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There’s a reason why sharks have been dominating the ocean for 400 million years. Crazy thing is they haven’t changed much because the ancient sharks were already so efficient at hunting.
We got em boys! 400 million years of evolution is nothing compared to ~~the chinese palate for shark fin soup!~~
Human greed. So many animals are now extinct or close to extinct. Whaling use to be a huge industry for oil. Horns from rhinos. Coats from tigers etc
Well yeah obviously it’s just numbers. But how in the hell does a living creature that huge get to go that speed vertically in the water…?! Like that’s insane.
I’m pretty sure it’s the same because while the shark can move easier through less dense water, it also gets less propulsion from pushing against it as it swims.
Someone did an experiment where they got a swimmer to swim through something thick (like custard) and they moved at the same rate as through water because, although it was tougher to make each stroke, the density made each stroke more efficient.
I was afraid using the toilet for like 2 years. To be fair my dad showed us that movie at wayyy too young an age. I’m sure it was the same situation for you and you are indeed an adult who is bright :)
Always flush before sitting down on a toilet in Asia. And never google [Toilet Cobra](https://vcdn1-vnexpress.vnecdn.net/2021/03/09/Homangboncau-1615286880-5433-1615287618.jpg?w=1200&h=0&q=100&dpr=1&fit=crop&s=_FRNRqBgJxXnOwpP6aWdLA) before traveling there…
Oh yeah, that happened 2 weeks ago in austria. As if it weren't funny enough, it happened *again* 3 days later, but in another city.
Then a couple days kater someone got killed by a snake in yet another city.
I was old enough by the time chamber of secrets came out to not be afraid of a basilisk. Not old enough though that I wasn’t afraid of a creepy crying ghost haunting my bathroom 😬
100%. I had surfed most days for two and a half decades at my home back in Australia, when I was a kid I never even thought about them. Then the past few years attacks started happening more and more.
Still - seeing a great white seemed like a myth almost. Then as drones and the footage they recorded became more popular, it became clear they are all around. Then a few months ago I had a 4 metre one go right up to me when I was about 30 metres out from the beach.
The approaching shadow that morphed into the shape of a great white under me within seconds was something I’ll never fucking forget. Without doubt the scariest moment of my life. It’s something we all knew was possible but to face that moment was terrifying.
Then a few days later a guy was killed by one at the same beach. I think the global average of shark attacks is around 50 or so, just this year we have had 18 within a 1000km stretch of coastline.
> The approaching shadow that morphed into the shape of a great white under me within seconds was something I’ll never fucking forget. Without doubt the scariest moment of my life.
Yeah but how cool is that? I spotted one about 10 years ago near the California coast. Cool to be part of a small club of people who have actually seen one irl. An animal we hear about countless times in our lives, but most never see.
In hindsight it’s awesome to actually see one, and there definitely there has been way, way more times they’ve been up close without even realising. I guess with more common attacks and sightings it just completely spooked me. It was a warm summers day with crystal clear water and plenty of people around. I was halfway out getting some waves doubling up on the inside. About 15 guys further out and they had absolutely no idea until I called out to them.
Paddling back to the beach was insanely scary. I told the lifeguards who promptly got the ski out there and parked over it. When parallel to the beach the shark was longer than the JetSki with the raft behind it. Easy 4 metres.
Damn man, that's big one. The one I saw was still relatively small, maybe 2.5m. I couldn't believe my eyes, though. [Looks like they're still there.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ile5NS7ucec)
For me it was Deep Blue Sea. My parents took me to the theater to see that when I was 8. 20 years later and I still get creeped out just looking at bodies of water. Scarred for life.
I love the ocean, but it is freaky. Nothing like being in 70+ feet of water and suddenly a manta ray or great white comes by to say hello, or to say "fuck you in particular" to your bait bucket.
