I remember hearing in a documentary once that "while dangerous species did exist around England, France, and the Mediterran, the average shark a sailor from those waters would see was more of a nuisance, so seeing the ones in the tropics being capable of jumping from the water to bite a man in half was a whole new layer of terror the New World had to offer"
I worked on a oil platform on the Louisiana coast a few miles from the main land with extremely low railings in some places. I'm very tall so it was below my center of gravity at times. It didn't bother me until the water became uncharacteristically clear and I saw just how many bull sharks were down there. They're so big and they seem so single minded with zero illusion of deliberation in their behavior. I couldn't have a career offshore after that and low railings just deeply spook me to this day. I can still go swimming in the Gulf though, it's just the nighttime in deep water that terrifies me. That poor drunk kid who jumped off the cruise ship at night a few years back. I'm glad I wasn't there but I think I shoulda been cuz I woulda did everything I could to stop him
Academia has pretty much lied about every topic over the past 60 years absolutely shamelessly. I was a sailor in 2000s been all over, tropical waters, cold waters, I'm well acquainted with the sea. Up until the early 1980s the US Navy had the most extensive shark research in the world. We knew everything about them. When the USN passed the file over to civilians, they basically threw it out because it didn't say what radical 60s environmentalists wanted it to say and so now we have 40+ years of absolute junk science create by people who are desperately trying to scam government funding while at the same time lying about shark behavior. Long and short, yes, sharks do hunt people. Yes, many shark species are highly territorial. Yes, way more people have been eaten by sharks than are reported. Yes, sharks like Great Whites, Tigers, Bulls, White Tips, Makos and other species will hunt humans if they haven't eaten and many others will attack unprovoked if you are in their territory
Can’t forget poor Vladimir Popov. That video was so terrifying and completely sad. That shark completely rag-dolled him. Also Simon Nellist, but at least his was almost instantaneous.
The oceans of today are almost entirely depleted of sharks compared to pre-industrial population levels. These stories might sound exaggerated, but I suspect we underestimate just how much more dangerous and full of life the sea was back then.
Big shark species has increased greatly since the 80:s. But yeah i bet nothing can compare to the olden days although swimming didnt exist compared to these days.
@@bjkarana Probably yeah, or only a fraction of people knew how to swim. That coupled with a deep fear of the ocean depths meant people in general didnt swim in oceans or most bodies of water.
@ For sure. I think about what it must have been like back then, before we gained a real understanding of sharks via science. It must have been terrifying; I certainly would not be going into the ocean past my ankles.
Robert Shaw, telling the story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the movie Jaws is a grim and blood chilling story of the biggest shark attack in naval history. If you want a nightmare tonight, watch the "JAWS (1975) Indianapolis speech"...
My Grandfather was in WW2 his ship got hit by torpedo and sink. Him and crew stranded in sea for 2 days before rescue. He seen shipmates eaten by sharks. One of his shipmates got bit by a shark, he tried to swim towards his crews screaming help me! Rest of the crew push him away from them. Several sharks ate him up.
@@commanderbell1965 oh well. İ am always interested in the stories of veterans, so i thought i would try to learn more. Still, i have to say that your grandpa was very lucky to survive the sinking of his ship. İ hope he was not tormented by the memories in his old age.
In Key West there is a small museum with lots of handmade boats taken across from Cuba to the US. Some of them sit so low to the water that people are taken by sharks according to accounts.
Oddly enough, it's my number 1 way I don't want to go. Some people saying burning would be the worst, some say drowning, but the idea of something actually eating you alive.....I'll take the flames over that.
