Holy moly, the water’s full of sharks! I mean chock-full. I don’t think I’ll go swimming in the ocean anymore.
The good news is, the sharks mostly mind their own business and the people don’t even know they’re there. The bad news is “mostly.”
This video is a little long (11 minutes), but it’s something I haven’t seen before (not often, I mean) and I thought you might find it fascinating… in an edgy sort of way.
There’s a good chance this photo isn’t genuine, but I couldn’t resist it.
If summer turns your thoughts toward the seashore, it may also turn them toward… well, sharks. I don’t know about you, but I find sharks fascinating.
And here’s one of the most fascinating shark stories of all:
https://leeduigon.com/2015/08/21/memory-lane-the-shark-arm-murders/
This was in 1935, and a lot of our modern crime-solving technology had yet to be imagined. I wonder how well investigators would do with this case today.
But let’s hope there’s no need to find out.
Here’s something you absolutely don’t have to worry about when the temperature is hovering around zero degrees. But in the crystal-clear waters of the Bahamas–well, that’s another story.
Watch how fast the sharks appear, seemingly out of nowhere, as soon as the little boy enters the water. Don’t worry, he gets out in time. But it was a close call. I wonder if he’s seen this video. Crikey, I wouldn’t even get into a bathtub, after this.
I have to use this video or lose it, so here it is.
On a beautiful beach somewhere along the Gulf of Mexico, a couple of bathers are blissfully unaware of the exceedingly large shark that’s coming their way. They don’t seem to hear the warnings shouted from whatever elevation this video camera was stationed. And the shark comes closer and closer…
They’re in luck, though. The shark is busy hunting a stingray and has no time for humans.
Just for the record: offshore waters are normally full of sharks. That’s where the fish are, so the sharks feed there. If the people in the water could see the sharks in the water, they wouldn’t be in the water anymore. Given the large number of people and sharks in the water at the same time, any shark attack must be viewed as a statistical anomaly.
Which is but little comfort to the swimmer whose leg gets bitten off…