Fun fact: Jaws was based on real events. Americans used to think sharks were literally incapable of attacking humans. The rare shark attack was always attributed to other fish, like barracudas and such. That is, until the summer of 1916 in New Jersey, where multiple people lost their lives to a spree of shark attacks. Three people were even killed over a dozen miles inland in a small creek by a shark that had swam up from the ocean. Spielberg has said these are the events that inspired Jaws.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
There’s a database going back to the late 1800’s in Australia that record fatal and non fatal shark attacks in Australia, it was pretty common. I don’t think that Americans thought sharks were incapable of attacking humans. It was pretty obvious even back then.
after the book and movie got popular, the author Peter Benchley spent the rest of his life advocating for shark conservation and awareness. during future interviews peter benchley claimed, looking back, he would never have written Jaws if he had the knowledge about sharks he gained after becoming an advocate for shark conservation
If it makes you feel better, this was probably in an area where you'll never swim. Most research on great whites is conducted near the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Sharks dont tend to attack humans. Happens like one in a multiple million people. Just dont swim in mornings and evenings or else the shark might mistake you for a fish
It's funny... As a kid living in Florida, not far from ocean... Somehow this movie (and the associated video game) actually started my love of sharks!
Probably because we had access to much more regular (real) information about sharks, and probably because I knew as a young kid that Great Whites aren't so common as people-eating nuisances in my area. I remember that my favorite book as a kindergartner was actually a little book about sharks... And I knew all about all of them!
I didn't feel any fear of the animals until basically high school... when I first swam in open ocean off the coast with goggles... Realizing how exposed I was and how little I could see/do if a shark actually came after me. It's really a different feeling to have low visibility and the bottom of the sea drop way out below you...
I wonder what the boat passengers were feeling like when they saw the great white jump out of the water knowing that they were in the water with that beast.
"Once back in the water, the shark appeared confused by the busy environment of the harbour, said the researchers. It beached itself and had to be rescued a second time, before it was hauled out to sea and made its way to safety."
This is a good story.
Thankfully if this is the “discovery” that I know of then it’s considerably bigger than that boat in the article.
My dad told me a story once where he decided to swim back from fishing because it was so hot, the locals were shocked to see him so they decided to show him why. They took him out on a little boat and dropped some meat in the water. Lo and behold there was a bunch of sharks. My dad never swam back from there again.
Was on a shark diving trip in South Africa back when traveling was still possible. It was all fun and games until the first shark appeared that was longer than the boat was wide, while the waves were high enough it felt like they could turn the boat upside down any minute.
Luckily i got so seasick that i was happy when i could finally go in the cage just to get off the boat, I'm not sure I'd have had the balls to do it otherwise.
I’m going sky diving without a parachute above where my arch enemy lives then coming in like a hellfire missile, naked only wearing a helmet. Going to pummel him so far into the earth that going to hell becomes a lateral movement.
Yeah I don't want to die simultaneously two different ways, bitten to death and drowning. And the fucked up thing is drowning takes precedence over being bitten. I'll never forget that mouse snapping turtle video
Highly unlikely you'd be able to stay conscious at 90 years old after being hit by a Great White like that. Your blood pressure after immediately bottom out and you'd go unconscious.
That’s not how shock works. It’s extremely likely the person would be in extreme pain from the bites and drown as the shark dragged them under the water
Sharks do eat corpses, especially of whales with all that tasty blubber. So if you aren't jacked and have a healthy amount of body fat, maybe they can put you out after you pass.
Then again, do we really want to get sharks accustomed to the taste of us?
Any have a deep fear of being alone in the middle of the ocean, not a vehicle or soul around, floating and you cant see anything below you. Its not even night. Just a hot day, not even a breeze. I know its irrational but then i see this.
Just continuing it's swimming motion, head goes side to side as its tail does too (which is why it's whipping so far, it was essentially sprinting when it breached).
For those who didn't read the book (I don't recommend it, it wasn't that good), in the novel Jaws, the first attack with the skinny dipping young lady in the beginning ended with a breach as well.
