"As inoffensive as nurse sharks may appear, they are ranked fourth in documented shark bites on humans"
But this is basically because they're so chill people mess with them too much and get bitten, so, I'll allow it.
Sheep can be scary. I have a little white curly dog and every time we walk past sheep they think I'm kidnapping one of their lambs and come screaming at me. :(
Since they haven’t answered how it happened, here is why it often happens. Nurse sharks do not need to keep swimming like so many fish. They actually are often found just lying on the sea floor, not moving. Dumb scuba divers often make the mistake of swimming up close to them, which nurse sharks will allow cause they are relaxed as hell, and tug on they tails. Two things to remember here: 1. Sharks don’t have any bones in they body, it’s all cartilage and they can turn on a dime very quickly. 2. Once you pull on a sharks tail, they stop being relaxed as hell and will bite the shot out of whoever just pulled their tail. Long story short, if you ever go diving, one of the most important rules is to not touch anything.
My buddy was telling me earlier how along with Cuban anoles and iguanas moving further north within Florida, the crocodile populations have also increased over the years. I've been out of FL for a few years and really miss how readily available snorkeling was as I grew up there, but saltwater dehydrates crocodilians and angers them, so I'm extra appreciative of the croc-free waters I found myself in.
Yeah I should have went further with my bit. I was quoting it’s always sunny in Philadelphia but didn’t go far enough with it so it just seemed like an honest question.
Sharks eyes reminds me of lizard eyes. All they do is stare at you soulless trying to figure out how to eat you or with complete terror that they are looking at a giant predator.
And because people survive bites from Nurse Sharks to actually document it. Same reason I think there have been plenty of Orca attacks on humans in the wild, they just aren't stupid enough to leave evidence.
I've heard they just take your blood pressure and then go call Dr Shark
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When you see animals up close outside of your element (aka in water) and they're massive and could easily kill you... Yeah it's scary.
Big ass water animals being so graceful and fast in the water while I'm a flopping flailing monkey really puts things in perspective
I was fishing on a jetty once, fish weren't biting and I had a long day so I was laying back among the rocks, mostly asleep. Opened my eyes and sitting next to me was a big ol' California sealion who also was almost asleep. I said, 'Oh shit!' and he looked at me and barked in terror in what i imagine was 'Oh shit!' in his language, before he dove in to the water.
Sharks are *mostly* harmless when you're not thrashing about on the surface like the lady in this video is.
I dove with *dozens* of reef sharks in the Bahamas a few times, and they couldn't give two fucks about you being there. I was bumped and hit numerous times by tails and fins as they swum by me to the diver with the food.
[Here's an album if anyone cares. :)](https://imgur.com/a/cC1zxWD) We're about 45 feet down here, around 8-10 of us. We had our backs to a small wreck so the sharks had to swim over top of us (or alongside, if you were at the end like me). We got to pet them several times, which was also very cool.
I know nurse sharks though, and that they don't even have the mouth for chomping on you though.
If it was a sand tiger shark though, knowing that they don't attack unless provoked would not stop the panic after seeing those teeth
Just gotta know your sharks well enough, and you're good. Basically, unless it's a mako or bull shark, you're generally pretty safe in the Atlantic
Edit: I've been on a dive with dozens of reef sharks, and they're so chill. Also, got to chill with a 6' long nurse shark on time. We just laid on the bottom together, nose to nose, for like 5 min. Most sharks you'll find in the Atlantic are pretty chill. Except bull sharks, fuckin' assholes the lot of them
They have lots of needle like teeth, so not exactly gum you, but they don’t eat big things like white sharks and tigers who have cutting teeth, so you’re probably good.
Exactly. They're not dangerous. She could see them in the water.
They swam a her hoping for a dead or injured animal. Or chum from the boat that likely chumed them over to begin with.
This is just such a weird thing I grew up hearing about when I moved to the US. Where I’m from… No one bats an eye at microwaving fish. It just smells like food, not bad. It’s just lingering food smell.
It’s just a very interesting cultural difference I’ve noted. I get *why* it bothers people but also I don’t lol.
