Marine Life Terrible shark attack TCI

[Shasta_man]

<<But they are basically cows.>>

That's the point, they are not like cows. Closest plentiful thing in Europe would be bulls. Bison are large like a cow but much faster and switch to freight train mode in a second when some people least expect it.

 

[rongoodman]

And they’re notoriously ill-tempered.

 

[Billg68bg]

Correct you if you are wrong? I have no idea what actually happened. Do you?

Why do you assume you are "right"? Have you spent a lot of time in the water with bull sharks? Why would you apparently assume a shark could not swim away if it was uncomfortable? Upon what basis do you surmise that the shark was engaged in self defense?

When an animal eats and consumes a portion of another, I generally would not consider that as self defense, but that is a huge generalization. I don't know what actually happened, nor exactly why, but it does not sound like an accidental or exploratory bite from what little has been reported.

I said correct me if I am wrong in regard to her engaging the shark by entering it's space. I believe I am right to believe this, as that is what I surmised from what I read. If she invaded the shark's space, then it would make sense to me that she caused the contact and result. I may be wrong on this, but I don't believe so.

 

[Pearlman]

At this point let’s just be respectful of her tragedy and believe the story that she had just entered the water and encountered the bull shark fishing around and tried to defend herself by extending her hand in self-defence to push it away…

 

[johndiver999]

I said correct me if I am wrong in regard to her engaging the shark by entering it's space. I believe I am right to believe this, as that is what I surmised from what I read. If she invaded the shark's space, then it would make sense to me that she caused the contact and result. I may be wrong on this, but I don't believe so.

What is the shark's space? What are you talking about?

 

[dmaziuk]

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Been there, seen that in Yellowstone: a herd lazily crossing the highway, few dozen cars stuck, half the occupants out with cellphones up in bisons' faces.

 

[Billg68bg]

What is the shark's space? What are you talking about?

My understanding of what I was able to read was, she approached the shark. If she hadn't, maybe the shark bites her. Maybe it doesn't. When she approached, it apparently struck. That is my point. She initiated contact and was bitten. If that is not the case, please tell me where I am misunderstanding something.
To be clear, I was unable to open the article here. I read a separate posting that appeared on my phone.
Further, whereas, I can be sympathetic to the person's injuries, it can also be said that actions have consequences and we must use caution, common sense and due diligence when interacting with wildlife. Especially when dealing with potentially dangerous wildlife.

 

[johndiver999]

My understanding of what I was able to read was, she approached the shark. If she hadn't, maybe the shark bites her. Maybe it doesn't. When she approached, it apparently struck. That is my point. She initiated contact and was bitten. If that is not the case, please tell me where I am misunderstanding something.
To be clear, I was unable to open the article here. I read a separate posting that appeared on my phone.
Further, whereas, I can be sympathetic to the person's injuries, it can also be said that actions have consequences and we must use caution, common sense and due diligence when interacting with wildlife. Especially when dealing with potentially dangerous wildlife.

I'm just curious how you have determined what the shark's space is. You provided zero quantitative definition.

You also seemed to have ignored my direct question about your personal experience in dealing with bull sharks, so I assume none.

Since you apparently don't know what the term Shark's space" means when you use it, I'm not sure how to evaluate the rest of your opinion on this matter.

 

[TostitoBandito]

The argument is silly because no matter what she did or didn't do it's not the shark's fault. You go in the ocean, you accept certain risks because you don't belong there. Sure she may have taken certain actions which made a violent encounter more likely (though the accounts are contradictory), but point is she could've just been swimming minding her own business and the same could've occurred with zero warning.

As this is a diving forum though I'll point out that this story had nothing to do with diving and that attacks/bites on submerged divers (where feeding/baiting/hunting isn't involved) are exceedingly rare relative to all the stories like this you see involving swimmers/waders/snorkelers/surfers (which are still very rare compared to many other daily risks like driving your car).