Posted on 04/23/2025 1:00:55 PM PDT by george76
Terrifying video shows a diver being attacked by a shark as horrified beachgoers watched on helplessly.
The unidentified diver is assumed dead after the attack at a beach in Israel that has been drawing tourists to see the sharks — with one video showing one swimming right up to a child standing in the water.
The attacked diver was heard screaming, “They’re biting me!” before being dragged further out to sea off the city of Hadera on Monday
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They’re eating him, eating the man!” ....
“Wow, wow, he’s with the shark, he’s fighting him,” ...
“I was in the water, I saw blood and there were screams,” one witness, Eliya Motai,
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“We were just walking down to the water when we saw someone flailing in the sea — fighting a shark and trying to get away. The shark lunged at him. It was hard to watch,” he said.
“It was chilling. We literally saw the shark attack him … It could’ve been me.”
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Human remains were later discovered nearly 24 hours later on Tuesday after officials shut down the beach and launched a massive search in the area with divers, jetskis, and helicopters...
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One video shared by Israeli media before the attack showed a massive shark swimming right up to swimmers in the shallows.
What a huge shark!” the man filming exclaims, as the shark approaches him. “Whoa! He’s coming toward us!”
“Don’t move!” he implores a child standing nearby, who replies: “I’m leaving.”
The man then asks: “What, are you afraid of the sharks?”
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LOL, yes, but...it sounded like they were standing in the water, not swimming, but that was my guess.
A dive boat was found offshore in the Red Sea. The divers from the boat were all floating nearby with their BC's inflated but weren't responding. When they were pulled out nothing from the chest down was left.
That body of water is packed with sharks.
Never get off the boat.
Upon entering the ocean, you are no longer the apex predator.
It may be horrible to us, but it's just lunch to a shark. He probably took a nice nap afterwards.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/middleeast/shark-attack-israel-intl-latam/index.html
...Israelis flocked in large numbers to the beach during a weeklong holiday, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some tugged on the sharks’ fins, while others threw them fish to eat. Dusky sharks can grow to 4 meters (13 feet) long and weigh about 350 kilograms (750 pounds). Sandbar sharks are smaller, growing to about 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 100 kilograms (220 pounds)...
...This would be just the third recorded shark attack in Israel, according to Ben-Ari. One person was killed in an attack in the 1940s.
The area, where warm water released by a nearby power plant flows into the sea, has for years attracted dozens of sharks between October and May. Ben-Ari said swimming is prohibited in the area, but swimmers enter the water anyway...
This is a commentary on a standard human who, upon seeing a large predator in the water, notorious for killing and eating humans, does not immediately see if there is a way to get out of said water when that predator changes direction and begins swimming directly at them.
I know a lot of people hate that movie, but I love that line!
At least he died doing what he loved to do.
Your disclaimer is reasonable, valid, and thoughtful, as is your data.
True.
‘They’re biting me!’
Oh, don’t be such a baby
“we saw someone flailing in the sea — fighting a shark and trying to get away. The shark lunged at him. It was hard to watch,” he said.”
At least it wasn’t hard to video...
I had to look but I remember that incident now. I’ve seen some of his movies just didn’t know who he was at the time.
It becomes dehumanized to a point that I find it easy to see dark, often ironic or, even occasionally, humorous part of a tragedy.
I have to remind myself, even if it a elephant crushes a stupid tourist who ventured too close with some food to feed it by hand, that person was probably loved by someone, somewhere.
The dark humor doesn't bother me quite as much as realizing how pervasive it is.
My favorite cartoonist of all time is Gary Larson (The Far Side).
I enjoy Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, but the quirkiness and often uncomplimentary off-beat observations of human and animal behavior in The Far side just appeals to me hand's down.
This is my all-time favorite Larson cartoon:
I have had this hanging on my office wall since I saw it decades ago...there is something so incredibly human about it. How we, as individuals are sometimes so tunnel-visioned on something that we don't perceive imminent disaster of some sort that should be inescapably seen.
We have all been there. Hit in the forehead by the obvious while everyone else wonders what is wrong with you. In this case, the pilot is so far off the obvious that the connection between a mountain goat and say, a large mountainside, escapes him.
And in some form or another, every single one of us has been oblivious to something, somewhere. And that is why it is funny.
But in reality, an airliner that augurs a hole into a mountainside taking 250 humans withe it because the pilot is looking at something out the window is not funny at all.
So, what I have found is that I forget sometimes that something isn't a cartoon because in a real life incident, it is sometimes so absurd that I forget to make that linkage that in a specific instance, ABSURDITY = TRAGEDY.
Not saying anyone here is doing it. This is just what often happens to me.
And my innately twisted sense of humor makes me vulnerable to that.
And...in this case, there is room on the graph under the curve at it approaches an IQ of 200.
Not a lot of room, but some.
Room for everyone from a slightly above average person to Elon Musk. Or a diver who was in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong shark.
Egad! You see? In my post above, I describe being vulnerable to this kind of dark humor, and I try to moderate it.
Then after I click the post button, I scroll up to see messages that were posted while I composed mine, and I see yours that made me spit my drink on my screen!
I simply cannot help it. It took about two milliseconds before my brain just made the connection and spit my drink. My mind immediately linked this to Monty Python and The Holy Grail!
The Exoneration of Captain McVay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLd5_yliQTk
Several other episodes on the channel also deal with the Indianapolis.
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