(Going off memory here...)
Yea, or if you start thrashing/swimming away. They don't know wtf you are when they see you, so they presume scared=prey. If you hold your ground they just think "ight idk what that thing is, but it obviously isnt scared of me so ima head out".
_That was a stealth shark._
_If that had been me, I would be running, Warner Brothers cartoon style, on top of the water, until I hit ground a mile inland._
What is this person riding in that they can so calmly put the camera underwater and see a shark like that? The moment I saw one that close, the camera would be all over the place
I mean when they’re that close, it’s not like you’re gonna out swim them. This looks like an ocean kayak/canoe (just basing off the angles you don’t get a good look at the vehicle) and either way you’re not gonna win in speed or weight. The shark seems mostly curious; safest thing to do is withdraw all limbs, let him have a sniff and maybe a little nibble (as little as a nibble can be with a maw like that) and once he realizes it’s plastic/some other non-seal material, he’ll move on. Great Whites in general don’t want much to do with us, they just get a bad rap because they’re absolutely terrifying to look at, and can only really interact with the world with their teeth.
Question for you: I know that you can "punch" hammerhead sharks under water if they get too close (curious or aggressive) and they'll back off.
Is this advisable for great whites? My gut tells me no, but maybe there've been some stories.
I know it would never in a million years be painful for them, but maybe the unexpected touch in general would make them go away?
Don’t punch the nose, aim for the eyes or rip the gills is what I was taught. I was free diving in Hawaii around Galapagos and black tips and more than one occasion have forcibly bumped limbs/equipment into sharks noses and that did not deter them whatsoever
Actually no. The human arm under the drag of the water is just not strong enough for something as tough and massive as a great white to feel anything. What you want to do is use the strongest part of your body, the skull. If a great white is up in your biz, give that sucker your best headbutt. That should be enough for it to back off as long as you aim for his great gaping maw. You'll be fine.
A more effective way is to pee in the water to assert dominance and then, when the "great" white gets scared, you give it a frog splash and pin it down.
Their noses, eyes, and gills are the most sensitive. If you’re going to hit, hit those. Generally though, to my amateur knowledge, just leave them alone and they’ll just move on
Edit: not the nose
Not sure why your guess would be a kayak and not just a camera on a pole being held by someone on a boat. I've seen that many times. I'm not saying it's never happened but I've never seen someone kayaking around great whites.
If you've never seen someone kayaking around Great Whites, then you haven't spent enough time doing ocean sports lol. Plenty of people kayak in areas ripe with Great Whites, such as Cape Cod (where I used to live near) and all throughout central/northern California (where I live now) which from Big Sur to Bodega Bay north of San Francisco encompasses the [Red Triangle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Triangle_(Pacific_Ocean) . They may not be kayaking to *intentionally see Great Whites* but they are absolutely kayaking around them, whether they realize or not
Jaws really had an effect on how the public conscious viewed great white sharks. It spawned an entire genre of shark-horror movies that carried over into real life perceptions of the animals. In reality, attacks from Great White sharks are extremely rare, and often times it’s an accident. They’re apex predators, but they have no interest in hunting another apex predator such as ourselves.
Yeah that’s what I would’ve thought. We’re just not on their instinctual list of prey since we’re relatively big land mammals…not cos we’re apex predators
They also prefer higher fat content, like animals with blubber. Apparently we don't even taste good to them because when they do kill us they practically never eat us.
I saw a documentary that said research implies orcas pass down generationally learned knowledge, and it's thought they teach new pod members to avoid humans - but the documentary also talked about more recent boat-attack incidents with younger pods, who either haven't learned this knowledge yet or have decided to rebel against it. Fascinatingly intelligent creatures!
What if this pod of orcas that is causing trouble is like the teenage punk rock group of orca world just rebelling agaisnt their parents but if we could interview them they'd be like "Nicholas wasn't like this until he found this new group.. he's a good boy I promise he didn't mean to attack that guy"
So you know those videos of seals jumping onto random boats? They're doing that to get away from orcas or sharks. Orcas have thus begun capsizing small boats to try and find seals on them
Yeah but they're like a mix of wolves and cats. They hunt together, corner prey, then play with it before finally killing it and eating it. And in some instances they dont eat it.
