The Real Shark Attack That Inspired Jaws
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The video came out 7 minutes ago but this comment came out 51 minutes ago. cool.
The 1916 incident was definitely Turtles. They are known to have stealth abilities & are adept at using sai, ninjaken swords, bos & nunchaku. I remember seeing it in a documentary back in the 1990's.
Ah yes, and don't forget Toga the snapping turtle. 🐢
"Stupid water tortoise"
I heard some even live in our sewers and fight evil
Cowabunga??
That may be true, but it was proven to be a shark back in 1916. They found it, and killed it. They found human flesh in it's stomach. It was a shark.
This channel is one of the few on YT where you know it's going to be interesting every time.
Exactly and full of facts
full of facts leading nowhere. my 10 yr old is entertained and sometimes me too
1916 : A group of bored sharks decide to pester groups of swimmers in those 1900' s style beach clothes. Fear catches on.
I agree with this statement.
True
You left out the part of the man standing on a bridge over the fresh water creek who saw a big shark swimming upstream under the bridge. Nobody believed him and days later the attacks began. This part of the story always gives me goosebumps.
Really? I didn't know that
The Jersey Man Eater could actually be a bull shark, not a great white due to the fresh water. Also, bull sharks not only can swim in fresh water, but are more aggressive and smaller, which means it could easily get in the shallower waters.
Getting bit clean in half by a bull shark seems unlikely
@@biggdan97 Chances are, these were all committed by different sharks. The Matawan Creek attacks does seem most likely from a bull shark due to the location and the aggression (despite the great white killed later) and Spring Lake could have been a great white and tiger (which are also capable of biting an adult in half).
Exactly, it was a bull shark, not à great white
In parts of Australia, it's not the sharks you have to worry about, it's salt water crocodiles. Although for all of the dangerous animals that live in Australia, the animal that kills the most humans is the horse.
They always list all the deadly animals in Australia just asking wouldn't it be easier to list the ones that aren't deadly you must have one or two.🤔🤔
@@Jack-pm1ve haha there are a couple, Quokka's and sugargliders come to mind but can't really think of any others. It definitely would be easier to name the ones that aren't deadly or that can't hurt you given the right circumstances 😂
This reminds me of a story I saw many years ago about Australia being so full of danger that their native language is screams.
Not the drop bears?
Swimming at the beach, I’m most wary of box jellyfish. Getting stung would be a nightmare
As someone who has logged over 12,000 hours under water I can say that most dives I made in the ocean I saw sharks. Now I was diving in places you would expect to see them. I never once had an incident that would of led me to believe I was in any danger. For the most part they were curious and would look around and then go when they decided I was not worth their time or effort. I do have to admit, they are some of the most beautiful creatures you will ever see. Show them the respect they deserve and they will leave you alone. Just my $0.02
I've heard you should swim fast toward them if they come for you, cause most animals don't do that unless they're predators so they'll get scared and swim away. I mean, if it's coming for me I might as well give it a shot cause I'll almost for sure die if I don't anyway
Thank you for saying this!
Thank you😤
Surfing in the ocean is clearly a massive sign of disrespect to these bitey buggers.
well if they were starving, don't think they'd really care for your respect although I do respect what you're saying...
this is one of those "1 bad apple ruins the orchard" stories. interesting to see such a large perspective shift in humans so quickly and on such a large scale.
More like 20 bad apples lmao
The huge shift was the "jaws" movie... Not this incident
Charles: Swims in Ocean
Shark: And I took that personally
Great video. I wanted to mention the story of Canadian diver, conservationist, and documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart who absolutely loved swimming with and filming sharks. He never used a cage, and he was never hurt by sharks.
He made two films to change the public’s perception of sharks, and to raise awareness of the harm caused to sharks by commercial fishing, particularly for “shark fin soup” to be sold in China. It’s such a waste, when they catch the sharks, they cut off their fins, then throw the rest of the shark back in the water to die. All they care about are the fins.
His first film is called Sharkwater, and the second one is called Revolution. I highly recommend checking them out.
He died tragically at the age of 37, not from a shark bite, but from a problem with the diving equipment he was using at the time.
Killer whale does almost the same thing. Kills a shark. Eats its liver and leaves the rest.
Rod Stewart the rock star?...oh Rob Stewart...
Yes, and one amazing gentlemen also lived by Grizzly Bears for months on end and had the general public believe that maybe Grizzly's aren't rabid man killers!
It worked well until a Grizzy mauled him to death.
@@bradmills713 I wonder if they know that’s illegal
@@bradmills713 well they are "killer" whale, if we did the same, we should be called killer human
The shark that killed Lester Stillwell and bit and almost killed Watson Fisher was a bull shark, not a juvenile great white. Bull sharks can and will swim into brackish or even fresh water and stay in it for long periods of time where as great whites can’t or at least they’ve never been observed doing so that I’m aware of.
Also unlikely that the guy who was bitten in half was bitten by a juvenile. New Jersey Coast is absolutely a habit for big, mature Great Whites.