I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time! Could you maybe talk about some of the pirates that sailed along the treasure coast there’s some really interesting pirates that operated out of Florida at the time
So...while fishing in the San Francisco Bay I caught a small shark...about two feet long. It was without doubt the toughest fight I've experienced with a fish on hook and line, including a 45 pound salmon. My pals and I got the creature into the cockpit of the boat, and it immediately wriggled across the decking straight for my feet, as if it knew which of the three of us had hooked it. It fought like nothing I've ever encountered and we wound up having to kill it for self-defense, there was no way we could have removed the hook...that would have lost you fingers or a hand. Okay, now that was a 2-foot shark (I have no idea what kind). Now imagine a 20-foot version. Yeah, those guys who were killing sharks with nothing but daggers had so huge cojones...or a death wish. Yeah, I know that story is not 'The Indianapolis' but the experience made the movie Jaws a lot more believable when it came out some ten years later. (And no, in case you're curious, I don't go swimming in salt water...I even keep my eyes open when I'm getting my feet wet on the beach.)
Arrrrh ! a thresher I'll be darned, sorry, had to, no idea, I just googled it, loads o sharks around SF. I thought it was cold water and Great White territory, anyhoo I know f#@*all about the Pacific. I was paddling down Loch Ness in the dark one night, 120 fathoms, long story short, but I believed in the monster that night 👀. Interestingly enough, I remember reading something about pirates on Loch Ness. Big trade and smuggling route. I think the RN had a gun boat/ fast cutter no the loch, "bloody Jacobites" 😊🏴☠️🍺🥃🍺🥃🍹 Ps I'd love to go round that loch at night on a PBR. "Never get out of the boat". 12:14
I caught 4 foot shark last year on light tackle. In the intercostal waterway in SC. Incredible fight. We see the mamas back there. Some are 10-12 foot, easy.
@@spencerstevens2175 What struck me was the persistence of its attack out of the water...and the fact that it definitely seemed to have identified me as its attacker...not the other two guys standing near me. Most folks are thinking 'Jaws', to my mind that fake shark was nowhere near as aggressive as the one I caught, so I'm imagining a 25 foot shark with the strength and aggressiveness of the one I caught...It would be unstoppable for sure.
Cambrian Chronicles is a UA-cam channel mostly centered on Welsh history. The guy who runs it does these very well researched intense deep dives on obscure subjects. One of his videos from last year, The Man who Tried to Fight a Shark with a Sword, concerns a story he stumbled upon by accident, where an 18th century Welsh sailor attempted to save his father and a young child when they went overboard on an Atlantic voyage. With, as the title suggests, a sword. It’s a fascinating short video that this one reminded me of. Worth checking out if you want to hear more stories about shark attacks in the age of sail.
yup, that's where the food is. ships attract plankton, which attract baitfish, which attract gamefish, and so on up. A ship is also a form of cover for fish, anything floating in open ocean is providing cover and will attract fish.
00:04 I just cannot get over the fact that the image of the hammerheads this opens with, the one that keeps popping up throughout the video, is upside down: you can tell from the hammerheads' caudal fins.
No, the ones in the image are not seen from below: the image is actually upside down. Just look at those caudal fins! And by the way, yes, I have dived with sharks and I can tell you that looking up at them from below doesn't make them suddenly turn belly up. LOL!
This makes me wonder about the more mythical threats sea rovers feared to encounter at sea. How did these legends spark into life? How did their belief affect the daily operations of a sea rover? How did these tales change from place to place?
@flatheadgg2443 @GoldandGunpowder had mentioned in a now deleted comment something about a copyright strike for using Warbringer, but I argue that using Metallica's Creeping Death is literally BEGGING for that copyright strike, given how protective Metallica are of their music, lol! Yeh,I saw and read that. 👀
@GoldandGunpowder that's on me for never reading the credits. Either way, I only mentioned it because of the topic on the video matching the topic of the Warbringer song, which is about a shipwreck and shark attack!
fantastic video again. I would love to see a video on pirate superstitions, did they still believe in sirens during that period in history? What sorts of things were considered bad juju, like walking under a ladder or black cats? Vampire Pirates?
That "hammerhead attack" sounds extremely sus, as I suppose any historical narrative should. Max recorded length ever was 20 feet. Man or child being attacked by an extremely passive and usually quite small shark is quite laughable... The native man engaging in a swimming and diving dual with a single shark in warm and bloody water for over half an hour is ridiculous. It's a bit like the French "historical statistics" of tens of thousands of wolf attacks on humans, when wolf attacks are significantly more rare than say shark attacks for example... Just complete bullshit someone invented for some reason.