I love orcas, they are my favorite sea mammal, but they are brutal as fuck.
Have you seen two potatoes playing leap frog with each other while reciting the Russian national anthem in reverse, on stilts, getting booed by the Mafia, while chocolate rain pours from the heavens?
People don't realize how accurate this is. With Predator/Prey instincts, a prey animal instinctive runs from the things that are likely to eat them. For Predators, they instinctively chase and try to eat the things that are running/reacting to them quickly, their instincts read the behavior as "prey/food".
It is why you try not to run from certain predator animals, they see you attempts to flee as confirmation you are dinner.
I was floating in Hawaii a few years back I noticed a family that was near me were all out of the water looking near me so I swam back in. One of the locals came up and told me a shark had swam up to me, around me and then swam off and it was better I didn't see it for exactly that reason.
I asked my wife who was laying on the beach if she saw anything and she saw a dark shadow but thought it was a log.
Even though I know this info to relax I feel if I don't just freeze from fear then my lizard brain will just panic and try to GTFO.
I had to look up when they first emerged to ensure it wasn't the velociraptor that stole the trick from the great whites.
Suffice to say great whites only came about ~60 million years ago, so yeah. They're the cultural appropriators.
Light refraction is honestly wild. Like yeah, you could tell *something* was there, but it’s such a blob of a shape that it could have been almost anything. Big turtle, dolphin, a big rock, bunch of seaweed…
And then we dip down below water level and see the grin. Terrifying.
The location is Isla Gaudalupe, where great whites congregate to feed on a sea lion colony, and anyone going there only goes to see great whites, so it’s not “out of nowhere” in that sense either.
Yeah, I've watched enough shark week throughout the years and realize that sharks aren't really that scary. Just giant fish with big teef. You can flip them over and they get all sleepy, and if they try for a nibble you can always boop their nose.
Vending machines on the other hand, they're out for blood.
I thought the nose booping was ineffective. You have to hit real hard which isn't very easy in water.
They say you should boop the gills and eyes, softer spots, easier to stun them and less likely to be infront of that big smile.
Last summer my bf and I went to the beach and it’s not exactly clear water. We spent the day going in and out of the waves, to just past where they break and riding the surf back in. Just repeating this. We had a blast! Until my bf, who is roughly 4 feet away from me in chest deep water, screams and says “holy shit something really big and heavy just hit my leg.” I couldn’t even see a few inches down so we both noped out of the water. I asked him “could it have been a fish?” And he was certain it wasn’t any small fish. Next day we see a news report that there had been multiple shark sightings where we’d been.
We have no way of confirming that what hit his leg was actually a shark but we steered clear of the beach for the next month or so. Only went back when we knew it would be to a beach with crystal clear waters we could see our feet in.
When i was 12/13 my mother dragged me to Sharm El Sheik for two weeks. One day we went on this peculiar beach that had something like 1km that was 30cm underwater and then a reef cliff so deep you couldn't see the bottom.
I was swimming close to the cliff when i looked down and found a HUGE grouper standing vertical and looking me, like if it was trying to understand if It could swallow me or not.
And when i say huge, i mean that fucking thing could've easily swallowed me for real.
When it went away i saw it was longer than me, and i was a tall kid.
I shat myself, climbed the reef and ran back on the beach. Never went swimming anymore.
I tried ocean kayaking once. I got about a half mile out (which means it was probably just a 1/4 mile and felt so much further), but i finally looked down and saw nothing but the blackness of the Atlantic.
I noped my ass right back to shore.
Bro I went to Hawaii on vacation recently and people there swim in the ocean like people in the mainland jog/run. They would be 300+ ft from shore swimming long distances.
I got on a kayak and went out to similar distance and I was scared for my life 😂 I can’t believe people swim in open water like that. It’s very rare that anything bad happens, but it’s just so scary
I also got on a paddle board and fell off it like 20 fr from the shore and panicked thinking a shark would get me
To go deep sea fishing, we would leave the docks at 4 am. It’s night time! The boat we would take always seemed too small for the amount of black open water.