Probably was not very well documented back then I agree bull sharks is what got the other kids but that picture sure looks like a great white so most likely it was both one deep in the river and one at the mouth the great white shark was at the mouth.
Although I agree with the bull shark theory, I just watched a documentary on Nat Geo sating that research shows that weather and the full moon raised the tide and might have increased the salinity in the fresh water enough for a juvenile great white to’ve been able to swim upriver. Food for thought, considering that if it was a bull, why weren’t there any attacks before that date?
100% The rive attacks were bull sharks. Whites will go into brackish water for short time, Whites are less buoyant than Bulls and Bulls have glands that allow them to stay fresh water for days. The Zambezi shark in South Africa, is the American Bull Shark, and there are river horror stories about the Zambezi. What makes the Bull so aggressive is they one of the few shark that are territorial.
To be fair....bull sharks look very similar to juvenile great whites...
Also the sharks are coming into the shallows because a lot of their regular feeding grounds have been overfished. I love this channel! Really enjoying this channel.
I’m so glad you are bringing awareness to sharks, they are wonderful creatures. When I had my Environmental Science class I learned about how cruel we really are for over harvesting them, mainly for shark fin soup that has never been proven to have any medicinal benefit.
Its the same for rhino or elephant horns, they dont have any medical advances its just as a trophy
When you go swimming in the ocean, you step into a world that is not your own. You are(most of the time, at least) putting yourself at risk. Not just from sharks. But jellyfish, venomous fish and other sea creatures, and the power of the ocean itself. It is no animal’s fault but your own.
And calling any waters “shark infested” is like calling any city “human infested”
Wish everyone would realize an accept that truth of it's not out world an so many more dangerous things live in the waters than just sharks
Man, my family and i got stuck in the middle of a great big (2km wide) bunch of flotsam/jetsam that was full of enormous jellies of some sort. I'm no expert, but man was it painful. My brother and I each got dozens of stings. He got contact with a long, thick tentacle, and about 1/4 of his body wound up turning purple or blue. His arm was numb for about two days. Dad got it the worst, with thousands of smaller stings, but his skin's extremely thick, and they just left tiny pockmarks everywhere but his face. Each sting feels like a bee sting, or similar.
@@hosmerhomeboy That sounds painful.
Be thankful it wasn’t jetsam/flotsam. That’s when it’s terrible
Cry more
So glad you explained how sharks are often misunderstood, and aren’t really a threat at all. There’s a reason why scientists can swim with and research sharks (even great whites) without cages.
Uhm, You do realize there is video footage, quite a bit of it where Great Whites have attacked the crap out of cages, also, in the pacific sharks are actually known for tipping boats over for a meal. You treat sharks as if they are in the same category as a Wild Cat or Wild Dog. Sure you can film them even walk by them in some cases, but you don't want to be the idiot on the menu when they are hungry or in fear of their safety.
Yeah its a bit of an overreaction people have had, but make absolutely no mistake they are carnivores and some species are extremely territorial. Sharks get the bad rap and then people love looking at Hippos and don't realize the Dopey looking one is actually accounting for a lot more human deaths.
@@nocturnal101ravenous6
Great Whites (generally) do not attacks humans for food. They "take a bite" of us and then spit us out, because we are lousy food for them. They do tend to mistake us for seals or something every now and then, too. Then they immediately notice it's not a tasty seal and again, spit us out.
But I agree that one should always be careful around wild animals in general.
A friend of mine’s training partner was killed and eaten by a great white off the coast of Perth whilst he was swimming. They are a threat but the chances of an attack are very small. They are apex predators in their natural environment so I don’t blame them. It’s always a risk even if it’s a small one to swim in certain areas
@@nocturnal101ravenous6 in the cage they literally release fish blood into the water to attract them
LOL - do you know what those scientists do before these swimming photo shoots? They absolutely indulge the sharks in more food than they have eaten in weeks. They then wait for a while until the sharks are calmer, and effectively sedated by their full bellies.
Just one shark making all the other ones look bad. The shark community must hate that one fella
The fear of sharks seems misinterpreted. I think we just realized, that being in water, quite unnatural environment for us,we are really defenseless (most attacks will come from below, where we can't see, so we will always be caught unprepared, plus we have no chance of running, dodging.. .. Those things we can do on land).
Sharks then concentrate those fears as most apex predators do.
You won't go chilling next to a group of lions, or stand in middle of a highway, as you can see the danger. Water tretcherously hides those dangers and lets us chill next to creatures, you would never wish to provoke, letting only up to them if they are in mood to eat us or not.
yeah but put em on land and we are in charge
dont think sharks are apex preds. the meg was an apex predator but the great white isnt.. from my knowledge at least
Yep. I live near the Jersey shore,and known this story most of my life. It was a bull shark.....the book Closer To Shore is an excellent account of it
A brilliant book, Read it about 20 years ago.
Yeah bull sharks are the aggressive mean ones, a great white attack would not leave an intact body behind at all too
@@drteatrex2719 Great Whites don’t eat people, pretty much all Great White related deaths were just blood loss from bite wounds
@@samarthur1847 same here,then I reread it again about 5 years ago...
