Great Whites regularly snack on fresh off the beach seals.
Posted on 07/16/2013 1:08:18 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
A teenage girl from France was killed in a shark attack while swimming off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, the fifth person to be killed by sharks on the island since 2011.
Local officials said the 15-year-old was attacked in the mid-afternoon while swimming just five metres from shore in the shallows of Saint-Paul bay on the western side of the island.
The teenager's body was sliced in two at the torso, and then "a part of her body was taken away by the shark", said Gina Hoarau, the head of public safety on the island.
The girl, who was named only as "Sarah" by French media, was swimming with another girl her age when the attack - just metres from a popular restaurant - happened.
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I also remember a Bob Hope joke from that summer.
"I got into my tub and my rubber ducky started circling me."
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“I’ve been afraid of the ocean since I saw Jaws as a child.”
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One of the most successful horror movies ever- and they didn’t have to rely on in-your face violence, blood, gore and blatant sex to make Jaws a runaway success.
Jaws proved nothing is as horrible as what your own mind can conjure up.
Take for instance the opening scene.
It’s a lovely quiet moonlight night on the bay with no sounds except the gentle lapping of water and the gentle bell of a bouy.
A girl is treading water, laughing and teasing her inebriated boyfriend lying in the sand on the shore.
You hear the jaws theme...suddenly the girl is yanked below the surface. She comes up again.
A look of confusion and horror on her face.
She’s yanked down again.
She surfaces. Her water logged screams are bloodcurdling.
Once again she is pulled under, and this time does not resurface.
The moonlite bay returns to its gentle lapping, the bouy bell tolls gently.
The boyfriend sleeps on on the beach.
It’s as if nothing ever happened.
One of the scariest, most horrific movie scenes ever filmed.
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ever read the book / in the book Chief Brody swims home alone... Hooper was eaten too and Hooper admits an affair w/ Brody’s wife and Brody is swimming like the dickens to stand her up
You seem to forget that the girl was stark naked (and the film was darkened in the editing room so as to keep her girl parts from being blatant) and a severed limb floated to the bottom during several scenes. Granted, it's not as bad as some movies today... but it had its sex and violence...
Great Whites regularly snack on fresh off the beach seals.
About a zillion years ago my family took a vacation there as wee.
We stayed at the old Wanderer Motel and one morning the beach was littered with dead and dying jellyfish.
My big sister decided to stick her big toe into one of them and cried in the motel room for the rest of the vacation.
She also tried to tan with Coppertone's "QT" and turned a nice shade of orange.
Good times.
The key words here are blatant- in your face.
Definitely super scary.
The Shining scared the crap out of me too. I was 7 or 8 when I saw that one.
i am with you. after jaws i go.as far as my knees
The Shining- The second scariest movie ever!
My buddies took me to see Jaws on Friday night in 1975. My scuba certification dive was the next morning. It was my first ocean dive. It was hard to roll off the boat that Saturday.
Prayers for her parents. That poor girl.
If it’s going to be someone, I wish it were only advocates for sharks that were taken like this, since they love them so much. Then we could get back to installing shark nets and hunting down ones that get too close to where people are bathing.
Dreadful. RIP.
She ignored signs posted there forbidding people to go swimming, and that sharks were numerous in this area. However, it’s hard to imagine a more horrific death. The authorities said death was instantaneous. None of the stories about the attack say which half of her was carried off, head or feet.
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