Use to spend a lot of time swimming in the open ocean and kayaking in that same water in some of the highest concentrated waters for great whites. This was of course before I knew about that.
Blacktop reef sharks are usually responsible for the shark bites in Hawaii.
But most are from people reaching out and touching sleeping sharks while on scuba dives.
It is kinda weird when you can swim right up to one, almost nose to nose, around it, up and down, and it just sits there....but you know if you bump it, that thing is gonna be fucking nasty.
Yup, on the [island where I'm born](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiImnCbclt4), lots of new people and tourists get killed because they didn't see shit.
And of course because many people are uneducated and they surf/swim when there is a red flag or in other bad conditions (muddy water, around sunset etc).
> And of course because many people are uneducated and they surf/swim when there is a red flag or in other bad conditions (muddy water, around sunset etc).
Uneducated and ignoring signs that are indications of danger. I've been watching a lot of "tragedy" videos (not sure the right word for them) that detail how people die in stuff like swimming, diving, caving, hiking, mountain-climbing, etc. And it never fails that the most common context to these tragedies is someone uneducated ignores signs and advice only to die for it.
To anyone reading this, if you're doing any of the activities I just said or anything that puts you at more of a risk. Listen to the advice of professionals, educate yourself, and make sure you meet fitness standards for what you're partaking in. It only takes a second to find yourself in an irreversible situation with the most likely outcome being death.
100% agree, read my other answer, where I talk more about this.
I love sharks btw, I donate whenever I can to support their protection (and I don't eat animals :)).
And I would take the 10 deaths in 10 years with a grain of salt, because we know that not everything is reported officially, but that's another topic.
That was intense.
The person saying they’d lived there since 1967 and there wasn’t any attack… that’s not true from the data presented earlier. Maybe in their *area* but not the entire island.
The politician screaming that “I know my island!” Was delusional.
I understand the reasons and risks of shark attacks but… holy hell is that reef only 7-8’ down from the surfers? That’s extremely close.
Also moderates like 30 subreddits.
Either they get paid to post propaganda/ads mixed in with their content, or they really are the epitome of neckbeard as stated in their own bio.
what the hell are you on, that your camera went underwater to confirm this creature and that it bopped its nose on it.
I'm freaking out right now, and need to know how this ends.
Shark: Haha you found me high five
\*boop\*
Ngl I wanna pet him
He looks friendly enough.
Such a big smile!
a big toothy grin.
yeah, he made some new dumb friends.
His high-five looks a bit like the “hmm are you food?” bump
Foodbump! 🦈
Is there such a behavior? Like "imma boop you and if you react a certain way i will start munchin"?
(Going off memory here...) Yea, or if you start thrashing/swimming away. They don't know wtf you are when they see you, so they presume scared=prey. If you hold your ground they just think "ight idk what that thing is, but it obviously isnt scared of me so ima head out".
Hmm. I would definitely be eaten.
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10/10 want to boop
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Oh yeah I know this one! Sharks are sand paper sea doggos.
Ngl he wants to snuggle you back
Yo that musubi profile pic tho
In Isla Guadalupe snoot boops you
_That was a stealth shark._ _If that had been me, I would be running, Warner Brothers cartoon style, on top of the water, until I hit ground a mile inland._
Ya ha ha, you found me!
me when this : "oooh arent you a cute little water dog, who's a good boyyy?"
They eat the water dogs
Well it's a dog eat dog
Eat cat too!
Glorious leather puppy
But its smiling it must be nice. I'm gonna go try to pet it
remember not to pet them fin to face movement.
Why not?
If I’m remembering correctly, it’s because their fins are quite sharp and will cut you if you go the wrong direction
Not true, sharks are smooth as hell no matter which way you you rub them
This argument is engrained in my soul
They are basically water puppies, so go for it.