@@drteatrex2719 no great don’t eat the whole body most shark attacks are the shark thinking the human is a seal or turtle so when they bit ethe him they don’t like the taste of our blood so leave the body to float away
That guy killing the shark with a broken oar was a Chuck norris level badass.
Imagine him being around all his friends talking about their fishing stories then his like "yeah but none of you ever killed a shark with a oar"
@@mistermustacheguy2763 Oar?!, you had an oar? Luxury, ... I did with a broken oar.
Must’ve been a combination of fear and adrenaline that gave him that strength to beat the hell out of that shark
A large number of shark attacks in southern Australia seem to happen around seal colonies. It's also the case that many of the victims were wearing wetsuits. It's possible that these people were mistaken for seals, the normal food of Great Whites. Further north the attacks tend to be bull sharks, which have a reputation for being more aggressive as well as frequenting fresh water. There are a lot of reports here of fishing boats being attacked by Great Whites. This is probably because the fishermen are throwing fish waste into the water, which attracts the sharks.
Although I agree with this, there are exceptions like the Perth attack on 11/11/21 where a 57 yr old was swimming 30m out on a perfectly clear summers day the attack was witnessed by 4 boys in a boat, he wasn't found so it's safe to say it wasn't a mistake.
Fun fact about great white sharks, the top of them is dark and the bottom is white and I’ll explain why. Great white sharks have dark tops because they typically swim under their pray deep below the surface before bursting up from the depths to strike, as we know the deeper you go down the darker it is.This makes it harder for other animals, fish, humans to look below and see them. And they are white on the bottom because when your under water looking up you typically see the sunlight penetrating the water, hence being brighter, so it’s easier for them to blend in with their white belly’s. So the answer is camouflage. Believe me I know an unusual amount about animals and other wildlife.
I think most people have watched that episode in shark week captain obvious.
It's called countershading and it's not unique to the Great Whites, it's among the most common traits in sharks. Googe any shark species and you'll see.
Nobody fucking asked
@@Jason-tz7ir and your reasoning for being rude is?
@@anima_vestra_gaming2419 Every comment this guy makes is rude. He has playlists of Batman music and the book of Mormon on his channel. This guy is just a douchebag loser, pay him no mind. He lied and said his uncle was ripped apart by orcas to try and get attention, while still being a dick. Just ignore his ass.
Ive always been fascinated with sharks. I know sharks are innocent for the most part, but they really don't help their case when they already look like they'd burst into your house to steal your newborns soul.
That can be said about any creature without lips
I dunno man, ewoks have lips and they’re pretty soul stealy lookin’
@@EliteKnight97 that’s cuz they’re humanoid creatures that aren’t human, people also find that pretty spooky
Dolphins world absolutely steal your newborn's soul as well as your newborn.
Sharks would sell you "oops insurance."
I wonder if the shark attack numbers are accurate. For example, the Abalone poachers in South Africa swim to retrieve them and get killed all of the time since it's a great white shark hotspot. But since it's an illegal practice, poacher deaths aren't probably accounted for.
This is the reality. "5 deaths by shark per year" is a ridiculous, ridiculous fallacy. There is easily more than 5 deaths per year in Hawaii alone. The reality is that these deaths go unreported because people in the water can just go "missing" and it isn't attributed to a shark attack. African villages, like you're saying, would literally spit in your face for suggesting that only 5 people die per year to sharks out there. It's an absolute scientific fallacy.
The ISAF says that in America there is one fatality every other year from sharks. That's not total attacks just the ones that killed someone. So 5 worldwide sounds about right?
@@sonjastarr1364 right, these days we know the danger is real and take more effort to observe for such things, not only that but the survival rate of most things that previously could have killed you is far higher. Of course you may not come out completely in tact but missing an arm or leg is better than being dead.
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I’ve been watching this channel forever and right now is the first time I ever wondered if there’s a thoughty1
It’s funny how I’m afraid of going into the ocean fearing an encounter with a shark, but I don’t get scared going out the front door fearing an encounter with a bee which I’m allergic to. If only “The Swarm” was a as good a movie as “Jaws”…
Okay, hold up. Most deaths by deer happen when we take our vehicles into their territory and slam into them. Deer aren't attacking us, we're just not equipped to suddenly have their carcasses slam into us at over 40 mph.
While you are mostly correct overall, deer absolutely DO kill people. Now not like sharks or other predators (or omnivores for that matter) go about it, but they still have actually killed killed people. Those cases are usually the deer goring people with their antlers. I have no idea how often it happens, but I randomly see a story or two every year about someone actually being killed by a deer.
You do say "most deaths" so you might already be aware of this, but you also say "deer aren't attacking us" and that part is a tad wrong. MOST deer aren't attacking us would be more accurate, some clearly do.
(This isn't meant as a debate or nitpicking your post. Merely providing additional details so that people know that a deer put into a situation that it thinks it cannot escape from will not hesitate to stab you to death if it has antlers or may attempt to stomp you to death if it does not have antlers.)
@@rickh5088 Ahh I love the respect you have in your comment🔥 instead of calling him a dumbasss.