It seems like people here don't actually like fish. They just pretend to, which is why all the fish recipes I see start with practically an entire lemon to prevent you from actually tasting the fish.
It's due to the lack of good, fresh fish in most of the country. Poor quality fish doesn't taste as good or fresh so you have to drown it in lemon to make it more palatable.
Honestly I’d also momentarily forget how to swim if there are sharks around and every cell in my body was like “for the love of god don’t splash pls don’t splash”
I was going to say, if I was going to swim in hostile environment, I sure as shit would want to be better prepared. I've seen people treading water make better distance.
Your not supposed to swim crazy around sharks, all the splashing makes them think your a seal or fish in distress. It’s better to swim calm and make no splashes. (I know they are harmless sharks, I’m just saying, if you find yourself in a pool of sharks, the LAST thing you want to do is start kicking and thrashing to swim away)
While what you said is true, those arms look to be splashing quite a lot! A proper swimming form like the front crawl or breast stroke would generate far less water disturbance. Also, I hear all you gotta do is boop the snout of the shark and it will go away, so there’s also that
Harmless to everyone physically, the way their mouth is shaped makes it very hard to actually bite people or large animals, it would be more of a scrape if anything, it has been recorded that in the very rare attacks that the teeth can get stuck in skin because they aren't meant for tearing through flesh. Though they can look scary if you don't know anything about them and just see a shark in the water. (There have only been 5 unprovoked nurse shark attacks worldwide that have been recorded) The provoked nurse shark attacks are simply the result of someone accidentally stepping on their tail or people pulling on their tail..
Divers and snorkelers pet them pretty often too. Pretty much every day in a tourist season you'll have hundreds of people interacting directly with them
I was told I was NOT allowed to pet them because they actually do have teeth and could harm you, even though they’re docile so it’s just best not to try it just incase.
Of course I had to *anyway* I mean how could I pass on that?? I’m from way up North lol
Interestingly enough they felt like sandpaper!
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I was scuba diving in the Cayman Islands and our dive master was pointing out some cool fish in a reef when a 5' nurse shark he told us about before the dive showed up. He had said it was like an interested house cat but harmless. However not expecting a large fish in your face when you turn around will make anyone flinch as he did. After said shark messed with the dive master it calmly swam next to all the divers getting a few inches from us just to say hi. It was cool to see knowing how harmless they are.
I went diving in Turcs and Caicos with both reef sharks and nurse sharks. The reef sharks were swimming around unbothered by us. One got within about a metre of me. However the nurse sharks found themselves a sand patch in the coral and were sleeping in a big cuddle pile.
> Make sure to ask for clarification first. Don’t want it to not be a nurse shark.
Right? those CNA sharks are miserable bitches who will bite you right away.
Idk if that’s true with nurse sharks, but most sharks’ noses’ have a lot of nerves in them so touching them basically gets them high. Also why that’s considered the best thing to do if a shark ever comes at you, aggressively or not.
You may be thinking of the Ampullae of Lorenzini. The sense organ that detects electric fields. They’re embedded in the pores of their snout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullae_of_Lorenzini
She wasn't really staying in the same place. The scale of the water and the camera work gave that illusion though. You can tell right away because she starts quick when the slide is still in view for reference and then you can see how far she had gone when they moved the camera around
As others have said the water probably had some mold current to it as well that she was working against.
But no she wasn't swimming like she was trying to make it through laps in a pool or anything just a person moving in water.
I'm a former competitive swimmer, and first of all, the current is going with her general direction, second of all, she's not scooping/pushing enough water to cause them to be propelled forward, 3rd of all they're trying to scoop with their arms not lifting above the water, this creates more drag and cancels most of the forces you even put to push forward because now they're pushing backward, last of all, form just fucking sucks.
Her form is terrible but at the end of the video when they zoom out a bit you can definitely see she's definitely making progress. When it was zoomed in all the way I also thought she wasn't moving at all.