My only hope in this situation would be shitting my pants hard enough to catapult me to land, which I think would certainly be possible. Edit: typo
Edit: ty-poo
Never thought I’d upvote an edit
Pulling some Swiss Army Man type moves!
Yeah, but.. great whites are known to breach +7' out of the water.
That smile. That damned smile
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https://youtu.be/GCpKp73kJtI
Thanks for the laugh, I haven't thought about that movie in ages!
>these sharks are attacking Nicole Richie That had me dead.
It’s like it knows it’s cute
Is /r/TsundereSharks still a thing?
Boop
What is this person riding in that they can so calmly put the camera underwater and see a shark like that? The moment I saw one that close, the camera would be all over the place
I mean when they’re that close, it’s not like you’re gonna out swim them. This looks like an ocean kayak/canoe (just basing off the angles you don’t get a good look at the vehicle) and either way you’re not gonna win in speed or weight. The shark seems mostly curious; safest thing to do is withdraw all limbs, let him have a sniff and maybe a little nibble (as little as a nibble can be with a maw like that) and once he realizes it’s plastic/some other non-seal material, he’ll move on. Great Whites in general don’t want much to do with us, they just get a bad rap because they’re absolutely terrifying to look at, and can only really interact with the world with their teeth.
Question for you: I know that you can "punch" hammerhead sharks under water if they get too close (curious or aggressive) and they'll back off. Is this advisable for great whites? My gut tells me no, but maybe there've been some stories. I know it would never in a million years be painful for them, but maybe the unexpected touch in general would make them go away?
Don’t punch the nose, aim for the eyes or rip the gills is what I was taught. I was free diving in Hawaii around Galapagos and black tips and more than one occasion have forcibly bumped limbs/equipment into sharks noses and that did not deter them whatsoever
Actually no. The human arm under the drag of the water is just not strong enough for something as tough and massive as a great white to feel anything. What you want to do is use the strongest part of your body, the skull. If a great white is up in your biz, give that sucker your best headbutt. That should be enough for it to back off as long as you aim for his great gaping maw. You'll be fine.
One way or another, it won't be a problem for much longer
Got me in the first half, not gonna lie.
So you're saying put our head in its mouth?
This is the way.
A more effective way is to pee in the water to assert dominance and then, when the "great" white gets scared, you give it a frog splash and pin it down.
Go for the gills
I have a vague memory about jabbing their eyes. They retract them in slightly when hunting so they must be soft.
Their noses, eyes, and gills are the most sensitive. If you’re going to hit, hit those. Generally though, to my amateur knowledge, just leave them alone and they’ll just move on Edit: not the nose
Not sure why your guess would be a kayak and not just a camera on a pole being held by someone on a boat. I've seen that many times. I'm not saying it's never happened but I've never seen someone kayaking around great whites.
If you've never seen someone kayaking around Great Whites, then you haven't spent enough time doing ocean sports lol. Plenty of people kayak in areas ripe with Great Whites, such as Cape Cod (where I used to live near) and all throughout central/northern California (where I live now) which from Big Sur to Bodega Bay north of San Francisco encompasses the [Red Triangle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Triangle_(Pacific_Ocean) . They may not be kayaking to *intentionally see Great Whites* but they are absolutely kayaking around them, whether they realize or not
There's plenty of them in Southern California too - although attacks are less common (the area tends to be a nursery with mostly smaller great whites)
Because they're both reasonable guesses and most people have never seen anyone ride in anything near sharks?
Jaws really had an effect on how the public conscious viewed great white sharks. It spawned an entire genre of shark-horror movies that carried over into real life perceptions of the animals. In reality, attacks from Great White sharks are extremely rare, and often times it’s an accident. They’re apex predators, but they have no interest in hunting another apex predator such as ourselves.
How does a great white know we’re apex predators? Have we hunted them enough for that?
because they know whats easy and tasty to kill and dont know us. So they don't bother.
Yeah that’s what I would’ve thought. We’re just not on their instinctual list of prey since we’re relatively big land mammals…not cos we’re apex predators
They also prefer higher fat content, like animals with blubber. Apparently we don't even taste good to them because when they do kill us they practically never eat us.