Except someone being attacked by a hammerhead isn’t that laughable considering there have been several recorded accounts of hammerheads attacking humans unprovoked. Yes it’s extremely rare but it has happened, the size of the shark was probably exaggerated though or could even be the result of inconsistent units of measurement between the 17th century and now, and hunting sharks with a knife has been recorded as an ancient Carib pastime so the idea that one used knives as a method to dispatch a shark in “revenge” isn’t too far fetched. None of this means the account should be taken at face value as true, but it’s not impossible.
@@malegria9641 Well, you certainly countered all my arguments and statistics with that short and concise argument. I suspect that you are a highly intelligent and successful individual!
It's a good point, however I wouldn't think that the story it's entirely made up. Simply exaggerated or misinterpreted at the time it was written. It usually happened.
This happened in Russia after the war, the wolves lacked food and learnt that humans were vulnerable, once they know how to hunt us all wolves in the area have to be wiped out, and it was a massive undertaking, wolves also led to similar problems in WW1 on the eastern front itself. Likewise much of Northern India was cleared for arable use by the British through the hunting of the tigers so that it was safe to clear the land. All historical accounts attest to the danger of wildlife. We just keep the numbers extremely controlled, before they ever become a danger to humans farmers are likely to deal with them due to the danger to cattle. It's normalcy bias. In medieval times there were some winters much worse than any we have ever faced, and that would have driven the wolves into the villages and towns, unless immediately dealt with this would have led to them learning that we have few natural defences and are easy to pick off. Such behaviour is also common among scavengers when what they are scavenging is us, it's an easy jump over. This is the same with most predators, the same applies to lions, tigers and bears, and even pigs to a certain extent. Luckily boars aren't terribly interested in us and hippos are just naturally that aggressive.
@ndlmous not sure if you mean this as something insulting or not. Considering many ships speak of starvation, I was just curious if there was a reason fish was never eaten... is that such a strange thing?
Fish was eaten. But catching enought fish to feed a whole crew, in most places (specialy far away from shore) is very dificult. How many small fish do you think is suficient to fill the bellies of 100 people? And many more then that?
@@danielarato4021 Sort of depends I suppose? Not sure about food poisoning or if fish in certain areas would have certain toxins in them. I don't really eat fish personally; so, I'm not sure.
I assume the phenomenon of sharks gathering around ships has disappeared, as motorized vessels scare sharks off and throwing waste overboard has become uncommon
Nah man, they'll still follow ships as much as ever, especially around cruise ships and military vessels, anything with a high likelihood of scraps falling overboard or waste being recklessly dumped into the ocean. Check out some vids of people dropping GoPro's on a string under their boats, there's always a trailing school of fish, and a few sharks, especially at night
Also remember that shark populations, like more or less every wild animals, have collabsed in the last 150 years. I think it is realistic to assume, depending on species, that in the olden days there were at least 5 times as many individual sharks than today. Or ever more.
Yeah it makes sense more sharks in the water less people sharks probably we're hungry since humans haven't destroyed their population yet they're a threat at that time probably but I could be wrong
As a long-time fan of the channel I'm sad to say I'm disappointed by the inaccuracies in this video. Even the simple, easily verifiable fact that the French 'requin' stems from old Frankish (Germanic) word meaning an ugly grimace, or showing bare teeth - and has nothing to do with latin 'requiem'... But more importantly: the most accurate statement in this whole video is that "it was the fear that was real". Otherwise sharks were about as interested in eating humans, as they are today - meaning it may happen from time to time, when the shark is weak and starved, but mostly they attack by mistake (mistaking a shape of a rowboat, or nowadays, a surfboard for example, for a seal or other sea animal they hunt) and stop as soon as they realize it. We're just too little food for them to be worth the effort. These are facts backed up by tons of research - no reason it would be different 300 years ago. Same thing with wolves and many other dangerous animals: a single wolf attack, however rare and anomalous, is certainly a horror that sticks in people's memories and makes for a much stronger story, than the remaining 99.99% of time that wolves leave us alone. Thus we produced hundreds of legends about man eating wild animals from hell, which has led us to drive some of them to extinction, or very near it.