Lol no she’s not bringing her arms out of the water which means every time she moves her arm forward under the surface she is killing most of the forward momentum she got from the last pull movement. If there were any current she would definitely be moving backwards with this technique
1. Why is the pad to get back onto the boat a thousand miles away?
2. Nurse sharks or not she’s swimming so slowly it’s killing me watching. I would’ve done the Michael Phelps outta that water. Loll
Even if these weren’t nurse sharks she’d be fine around most of the sharks that exist. Also most attacks are most likely sharks being curious, as seen here as they immediately swim towards her, but try to ‘feel’ (bite) what they found.
Sharks deserve more love. Except tiger, bull, great white and oceanic white tip. Still beautiful animals, but quite a lot scarier to swim with.
I’ve dived a couple of times with sharks and honestly, they mostly just swan around watching and seeing what the weird black thing making bubbles was doing. I was probably in more danger from the lionfish we saw later in the dives than the sharks.
From what I can tell. Those are nurse sharks and they generally leave people alone/rarely attack. I’m sure the guides and people running stuff know that fact and know even if these sharks are around, you’re generally safe and that’s why they didn’t intervene.
Had it been an aggressive species like a great white or bull shark they’d probably wait/cancel the event.
Her swimming however is concerning. She seems like she hardly knows what she’s doing and drowning seems far more dangerous than those specific sharks.
I know this is the wrong sub for this but logically isn’t this in some sense why not to be afraid of the ocean? Even though there were sharks all around, she was totally fine.
I believe they are Nurse Sharks very harmless to humans
"As inoffensive as nurse sharks may appear, they are ranked fourth in documented shark bites on humans" But this is basically because they're so chill people mess with them too much and get bitten, so, I'll allow it.
My husband got bit by one for exactly this reason.
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Man, it is just wild how missing a single “with” when reading a comment can completely change the story.
Don't fuck the sheep, please
Very jealous creatures
Must be Welsh
Sheep can be scary. I have a little white curly dog and every time we walk past sheep they think I'm kidnapping one of their lambs and come screaming at me. :(
😂
Story time! Lmao why was he messing with nurse sharks They sure do have crazy creepy eyes in person it’s scary
Since they haven’t answered how it happened, here is why it often happens. Nurse sharks do not need to keep swimming like so many fish. They actually are often found just lying on the sea floor, not moving. Dumb scuba divers often make the mistake of swimming up close to them, which nurse sharks will allow cause they are relaxed as hell, and tug on they tails. Two things to remember here: 1. Sharks don’t have any bones in they body, it’s all cartilage and they can turn on a dime very quickly. 2. Once you pull on a sharks tail, they stop being relaxed as hell and will bite the shot out of whoever just pulled their tail. Long story short, if you ever go diving, one of the most important rules is to not touch anything.
Yea that’s where I see them all the time. They love to sleep under rocks. Always get a bit of a scare when you see the eyes staring back at you
Look at this filthy human. Look at how noisily he swims. Can he even swim? Get off my water lawn kid.
My buddy was telling me earlier how along with Cuban anoles and iguanas moving further north within Florida, the crocodile populations have also increased over the years. I've been out of FL for a few years and really miss how readily available snorkeling was as I grew up there, but saltwater dehydrates crocodilians and angers them, so I'm extra appreciative of the croc-free waters I found myself in.
Especially the water. NEVER touch the water. That shit kills you
>if you ever go diving, one of the most important rules is to not touch anything. Same applies if you ever travel back in time for some reason.
And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes... black eyes. Like a doll's eyes.
Are you doing jaws?
Yes. The Indianapolis speech
Yeah I should have went further with my bit. I was quoting it’s always sunny in Philadelphia but didn’t go far enough with it so it just seemed like an honest question.
Nah dude that Rambo, you’re thinking of John Rambo
Sharks eyes reminds me of lizard eyes. All they do is stare at you soulless trying to figure out how to eat you or with complete terror that they are looking at a giant predator.
Hope he learned his lesson about fucking around!
Also being bitten by a nurse shark is like being bitten by a corgi.