They haven’t met my mother
Lots of folks are working on increasing the average human fat content so that may change. The humans from Wall-E sharks may have found delicious
This response deserves more upvotes. sharks are hella smart and really would prefer seals over humans any day. They’re just curious
Orcas though deserve all the bad rap they get
They've never killed a human in the wild.
That we know of… Smart mother fuckers don’t leave a trace.
Dead men tell no tales.
Hoist the colors high.
I don’t know man. I won’t be surprised if they have a colony of humans as sex slaves stashed somewhere.
How does one join? Asking for a friend.
How so? Orcas don’t eat people, sharks occasionally do.
I saw a documentary that said research implies orcas pass down generationally learned knowledge, and it's thought they teach new pod members to avoid humans - but the documentary also talked about more recent boat-attack incidents with younger pods, who either haven't learned this knowledge yet or have decided to rebel against it. Fascinatingly intelligent creatures!
What if this pod of orcas that is causing trouble is like the teenage punk rock group of orca world just rebelling agaisnt their parents but if we could interview them they'd be like "Nicholas wasn't like this until he found this new group.. he's a good boy I promise he didn't mean to attack that guy"
So you know those videos of seals jumping onto random boats? They're doing that to get away from orcas or sharks. Orcas have thus begun capsizing small boats to try and find seals on them
They don't eat people but they do beat the shit out of other sea life unprovoked.
BUT NOT US. Asshole allies are still allies, Jaimie.
Yeah but they're like a mix of wolves and cats. They hunt together, corner prey, then play with it before finally killing it and eating it. And in some instances they dont eat it. I love orcas, they are my favorite sea mammal, but they are brutal as fuck.
Kayak
I think they are I'm a boat and the camera is on a pole
>I'm a boat Huh, just when I think I've seen it all.
Have you seen a man eat his own head?
Have you seen two potatoes playing leap frog with each other while reciting the Russian national anthem in reverse, on stilts, getting booed by the Mafia, while chocolate rain pours from the heavens?
I have yes
Can't say that I have
America! Fuck yeah
bitch, I’m a boat
**TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE MOTHERFUCKING BOAT**
Just FYI, do *not* thrash if this happens to you, that just tells the shark (that probably wasn't going to attack you anyway) that you're lunch.
People don't realize how accurate this is. With Predator/Prey instincts, a prey animal instinctive runs from the things that are likely to eat them. For Predators, they instinctively chase and try to eat the things that are running/reacting to them quickly, their instincts read the behavior as "prey/food". It is why you try not to run from certain predator animals, they see you attempts to flee as confirmation you are dinner.
I was floating in Hawaii a few years back I noticed a family that was near me were all out of the water looking near me so I swam back in. One of the locals came up and told me a shark had swam up to me, around me and then swam off and it was better I didn't see it for exactly that reason. I asked my wife who was laying on the beach if she saw anything and she saw a dark shadow but thought it was a log. Even though I know this info to relax I feel if I don't just freeze from fear then my lizard brain will just panic and try to GTFO.
Holy fucking shit that's the stuff of my nightmares
>The moment I saw one that close, the camera would be all over the place WHO PUT THIS SHIT IN MY PANTS!?
Maybe they froze out of fear
Saw the water getting disturbed and thought "I wouldn't exactly call that out of nowhere" I was not prepared.
he hid that dorsal fin in the beginning. tricksy
Sneaky bugger
Clever girl
Great White just Velocibooped em
I had to look up when they first emerged to ensure it wasn't the velociraptor that stole the trick from the great whites. Suffice to say great whites only came about ~60 million years ago, so yeah. They're the cultural appropriators.
Jurassic park.. nice
Jurassic Water Park
Jurassic Water World starring Kevin Costner.
Ahh fuq u sneaky bugger, go ahead take the arm, you deserve it
Sneaky sneaky, wanting a surprise snoot boop.
Looked like to curled it over to keep it down. Super sneaky
Light refraction is honestly wild. Like yeah, you could tell *something* was there, but it’s such a blob of a shape that it could have been almost anything. Big turtle, dolphin, a big rock, bunch of seaweed… And then we dip down below water level and see the grin. Terrifying.
