Canadian woman tries to take a selfie with a shark, gets both hands and an arm bitten off

[CheStadium]

I'd carry some half a sticks of dynamite with short waterproof fuses for those sharks or have a real boat.

Wonder if that 'bloke' had a stringer of fish hanging overboard. Bulls have been humanized to hang around under boats and docks to steal fisherman's catches.

In a few places, I carried a bang stick while diving, but never used it. In SoFl, we sometimes saw bullsharks while "divebombing" deep wrecks, but they went away if we turned off the HID lights and got off the scooter triggers.

Many shark bites in FL are from spinner sharks where people swim in the ocean near fishing piers.

In SC, I was spearfishing with a friend and we each got 2 nice groupers. Unfortunately we stayed a little too long and had to do 25 minutes of deco, as we didn't bring oxygen. At 20 ft, I didn't like the look of a barracuda that was watching and I put my stringer on a bag. It was successfully retrieved by the boat crew. My buddy chose to hold onto his, and the 'cuda came in closer and closer and eventually went after his stringer. He poked the barracuda with his speargun and let his stringer go, and the barracuda got his fish.

When you enter their world, you have to respect wildlife.

 

[TexPatriot]

Walt Disney should gets blame for lots of bad interactions between animals and humans. Reality is there are no animals that are sweet, cute and cuddly. They all have their ways of hurting or killing you.
Not to sound like a cold hearted prick but bad decisions and stupidity lead to Darwinism.

Here's a tourist filming lions in Angola winning his award.

 

[TexPatriot]

In a few places, I carried a bang stick while diving, but never used it. In SoFl, we sometimes saw bullsharks while "divebombing" deep wrecks, but they went away if we turned off the HID lights and got off the scooter triggers.

Many shark bites in FL are from spinner sharks where people swim in the ocean near fishing piers.

In SC, I was spearfishing with a friend and we each got 2 nice groupers. Unfortunately we stayed a little too long and had to do 25 minutes of deco, as we didn't bring oxygen. At 20 ft, I didn't like the look of a barracuda that was watching and I put my stringer on a bag. It was successfully retrieved by the boat crew. My buddy chose to hold onto his, and the 'cuda came in closer and closer and eventually went after his stringer. He poked the barracuda with his speargun and let his stringer go, and the barracuda got his fish.

When you enter their world, you have to respect wildlife.

Kinda like when you're in downtown Detroit and think it's a good time to use an ATM machine.

 

[JR_77]

Here's a tourist filming lions in Angola winning his award.

Almost the same thing here if not for the leash. Amazing what people will do for the “Perfect Picture”.

 

[Baron23]

 

[Bullfrog08]

Thoughts on feeding deer or foxes?

 

[sirhrmechanic]

She’d have been safer at a hockey game

Or not…

Sirhr

 

[918v]

Thoughts on feeding deer or foxes?

I likeit when people try hand feeding wild boars. We need more video of that.

 

[TexPatriot]

Here's a tourist filming lions in Angola winning his award.

One lioness ran off with the victim's camera. Today they steal the wallet and cell phone.

 

[mvphilly]

Robert Shaw aka Quint from jaws would say. You go in the cage, cage goes in the water? Sharks in the water? Our shark? Farewell and adieu all you fine Canadian ladies.

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

She’d have been safer at a hockey game

Or not…

Sirhr

LOL! I was at one of our local hockey games several years back, and a woman got hit in the head with a puck. Cut her head wide open. One of the team doctors stitched her up, 10 stitches, and she was out watching the game the next period.

 

[geek65]

Sharks are necessary to clean up the old and weak from the Oceans., creates a better biodiversity in the ocean.

 

[c1steve]

Here's a tourist filming lions in Angola winning his award.

The family members were stupid as well. If they had started the vehicle and engaged the lions, they might have saved the father. Possibly could have driven over the top of the father to protect him, and the engine noise plus horn would have scared the lions away.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Sharks are necessary to clean up the old and weak from the Oceans., creates a better biodiversity in the ocean.

