably orders of magnitude higher than human on human attacks
I bet that is true.
A huge hammerhead swam between my wife and the water’s edge in Fort Lauderdale on Christmas day, 1980. I stood helplessly above them on the fishing pier. The fish just swam away. No one but those of us up on the pier could see it because of the glare.
Yep, people swimming in the ocean are around sharks way more than they know.
It is very true.
Locals know it.
Tourists, not so much.....................
>>>If they posted that pic on every hotel room door, then people would think twice about going way out in the water...............<<<
Or . . . tourists would think twice about going to the Florida panhandle for their vacation!
If you see fish jumping out of the water for no particular reason, get the hell out of the water...........
Sharks swimming in the ocean...who knew?
True, but they would already be here...................
Yep, just like bears....people wander into their habit and are shocked when something bad happens.
Most likely Bull Sharks
The serious attack on the 45-year-old woman was almost certainly a bull shark (based on locale, multiple bites and severe injuries/amputation).
The other event involving the 2 teenage girls is hard to evaluate based on the limited info in the article ...could be one or more bull sharks; but, other species are also possible. Hopefully forensic examination will “nail down” the exact species (bite marks, tooth fragments, etc.).
I'm betting water temperatures in the area are above normal for this time of year; which appears to amplify aggression in bull sharks.
In my younger years, I used to surf in Florida. Most surfers are attentive to signs that sharks may be active, such as bait fish jumping, turbid water, at dawn or dusk, and beach configurations that sharks favor. Most swimmers and sunbathers do not realize that those are times to get out of the water.
I’m pretty sure the article meant marine patrol or FWC officers not police.
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