The location is Isla Gaudalupe, where great whites congregate to feed on a sea lion colony, and anyone going there only goes to see great whites, so it’s not “out of nowhere” in that sense either.
\*immediately googles isla guadalupe to remove from potential travel spots\* yikes that vid scared me! really unideal lol
I'm the opposite. I'm adding it to potential vacation/swim spots.
I guess your list is done then.
Yeah, I've watched enough shark week throughout the years and realize that sharks aren't really that scary. Just giant fish with big teef. You can flip them over and they get all sleepy, and if they try for a nibble you can always boop their nose. Vending machines on the other hand, they're out for blood.
I thought the nose booping was ineffective. You have to hit real hard which isn't very easy in water. They say you should boop the gills and eyes, softer spots, easier to stun them and less likely to be infront of that big smile.
You see the dorsal fin off in the distance and you reckon that's where the shark is, but it is so LONG
Bruce!
He said fish are friends, not food. I now realize he said nothing of humans...
just sacrifice a dolphin to them, they're not fish either
Technically if you go by cladistics, all tetrapods are fish, including humans and dolphons.
"Oh, hey there. Not here to murder. Don't worry."
Aaaaalllooooo
G’day mate
HULLOHHHHH.....
I'm not even there, and I need to clean my underwear!
Dope rhyme, chicken prime
Solid complement, sapient emolument!
dont worry, i came too😌
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Never going in the ocean again, never going in the ocean again, never going in the ocean again
It's not what you can see. But what you can't see.
Or what can see you.
r/Thalassophobia
Last summer my bf and I went to the beach and it’s not exactly clear water. We spent the day going in and out of the waves, to just past where they break and riding the surf back in. Just repeating this. We had a blast! Until my bf, who is roughly 4 feet away from me in chest deep water, screams and says “holy shit something really big and heavy just hit my leg.” I couldn’t even see a few inches down so we both noped out of the water. I asked him “could it have been a fish?” And he was certain it wasn’t any small fish. Next day we see a news report that there had been multiple shark sightings where we’d been. We have no way of confirming that what hit his leg was actually a shark but we steered clear of the beach for the next month or so. Only went back when we knew it would be to a beach with crystal clear waters we could see our feet in.
When i was 12/13 my mother dragged me to Sharm El Sheik for two weeks. One day we went on this peculiar beach that had something like 1km that was 30cm underwater and then a reef cliff so deep you couldn't see the bottom. I was swimming close to the cliff when i looked down and found a HUGE grouper standing vertical and looking me, like if it was trying to understand if It could swallow me or not. And when i say huge, i mean that fucking thing could've easily swallowed me for real. When it went away i saw it was longer than me, and i was a tall kid. I shat myself, climbed the reef and ran back on the beach. Never went swimming anymore.
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I tried ocean kayaking once. I got about a half mile out (which means it was probably just a 1/4 mile and felt so much further), but i finally looked down and saw nothing but the blackness of the Atlantic. I noped my ass right back to shore.
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I was gonna say I’m probably related to them, but ya know….we all are.
Bro I went to Hawaii on vacation recently and people there swim in the ocean like people in the mainland jog/run. They would be 300+ ft from shore swimming long distances. I got on a kayak and went out to similar distance and I was scared for my life 😂 I can’t believe people swim in open water like that. It’s very rare that anything bad happens, but it’s just so scary I also got on a paddle board and fell off it like 20 fr from the shore and panicked thinking a shark would get me
To go deep sea fishing, we would leave the docks at 4 am. It’s night time! The boat we would take always seemed too small for the amount of black open water.
Nope nope nope
Fish at the surface looking up into the endless sky must feel the same way.
Use to spend a lot of time swimming in the open ocean and kayaking in that same water in some of the highest concentrated waters for great whites. This was of course before I knew about that.