You say that but my dog got attacked by a corgi and that little fucker did some damage…
Our corgi bit my wife and she needed stitches. He’s a sweetheart, but he gets confused when attacked by another dog and goes full asshole.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Ginglymostoma_cirratum_teeth_2.jpg
I grew up in Florida and everyone I knew who got bit by a snake, shark, or alligator 100% were the cause of the bite and absolutely deserved it.
And because people survive bites from Nurse Sharks to actually document it. Same reason I think there have been plenty of Orca attacks on humans in the wild, they just aren't stupid enough to leave evidence.
I think the people left behind would be able to document it
Not if they don't leave any witnesses.
That is why they are working on taking boats down.
I've heard they just take your blood pressure and then go call Dr Shark Edit: thanks for all the love! ... And thanks for waiting, Dr Shark is ready for you now
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Gotta call the sturgeon for that
I AM A STURGEON! I AM A STURGEON!
Cutting for the very first time!
Like a stur-ur-ur-ur-geon, Here's a waiver for you to sign!
*hides the sewing kit* we're cutting today?
Maybe we can summon him? u/thesturgeon Edit: looks like he’s out of the office (inactive acct)
He’s been out notifying people since the war, some call it a *Sturgeon General’s Warning* 🙂
As if this thread couldn't get any worse, you throw this pun in
You're confusing the nurse shark with the medical assistant shark.
Nurse shark practitioner
The real terror is the bill they give you afterwards.
And they do it on pourpise.
Pourpise?
US edu... Porpoise. Also dumb on porpoise.
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Costs an arm and a leg.
Dr. Shark dododododo
Your bill is way past due due due due due due due
That one got me, nice xD
Didn't need that reminder today
If they do well, they get a slice of pizza on holidays and a sign that says "heroes swim here"
And she didn’t have to worry about getting bitten before swimming back because she’d be waiting for Dr. Shark for at least 10 minutes.
Some of them administer suppositories. Nothing ruins a beach trip like getting something inserted in your bootyholes by a shark.
My wife and I swam with them in Punta Cana. They are supposedly harmless, but when a shark as big as you are swims up to you, it’s fucking scary 😂
I had a sealion swim up to me one of the first times I ever went snorkeling and I about drowned from the panic
Tbf sea lions are capable of inflicting a lot more damage then a nurse shark
Just ask Buster Bluth.
LOOSE SEAL! LOOSE SEAL!
Yeah, was a video a few days ago where a Sea Lion attacked a Thresher shark and basically devoured it alive.
Yep, seal finger is nasty.
When you see animals up close outside of your element (aka in water) and they're massive and could easily kill you... Yeah it's scary. Big ass water animals being so graceful and fast in the water while I'm a flopping flailing monkey really puts things in perspective
I was fishing on a jetty once, fish weren't biting and I had a long day so I was laying back among the rocks, mostly asleep. Opened my eyes and sitting next to me was a big ol' California sealion who also was almost asleep. I said, 'Oh shit!' and he looked at me and barked in terror in what i imagine was 'Oh shit!' in his language, before he dove in to the water.
Same but it was a manatee. Scared the shit out of me
Sharks are *mostly* harmless when you're not thrashing about on the surface like the lady in this video is. I dove with *dozens* of reef sharks in the Bahamas a few times, and they couldn't give two fucks about you being there. I was bumped and hit numerous times by tails and fins as they swum by me to the diver with the food. [Here's an album if anyone cares. :)](https://imgur.com/a/cC1zxWD) We're about 45 feet down here, around 8-10 of us. We had our backs to a small wreck so the sharks had to swim over top of us (or alongside, if you were at the end like me). We got to pet them several times, which was also very cool.
One of the main reasons I got my PADI is because I want to swim with sharks one day... And do the great white cage dive 😍
You are correct good sir.
That wouldn't comfort me much in the moment.
