Woman bit by monk seal speaks to Hawaii officials
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2022
- The Department of Land and Natural Resources interviewed the woman, a California elementary school teacher, and her husband. The DLNR released some of the interview in a press release.
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Difficult to believe she did not notice the signs and the nets and the people telling her not to be there.
The people of Hawai'i disagree. How dense do you need to be to be completely unaware of your surroundings especially in the ocean! Fine her .
Did nothing wrong? She was in the seals territory and there were warnings signs posted and there was no one else in the water which should have been a huge giveaway
Agree
GUILTY.
Something is wrong when you are the only one swimming at Kaimana Beach.
Liar. She and her daughter were reading the signs and completely disregarded them.
Tourists thinking they can do whatever they want to in Hawaii cause they're on vacation.
She needs to pay a fine!!!!!!
Maybe she should have read the signs. Of course the state is going to say she did nothing wrong tourism is our greatest source of revenue.
people know nothing of nature. You want to know what she did wrong? Being there. Seals aren't usually this aggressive, but when any animal has babies she is going to be very protective. This means, stay away. Plus there was a sign on the beach that said "stay out of the water"
Maybe close kaimana beach when monk seals are taking care of their babies there
I prefer the additional security of close kaimana beach and have a sniper snipe any dummeh going too close to the seals
@@chriztianhusher8401 great idea!! paintball guns would be a suitable consequence for passing boundaries
Nevermind.. don't want to litter the aina
Taser is good enough.
Yes, what's going on over at the DLNR?
@@kmj8088 Ice balls... No pollution
What is there to investigate? The mama still was protecting the baby seal and that lady was in the wrong area...
Old comment but in case you or the people up voting were wondering.
That seal is a Hawaii Monk seal. The are endangered and protected under Federal Law by the MMPA as well as Hawaii State Law HRS 195D.
Any interaction between a seal and human is going to be investigated to ensure there were no violations of laws.
Unfortunately Monk seals have been disturbed or even killed and events seem to be escalating in the past few years.
We just had a baby monk seal killed by an off leash dog. Two men were fined 20k.
What the hell was she doing close to its baby?? People don't understand?? Any animal is going to protect its babies
The signs were there for about a week and her hotel room is right there on the same beach and she didn't know ..I call bs ...her husband's video already showed the beach with good visuals of that beach ...so you stayed there and didn't see any signs that the seal and baby was there ...liar!
I can't stop laughing at my thoughts on how this happened.
Wife "I want to swim with the seal and her pup while you catch it on video from the balcony"
Husband "ok but do it before the life guards arrive"
Wife "harp..."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Momma protect!.
The only time a seal will attack is if it felt threatened. This lady should have been given a fine for appoarching the seal and its pup.
Blind woman went swimming.
Yup you’re gonna live with that fear for forever
0:20 “California woman”
That explains it
State says woman did not provoke seal?? Jaaj she should never be close to them
BS !!! At least 1 of 400 monk seals left on earth got the last bite.
Thankful the momma seal didn't abandon her offspring in the stress of it all.
Even this lady walking across the sand area. They have no respect.
Be, she knew not to be out there, but it makes sense she's from Gavin Newsome state
I mean she was trying to get out but damn
I was at Honaunau on the big island in the late 90's when a juvenile male monk seal showed up. He was trying to mate with anything that moved in the bay. I actually saw a father tell his 6-7 year old daughter to "go swim with the seal!". Tourists are STUPID!
They can be expensive too.
Touching one ( why anyone would get the urge escapes me) carries a 50 thousand dollar fine. If you can't pay the fine, the judge said hope ya got some time. Didn't say how long.
I was totally laughing at her the first time I saw this video thinking "bachi🤣!" But upon further thought, she had a swimmers cap on🤔...maybe she had no idea because many of these serious swimmers will swim all the way down the beach or like a half or quarter mile or something(where there were no signs). When people were yelling at her, maybe she couldn't hear due to just swimming with the cap on too🤷♀️ I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt. But I don't know why nobody is giving full details on the whole story about how far she was, where she entered the water from, etc. This isn't thorough enough reporting if you ask me🤷♀️ or maybe they just want to scare the public to avoid seals(which is probably a good idea too)...but yeah doesn't mean this lady was 100% in the wrong.
But did you see her swimming abilities??? Not very good.
Swimmers at that beach tend to go straight out from the left side of the beach and go straight out to a flag and then back. People do not tend to swim to kaimana beach from other beaches since the right side can be dangerous with it being rather shallow, covered with sea urchins, and it is the summer time so the southern portion of Oahu tends to have decent surf. Swimming straight out from Kaimana beach provides less waves and the water is deep enough to be able to swim a decent way out then back.
Hawaii's preferred word and action of choice is state funded study or investigation .
Hawaii has become so trashy! I feel so bad for the locals that have to see the influx of these most likely SW Airlines travelers.
Would you say the same thing if it was a shark? You gonna blame the shark? “I did nothing to provoke the shark! There was no signs or warnings that the shark was in the water! I didn’t know that it was there. I never see a shark when I left the safety of my canoe to say hi to the shark.” 🤯🙄😒 FYI sharks, seals, porcupine fish, sea urchin, salt water crocodiles, they live in the ocean. The ocean is their home. You are trespassing in their home. You provoked them by going in the water! Lo lo! 🤯😡 So if they bite you, thats all you boo! Cuz they told you for leave and you nevah!
Exactly.
Nothing wrong? She ignored the signs and went into a roped off area… this is an endangered species of seal. The seal did nothing wrong, she did!
Joe moore: People Should not "Shwim" in the area lmfao 😂 🤣
👏🏽🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏽
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Everyone acting so holier than thou in the comment section. Ease off. Kaimana is ALWAYS full of people in the water, locals and tourists, even when the seal moms are on the beach. The swimmer easily could have entered the water when there were other people in the water and missed all of the people getting out and yelling at her because she had her swim cap on. Don't act like y'all are angels when it comes to wildlife.
😂😂😂
Nice to see one person defending.
Basically swim at your own risk 😫😂