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I live in TX and I’ve been all over the Gulf. I’ve seen many sharks. When I was a child I was terrified I always had this fear of my feet or legs being bitten. A year ago I was in Orange Beach Alabama and saw 3 Blacktip sharks swimming up the coast line really close to the shore. They were just feet away from me and while others panicked and rushed to shore I stayed and watched. It was so amazing. That was the closest I’ve ever been to a shark while seeing them. I got out afterwards and chilled out with my brother and he didn’t believe me so I just pointed out and even more were showing up just swimming up shore.
Almost half as deadly as the least deadly Orca
A while back, some researchers tagged a Great White near Antarctica, not long afterwards, a pod of Orcas arrived in the area. When the researchers tracked down the Great White, it had high tailed it to Hawaii. Sharks are pretty intelligent.
Well you aint gonna see orcas near beaches
Aren’t there 0 recorded deaths from killer whales in the wild?
@@TheChefCain There are OFFICIALLY zero CONFIRMED deaths from Orcas in the wild. That number could be entirely correct, or maybe it is far higher and there just aren't enough details to confirm it. Either way, I do totally agree with your sentiment. If nothing else because it is so extremely unlikely that the overwhelming majority of humans will ever even see a wild Orca throughout their life, let alone be in a situation to be killed by one.
Orcas are pretty deadly to great whites though...
I grew up in New Jersey. My dad was a child at the time, remembered the events and talked about them often.
I’ve heard of the attack inland, and what I’ve read is that Lester was attacked and a man named Stanley Fisher came to save him but died after losing his leg.
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Edit: I'm not implying that this video is either of the above mentioned btw.
Been watching you for little less than three weeks but holy cow you're amazing, keep it up!
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@@GreatUchiha123 you are lucky . he only pooped up in the last week , and man am i grateful . every topic is thoroughly interesting .
Great video man, but personally I'm more afraid of Saltwater Crocs rather than most species shark.
Agreed, when sharks start dragging people off the beach I will be more worried.
The thing is anyone going into the water in croc waters is already in line for a Darwin award
@@emceeboogieboots1608 absolutely agree on the Darwin Award.
For many years author Peter Benchley has been expressing his remorse over what his blockbuster novel _Jaws_ did to sharks as a species. Well, Stephen Spielberg deserves a huge amount of the credit/blame because it was his movie that brought Benchley's story to such a gigantic worldwide audience. There aren't enough words to describe how insane the book and movie made people when it came to sharks. When I was a kid in the 70s a year or two after the movie _Jaws_ came out, I vacationed with family at an Atlantic beachside resort. My father and I went surf fishing, in an area where there were numerous people enjoying the beach in the traditional way. I caught a five-foot hammerhead shark which might sound big, but believe me it was so small a big poodle would have had a much more dangerous bite. When I reeled that shark in I cleared the beach for a mile in either direction. There were people literally screaming as they splashed through the surf to get out of the water.
Even at that young age I was a developing troll with a perverse sense of humor. It was literally one of the most joyful and hilarious experiences of my entire life. People probably wanted to lynch me when I got the hook out of the shark's mouth and dragged it back out into the water and let it go. I stood there in four feet of water and swished the shark around in it until it revived and just swam away. I was never the slightest bit concerned that it was going to hurt me. On the other hand, on the exact same vacation I somehow managed to wallow my way into a huge swarm of jellyfish and ended up in the ER with anaphylactic shock and only a breathing tube crammed down my throat saved my life. My father, who was both a trauma surgeon and an experienced salvage and Navy diver asked me what lesson I learned on that vacation. I replied: jellyfish -- extremely dangerous and to be avoided at all possible costs; sharks -- meh, not so much. As a man who has spent thousands of hours in the water he feared barracuda more than any shark.
When people start agonizing over sharks in the water, I give them the very true statistic that more people are killed every year by coconuts falling out of trees than by sharks. Sounds ridiculous but it's true. Apparently in those places where coconut palms thrive one thing the locals learn as really young children is not to walk or stand under them if at all possible. It really happens. It's also a statistical fact that just standing in your bathtub to take a shower is a far and away more dangerous act than sharing a patch of water with even really big sharks.
Ever since his book came out and he was horrified by the effect it had on sharks as a species, Peter Benchley has worked in shark conservation. Good man. More power to him. In his excellent novel _White Shark_ -- where a shark is most assuredly NOT the monster of the story...something much worse is -- Benchley underscores the theme that humans are far and away more dangerous to sharks and to each other than sharks ever could be to humans. It's an excellent novel that edges over the line into science fiction and I can't recommend it highly enough.
Many thanks to Thoughty2 for yet another fascinating video presenting facts with his usual touch of wry, occasionally droll humor. Well done (again.)
1. Jaws was enormously beneficial to sharks in the long run because it initiated mass interest, which then directly lead to far more knowledge and understanding of sharks.
2. The numbers of sharks killed because of Jaws were insignificant compared to the numbers killed by the Asian shark finning industry, commercial gill net and long line by-catch and the beach netting programmes.