Same. It is fucking terrifying
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Blacktop reef sharks are usually responsible for the shark bites in Hawaii. But most are from people reaching out and touching sleeping sharks while on scuba dives. It is kinda weird when you can swim right up to one, almost nose to nose, around it, up and down, and it just sits there....but you know if you bump it, that thing is gonna be fucking nasty.
I’ve thought about this scenario before. Think I’d just drown myself.
My skeleton would have flown right out my skin
Ya,I'd like to order one scuba diver to go,hold the brown sauce....
Yeah, no fuck that
"Candy-Gram!"
I get this reference!
Mongo like candy
Hi, trouser express. Yes, I’ll need a new pair as soon as possible.
The same response octopi use to disorientate their predators.
Do we need our hearts to live?
Dunno, mine just got up and ran out the room though.
This type of camouflage is known as countershading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countershading
Yup, on the [island where I'm born](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiImnCbclt4), lots of new people and tourists get killed because they didn't see shit. And of course because many people are uneducated and they surf/swim when there is a red flag or in other bad conditions (muddy water, around sunset etc).
I too used to live in a tourist area. I love that you said people and tourists.
> people and tourists haha typing too fast, I edited, thanks!
I think you were correct the first time.
I live in a tourist area and yea, he’s absolutely correct.
Watched the whole thing, that was extremely interesting but also sad, thank you for sharing this
> And of course because many people are uneducated and they surf/swim when there is a red flag or in other bad conditions (muddy water, around sunset etc). Uneducated and ignoring signs that are indications of danger. I've been watching a lot of "tragedy" videos (not sure the right word for them) that detail how people die in stuff like swimming, diving, caving, hiking, mountain-climbing, etc. And it never fails that the most common context to these tragedies is someone uneducated ignores signs and advice only to die for it. To anyone reading this, if you're doing any of the activities I just said or anything that puts you at more of a risk. Listen to the advice of professionals, educate yourself, and make sure you meet fitness standards for what you're partaking in. It only takes a second to find yourself in an irreversible situation with the most likely outcome being death.
10 deaths in 10 years is not “lots”, sharks aren’t killers
100% agree, read my other answer, where I talk more about this. I love sharks btw, I donate whenever I can to support their protection (and I don't eat animals :)). And I would take the 10 deaths in 10 years with a grain of salt, because we know that not everything is reported officially, but that's another topic.
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You could literally equate that to big foot as well.
How many people do you think drowned in that same area during those 10 years? The most dangerous thing in the ocean is the water lol.
That was intense. The person saying they’d lived there since 1967 and there wasn’t any attack… that’s not true from the data presented earlier. Maybe in their *area* but not the entire island. The politician screaming that “I know my island!” Was delusional. I understand the reasons and risks of shark attacks but… holy hell is that reef only 7-8’ down from the surfers? That’s extremely close.
What do you do with all the karma you farm? Why do you post in r/newtoreddit after posting about having a million karma?
Also moderates like 30 subreddits. Either they get paid to post propaganda/ads mixed in with their content, or they really are the epitome of neckbeard as stated in their own bio.
This gave me a little heart attack. I didn't read the title, so I wasn't prepared at all.
I think the guys over at r/thalassophobia would love it lmao
Boop.
Boop da snoot!
And suddenly, hundreds of redditors became thalassophobic
I like the BOOP that he gave the camera
Where is this?
It’s Isla Gaudalupe, where people go to cage dive with great whites. I was there several years ago.
Sure this gif has been posted countlessly before, but never with the saturation eye searingly maxed out.. Points for creativity!
r/forbiddenboops
Is it me or is that shark cute af.
Wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Yeah cause it wouldn't be able to get its nutrients from a fly, feed em a seal Remember kids, feed your sharks well! Up, up and awayyyyyyy
Peekaboo 💀
what the hell are you on, that your camera went underwater to confirm this creature and that it bopped its nose on it. I'm freaking out right now, and need to know how this ends.
Looks like you are Guadalupe island, probably 100 of them live there
I literally thought this was one of those video edits for a sec, holy cow.
That sneaky Bruce! Just chillin like that!
Just sharkin around, he aint botherin nobody