My friend I am sorry to disagree. Sharks do not mistake people for seals - that is just absurd; when they atack, they are trying to feed. And a 70 kg person is not little food for any animal to eat, not even the very largest of the carnivores - and that “low fat and high bone ratio” is just nonsense too. There is nothing stoping a large shark from seeing people as prey- atacks are rare just becose coexistence is very limited.
Normalcy bias. The historical accounts, including relatively recent ones make it clear what's going on. We are unfamiliar prey because we engage in reprisal, so animals aren't used to hunting us, once they are forced to by food scarcity they leant that we are relatively easy prey with few natural defences and a habit of straying from our pack, the number of casualties then exponentially increases as the behaviour spreads. Mass culling is then used to wipe out all the animals that have picked up these habits, the longer it goes on and the more widespread it becomes the larger the area in which all of that animal type much be systematically exterminated. Usually it never gets to that point as farmers will thin their numbers long before they become a threat to anything other than cattle.
Sounds like you know best mate and seem to know everything, and state it with such certainty. Happy for you to jump in with a bunch of sharks and i'm sure you'll be fine, they won't be interested in you.... Lets see how certain you are then. People like you seem to have this desperate need to separate humans from nature, and that the natural world is only dangerous to humans by 'accident' or the like. It's really quite a deranged perspective.
I remember hearing in a documentary once that "while dangerous species did exist around England, France, and the Mediterran, the average shark a sailor from those waters would see was more of a nuisance, so seeing the ones in the tropics being capable of jumping from the water to bite a man in half was a whole new layer of terror the New World had to offer"
I worked on a oil platform on the Louisiana coast a few miles from the main land with extremely low railings in some places. I'm very tall so it was below my center of gravity at times. It didn't bother me until the water became uncharacteristically clear and I saw just how many bull sharks were down there. They're so big and they seem so single minded with zero illusion of deliberation in their behavior. I couldn't have a career offshore after that and low railings just deeply spook me to this day. I can still go swimming in the Gulf though, it's just the nighttime in deep water that terrifies me. That poor drunk kid who jumped off the cruise ship at night a few years back. I'm glad I wasn't there but I think I shoulda been cuz I woulda did everything I could to stop him
Academia has pretty much lied about every topic over the past 60 years absolutely shamelessly.
I was a sailor in 2000s been all over, tropical waters, cold waters, I'm well acquainted with the sea. Up until the early 1980s the US Navy had the most extensive shark research in the world. We knew everything about them. When the USN passed the file over to civilians, they basically threw it out because it didn't say what radical 60s environmentalists wanted it to say and so now we have 40+ years of absolute junk science create by people who are desperately trying to scam government funding while at the same time lying about shark behavior.
Long and short, yes, sharks do hunt people. Yes, many shark species are highly territorial. Yes, way more people have been eaten by sharks than are reported. Yes, sharks like Great Whites, Tigers, Bulls, White Tips, Makos and other species will hunt humans if they haven't eaten and many others will attack unprovoked if you are in their territory
@@nocapbussinbased my friend
@@voiceofreason2674 you talking about cameron?
Can’t forget poor Vladimir Popov. That video was so terrifying and completely sad. That shark completely rag-dolled him. Also Simon Nellist, but at least his was almost instantaneous.
The oceans of today are almost entirely depleted of sharks compared to pre-industrial population levels. These stories might sound exaggerated, but I suspect we underestimate just how much more dangerous and full of life the sea was back then.
Big shark species has increased greatly since the 80:s. But yeah i bet nothing can compare to the olden days although swimming didnt exist compared to these days.
Good
@@Skildavärldardisc3 People didn't even take baths ...because of the risk of sharks, probably.
