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What's your name again?
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Swimming! Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies....
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As dan_oz says, the risk is very small, more likely to die driving to and from the beach.
RIP to the swimmer.
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Big deal, it’s more exciting reading about hunters getting eaten by grizzlies. It happens more often and is just as gruesome.
No one wants to watch a person die, but everyone runs to see it happen. People are fickle.
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Was at Coogee beach back in ‘19 and at Sunshine Coast in early ‘20 at sales meetings. Water was wonderful, don’t know if the beach was netted or not.
While there’s probably as many or more attacks in the U.S., entering the water in Australia gives one a bit of pause……
But, I go in off the sand and not rocks, no wetsuit, no surfing, and never over titty deep!
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How shallow do you have to stay to be safe from shark attack?
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How shallow do you have to stay to be safe from shark attack? Problem is they make so many different models of sharks. I heard some factoid on shark week that the majority of attacks happen in less than 3 feet of water.
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Bull sharks can go into freshwater and survive.
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Shark attacks are dramatic, but quite rare. As someone said, you are more likely to get killed in a car crash while driving to the beach, than to be killed by a shark.
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Problem is they make so many different models of sharks. I heard some factoid on shark week that the majority of attacks happen in less than 3 feet of water. I think the previous shark death in Sydney happened in about 3' of water. A bull shark. The Mail Online is saying the dead guy from yesterday was not just some random tourist but a British diving instructor who was a vocal advocate against shark nets on beaches, saying they "protect no one." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...uled-death-great-white-shark-Sydney.htmlNo longer a tragedy, this is a contender for the 2022 Darwin Award.
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How shallow do you have to stay to be safe from shark attack? the attacks on the outer banks a few years ago were in about 3' of water. just off the beach. when we went to portsmouth island for the day i saw something very long swimming just off shore in about that depth. it looked to be around 5-8 feet long. really took all the fun out of the beach.
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Problem is they make so many different models of sharks. I heard some factoid on shark week that the majority of attacks happen in less than 3 feet of water. I think the previous shark death in Sydney happened in about 3' of water. A bull shark. The Mail Online is saying the dead guy from yesterday was not just some random tourist but a British diving instructor who was a vocal advocate against shark nets on beaches, saying they "protect no one." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...uled-death-great-white-shark-Sydney.htmlNo longer a tragedy, this is a contender for the 2022 Darwin Award. Or another verse to “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette.
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Interesting, as that was feeding behavior from the looks of it, and many (most?) attacks by white sharks on humans appear to be of the exploratory type. Apparently, once they figure out a dude or dudette isn't a fat filled blubber sack with fins, they usually just stop. But that dude looked like he was being eaten like a seal would be.
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In it is death and all you seek
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Sharks gotta eat. Same as the worms.
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Been swimming in the Atlantic all my life. I’ve seen several sharks while out there. Luckily never had a problem.
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Bull sharks can go into freshwater and survive. So can the Great White. There is a documentary on a swimmer killed in fresh water, inland in New Jersey, around a century ago. The shark was later identified as a Great White.
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Bull sharks can go into freshwater and survive. So can the Great White. There is a documentary on a swimmer killed in fresh water, inland in New Jersey, around a century ago. The shark was later identified as a Great White. That was a bull shark not a white.
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On the shore. Been to Kehei, Oahu a few times this year and made the mistake of reading the shark attack reports. Kept a good scan while snorkeling.
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Bull sharks can go into freshwater and survive. So can the Great White. There is a documentary on a swimmer killed in fresh water, inland in New Jersey, around a century ago. The shark was later identified as a Great White. That was a bull shark not a white. Correct. It was thought to be a white because they had nearly simultaneously experienced attacks in the open surf from whites. Or what they thought were whites. But in hindsight the whole thing might have just been bulls. The inshore attack most certainly was a bull.
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