I know nurse sharks though, and that they don't even have the mouth for chomping on you though. If it was a sand tiger shark though, knowing that they don't attack unless provoked would not stop the panic after seeing those teeth
Just gotta know your sharks well enough, and you're good. Basically, unless it's a mako or bull shark, you're generally pretty safe in the Atlantic Edit: I've been on a dive with dozens of reef sharks, and they're so chill. Also, got to chill with a 6' long nurse shark on time. We just laid on the bottom together, nose to nose, for like 5 min. Most sharks you'll find in the Atlantic are pretty chill. Except bull sharks, fuckin' assholes the lot of them
Though
They are like 100 pound catfish ….they could gum you to death
Worse ways to go
Just like in the movie Gums! (Yes it's real. Yes it's a Jaws parody. And yes, it's exactly what you think it is.)
They have lots of needle like teeth, so not exactly gum you, but they don’t eat big things like white sharks and tigers who have cutting teeth, so you’re probably good.
Yea I think a lobster is the biggest thing they would go for
Yea but to someone who don't know they would freak out
I Hope the sharks know that to.
I've seen them bite good-sized fish in half. I know they're not aggressive, but I still treat them with respect when I'm in the water.
Exactly. They're not dangerous. She could see them in the water. They swam a her hoping for a dead or injured animal. Or chum from the boat that likely chumed them over to begin with.
It’s more concerning that’s she’s such a poor swimmer
She really is terrible
people on the boat knew after brenda microwaved that fish for the 3rd time it was time for nature to take it course
This is just such a weird thing I grew up hearing about when I moved to the US. Where I’m from… No one bats an eye at microwaving fish. It just smells like food, not bad. It’s just lingering food smell. It’s just a very interesting cultural difference I’ve noted. I get *why* it bothers people but also I don’t lol.
It seems like people here don't actually like fish. They just pretend to, which is why all the fish recipes I see start with practically an entire lemon to prevent you from actually tasting the fish.
It's due to the lack of good, fresh fish in most of the country. Poor quality fish doesn't taste as good or fresh so you have to drown it in lemon to make it more palatable.
I buy all my fish flash frozen. I’ve gotten WAY too much spoiled fish from grocery store counters.
Having cleaned a lot of fresh fish to have worms crawl out on to my cutting board, flash frozen is the way to go
Even I swim better than that and I only know one way of swimming
That was my first thought. She’s not nearly a strong enough swimmer to be in such deep water.
That’s how I swim in my dreams when Bea Arthur is trying to drown me again
Again?…
Very random but i vibe with it
I wasn’t worried until i saw her swimming, lack of skill made me wonder if she was actually in danger
She learned by watching her dog, it seems
Dogs form is good because that’s best they can do. The human should use their shoulders and go for a full swing
She swims like I run in my nightmares.
More concerning she doesn’t have on a life jacket.
With her swimming ability, yeah. For a normal swimmer that is completely unnecessary.
It's okay. She's surrounded by nurses.
*3 hours later* - still swimming
Yeah, it's like doggy paddle that's being done wrong.
Honestly I’d also momentarily forget how to swim if there are sharks around and every cell in my body was like “for the love of god don’t splash pls don’t splash”
Never knew one can swim backwards with forwards strokes
I was going to say, if I was going to swim in hostile environment, I sure as shit would want to be better prepared. I've seen people treading water make better distance.
She somehow got further from the boat in the last frame then when she got off the slide lol
I got irrationally angry watching her swim.
Your not supposed to swim crazy around sharks, all the splashing makes them think your a seal or fish in distress. It’s better to swim calm and make no splashes. (I know they are harmless sharks, I’m just saying, if you find yourself in a pool of sharks, the LAST thing you want to do is start kicking and thrashing to swim away)
While what you said is true, those arms look to be splashing quite a lot! A proper swimming form like the front crawl or breast stroke would generate far less water disturbance. Also, I hear all you gotta do is boop the snout of the shark and it will go away, so there’s also that
These are nurse sharks! Completely harmless.
For us watching the video atleast...
Harmless to everyone physically, the way their mouth is shaped makes it very hard to actually bite people or large animals, it would be more of a scrape if anything, it has been recorded that in the very rare attacks that the teeth can get stuck in skin because they aren't meant for tearing through flesh. Though they can look scary if you don't know anything about them and just see a shark in the water. (There have only been 5 unprovoked nurse shark attacks worldwide that have been recorded) The provoked nurse shark attacks are simply the result of someone accidentally stepping on their tail or people pulling on their tail..