@@bjkarana Probably yeah, or only a fraction of people knew how to swim. That coupled with a deep fear of the ocean depths meant people in general didnt swim in oceans or most bodies of water.
@ For sure. I think about what it must have been like back then, before we gained a real understanding of sharks via science. It must have been terrifying; I certainly would not be going into the ocean past my ankles.
Outstanding. Creeping Death is the perfect intro/outro.
I came to say that myself 💯👍
🤘🏴☠️
Robert Shaw, telling the story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the movie Jaws is a grim and blood chilling story of the biggest shark attack in naval history.
If you want a nightmare tonight, watch the "JAWS (1975) Indianapolis speech"...
My Grandfather was in WW2 his ship got hit by torpedo and sink.
Him and crew stranded in sea for 2 days before rescue.
He seen shipmates eaten by sharks. One of his shipmates got bit by a shark, he tried to swim towards his crews screaming help me!
Rest of the crew push him away from them. Several sharks ate him up.
One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history
@@commanderbell1965 which ship he was on?
@IsengardMordor he didn't tell name of the ship.
@@commanderbell1965 oh well. İ am always interested in the stories of veterans, so i thought i would try to learn more. Still, i have to say that your grandpa was very lucky to survive the sinking of his ship. İ hope he was not tormented by the memories in his old age.
Just when I think your videos get stale or boring you always release something that’s completely different and interesting every month. Bravo.
they are coming...
Duuuh dun
Extremely based
The sea men?
@@RietasB.Murunen
Underrated comment
The Gods are coming....
In Key West there is a small museum with lots of handmade boats taken across from Cuba to the US. Some of them sit so low to the water that people are taken by sharks according to accounts.
getting eaten alive has got to be one of the worst ways to die...
Humans have invented far more cruel and long lasting ways to do that than anything nature has ever come up with.
Oddly enough, it's my number 1 way I don't want to go. Some people saying burning would be the worst, some say drowning, but the idea of something actually eating you alive.....I'll take the flames over that.
I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time!
Could you maybe talk about some of the pirates that sailed along the treasure coast there’s some really interesting pirates that operated out of Florida at the time
We're going to need a bigger boat, mateys!
I dont even have a boat matey, a 9 foot longboard is all Ive got.
Dang that guy who fought the shark because it bit his child is straight up gangster
So...while fishing in the San Francisco Bay I caught a small shark...about two feet long. It was without doubt the toughest fight I've experienced with a fish on hook and line, including a 45 pound salmon. My pals and I got the creature into the cockpit of the boat, and it immediately wriggled across the decking straight for my feet, as if it knew which of the three of us had hooked it. It fought like nothing I've ever encountered and we wound up having to kill it for self-defense, there was no way we could have removed the hook...that would have lost you fingers or a hand.
Okay, now that was a 2-foot shark (I have no idea what kind). Now imagine a 20-foot version. Yeah, those guys who were killing sharks with nothing but daggers had so huge cojones...or a death wish.
Yeah, I know that story is not 'The Indianapolis' but the experience made the movie Jaws a lot more believable when it came out some ten years later. (And no, in case you're curious, I don't go swimming in salt water...I even keep my eyes open when I'm getting my feet wet on the beach.)
Arrrrh ! a thresher I'll be darned, sorry, had to, no idea, I just googled it, loads o sharks around SF. I thought it was cold water and Great White territory, anyhoo I know f#@*all about the Pacific.
I was paddling down Loch Ness in the dark one night, 120 fathoms, long story short, but I believed in the monster that night 👀.
Interestingly enough, I remember reading something about pirates on Loch Ness. Big trade and smuggling route. I think the RN had a gun boat/ fast cutter no the loch, "bloody Jacobites" 😊🏴☠️🍺🥃🍺🥃🍹
Ps I'd love to go round that loch at night on a PBR. "Never get out of the boat". 12:14
I caught 4 foot shark last year on light tackle. In the intercostal waterway in SC. Incredible fight. We see the mamas back there. Some are 10-12 foot, easy.