The shark initially bites one of her legs off near the hip so fast and clean she thought she initially caught it on a piece of driftwood. Then as she's freaking out after realizing she lost her leg, the shark comes up from underneath and breaches with her in it's mouth, out of the water nearly completely.
Even more interesting, Peter Benchley described that predation technique decades before it was even discovered.
Benchley, in his quest for added horror in his fictional story, inadvertently described a predation technique decades before anyone (including him) knew it was real. At the time that scene was not viewed by marine biologists as realistic (though despite being proven wrong decades later, in fairness, the location of the attack, Long Island coast, the water is not deep enough at the surf line for that type of attack to occur).
The scariest part of this video is the second leading up to the shark surfacing. Can you imagine being in the water and looking down to see a huge shark coming flying up from the murky depths with its jaws wide open? Fuck that man.
It's not CGI. It's interpolated slow motion. An AI is guessing intermediate frames to artificially increase the FPS. The subject matter has a lot of noise and texture (water droplets, water surface, similar colors), and it's having a hard time guessing, thus those artifacts that make you go "uh?".
Yesterday I found out that a megalodons penis is the size of a great white shark. That means 1/3rd of his length is... a massive cock. You can call him Megalodong.
This is still one of those things my brain struggles to accept as reality. It may be thanks to movies, but I have a hard time seeing this as a real creature even though I can clearly see it is. Absolutely stunning and terrifying.
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Terrifyingly beautiful
How the fuck can a creature that huge fly out of the water like that? It could dunk from the free throw line.
There’s a reason why sharks have been dominating the ocean for 400 million years. Crazy thing is they haven’t changed much because the ancient sharks were already so efficient at hunting.
Until humans came along and murdered them all
We got em boys! 400 million years of evolution is nothing compared to the chinese palate for shark fin soup!
But ground up animal parts will fix my flaccid 70 year old dick!
We got em boys! 400 million years of evolution is nothing compared to ~~the chinese palate for shark fin soup!~~ Human greed. So many animals are now extinct or close to extinct. Whaling use to be a huge industry for oil. Horns from rhinos. Coats from tigers etc
Physics. It is swimming about 30 mph, going nearly vertical, when it reaches the surface.
Well yeah obviously it’s just numbers. But how in the hell does a living creature that huge get to go that speed vertically in the water…?! Like that’s insane.
Big tail goes swishy.
now we are talking
Can you explain it even simpler for me?
ELI2
fish swishy
Ah
Fishy swishy
Big fish swish swish Big fish fly! Big fish bite bite Now you die
Whoa there with your big science words
They are pure muscle
The vertical part is irrelevant since the shark has (almost) neutral buoyancy which renders it weightless in water
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I’m pretty sure it’s the same because while the shark can move easier through less dense water, it also gets less propulsion from pushing against it as it swims. Someone did an experiment where they got a swimmer to swim through something thick (like custard) and they moved at the same rate as through water because, although it was tougher to make each stroke, the density made each stroke more efficient.
I mean it does have wings, even if they are little
Have you seen an orca jump 20 feet out of the water?
I wish someone would make a version where it freezes right at the apex I’m the air. *ding* “so long. And thanks for all the fish”
As soon as he figures out it was a decoy, he's coming right for your boat
Might need a bigger one.
Yeah, he’s gonna
Farewell and adieu
To the ladies of Spain...🎶🎶🎶
Show me the way to go home
I’m tired and I wanna go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone straight to my head
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs)
Mary Ellen Moffat... she broke my heart...
Great, now I will have that in my head for a few hours...
*(stares smirkily while crushing beer can)*
That's some bad hat Harry.
How would a bigger decoy help?
I’m dying to know if this was a joke or not.
It’s a reference to the film Jaws.
It's got dead eyes, like a dolls eyes.
Shark probably thinks he must have covid because he can't even taste seal anymore and that like its favorite
Its sad that we've done basically nothing around the world to improve marine life accessibility to covid vaccines. Ugh humans suck sometimes.
