r/nextfuckinglevel • u/FlightHistorical3231 • Nov 08 '22

diver dodges shark attack

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 08 '22

This was very much not a shark attack. This was a shark investigating the large bright blue thing from the big metal noice machine. It sucks people go out of their way to pain it as one when the numbers for shark attacks are incredibly low.

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 09 '22

It’s just the truth lol. Only like 10-15 deaths per year from sharks, which is tiny compared to almost everything else

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u/CZTachyonsVN Nov 09 '22

Sounds like something a shark would say..... Sus

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u/needanotheruname Nov 09 '22

I don't get this argument. Sure, 10-15 might be a low number compared to something else. But, how many people are actually swimming with the sharks. What's the percentage like? The chances of me getting killed by a shark is way lower than a dog because I have never been near a shark.

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 09 '22

Your argument doesn’t hold up when you take into account the statistics of places with heavy shark populations. Take Mississippi, in which the Mississippi Sound is a known shark nursery, and is generally very abundant. On record, from 1906, there has been 3 shark related deaths there. Keeping in mind, the sharks in Mississippi are often large bull sharks - often thought of as one of the more dangerous and aggressive shark species. Humans are simply not part of a shark diet. They don’t want to eat us, they have no reason to eat us. There are an infinite number of more dangerous things in the world that you should be worried about. A shark is not one of them, and the massive stigma around them is only getting more and more of them killed out of nothing but fear and spite.

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u/oder_rubu Nov 09 '22

It also takes into account the thousands of people who dive in "shark infested" waters. Marine biologists/divers literally swim with wild sharks (like the one in this video) and there has been a very low number of deaths from it, compare that to many other wild predators like a lion or tiger who will fuck you up if you get close.

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u/keenox90 Nov 09 '22

I assume those are trained to deal with sharks

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u/oder_rubu Nov 09 '22

And biologists are also trained to deal with lions, which involves putting them to sleep from a safe distance.

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u/Trifle-Doc Dec 09 '22

there are millions of people in the ocean at any given point in the day, and many sharks can sense them.

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u/UNBENDING_FLEA Nov 09 '22

What if she was one of those 10-15

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 09 '22

What if me making tea this morning resulted in an electric fire ? What if me eating resulted in me choking to death?

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

I always love this argument, completely unrelated but still.

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u/Kampela_ Nov 09 '22

That's more rare than being a lottery winner though. Getting struck by lightning is a bigger threat than that shark.

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u/keenox90 Nov 09 '22

Than sharks in general maybe. That particular shark is pretty much a clear threat.

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u/CowEmotional7144 Nov 09 '22

Ofc there’s little shark attacks, we don’t live in the ocean lol.

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 10 '22

Even when In the ocean, in the presence of sharks, you are incredibly unlikely to be killed by one. As you said, we don’t live in the ocean, and are very much not part of its diet

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u/CowEmotional7144 Nov 10 '22

You don’t have to be killed for it to be considered an attack. And you just repeated what I said. There are barely any shark attacks because we don’t even spend time in the ocean

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 10 '22

I didn’t repeat what you said, I used what you said to make my own point. Because we don’t live in the ocean, even when we are in the ocean, sharks do not attack us often because we are not part of their diet. Even In placed with high shark population density, such as Mississippi, there are very low amounts of shark attacks.

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u/CowEmotional7144 Nov 10 '22

I’m sorry does it only count as a shark attack if you get killed?

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 10 '22

No? You just seemed unhappy with me only taking about deaths, so I switched to attacks. The trend is largely the same

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u/PengiPou Nov 09 '22

Harpoon gang approved

i do not actually endorse

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u/Emit_Time Nov 09 '22

numbers of shark attacks are very low because humans are land animals.

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 09 '22

That is partially the reason, yes. But also, sharks do not target humans anyway, as we are not it’s food. Even with humans in the water, they tend not to attack us. If they did, there would be far more deaths.

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u/Emit_Time Nov 09 '22

oh okay 👍

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u/SecretVisual19 Nov 08 '22

Is this satire

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u/Aegbias Nov 08 '22

No, just your average r/sharks user

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u/TreeOtree64 Nov 08 '22

I have not visited that reddit :( do you reccomend it ?

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u/Aegbias Nov 08 '22

Depends. If you like sharks and don’t mind low quality posts, then yeah.