Posted on 05/26/2021 2:22:53 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
I can sympathize.
It did fade over the months, but if I try, I can still see it in my mind’s eye.
I have heard that adrenaline causes memories to take, so to speak, which is why we remember traumatic events so much more clearly than happy ones. The rush of adrenaline really imprints the memory in our brain.
Yep— rubber covered human flavored seals. Sharks have no sense of taste (literally)— they have a sensory “line” on their skin which is quite sensitive to motion and disturbance of sound/wave forms, and apparently the electromagnetic impulses generated by moving... muscles! Yikes. Killing machine wonders of nature.
Sharks are everywhere- can’t tag all of them with “sonic bouys “ how ridiculous.
Wonder if these people who went to Fl were in the ocean off New Smyrna Beach (horror- supposedly the most sharks and attacks anywhere in the US). And there many friends regularly went to the beach all summer in the ocean everyday surfing the breaker lines (where every day they saw many sharks just beyond the breakers in the swells— ie. where the FISH are) and never got attacked. This analysis is like lightning strikes and the odds of being struck.
Want real horror- read and see the movie rendition on the USS Indianapolis (sunk in WWII by jap submarine on its return to Pearl from Tinian Island where it delivered the two atom bombs/components for Fat Man and Little Boy). Left in the water— hundreds eaten alive.
That shark warning sign has already been posted on my local beach , and I am sure it is posted on most Mass. beaches by now.
They like to get the shark warning signs up before Memorial Day Weekend which is just few days away.-Tom
Yes...adrenaline will do that.
Some forty odd years ago, I was driving my old MG Midget on a two lane road, separated by a guard rail from two lanes going the other way.
I was doing about 50 mph, I came over the top of a hill, and on the downside of the hill in front of me, there was a stop light with backed up traffic. I jammed on my brakes, but...there are times when you are in that situation, and you know it’s hopeless.
You’re not stopping.
You know there just isn’t enough physical space to stop. You almost FEEL it rather than know it, and it is an odd feeling. You know you aren’t getting out of it.
At that point, everything slowed down for me, and that is what I see in my mind’s eye today.
On the left, the stanchions of the guard rail were passing by me in slow motion, a deliberate and steady whoosh...whoosh...whoosh...whoosh (they didn’t make that noise, but that is how my mind perceived it.
In a completely slowed down mode, my eyes looked to the right and my brain asked in a nearly conversational tone “Can I go to the right?”
But no. There was a car stopped there too.
And as my mind switched to the left, there was a raised concrete pad that the guardrail was cemented into, and my mind, with no input from me saying “Yes” or anything, just steered that little car up over the shallow curb onto the pad, and I came to a stop at the very end with the first car stopped there on the right.
Some guy in a white sedan. His eyes were as big as dinner plates and his face was white too, and he rolled down his window and said “Are you okay?”
I was.
Not a scratch on the car, either. But I could not have had more than six inches between my driver side door and the guard rail. It was that tight. When traffic passed I pulled out and went on my way.
But the thing I remember is, when that bolus of adrenaline was injected straight into my blood, was the slow motion whoosh...whoosh...whoosh of those guardrails going by.
Went I went over the curb, it was as if the shock of the impact in that small car just jolted everything into real time in a single heartbeat. But from the moment I slammed on the brakes and got that sickening feeling to the point I hit the curb, that was visually what has stayed in my brain all these years.
They should put sonar sensors under water along the coast lines maybe 100 feet out that alerts of anything over 7 or 8 feet moving under water.
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Puh-leeze tell us you are joking.
“They” who say “It is for your own good.” And, “You are being foolish to take this chance and endanger others.”
Just when we are getting ready to laugh Fauci off the world stage.
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PMAS - were you joking?
Never swim in dark waters.
It’s amazing what you mind can record in detail you’d never expect it to have the ability to notice in a traumatic situation.
Glad that worked out for you.
It’s great when God watches out for us and protects us from ourselves, whether it’s simple carelessness from not paying attention, or just downright youthful stupidity, or out and out intent to do evil.
Maniacs are people that were born in Maine, but left for one reason or antoehr-
Swami’s Beach. Encinitas.
A friend’s granddaughter was bitten on the foot by a shark, just off Oak Island NC, a few years ago. She is fine, just a bit of lingering nerve damage. Sharks are EVERYWHERE. When the ocean meets the land, you can bank on the possibility of sharks. Doesn’t matter if you are in shallow water or deeper water.
Newest Highschool in Florida!
Destin Highschool unveils new mascot and school colors!
https://www.destinhighschool.org/dhs-big-reveal
Lot’s of info, good read. Bailey Island area looks beautiful.
“Newest Highschool in Florida!
Destin Highschool unveils new mascot and school colors!”
https://www.destinhighschool.org/dhs-big-reveal
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That would be great mascot for a high school on Cape Cod. Especially in the towns of Chatham-Orleans-Eastham-Wellfleet -Truro-Provincetown. - Tom
Destin is a town of millionaires, too..................
Reminds me of the story behind Jaws (New Jersey).
People believe now that it was a bull shark that was responsible.
the author of this article . . . writes like I do - conveying information and not to entertain the reader
Some things go without saying; that's two of them.
“Reminds me of the story behind Jaws (New Jersey).
People believe now that it was a bull shark that was responsible.”
https://youtu.be/fFHHwe9h_2k
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Modern investigations show that the time of the attacks there was enough salt water in Mattawan Creek to support a white shark.
A white was caught shortly thereafter in Raritan Bay not to far from the creek entrance.
Then the shark attacks stopped.
They also said that white shark had some human body parts in its stomach. -Tom
That is a good book to read.
Also below is another book on the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Twelve Days of Terror by Richard G. Fernicola, M.D. is a fantastic book on the fatal 1916 New Jersey shark attacks.
It has great insight into the attacks, and the people and attitudes of that time period. The book is thoroughly researched.
The true story of these sensational attacks is more interesting than anything Hollywood could imagine.
You get a good picture of life in America at the turn of that century and how a marine event could change the lives and habits of Americans. - Tom
What’s wrong with an alert system ?
You a making a humungous leap to Fauci, not even sure what you even mean by that.
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