Doesn't it seem like the majority of attacks are on the 11 to 15 year old population? Anyone have any ideas as to why? Or sheer coincidence? I kind of think that its because teens tend to kick and splash more and move more energetically, signaling to a shark that you may be injured and a good candidate for an easy meal.
I think it's because they are smaller? Actually when Mr. B and his daughter came down my way we were surfing. His daughter is obviously smaller and was the only non adult in the water. She was off her board in the line up when me and others saw a big splash, i heard another guy say shark casually. This was only a week or two after we had two attacks on younger kids. Minor injuries from small sharks but still. I told her to paddle in to shore with me. Now if i was out there alone, i wouldn't of budged. I don't know if my theory was correct but in my head she was the one in danger not us. Ofcourse this is on LI where it seems to be small sharks on younger kids. Out in California, Australia, or even Cape cod where they got big guys...i don't know. But round here i definitely think size is the reasoning.
I happen to agree with size but I also think that younger means stronger, faster pulse, stronger electromagnetic pulses ... just a different “tune” from the rest of the info they get every second. And that morning was exactly as BMon said and he did it quietly so she didn’t get freaked out. The whole break was very casual about it too because I think they knew as well - they were already big fans. Like I said, very confidence building and even when we told her about the why, she fed off the vibe from the lineup and paddled right back out. Very cool
Young meat is more tender and flavorful. Old fart meat is tough, stringy, full of preservatives and tastes like sh!t.
Nantasket last month... Pretty sure it was a sunfish... but not 100% and tell me the dude on the yellow bort isn’t gonna poop a brick when he sees that.
The boy who got killed by a shark in VB about 14 yrs ago was 10 yrs old. He was standing in the water about 50 yds out @ Sandbridge. Right next to his father when the shark bit into his left leg. His dad grabbed the 8' shark & pounded on it & tried to pry its mouth open to release his son. Kid bled out on the beach. Horrific.
In a documentary years ago they were testing different colors of wetsuits with white sharks down in Africa. They called it yummy yellow after the results hahaha
Now that is my very worse nightmare right there. I often think about it and would go right after the dam thing - kick punch pound gouge roll, you name it...but what am I truly going to do to a 12-15’ 1000lb White Shark when it has its mind set? Not a dam thing. My heart breaks for that father. Wow.
Same with gators. Always bring a dog along while canoeing, just in case you flip. Just joking!!! I'd never bring any dog along for a canoe ride on the Loxahatchee River. Gators do love doggies though. Maybe for same the reasons, higher electro activity, higher pulse, splashing erratically, etc. Plus they are smaller than us. And smell yummy to a gnarly old prehistoric lizard.
Saw the American crocs in CR. Only a few hundred yards upriver from the ocean. Dear wayne's icon. No river mouth surfing there for this hack!
Gators actually love marshmallows because they look like turtle eggs. Not joking. When in new orleans i did a swamp tour where we saw a 13ft beast with one eye named winky. He went crazy for marshmallows
Hahaha I couldn’t resist. During JRTC in the 90’s down in the Fort Polk Louisiana area I was doing some training in the swamps and we ate turtle eggs and gator eggs and water moccasin. And BMon tells no lies with the marshies... they play catch with them for fun down there
As stoned out freshmen at U of F (Flori-duh) we used to hand feed the little ones (4 ft ish) snacks as we passed doobage and ate munchies on the banks of Lake Alice. Total disregard for the laws of nature (I was told this on more than one occasion lol by the smoking hot co-eds back in the day). https://www.wuft.org/news/2015/11/12/alligator-crashes-uf-students-lake-alice-picnic/