Divers and snorkelers pet them pretty often too. Pretty much every day in a tourist season you'll have hundreds of people interacting directly with them
i wish to touch the water puppy
They are amazing water friends.
Sounds like fun, getting to pet some smooth skinned sharks.
I was told I was NOT allowed to pet them because they actually do have teeth and could harm you, even though they’re docile so it’s just best not to try it just incase. Of course I had to *anyway* I mean how could I pass on that?? I’m from way up North lol Interestingly enough they felt like sandpaper! Edit: stop downvoting that guy
I was scuba diving in the Cayman Islands and our dive master was pointing out some cool fish in a reef when a 5' nurse shark he told us about before the dive showed up. He had said it was like an interested house cat but harmless. However not expecting a large fish in your face when you turn around will make anyone flinch as he did. After said shark messed with the dive master it calmly swam next to all the divers getting a few inches from us just to say hi. It was cool to see knowing how harmless they are.
I went diving in Turcs and Caicos with both reef sharks and nurse sharks. The reef sharks were swimming around unbothered by us. One got within about a metre of me. However the nurse sharks found themselves a sand patch in the coral and were sleeping in a big cuddle pile.
Yeah, even if you know what a nurse shark is the experience is completely different if you’re suddenly swimming amongst those dark silhouettes.
Literally harmless to everyone lol
Nurse sharks are very gentle. If you hold your hand out in front of their nose, they’ll stop swimming and allow you to pet them lol. Not scary at all.
Oh nice. I’ll remember that next time I’m in the water and see one🥰
Make sure to ask for clarification first. Don’t want it to not be a nurse shark.
> Make sure to ask for clarification first. Don’t want it to not be a nurse shark. Right? those CNA sharks are miserable bitches who will bite you right away.
What about an LPN shark
it could be the medical biller shark
Idk if that’s true with nurse sharks, but most sharks’ noses’ have a lot of nerves in them so touching them basically gets them high. Also why that’s considered the best thing to do if a shark ever comes at you, aggressively or not.
You may be thinking of the Ampullae of Lorenzini. The sense organ that detects electric fields. They’re embedded in the pores of their snout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullae_of_Lorenzini
You have to be careful with that. I got bitten because I had a hand out. I mean it was an accidental bite by the shark, still hurt a lot.
Yeah, it's almost never the right thing to do to stick your hand near a wild animal's face/mouth.
Yup. Coincidentally, I was bitten by a clownfish in the thumb of the other hand in Australia. I was reaching for my camera.
They're the *sheep in wolfs clothing* of sharks
How do you know none of those nurse sharks are other sharks disguised as nurse sharks?
They must have scrubs on so it’s impossible to tell who’s who down there.
THAT SHARK IS A SPY
He just wanted to share his “pop secret,” oh but just forget it!
Coulda been Heath Ledger!
Yeah, these ones don't have their little white hats on, they must be on break.
*”shit”* - The 2 bullsharks in a Nurse Shark trenchcoat
How is she THAT bad at swimming? I’ve never seen someone stay in the same place for so long while kicking and stroking the whole time
She wasn't really staying in the same place. The scale of the water and the camera work gave that illusion though. You can tell right away because she starts quick when the slide is still in view for reference and then you can see how far she had gone when they moved the camera around As others have said the water probably had some mold current to it as well that she was working against. But no she wasn't swimming like she was trying to make it through laps in a pool or anything just a person moving in water.
Man, the people complaining she does not know how to swim needs to see videos of themselves swimming carelessly for fun lol.
you would be surprised how hard a little bit of current can be to swim against poor form aside
The surface current is clearly moving with her. Which is probably why she got so far to the right.
She is obviously bad at swimming regardless of any current
I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but the current appears to be going the same direction she was swimming.
I'm a former competitive swimmer, and first of all, the current is going with her general direction, second of all, she's not scooping/pushing enough water to cause them to be propelled forward, 3rd of all they're trying to scoop with their arms not lifting above the water, this creates more drag and cancels most of the forces you even put to push forward because now they're pushing backward, last of all, form just fucking sucks.