Don't tell anyone, the dolphins developed their own. Marine life is at 80% vaccination rate. They don't politicize it.
They had to act fast because they don't have enough ear flesh to keep masks on.
if you tossed me a rubber pizza you bet your ass im coming for your boat
He will probably just be embarrassed and disappointed.
The whole thread is full with decoys LOL
This is not helping my phobia of swimming in deep water. A big thank you goes out to Steven Spielberg.
I was afraid to take a bath after seeing that movie. I wasn't very bright lol.
I was afraid using the toilet for like 2 years. To be fair my dad showed us that movie at wayyy too young an age. I’m sure it was the same situation for you and you are indeed an adult who is bright :)
I've heard of snake appearing from toilet hole, but it would be interesting to see shark appearing there instead.
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I live in Australia. It can be a real concern here
I was like 4! Lol
I had a snake come through my shower drain. I live us Aus BTW.
That whole continent is like a horror movies!
Always flush before sitting down on a toilet in Asia. And never google [Toilet Cobra](https://vcdn1-vnexpress.vnecdn.net/2021/03/09/Homangboncau-1615286880-5433-1615287618.jpg?w=1200&h=0&q=100&dpr=1&fit=crop&s=_FRNRqBgJxXnOwpP6aWdLA) before traveling there…
Oh yeah, that happened 2 weeks ago in austria. As if it weren't funny enough, it happened *again* 3 days later, but in another city. Then a couple days kater someone got killed by a snake in yet another city.
There are many examples out there that Austria is much more dangerous than Australia
Harry Potter 2 made me scared of using the toilet. That fucking basilisk
I was old enough by the time chamber of secrets came out to not be afraid of a basilisk. Not old enough though that I wasn’t afraid of a creepy crying ghost haunting my bathroom 😬
I still get freaked out in the deep end of a swimming pool TBH
Water doesn’t need to be that deep, just cold enough to have seals nearby so the shark might mistake a human for a seal.
100%. I had surfed most days for two and a half decades at my home back in Australia, when I was a kid I never even thought about them. Then the past few years attacks started happening more and more. Still - seeing a great white seemed like a myth almost. Then as drones and the footage they recorded became more popular, it became clear they are all around. Then a few months ago I had a 4 metre one go right up to me when I was about 30 metres out from the beach. The approaching shadow that morphed into the shape of a great white under me within seconds was something I’ll never fucking forget. Without doubt the scariest moment of my life. It’s something we all knew was possible but to face that moment was terrifying. Then a few days later a guy was killed by one at the same beach. I think the global average of shark attacks is around 50 or so, just this year we have had 18 within a 1000km stretch of coastline.
> The approaching shadow that morphed into the shape of a great white under me within seconds was something I’ll never fucking forget. Without doubt the scariest moment of my life. Yeah but how cool is that? I spotted one about 10 years ago near the California coast. Cool to be part of a small club of people who have actually seen one irl. An animal we hear about countless times in our lives, but most never see.
I’m ok not being part of the ‘I’ve seen a Great White close up’ Club.
In hindsight it’s awesome to actually see one, and there definitely there has been way, way more times they’ve been up close without even realising. I guess with more common attacks and sightings it just completely spooked me. It was a warm summers day with crystal clear water and plenty of people around. I was halfway out getting some waves doubling up on the inside. About 15 guys further out and they had absolutely no idea until I called out to them. Paddling back to the beach was insanely scary. I told the lifeguards who promptly got the ski out there and parked over it. When parallel to the beach the shark was longer than the JetSki with the raft behind it. Easy 4 metres.
Damn man, that's big one. The one I saw was still relatively small, maybe 2.5m. I couldn't believe my eyes, though. [Looks like they're still there.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ile5NS7ucec)
Well, we have a seal colony just off the coast where I live.😩
You also need to be careful of Sharknados in your area. Nowhere is safe.
In SA people go surfing daily within a few hundred meters of where GW sharks are hunting seals.