I think sharks become a victims of misunderstanding, powered by false gossips and lack of knowledge.
The fact that these are the only videos of this genre that I will agree to watch.
Me too
Sky is amazing all his videos have the perfect balance of being educational and lots of times being stories I've never heard about and hilarious and entertaining great UA-cam personality big fan keep up the great work
Who's Sky?
I hope you meant Arran, but yeah agreed!
Jishua, please tell me, who is 'Sky'?
I think they meant “this guy.”
I am from San Diego, California and on 15 June 1959, there was a horrific shark attack in beautiful La Jolla cove. A man and his friend were skin diving in the cove when a 20 foot great white shark attacked and killed one of them---it was witnessed by the friend. This was before my time, but it is still talked about today. La Jolla cove is still a popular swimming and scuba diving location, particularly in the summer. PS---I think JAWS is one of the very few perfect movies. I read that the animal that kills humans more than any other is the mosquito. Really!
Very true about the mosquito, it's the deadliest animal on Earth to humans, due to the horrible diseases they carry. Someone I know who was a highly respected individual died at a tragically young age of Dengue Fever which is transmitted by mosquitoes. King Mongkut, the scholarly Siamese king from The King And I, who initiated the adoption of modern maths and sciences in Thailand, died from malaria which he caught while on a scientific expedition in Southern Thailand. Crown Prince Chulalongkorn was also infected and when The King died he didn't know whether The Prince would survive or not. Fortunately he did, and he was the driving force for modernisation of the kingdom and is revered as King Chulalongkorn The Great, but history came very close to going down a different path.
I grew up going to the Jersey Shore, every summer. I was once bitten by a crab, but that's about it. I now live in Maine and, last year, we had the first ever fatal Shark attack, in the state's history. It took place fairly close to where I live - about 20 miles away. I can't understand how anyone could swim in the water up here, it's way too cold, for me. But, I guess it's getting warmer, which is why the shark was this far north
Havent watched the whole video yet but im considering the bull shark to be the most fearsome shark
I agree, they can be more aggressive than other species & can swim in fresh water. When I first learned this, I switched from taking baths, to showering.
@@skasteve6528 lol
Bull sharks honestly are the shark you most definitely don't want to encounter. They're usually more aggressive and even hunt in packs sometimes. Not too far from where I live a girl got killed by a group of bull sharks once. The beach is named Amity, just like the one in Jaws...
Fun fact, the Bull shark has the highest testosterone count in the animal kingdom, hence why its considered one of if not the most aggressive animal in the animal kingdom. Also a fun side fact, they are also the only recorded shark to ever take multiple bites out of humans.
The White great shark was caught in the ocean not in the creek. Most people believe, since it was fresh water, it was a Bull Shark.
I don't know enough details about this situation to have an informed opinion, so think of this more as playing devil's advocate. What I do know, however, is that any creek like that will have a HUGE variation of salinity depending on literally hundreds of variables at the time. I assume nobody actually tested the salinity of the water in the creek at that moment, so it is entirely possible that some combination of variables led to the creek at that point being similar enough to ocean salinity that a Great White shark wouldn't even notice a difference. Yes, it would be an unusual situation, but what about this story wasn't unusual?
There was a tiger shark that killed & consumed 2 people, as a third escaped, plus incidents like the Indianapolis, so far more than 1 multiple attacks by single sharks.
The tiger shark incident is covered in the start of Tiger Shark: Thug of the Sea documentary.
I own a submarine off the coast of Panama, and just let me say that I’ve never seen more curious creatures than sharks. One time I was doing a deep dive and I seen two great whites fighting each other. I’ve had a new found respect for sharks ever since that day.
could you please put on captions or allow for CC. I have an auditory processing disorder and while I love your videos, they are incredibly inaccessible to me and I am sure many other people.
Thank you for standing up for sharks! Much appreciated, and, as always, a fascinating video.
"Sharks aren't killers, they're just curious and like biting chunks outta everything they're curious about"
Oh, ok ._______.
Fun fact: Historically most animal attacks that end with the person being eaten go unreported.
At least not by the victim, hunh? Lol.
This is the first channel I've ever seen where the narrator called out the fallacy in shark attack statistics, where they don't tell you it's under the variable that you're nowhere near the ocean.
Interesting that it’s one of the few things I learned in elementary school. But I learned it as less likely than a refrigerator falling on you.
My son is a diver and lives in Japan. I have a picture of him where he was "photobombed" by a whale shark while diving. Most are curious about people but tend to leave us alone in the water, where they can SEE that we're not their typical prey. Sometimes I think we might not taste too good to most animals because it's rare that we get attacked and eaten entirely. There was one case where a surfer got bit by a shark and the shark immediately let go and swam off. Interesting creatures and, unless you're bleeding, chances are good that sharks will leave you alone.