You must not do a whole lot of fishing.
They aren't garbage collectors.
They are opportunists.
Yeah, they'll eat dead shit, but they have less than zero problem chasing down perfectly healthy fish and fowl.

Between the sharks and the Goliath grouper, you're lucky to get 30% of your reef fish in the boat.

What sharks don't eat, smaller fish and crabs will take care of.

 

[geek65]

You must not do a whole lot of fishing.
They aren't garbage collectors.
They are opportunists.
Yeah, they'll eat dead shit, but they have less than zero problem chasing down perfectly healthy fish and fowl.

Between the sharks and the Goliath grouper, you're lucky to get 30% of your reef fish in the boat.

What sharks don't eat, smaller fish and crabs will take care of.

Correct, I don't fish, but watch a lot of nature programmes (I am a geek, hence the user name) and I do like sharks, but similar to the comment above, I have no wish to be anywhere near one.

 

[Mike Casselton]

I love nature programs. Unfortunately, they've become more about a one sided story (propaganda) and less about the animals and their actual behaviors and place in our world.

It's gotten hard to watch them with the high levels of misinformation and outright lies.

Most of the time I just mute the sound and watch the pretty pictures.

 

[Mike Casselton]

For those unfamiliar with Goliath grouper, this is the last one I caught.
Well over 6' long and broke the 400# mark with ease.

My wife caught one about an hour earlier that made this one look like a teenager.

Sorry, it's a pic of a pic on my wall. The original image is on a computer.

I really didn't think much about going in the water for the hero shot until I climbed back in the boat.
Rebecca said she couldn't believe I got in the water with it.
Once I thought about it, I realized I could have had two very serious issues crop up.

#1 would have been the big fucking bull sharks in the area.

#2 was a simple swipe of the massive tail on the grouper and it would have broken my neck or back, or both.

 

[mi650]

I guess someone else will have to take the picture now. Her selfie days are over.

Well, you don't have to bite my head arms off.

Shark bites off tourist’s hands after she tried to take a selfie

The 55-year-old woman is understood to be a Canadian tourist in the Caribbean.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Was she the dumbass flying the plane?

 

[NoDopes]

Sharks are necessary to clean up the old and weak from the Oceans., creates a better biodiversity in the ocean.

And the stupid.. which creates less diversity.

 

[TexPatriot]

For those unfamiliar with Goliath grouper, this is the last one I caught.
Well over 6' long and broke the 400# mark with ease.

My wife caught one about an hour earlier that made this one look like a teenager.

Sorry, it's a pic of a pic on my wall. The original image is on a computer.

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I really didn't think much about going in the water for the hero shot until I climbed back in the boat.
Rebecca said she couldn't believe I got in the water with it.
Once I thought about it, I realized I could have had two very serious issues crop up.

#1 would have been the big fucking bull sharks in the area.

#2 was a simple swipe of the massive tail on the grouper and it would have broken my neck or back, or both.

Jeremy Wade would have jumped right in with it.

Crazy fucker jumped in the ocean at night with a huge Greenland Shark he caught. Those things are creepy.

 

[HungerNSharkTooth]

Why would you do that … animals / fish in the wild should be observed from a distance

 

[HungerNSharkTooth]

When you go fishing in a kayak in the ocean off the coast of New Zealand, and you get chased by a 15' Great white shark for eight minutes....
that was a big "Shaaak".

He makes it out fine, physically.

This guy had the right idea and got the hell out of there. Must have been terrifyinfb

 

[Mike Casselton]

I don't want to jump in ocean water with any shark.
If I had to choose between a bull shark, a Tiger shark or a Great White, I'd choose the Great White.
The other two are very unpredictable compared to jaws.

 

[greg1147]

Hmm, being stupid and knowing are two different things.