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[ootlg]

They'd spit you out.

[flatandy]

But that would be too late, and my experience would already be unenjoyable.

[ootlg]

A few manly scars? You could dine out on it.

[happyhammerhead]

Thought it was the shark dining out

[mids]

Aug 8, 2022 12:53:20 GMT ootlg said:

They'd spit you out.

Only the well brought up sharks.

[ootlg]

FA would be well brought up.

[flatandy]

Normally when there’s a spit-or-swallow dichotomy it’s not related to shark attacks.

[ootlg]

'Normally'... pffft... what is the world coming to?

[voice]

Aug 9, 2022 12:01:03 GMT flatandy said:

Normally when there’s a spit-or-swallow dichotomy it’s not related to shark attacks.

Yeah it's usually in relation to Cougars...

[perrykneeham]

Or swamp donkeys.

[flatandy]

SHARK ATTACK!

Here in San Diego. I was on my bike probably less than a quarter of a mile from this when it happened - or at least from when they were tourniqueting the eaten man on the beach.

www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/shark-bites-swimmer-in-del-mar-beaches-closed/3530234/

This is one of the many reasons I don't go in the ocean around here.

[mids]

I wonder what kind? There's a small river and some lagoons at the beach so it could be a bull shark.

[flatandy]

There are quite a lot of juvenile great whites in the area, too. Usually, being juveniles, they don't eat people. In fact, I don't remember the last time a shark attacked a swimmer round these parts. But, being juvenile, perhaps they aren't mature enough to know what they're looking for.

There's been a massive boom in marine mammals in these parts in the last decade or two. Seals and sea lions galore. Which means an increase in sharks. But also means that you'd expect an increase in attacks on the ocean swimmers. I've been waiting for this story. My friends who swim here seem utterly unconcerned, which just seems utterly weird to me.

[perrykneeham]

I was always surprised that the US Navy SEALs haven't had more shark interactions, given that San Diego is their training area and they spend a lot of time swimming in the sea.

[mids]

It would be quite unusual for it to be a juvenile great white. They swim around surfers and swimmers all the time and largely ignore them. He just have been very unlucky (in a way, he was...) and was a juvenile great white.

"Most of the juvenile great white sharks they spotted were at two locations: Carpinteria, which is just south of Santa Barbara; and Del Mar, just north of San Diego. Along those beaches, the research team spotted a human-shark interaction on 97% of the days they took the drone out."

www.livescience.com/animals/sharks/great-white-sharks-have-almost-no-interest-in-eating-humans-study-confirms

[voice]

We've had lots of killer whales off the cost here in the last few weeks, non have been sinking boats, that must be a Gibraltar thing.

[wetkingcanute]

"Don't worry about shark attacks - that only happens to "someone else'. OH sh*t ...I'M SOMEONE ELSE!

[perrykneeham]

Jun 3, 2024 17:16:54 GMT voice said:

We've had lots of killer whales off the cost here in the last few weeks, non have been sinking boats, that must be a Gibraltar thing.

They reckon it's a teenage craze, like skateboarding, mullets and breaking windows.

[voice]

I love the idea of teenage delinquency amount Orcas. Wonder if they have the equivalent of Orca Gammons, "we didn't sink rich people's boats in my day, bring back the squid!"

[flatandy]

Jun 3, 2024 17:03:53 GMT mids said:

It would be quite unusual for it to be a juvenile great white. They swim around surfers and swimmers all the time and largely ignore them. He just have been very unlucky (in a way, he was...) and was a juvenile great white.

"Most of the juvenile great white sharks they spotted were at two locations: Carpinteria, which is just south of Santa Barbara; and Del Mar, just north of San Diego. Along those beaches, the research team spotted a human-shark interaction on 97% of the days they took the drone out."

www.livescience.com/animals/sharks/great-white-sharks-have-almost-no-interest-in-eating-humans-study-confirms

And this attack was in Del Mar. My friends say that the juvenile great whites have no interest in eating people; and the adult great whites go off elsewhere in the ocean.

This bloke is clearly unlucky because I think it's one of the very first shark attacks I've read about in San Diego since I've been here.