@@spencerstevens2175 What struck me was the persistence of its attack out of the water...and the fact that it definitely seemed to have identified me as its attacker...not the other two guys standing near me. Most folks are thinking 'Jaws', to my mind that fake shark was nowhere near as aggressive as the one I caught, so I'm imagining a 25 foot shark with the strength and aggressiveness of the one I caught...It would be unstoppable for sure.
Sharks have a bad reputation for aggression but if you were pulled onto a ship with a hook in your mouth you'd get it.
@@JaMeshuggah I wouldn't call it a 'bad' reputation, in fact, I admire their ability to fight and survive. I'm no big fan of apes.
Pirates were literal otherwordly creatures, like-- "Ou A man-eating monster? Time for seasoning😁😁"
Creeping Death was hands down the best track to use for that episode
Monsters do exist & they'll eat you alive.
Yup. Or worse.
@KB8Killa What on Earth could be worse than being eaten alive???!!!! 😃
@@LocomotiveThought lol I don’t think UA-cam would let me tell you. But not much!
Gold and Gunpowder and the Great War, are my favorite series on UA-cam.
Cambrian Chronicles is a UA-cam channel mostly centered on Welsh history. The guy who runs it does these very well researched intense deep dives on obscure subjects.
One of his videos from last year, The Man who Tried to Fight a Shark with a Sword, concerns a story he stumbled upon by accident, where an 18th century Welsh sailor attempted to save his father and a young child when they went overboard on an Atlantic voyage. With, as the title suggests, a sword. It’s a fascinating short video that this one reminded me of. Worth checking out if you want to hear more stories about shark attacks in the age of sail.
My Brother is ex navy. He said sharks follow ships
yup, that's where the food is. ships attract plankton, which attract baitfish, which attract gamefish, and so on up. A ship is also a form of cover for fish, anything floating in open ocean is providing cover and will attract fish.
Ex Navy here. He's right.
What a gruesome and dreadfully shocking video, I loved it 😊 Thanks very much, a really interesting subject for me, sharks in history 👍
Very cool video, thank you so much!
Just correcting a mistake : Plutarch was Greek, not Roman. Great video by the way.
Sea men eating sharks
Tough nut
Great Whites got their name from somewhere.
00:04 I just cannot get over the fact that the image of the hammerheads this opens with, the one that keeps popping up throughout the video, is upside down: you can tell from the hammerheads' caudal fins.
Well duh if you swim below them of course it’ll look “upside down” 🙄
No, the ones in the image are not seen from below: the image is actually upside down. Just look at those caudal fins! And by the way, yes, I have dived with sharks and I can tell you that looking up at them from below doesn't make them suddenly turn belly up. LOL!
Barman gimmy a bot o' Rum, i 'ave t' scuttle a shark 'n revenge a sprog!
"I'll never put on a lifejacket again." -Blackbeard
Another interesting video. Cheers! 🏴☠️
Come to northern Australia & try petting the crocs that infest every waterway here !
The world's most dangerous predator--PIRATES---Arrrgh!
This makes me wonder about the more mythical threats sea rovers feared to encounter at sea. How did these legends spark into life? How did their belief affect the daily operations of a sea rover? How did these tales change from place to place?
🦈 🏴☠️ rumble
Beneath the Waves by Warbringer would've been the PERFECT song to open this video. Oh well. Missed opportunity.
Warbringer mentioned
@flatheadgg2443 @GoldandGunpowder had mentioned in a now deleted comment something about a copyright strike for using Warbringer, but I argue that using Metallica's Creeping Death is literally BEGGING for that copyright strike, given how protective Metallica are of their music, lol!
Yeh,I saw and read that. 👀
the video uses a cover of creeping death with the approval of the artist, featured in the video description or in the credits at the end of the video
@GoldandGunpowder that's on me for never reading the credits. Either way, I only mentioned it because of the topic on the video matching the topic of the Warbringer song, which is about a shipwreck and shark attack!
very gud 👍
Eaten by a fish. Pretty humiliating.
The sea bites back.