Unfortunately now that the oceans are pretty much dying out shark attacks on humans (and fatalities) are becoming much more common. They’re becoming desperate, especially reef sharks. Just a couple of days ago a reef shark critically injured a young woman in Australia and wounded a young man. There just aren’t any reefs left for them now, the Great Barrier Reef is effectively dead, and the parts that still survive are doomed. Reefs keep the oceans functioning and healthy, they’re like the major organs of the ocean. Without reefs the ocean’s ecosystems fall apart, and we’re seeing that with shark, whale, dolphin and fish behaviour.
FYI Whale Sharks are not even capable eating a human. The eat krill (super small shrimp) so are a filter feeders. As far as I know they don't even have teeth....
@@paulesterline5714 I remember reading an educational book as a kid that remarked on a case where a whale shark had a car door, torpedo, and a full suit of knight's armor among other things in it's gut. IIRC it included pictures, I tried looking it up right now to confirm it but found nothing besides articles mentioning the suit of armor but failed to mention the type of shark.
@@OGPatriot03 that sounds more like a great white to me but I am no way an expert. I do know great white sharks have been known to eat virtually anything.
20:03 “Sharks are basically like toddlers.” This gives a whole new meaning to “Baby Shark.” 😂
Im so glad you are still putting out videos , have enjoyed them for a long time now !!
One theory I have seen is the swimming gear of the time made humans sort of look a seal from certain angles.
Especially a human lying on a surfboard. Looks like a nice tasty fat seal from below.
We entertain ourselves with stories about monsters, because we desperately want to believe there might be something more terrifying than humanity....
💚🏜️💚 I love that fact “sharks evolved before trees”
Always a great video with great content! That part about eating sticks was priceless haha.
I was a little saddened that you didn't talk about Submarine, the most badass of great white sharks ever. Could you do a video on it in the future please?
Went to Panama City Beach last summer and there are 6 to 8 feet tiger sharks 15 feet off the shore riding in the waves also what I thought was a shark ,, well it’s head poked up and was big as mine. A sea turtle. Was beautiful. Think she was trying to come to shore to lay eggs she was so big I’m 6 feet and could have rode it. I swam the other way. Biggest Beak I ever seen and I’m used to snapping turtles here on the Tennessee river in Alabama but really cool to see a creature that is probably older than my great maw maw. Thanks 🙏
This guy could easilly male a video about rocks and still make it intresting to watch
I've been watching you for years and your videos always calm and relax me.
Thank you for doing what you do.
I summarize a shark biting a human like this:
"Are you a fishy? I bite. Nope, not a fishy. Sorry for wasting your time."
I love that I can always tune into thoughty2 and get some wonderful, and I don't have to hear anything about any stupid politics or any garbage like that thank you so much Aaron keep up the wonderful work
Maybe its not the quantity of deaths from sharks that make sharks terrifying, but the way the death is administered. Bitten, chewed and then eaten our psyche's have been embedded with the most horrible fear. The stories of sailors screaming in the night after a sinking and fins cruising the surface for prey have affected us all to the core. That's why its hard to believe Thoughty2 on this one about scientists in denial. Thousands of years of ocean navigation surely added to these stories and our fear. Good job anyway. Interesting episode. Thanks Thoughty2! Lvya all much. Shalom
I have been watching you for years and your videos have never let me down. Thank you for never failing to make interesting and well researched videos.
There must’ve been something wrong with the shark if it was going after humans. So it was probably an injury that made it unable to hunt its usual prey.
It was a bull shark they can swim in fresh water and are very aggressive
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Great show and awesome delivery.... absolutely love your work!!!!
I’m from Matawan, we have a town event every year centered around the shark attacks. Every single person in the town is familiar with the stories of the shark attack and most of us grew up swimming in those waters, since it’s passage to the bay has since been shut off. The best time to tell someone about the shark attacks is when we get them out onto the (safe) water, and see them spend the next hour or so on edge looking into the water.
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It’s widely accepted that it was a bull shark due to the conditions of the creek. It’s also interesting to mention that one of the shark attack victims tombstones is removed from the Rose Hill Cemetery. No one knows who or why it’s gone, but the only remaining evidence of the attack basically vanished one day.
Most shark attacks are on surfers because sharks eat seals, and human in surf attires resemble seals because of how the suits look. Many people have successfully fended of sharks by simply punching them in the nose...
I don't fear sharks.
I don't fear them either. That's because I live in the desert and have no intention of going into the ocean.
Future you: "SH*T! It's not working! AAAAAhhhhh!!!! " XD
JK... if I ever be approached by a shark, you can bet I'll be punching shark nose like a mofo.
@@glenns5627 lol
One of the best youtubers.
I think Arran and i have the exact same brain because literally every video he makes is right up my alley. I read a book about this exact thing when i was like 11 and i remember being obsessed. I’m so EXCITED to hear your thoughts king
Other reports state that the shark in the Matawan Creek incident of 1916 was actually a Bull Shark, which are known to be very aggressive and tolerate brackish water routinely. Some Great White sharks have also been seen in brackish water, but Bull Sharks do it routinely.
You are absolutely correct that the humble Mosquito kills orders of magnitude more humans every year than sharks.
