Posted on 03/28/2026 9:56:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The surfer who had a frightening run-in with a great white shark at Newport Beach said she didn’t realize it was the feared predator circling her surfboard until it was too late.
“Went to this beach my whole life with my friends,” Vivian Phongngo told KTLA. “I’ve never seen anything bigger than a stingray.”
She at first thought the beast was “a really nice fish” before believing it was actually a dolphin.“And then like after three seconds, I was like no, that’s a shark,” she told the outlet.
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You make reasonable points.
My target is typically the philosophy, or the belief system, behind the discussion.
The Steve Irwin belief system is that animals are always right in what they do, and man is usually wrong. I’d say it’s profitable to observe how our beliefs are manipulated, and to reject this manipulation.
I think the best philosophy with regard to this matter is that mankind should accept his exalted status with humility, but not grant moral superiority to animals at our expense.
You and I agree on this...I never got that from Steve Irwin, but I confess I did not watch him much, as I haven’t watched television for decades.
I believe, as the Bible tells us, that Man had dominion over all the creatures. But I also fully appreciate the quote from the famous Temple Grandin, that “Nature is cruel. We don’t have to be.”
We can behave morally and responsibly and should strive to do so without being ruled by it, as Leftists would have us be!
“... said she didn’t realize it was the feared predator circling her surfboard until it was too late.”
Dead, you know.
Heh, HAS dominion, not HAD dominion!
I got “Spell Co-Wrecked-ed”!
Well sharks do have to keep moving so she goes on the beach, it goes on the beach. Duh.
Do explain how the ocean is our environment.
Well, I think your inquiry requires a definition of “our environment.”
Discuss amongst yourselves. (Or in any manner you prefer.)
“Me, I’ve lived on the Florida coast for almost 60 years.
Trust me......it is NOT “our” environment.”
When I was a kid I spent most of my free time in or on the water.
Bay was six houses away and my buddy had a house next to the bay.
My late husband is in the shark attack file. After he was bitten people would ask how he could go back in the ocean. He told them sharks are always there and it was their home.
Is this going to be on the test? Do I need my blue book or can I turn in just regular sheets of paper? May I go see the school nurse?
You beat me to it!
Weirdly any time someone says shark that is immediately where my brain goes to.
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/snickers in Bull Shark
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Well, if you think the ocean isn’t our environment, then what is the mechanism and the content of your thinking?
There’s never been a bull shark able to leave his fresh water environment in an attempt to attack mankind on land.
Humans do not live in the ocean. It is part of our environment in that it is part of the planet we live on. But not in the sense that it is our natural habitat.
Yet.
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“Humans do not live in the ocean. It is part of our environment in that it is part of the planet we live on. But not in the sense that it is our natural habitat.”
I think it makes a lot more sense to say our environment is wherever we go while maintaining full function.
“Yet.”
Okay now you’re scaring me.
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