*CREEPING DEATH*🗣️🔥
fantastic video again. I would love to see a video on pirate superstitions, did they still believe in sirens during that period in history? What sorts of things were considered bad juju, like walking under a ladder or black cats? Vampire Pirates?
Beware the circling fin
"All it is. Ever was. Will be ever twisting turning thru the never!"
"Broad snout"
Sounds like that might be a tiger. Maybe a hammerhead, as they will school. Definitely don't want to be in the watarrgggh
“This shakk, shall ya whole!”
- Blackbeard, probably
Were alot more shark's then
Bigger too
Loving the shark crossing the pacific graphic 😅
dont let a class b video producer watch this
Sharks were known to eat anything; *cannabis* 2:34
Are you 10? He said Canavas.
People back then were not full of plastic and other chemicals. They must have been delicious.
So they were basically the garbage bears of the Age of Sail?
There's always a bigger fish
Have you ever considered narrating pirate creepypastas?
Right on
We have arrived
Sharks! : D
it seems like you really like hammerheads
11:54 Parboiled Porbeagle, anyone? (jk, wouldn't be able to do it, porbeagle is cute shork.)
Creeping death🤘
So wrestler Dwayne Johnson stole Captain Morgan's line
God bless
Can you smell what the rock is cooking? 😉
❤
Based
Not the way to go mate
That "hammerhead attack" sounds extremely sus, as I suppose any historical narrative should. Max recorded length ever was 20 feet. Man or child being attacked by an extremely passive and usually quite small shark is quite laughable... The native man engaging in a swimming and diving dual with a single shark in warm and bloody water for over half an hour is ridiculous. It's a bit like the French "historical statistics" of tens of thousands of wolf attacks on humans, when wolf attacks are significantly more rare than say shark attacks for example... Just complete bullshit someone invented for some reason.
Except someone being attacked by a hammerhead isn’t that laughable considering there have been several recorded accounts of hammerheads attacking humans unprovoked. Yes it’s extremely rare but it has happened, the size of the shark was probably exaggerated though or could even be the result of inconsistent units of measurement between the 17th century and now, and hunting sharks with a knife has been recorded as an ancient Carib pastime so the idea that one used knives as a method to dispatch a shark in “revenge” isn’t too far fetched. None of this means the account should be taken at face value as true, but it’s not impossible.
I mean, hammerheads have attacked people unprovoked before
@@malegria9641 Well, you certainly countered all my arguments and statistics with that short and concise argument. I suspect that you are a highly intelligent and successful individual!
It's a good point, however I wouldn't think that the story it's entirely made up. Simply exaggerated or misinterpreted at the time it was written. It usually happened.
This happened in Russia after the war, the wolves lacked food and learnt that humans were vulnerable, once they know how to hunt us all wolves in the area have to be wiped out, and it was a massive undertaking, wolves also led to similar problems in WW1 on the eastern front itself.
Likewise much of Northern India was cleared for arable use by the British through the hunting of the tigers so that it was safe to clear the land.
All historical accounts attest to the danger of wildlife. We just keep the numbers extremely controlled, before they ever become a danger to humans farmers are likely to deal with them due to the danger to cattle. It's normalcy bias.
In medieval times there were some winters much worse than any we have ever faced, and that would have driven the wolves into the villages and towns, unless immediately dealt with this would have led to them learning that we have few natural defences and are easy to pick off.
Such behaviour is also common among scavengers when what they are scavenging is us, it's an easy jump over.
This is the same with most predators, the same applies to lions, tigers and bears, and even pigs to a certain extent. Luckily boars aren't terribly interested in us and hippos are just naturally that aggressive.
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I'm curious if there are any reports on people minecrafting during this period of eating fish.
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@ndlmous not sure if you mean this as something insulting or not. Considering many ships speak of starvation, I was just curious if there was a reason fish was never eaten... is that such a strange thing?
Fish was eaten. But catching enought fish to feed a whole crew, in most places (specialy far away from shore) is very dificult.
How many small fish do you think is suficient to fill the bellies of 100 people? And many more then that?