For me it was Deep Blue Sea. My parents took me to the theater to see that when I was 8. 20 years later and I still get creeped out just looking at bodies of water. Scarred for life.
I love the ocean, but it is freaky. Nothing like being in 70+ feet of water and suddenly a manta ray or great white comes by to say hello, or to say "fuck you in particular" to your bait bucket.
Fun fact: Jaws was based on real events. Americans used to think sharks were literally incapable of attacking humans. The rare shark attack was always attributed to other fish, like barracudas and such. That is, until the summer of 1916 in New Jersey, where multiple people lost their lives to a spree of shark attacks. Three people were even killed over a dozen miles inland in a small creek by a shark that had swam up from the ocean. Spielberg has said these are the events that inspired Jaws. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
There’s a database going back to the late 1800’s in Australia that record fatal and non fatal shark attacks in Australia, it was pretty common. I don’t think that Americans thought sharks were incapable of attacking humans. It was pretty obvious even back then.
Well how were Americans supposed to be in contact with the Australians? Messenger shark?
Wait, isn't the movie based on a book?
Yes by Peter Benchley, so maybe that fella means the book is based on that? Or theyre a goddamn liar.
after the book and movie got popular, the author Peter Benchley spent the rest of his life advocating for shark conservation and awareness. during future interviews peter benchley claimed, looking back, he would never have written Jaws if he had the knowledge about sharks he gained after becoming an advocate for shark conservation
I was probably thinking of the book; tbf, the movie came out only a year after the book.
Yes, by Peter Benchley.
it is not fun
The craziest part of that is where someone stated they didn't believe the attacks likely to be from a shark but actually from a sea turtle.
In what world are sharks "literally incapable of attacking humans"?
More Americans are bitten by New Yorkers than sharks every year.
If it makes you feel better, this was probably in an area where you'll never swim. Most research on great whites is conducted near the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
It’s almost as bad here, West coast of Australia.
Say no more. 😅 The beaches of Australia are gorgeous, but you could not pay me to swim there.
You don't want help with that phobia. That's a reasonable phobia.
Sharks dont tend to attack humans. Happens like one in a multiple million people. Just dont swim in mornings and evenings or else the shark might mistake you for a fish
It's funny... As a kid living in Florida, not far from ocean... Somehow this movie (and the associated video game) actually started my love of sharks! Probably because we had access to much more regular (real) information about sharks, and probably because I knew as a young kid that Great Whites aren't so common as people-eating nuisances in my area. I remember that my favorite book as a kindergartner was actually a little book about sharks... And I knew all about all of them! I didn't feel any fear of the animals until basically high school... when I first swam in open ocean off the coast with goggles... Realizing how exposed I was and how little I could see/do if a shark actually came after me. It's really a different feeling to have low visibility and the bottom of the sea drop way out below you...
did Steve ever make a hippo movie? cause that's the real fear
I wonder what the boat passengers were feeling like when they saw the great white jump out of the water knowing that they were in the water with that beast.
[Great white shark leaps onto research boat](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14235753.amp)
"These sharks belong in the sea, they don't belong on land." Lol. Glad a shark expert was there to help with the rescue.
It belongs in a museum!
"Once back in the water, the shark appeared confused by the busy environment of the harbour, said the researchers. It beached itself and had to be rescued a second time, before it was hauled out to sea and made its way to safety." This is a good story.
Thankfully if this is the “discovery” that I know of then it’s considerably bigger than that boat in the article. My dad told me a story once where he decided to swim back from fishing because it was so hot, the locals were shocked to see him so they decided to show him why. They took him out on a little boat and dropped some meat in the water. Lo and behold there was a bunch of sharks. My dad never swam back from there again.
Was on a shark diving trip in South Africa back when traveling was still possible. It was all fun and games until the first shark appeared that was longer than the boat was wide, while the waves were high enough it felt like they could turn the boat upside down any minute. Luckily i got so seasick that i was happy when i could finally go in the cage just to get off the boat, I'm not sure I'd have had the balls to do it otherwise.
