Posted on 05/30/2019 5:04:46 PM PDT by ETL
...The woman is seen swimming towards shore, with the shark following her for a bit, until it appears to turn the other direction and swim away.
Battles told the Herald he ran down to the beach to talk to the woman, but she apparently never saw the shark.
“She was just like, ‘I think I’m done with the ocean,’” he said.
Looks like I'm guilty myself of being "lazy". Too lazy to have gone back and read all this other additional info at the link...
“It was just kind of crazy,” Battles described. “Everyone on the beach, in the water, they had no clue.”
In the video, beachgoers can be heard calling out to the woman, urging her to come back to shore. Some were heard screaming: “Shark!”
The woman is seen swimming towards shore, with the shark following her for a bit, until it appears to turn the other direction and swim away.
Battles told the Herald he ran down to the beach to talk to the woman, but she apparently never saw the shark.
“She was just like, ‘I think I’m done with the ocean,’” he said."
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Lol! Sorry, just now saw and read your post. And obviously didn't catch it in the complete article at the link, either. I had to trim the article for the excerpt. Thanks!
Yes, I've since seen that and more at the link. See my prior post.
It obviously doesn't excuse anyone here for saying it was never anything to worry about.
Agree.
This was a very close call. Amazingly caught on vid.
Our family has swam those waters...many summers!
Scary!!
I would but it’s not allowed
Nope, I can pretty much guarantee that was Bull shark, they are deadly...
She is lucky it left her alone.
What do you call a shark with a low, flat mouth, stubby dorsal fin, and a grey top and lighter belly? You call it “sir”.
The Great Lakes: Shark free since the Ice Age and salt-free!
Our mom told us kids a story about when they lived in Florida, near St Augustine, there was a local spring that served as the local high school swimming hole.
Beautiful clear water.
She went with a few friends on a date and they took their swimming gear and a picnic basket(this was in the early Fifties) They poured out of the cars and the guys dove in without looking. The girls being more careful waited.
One of them started screaming. Gator! Gator! but the guys thought they were kidding.
Finally one by one each boy sighted the gator (underwater) and jumped out of the water and back to the cars.
The gator crawled unto the banks and towards the picnic basket... It really enjoyed the fried chicken as it tore up the basket.
Then they left.
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That’s really weird. Those springs in Florida are around 60 degrees. I didn’t think gators could tolerate that cold.
Exactly!
And Thank Goodness for our Great Lakes Compact (2008) where it takes ALL EIGHT of the Great Lakes States to agree to allow ONE DROP of precious, clean, SAFE water to go to those dopey Western States that thought it was a smart idea to build cities IN THE DESERT!
Waukesha, WI was a test case - they got some water from Lake Michigan, but it’s set up to be returned through their water system so it was a net-zero situation for the lake.
P.S. Keep an eye on Minnesota! They’d sell their own mother for a few bucks! ;)
https://greatlakes.org/campaigns/defending-the-great-lakes-compact/
Chicago and Milwaukee have been drawing Lake Michigan water for decades. Both systems extend aut to their suburbs.
The Saginaw Bay area also has been drawing Lake Huron water for decades, the first line built by Dow Chemical from Linwood to Midland. (circa 25 miles).
Yeah, I know. There was some ‘grandfathering’ that had to be considered.
I still stand by protecting our Great Lakes! Why anyone lives anywhere other than The Heartland has always been a mystery to me.
I lived in CA from 1980-’82 and was in Germany with the Army, but I always came ‘home’ to Wisconsin.
And don’t listen to Garrison Keillor! It’s the WISCONSIN women that are strong, all the men are good looking and the children are above average! ;)
Lake Woebegone was a border lake with all the civilization on the Wisconsin side.
The Minnesota side was a mosquito infested swamp.
Kinda like the rest of Minnesota.
(Full Disclosure: 2 of my children were born in Minnesota).
Doanchyaknow
I’ve never seen a gator in real life but I’ve seen plenty of documentaries. The gator can exist in cold temps for a limited time, even freezing temps so a sixty degree “dip” in cool water probably didn’t affect it much. It did get back on the bank to eat it’s fried chicken dinner and probably found a nice sunny spot to digest it’s meal!
I’m from Florida. You go in the water you are swimming with sharks. They don’t mess with you until they do.
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