@@danielarato4021 Sort of depends I suppose? Not sure about food poisoning or if fish in certain areas would have certain toxins in them. I don't really eat fish personally; so, I'm not sure.
Go to Alaska grizzlies are not pets
factually wrong, I have one named Honeyboo
I assume the phenomenon of sharks gathering around ships has disappeared, as motorized vessels scare sharks off and throwing waste overboard has become uncommon
Nah man, they'll still follow ships as much as ever, especially around cruise ships and military vessels, anything with a high likelihood of scraps falling overboard or waste being recklessly dumped into the ocean.
Check out some vids of people dropping GoPro's on a string under their boats, there's always a trailing school of fish, and a few sharks, especially at night
A drunk young man dove of cruise as people where filming.
While he in the water 2 sharks headed towards him
No you can find videos of people on cruise ships throwing a camera with strings into water they gather around ship
24, may 2022 Cameron Robbins, Bahamas
Jumped off a party cruise ship on a dare... didn't go well.
Also remember that shark populations, like more or less every wild animals, have collabsed in the last 150 years. I think it is realistic to assume, depending on species, that in the olden days there were at least 5 times as many individual sharks than today. Or ever more.
Fish are friends not food. Pirates don’t count.
Por que no los dos?
Wolves don't attack people.
all the confirmed accounts beg to differ, but keep lying.
Yeah it makes sense more sharks in the water less people sharks probably we're hungry since humans haven't destroyed their population yet they're a threat at that time probably but I could be wrong
As a long-time fan of the channel I'm sad to say I'm disappointed by the inaccuracies in this video. Even the simple, easily verifiable fact that the French 'requin' stems from old Frankish (Germanic) word meaning an ugly grimace, or showing bare teeth - and has nothing to do with latin 'requiem'...
But more importantly: the most accurate statement in this whole video is that "it was the fear that was real". Otherwise sharks were about as interested in eating humans, as they are today - meaning it may happen from time to time, when the shark is weak and starved, but mostly they attack by mistake (mistaking a shape of a rowboat, or nowadays, a surfboard for example, for a seal or other sea animal they hunt) and stop as soon as they realize it. We're just too little food for them to be worth the effort. These are facts backed up by tons of research - no reason it would be different 300 years ago.
Same thing with wolves and many other dangerous animals: a single wolf attack, however rare and anomalous, is certainly a horror that sticks in people's memories and makes for a much stronger story, than the remaining 99.99% of time that wolves leave us alone. Thus we produced hundreds of legends about man eating wild animals from hell, which has led us to drive some of them to extinction, or very near it.
My friend I am sorry to disagree.
Sharks do not mistake people for seals - that is just absurd; when they atack, they are trying to feed. And a 70 kg person is not little food for any animal to eat, not even the very largest of the carnivores - and that “low fat and high bone ratio” is just nonsense too.
There is nothing stoping a large shark from seeing people as prey- atacks are rare just becose coexistence is very limited.
Normalcy bias.
The historical accounts, including relatively recent ones make it clear what's going on.
We are unfamiliar prey because we engage in reprisal, so animals aren't used to hunting us, once they are forced to by food scarcity they leant that we are relatively easy prey with few natural defences and a habit of straying from our pack, the number of casualties then exponentially increases as the behaviour spreads. Mass culling is then used to wipe out all the animals that have picked up these habits, the longer it goes on and the more widespread it becomes the larger the area in which all of that animal type much be systematically exterminated.
Usually it never gets to that point as farmers will thin their numbers long before they become a threat to anything other than cattle.
Sounds like you know best mate and seem to know everything, and state it with such certainty. Happy for you to jump in with a bunch of sharks and i'm sure you'll be fine, they won't be interested in you.... Lets see how certain you are then.
People like you seem to have this desperate need to separate humans from nature, and that the natural world is only dangerous to humans by 'accident' or the like. It's really quite a deranged perspective.
Can just hear the Jaws theme in my head watching this interesting video.
THE SHARKS WERE HUGE BACK THEN ....
Lets gooooo 🏴☠