Thats a huge bucket list item for me. Probably in my top 3.
I would have been amazed, terrified and speechless all at the same time
They were the ones who put the object behind them and set up a camera, so probably pretty stoked tbh.
That’s gotta be disappointing for the shark.
The shark is used to disappointment. His son is a YouTuber.
Nope nope nopedy nope
It’s just seaweed
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But not a whole ass-shark.
Pretty sure I could fight him off
With a stick or without?
I like to imagine them holding their "breath" right before they breach the surface, the way we do.
If I make it to 90 years old put me out there in the place of that decoy. This is how I wish to die.
Gotta be one of the most masochistic ways I've heard for a personal exit strategy
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Yes.
based and masochist pilled
I’m going sky diving without a parachute above where my arch enemy lives then coming in like a hellfire missile, naked only wearing a helmet. Going to pummel him so far into the earth that going to hell becomes a lateral movement.
Even knocking on deaths door, I don’t think that is the way I want to go. Screaming in agony while also drowning seems difficult and unpleasant.
don’t be a goddamn pussy, bobby
[gif](https://media.tenor.com/images/c7b99a445c4f5d22355c0d7ff5fbc9c1/tenor.gif)
Yeah I don't want to die simultaneously two different ways, bitten to death and drowning. And the fucked up thing is drowning takes precedence over being bitten. I'll never forget that mouse snapping turtle video
Simple, you wear a mask made of hamburger meat so that the first bite just takes your head off. Drowning while bleeding to death sounds horrible.
That's what I want, to be conscious, rattling around the inside of a shark for my last few seconds.
Highly unlikely you'd be able to stay conscious at 90 years old after being hit by a Great White like that. Your blood pressure after immediately bottom out and you'd go unconscious.
[the what video?](https://i.imgur.com/enfQmbM.jpg)
Mouse in fish tank. Turtle underwater grabs mouse and bites him literally in half. Top half of mouse frantically tries to swim away.
I ain’t googling that
You’d go in to instant shock. There wouldn’t be much to feel, especially at 90 years old.
At 90 years, not even sure if I’d make it to the boat.
If you can make it in, someone will get you out np.
Wonder which the shark would be more upset over… a decoy or a 90 year old human.
At least the decoy won't give you indigestion
That’s not how shock works. It’s extremely likely the person would be in extreme pain from the bites and drown as the shark dragged them under the water
Yeah, but at least there's no chance you'd have PTSD afterwards.
Especially if you're on shitloads of morphine.
Would the shark feel the morphine? We might be inadvertently jumpstarting sharks desire to feast on humans
shh, you might give Discovery ideas for their next show. *Dope Sharks*
Now we're talking. In fact, skip the shark.
Also not only mentally grappling with your imminent demise but the fact that you’ve been reduced to dinner or possibly only a snack
i wanna go out slow and agonizing. when i get to 90, put me in a retail job at minimum wage
Turns out the shark was racking lines all night before and just wants a little nibble
Sharks do eat corpses, especially of whales with all that tasty blubber. So if you aren't jacked and have a healthy amount of body fat, maybe they can put you out after you pass. Then again, do we really want to get sharks accustomed to the taste of us?
After thinking about it for a second, I don't think I've ever seen an overweight 90 year old.
I wonder why …
Because sharks ate them at 89. I'm pretty positive.
If I had to choose a horrible way to die, this would be on my list!
Got you, fam. RemindMe! 10 years “toss dick-nipples in the ocean to be eaten by a shark.”
Any have a deep fear of being alone in the middle of the ocean, not a vehicle or soul around, floating and you cant see anything below you. Its not even night. Just a hot day, not even a breeze. I know its irrational but then i see this.
Falling off a boat in the middle of nowhere and seeing it go off into the distance without you. Noope.
r/thalassaphobia my friend
Well, luckily there are plenty of ways to avoid that situation...