Thank you for helping to clear up the unfair reputation sharks have. However, even as someone who has often swam with sharks, I must say that I don't buy the '5 deaths a year' claim. On average, there's one every other year in the US alone, with a rough average of fifteen (IIRC) attacks per year. Globally, that would mean well over a dozen deaths a year; and that's not counting the unreported deaths of poachers and those who "just went missing".
Sharks may not be the terrors they're made out to be, but they're not harmless. No need to be scared, but don't let your guard down either.
You think there might have been a crash in the animals' food stock that drove them to desperation all at the same time? Maybe some climatic change caused it, or maybe a disease. Maybe conditions were right for too many sharks to be born at once so you had a bunch of juveniles all searching for food at once. Lots of things could have explained 1916.
I grew up surfing and diving all up and down the CA. coastline, had a few ruins with sharks, rip tides etc. but never got attacked by anything larger than a sardine, or a Grunion during their runs. Worst thing was the riptide, it put me in a position where I didn't know which way was up, all I saw was light and dark while tumbling like I was inside a washing machine on spin cycle. It's a very good thing I kept my wits about during all this spinning, getting scraped up by the sand on the bottom. By the time I was able to free myself I was prob 300 yards further down the beach than when I went in. It also helps I could easily hold my breath for more than 4 min at a time without trouble, due to swimming like a fish and diving, and much practice. So sharks usually don't attack humans, usually it's an investigatory bite to see if you're food, and usually after they find out you're not a seal they forget you and leave you alone. Just don't swim or dive where they actively feed, unless you take precautions like a cage etc. Oh, 42 just love it when you post a new vid, TY VERY MUCH for your delivery and storytelling ability! Oh yes, and GREAT STASH BRO as a fellow mustachioed man, I started growing and have kept growing mine since I could first begin growing 1 at like age 12 or so.
Thank you !
@ 20:01
you get to the proper point about sharks.
Sharks explore their world, through using their mouths.
We humans just happen to unfortunately be
very delicate and breakable,
compared to creatures of the sea.
My eldest brother used to tell me stories of the “Jersey man eater” when I was itty bitty (started around 5yrs old) and by 7yrs old, he had thoroughly convinced me that sharks lived in ALL natural bodies of water…Luckily I learned better as I got older.
But to this day, at the ripe ol age of 35, I’m still absolutely petrified of being out on/in the ocean.
Although my brother thought it was hilarious at the time, he actually felt really horrible about it as we grew up and he realized that he accidentally caused a genuine phobia…..
(But to be fair- I was a pretty annoying kid. So I get it.🤷♀️😆)
In 10 years we will look back on this episode, for it will be known as the birth hour of twigetarianism... 🤔
We have a local story of a shark attack....In the 50's a Maltese and his British friend went swimming when the Maltese guy felt something brush his leg....it was a shark and then it attacked the British guy who at this point told his friend to leave him and save his life. They never found him but that's about the only shark attack we know of and contrary to popular belief the Mediterranean is full of them. Considering one of the min attractions of the Mediterranean is water sports we never hear of shark attacks at all. In the 80's a lone fisherman caught what is thought to be one of the biggest sharks ever, and this guy was as I said alone and on a small boat.
Cheers to your contents mate, for they are pure gold 🍻
Freediving, spearfishing and fishing Hawai'i. Follow the rules and don't mess with sharks. Facing a 15f Tiger is not fun. There are a lot of sharks: Saw giant Whites and Tigers tearing a spermwhale apart when gf and I swam 2 mls out. The local spinner pod is covered in cookiecutter scars. One dolphin was sharkbitten. Last time I saw him, while freediving with the pod...two Tigers circled him. 15f Tiger giving birth two two pups...5f of the beach.
Last year I got mock attacked by a 10f Tiger. Sharks suck. Btw. Most ocean fish can live extended time in brackish freshwater and freshwater. All sharks can. Some just dont like it because it messes with their buoancy.
It does mess with their buoyancy, but their osmotic control is probably far more important to them. A saltwater species needs to trap/pull as much water as possible inside it's body to keep from dehydrating due to the salt content in the water constantly trying to balance itself out. The entire system is designed to keep/pull H2O inside and fight again the nature of saltwater. Freshwater species are the complete opposite. Since their bodies are surrounded by very little to no salts in the water their bodies evolved to keep water out to keep from blowing up like a balloon from all the freshwater rushing into their bodies in an attempt to dilute the relative saltiness in their bodies. Put a marine species in freshwater and the natural tendency of water to "strive" for dilution pushes the freshwater into the bodies of the animal AND the animal's body itself is designed to pull in water. End result is a horrible and painful death as it's body fills with water it isn't equipped get rid of.
@@rickh5088 so than when the cry babies say not to put a lobster in boiling water to kill it because it is cruel, they say to put in fresh water for a while.... so if what you are saying is true (I have no reason to not believe you) then the supposed "humain" method to kill a lobster is actually far worse then the instant death of the boiling water...
@@paulesterline5714 Lobster, crab, opihi, kauri, mussels go in a pot of freshwater overnight. This way you get the poop out. Then boil or grill alive. They die very very quickly. Dead raw lobster decays within minutes.
