Posted on 08/14/2021 4:55:56 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
CHIMNEY CORNER, N.S. -- There is shock and horror in a picturesque part of Western Cape Breton, after a 21-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital following an apparent shark attack on Friday.
While not entirely unheard of, this kind of thing is remarkably rare around here.
It was just off Margaree Island, along the west coast of Cape Breton, where a dream summer day on the water turned into a nightmare for a 21-year-old woman.
Apparent shark attack off west coast of Cape Breton leaves woman with serious injuries "This is terrifying. This is traumatic,” says Fred Whoriskey, excecutive director of the Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University.
Whoriskey says for something like this to happen in Canadian waters is even more rare than you might think.
"If you go to the international shark attack file, there isn't even a register for Canada on it. For unprovoked shark attacks, or provoked shark attacks. Either one of those particular things. So in our place, extraordinarily rare, and non-existent for at least 100 years."
Just before 5 p.m. on Friday, Nova Scotia RCMP received a call made from the boat, which had at least six people on it.
"The victim was swimming in the water, off the boat, and was allegedly attacked by this shark,” says Sgt. Andrew Joyce of the N.S. RCMP.
The boat was half a mile west of Margaree Island.
"The person was transported to shore by the boat that she was on,” says Joyce.
Joyce says once on shore, the woman received help from EHS and a local fire department. She was then taken to hospital locally, before being airlifted to Halifax.
Nobody knows for sure yet what kind of shark may have been involved, but Whoriskey says it was likely a white shark, an endangered species whose populations he says are beginning to rebound.
Whoriskey says it’s possible that a shark could have mistaken a person in the water for food.
"We do seem to be getting a lot of sightings and detections of the animals in offshore areas around islands,” says Whoriskey. "It is a place where other wildlife is congregating, notably seals.”
"We have a lot of young animals that seem to be coming up into our waters now. Which means that they're just learning how to survive. 'What is food? What do I attack? How do I do this?’”
RCMP confirm that the woman is from the local area, but weren’t able to provide an update on her condition on Saturday.
With ideal swimming weather now here, Whoriskey says others wondering how they can stay safe would be best off avoiding getting into the water along offshore islands like this.
"Getting into these kinds of areas, anchoring your boat and going for a swim, is kind of like going into the prime hunting grounds that sharks would be hanging out in," says Whoriskey
For now, it's a shocking incident that might never repeat itself around here in our lifetimes, but has people thinking twice about what lies beneath our waters here on the East Coast.
To get that published you will have to add something on; transgender discrimination, the attack on our democracy, climate change, COVID vaccine deniers, and/or BLM.
If only she had been wearing her mask!
Can’t you feel them circling, honey?
Can’t you feel them swimming around?
You got fins to the left, fins to the right
And you’re the only bait in town
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa
You got fins to the left, fins to the right
And you’re the only girl in town
The more the left gets protection for apex predators, the more they turn to humans for food.
In Yellowstone the grizzlies are overbred and should be hunted but the left is protecting them with legal stalling in the courts.
It is apex predator time in the US now because the earth worshippers are stubbornly clinging to an idea that nature stays balanced.
Even though it has been shown that this theory, Natural Balance, is wrong and outdated over and over again.
And it is reaching up to Canada.
What we used to do was kill these predators to keep their numbers down. But the left prefers they eat humans.
This is a huge part of why they hated Trumps wall.
The rewilding pathways go right across the border.
In Washington state the feds wanted to put grizzlies in the Cascades but the state fought them and finally won.
Watch how they are planting huge wolves from Canada
everywhere they can.
And Trump was working on it but those wolves are still federally protected in Great Lake states.
http://socminco.com/REWILDING.htm
Well, to a shark, a human in the water is food!
Indeed!
Whenever I hear someone say "Oh, sharks don't really like to eat people!" I am reminded of the people defending wolves who say "Wolves don't really attack people!"
I remind them that there were good reasons wolves were deliberately hunted to extinction in England.
I notice the “great” has been dropped from “white shark”.
Do we know the shark’s pronouns?
It seems every biologist will use the shorter common name version .
Notice also how the Canadian press over a day after the attack doesn't name the victim or her medical status or is doing interviews with the attack witnesses; or doctors at the Halifax hospital. Quite different than our press.-Tom
Here is an update:
CB means Cape Breton-Tom
https://hotcountry1035.ca/2021/08/14/woman-has-lots-of-stiches-after-c-b-shark-attack/
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