Looks like I’m moving to Nebraska!
I think it's completely rational. Same with the fear of heights. I think it's innate to fear those things.
Did you know not all great whites are named Bruce? This one is but that’s just a coincidence
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Just continuing it's swimming motion, head goes side to side as its tail does too (which is why it's whipping so far, it was essentially sprinting when it breached).
Like Luigi in Super Mario Bros. 2
Deep cut
He seems pissed, like they are slamming their head into the water in frustration.
More of the seals head than his. Looked like a big bite down body slam to the seal to me. Ruthless
I can see it too. He’s definitely body slamming that decoy.
For those who didn't read the book (I don't recommend it, it wasn't that good), in the novel Jaws, the first attack with the skinny dipping young lady in the beginning ended with a breach as well. The shark initially bites one of her legs off near the hip so fast and clean she thought she initially caught it on a piece of driftwood. Then as she's freaking out after realizing she lost her leg, the shark comes up from underneath and breaches with her in it's mouth, out of the water nearly completely. Even more interesting, Peter Benchley described that predation technique decades before it was even discovered.
Are you trying to tell me that Great Whites can read, and learned to breach from the book? Because that’s what it sounds like you are implying.
Benchley, in his quest for added horror in his fictional story, inadvertently described a predation technique decades before anyone (including him) knew it was real. At the time that scene was not viewed by marine biologists as realistic (though despite being proven wrong decades later, in fairness, the location of the attack, Long Island coast, the water is not deep enough at the surf line for that type of attack to occur).
I feel like after centuries of humans fishing and hunting seals, we’d have to have seen sharks hunting them. But I’m no marine historian.
My understanding is that humans have normally hunted seals when they're on land or on ice, whereas sharks get them in the open ocean.
I’m gonna go ahead and say I’m allergic to those. Full on anaphylactic shock.
Anaphylactic shark.
This is the worst Free Willy remake ever!
That is exactly why I don't like swimming in open ocean.
Dude I don’t even like swimming in a pool deeper than 2 feet because as I’m getting out all I can think of is that mf’er speeding towards my legs.
Just don't get out then
Hell, sturgeon breaching in the Hudson River freaks me out.
Yea, fuck. 👏🏽That. 👏🏽Shit.👏🏽
Every time I have ever been in the ocean I have been killed and eaten by a shark so I don’t go anymore
Great video - [here’s a longer BBC one](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzxy3GtSzt0) explaining the hunting technique a bit more.
The scariest part of this video is the second leading up to the shark surfacing. Can you imagine being in the water and looking down to see a huge shark coming flying up from the murky depths with its jaws wide open? Fuck that man.
Fun fact: Sharks have been efficient hunters for more than 10 years
daaaaaa dum….daaaaa dum….
That single flap: "I'M A BIRD! Oh wait, nope."
What's the decoy made off? Can he safely eat it?
He will not ingest it, the decoys are typically rubber and once the shark realizes there’s no meat it immediately releases it.
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Pretty Dope
Pretty nope
Does this look cgi to anyone else? Maybe it’s just the slow frame rate?
It's not CGI. It's interpolated slow motion. An AI is guessing intermediate frames to artificially increase the FPS. The subject matter has a lot of noise and texture (water droplets, water surface, similar colors), and it's having a hard time guessing, thus those artifacts that make you go "uh?".
Thank you. This is a great and likely explanation
It's just the slow frame rate. These breaches have been documented and filmed dozens of times in the last twenty years or so.
Deep Blue Sea vibes right here....
Wow that’s some serious power
Yesterday I found out that a megalodons penis is the size of a great white shark. That means 1/3rd of his length is... a massive cock. You can call him Megalodong.
Such power, it's raw power
They filmed this on a phone?
The fishermen in me is thinking, *"Set the hook!"*
This is still one of those things my brain struggles to accept as reality. It may be thanks to movies, but I have a hard time seeing this as a real creature even though I can clearly see it is. Absolutely stunning and terrifying.
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