@@rickh5088 We got a lot of groundwater seeping into coastals. Most fishponds here are lightly brackish freshwater. I ve seen mantas, whitetips, tigers and most reeffish and dolphins in fresh water. Lucky to freedive almost every day for the past 10 years.
This story makes me so sad. I understand the hysteria and fear aftet the spree of killings but its horrible to think that so many sharks were being hunted down and killed. They do seem like incredible creatures that we just misunderstand. It's sad that they're still hunted down so much now
Shark fear has nothing to do with their commercial fishing, the Chinese like shark fin soup... It's a matter of food.
I have been watching this channel for the last 2 days and i cannot stop! Fuking interesting and informative. Thank you for this mate, keep up the good work and fantastic job!
I am convinced this man is a time traveller from the 18 80s, that travels trough out history and presents his information to us.
Sharks are the victims here and I'd say they if they knew the score...payback would be a real bitch. BUT, the beast that slaughters them by the millions (cuts off their fins and throws 'em back alive to slowly drown) is far more cunning, resourceful and deadly and doesnt fight fairly. A movie about a shark eating MAN is pretty scary shit. Some would just rather die than o without their "Shark Fin Soup"! Who is the real monster? \m/
Surely sailors on whaling and military ships were aware of what sharks could do, especially when blood was in the water. Didn't anyone listen to what they had to say about sharks back when? Leviathan, mentioned in the Book of Job in the Old Testament, might have represented stories about big sharks, going back thousands of years. So why were people convinced sharks were not a danger before 1916?
Sharks are older than trees - but EVERYONE believed they were like big kittens... until 1916.
@@dtg816 Nope, the crew and soldiers on board HMS Birkenhead knew sharks ate people, they found it out the hard way in February of 1852 off the coast of South Africa. Look up 'Birkenhead Drill', because that was where it was born thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Seton of the 74th Highlanders.
@@AnthonyIlstonJones Sharks don’t eat people though. You guys are acting like sharks actively hunt people, but I’ve searched and searched and only found two pieces of verified recorded history of a shark actually fully eating a person.
@@unknownplite I cited one instance in history where sharks ate several people, and several horses also. Maybe a case of mistaken identity, like great whites biting surfers because they thought they were seals, but several soldiers and sailors lost their lives to sharks on the 26th of February 1852 - that much is recorded history. Many more drowned, but we have eyewitness accounts of the sharks circling and taking first horses then men.
The fact that novel food sources were in their environment is going to solicit curiosity in a hungry predator, and if they are hungry enough ANY meat source will do. The only cure for this is stay out of their environment.
I'm not saying I have a clue how many people have been devoured by sharks in recorded history, but as I've said I KNOW it's more than two. It is perfectly possible that many such incidents have been recorded as 'missing, presumed drowned' when no remains were forthcoming. We simply don't know.
We are not a natural part of their diet, but free food is still free food if they're hungry enough.
@@AnthonyIlstonJones Haven’t heard about that but I’ll look it up, but my point still stands that they rarely ever eat people.
As a scuba diver instructor who's had the pleasure to dive with more than 8 different species of sharks, thank you so much for this video! Hopefully humans will start to appreciate these misunderstood and magnificient creatures and stop our thirst of destruction for endangered species.
This brings up a lot of small memories from jaws. Such as the one split in half and the one red boat.
As a person who loves sharks Im glad you took the time to show people that they arent the man hunting beasts that movies and the media portray them to be. People are afraid of them and they are going extinct as a result despite being one of the oldest species
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I haven't watched the full video, and so have you.
@Camelot House that is true
@@e65666 I have.
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If it was just one shark, it was definitely a Bull shark, the only large shark that can breathe fresh water and will seek humans as prey.
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And a good way for the story of the "poor" sharks it´s easier to ignore the fact that the seaman knew for many hundred years ,that if they sink the sharks will come and get you all.
And of course there is no explanation why 4 different sharks would start to kill people within 14 days...
Great White Shark: What is this strange THING attempting to swim in my home? Let me just give it a little nibble to see if it's yummy...
Around 8 people die from shark bites annually. Approximately 150 people die from falling coconuts annually. FEAR THE COCONUT!!!
I'm pretty sure that I've seen another program on the attacks that happened in Egypt, and it turned out that the sharks were being hand feed illegaly by divers, and were used to people handing them food. When the one in question encountered a number of casual swimmers, it was looking for food, and was expecting to get it from the people. The bites were exclusive to the peoples hands and buttocks, as it was used to the divers giving the food from their hands, but they would store the fish they were feeding the sharks in a pouch that sat on the but....that wasn't the sharks fault....
I remember the first time I heard about these attacks. I live about 10 minutes away from Spring Lake (the second attack location) so I’m always going to the surrounding beaches during the summer. I know these attacks happened over 100 years ago but every time I go into the water now I have this small fear that I’m gonna get attacked by a shark lmao especially since there’s been a bunch of shark sightings over the last few years at those beaches
scientists towards sharks before: aww ur completely harmless aren't you
shark attacks*
scientists towards shark now: aww you pose such a little threat aren't you