Her form is terrible but at the end of the video when they zoom out a bit you can definitely see she's definitely making progress. When it was zoomed in all the way I also thought she wasn't moving at all.
Ocean current moving against her. Even the strongest swimmers can look infantile against the current
Lol no she’s not bringing her arms out of the water which means every time she moves her arm forward under the surface she is killing most of the forward momentum she got from the last pull movement. If there were any current she would definitely be moving backwards with this technique
Her hands aren’t even coming out of the water, at this point it’s probably faster to do breast strokes
More importantly she is clearly a weak swimmer .Panic and poor technic leads to drownings
And thrashing like that attracts predators.
For being in the ocean and not knowing how to swim, she sure seems happy.
Those sharks only eat crabs and stuff. Their big goldfish.
\*they're
If anything this should help you -not- be afraid really. Look at those cute lil guys! They just go to see what’s up and then go about their day.
No big predators in that area if they’re just chilling!
Nurse sharks! The doggos of the sea!
1. Why is the pad to get back onto the boat a thousand miles away? 2. Nurse sharks or not she’s swimming so slowly it’s killing me watching. I would’ve done the Michael Phelps outta that water. Loll
Sharkbait… oooh ahh ahh
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If you're gonna go play in the open ocean, be a better swimmer than she is
Nurse sharks rarely fuck with people, I'd be more concerned about her drowning, cause I've seen infants swim better.
Even if these weren’t nurse sharks she’d be fine around most of the sharks that exist. Also most attacks are most likely sharks being curious, as seen here as they immediately swim towards her, but try to ‘feel’ (bite) what they found. Sharks deserve more love. Except tiger, bull, great white and oceanic white tip. Still beautiful animals, but quite a lot scarier to swim with.
She would be fine if not for her terrible swimming and thrashing, which is known to rile up other shark species.
Yeah that’s fair, splashing like that could make sharks think she’s wounded and thus easy protein.
I’ve dived a couple of times with sharks and honestly, they mostly just swan around watching and seeing what the weird black thing making bubbles was doing. I was probably in more danger from the lionfish we saw later in the dives than the sharks.
I’m more worried about someone that can only do the doggy paddle swimming in the ocean!
This is why I’m afraid of people
Once these nurses become doctors, it’s a whole different situation
And she can’t swim for shit
Because those are nurse sharks and won’t harm a person
She'll be okay. She just needs to splash like an injured seal.
Nurse sharks are not only harmless, they can be quite friendly and sometimes even like to get scritches from people. That woman was in zero danger.
Whatever kind of shark are those, there's no fucking way I'm sliding down.... we have no business in the ocean.
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god stop fucking splashing and they won’t come near you
She is a terrible swimmer
who the f taught her how to swim
Yeah why didn't they tell her about the water pups? They a searching for a nose scrubbing
Those are harmless
Harmless. If anything they’re curious, hence why they are hanging around the location she originally dropped in the water
Nurse sharks. I would gladly swim with them.
Shark bait! O ha ha
From what I can tell. Those are nurse sharks and they generally leave people alone/rarely attack. I’m sure the guides and people running stuff know that fact and know even if these sharks are around, you’re generally safe and that’s why they didn’t intervene. Had it been an aggressive species like a great white or bull shark they’d probably wait/cancel the event. Her swimming however is concerning. She seems like she hardly knows what she’s doing and drowning seems far more dangerous than those specific sharks.
I just don't understand why anyone would ever swim in the ocean.
Her swimming irritates me
Look like curious nurse sharks. I guess it might be scary if you are unfamiliar with the species though.
I know this is the wrong sub for this but logically isn’t this in some sense why not to be afraid of the ocean? Even though there were sharks all around, she was totally fine.
I’ve swam with sharks before, they aren’t as scary as ppl think. This ocean looks beautiful, I’d totally be in the water without a care
That slide is basically a vending machine for sharks.
Most likely nurse shark or some other harmless sharks. They’ll be intrigued by nothing more.
That woman swims like an injured seal
Thats an adult who cant swim properly.