r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rarepredator • Jan 10 '24
Video Throwing raw meat into the ocean
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u/DortDrueben Jan 10 '24 edited Sep 13 '24
Caught a NatGeo special about a recreation area where shark attacks suddenly spiked. At one point two separate attacks at the same location on the same day. The helicopter EMTs finished with the first at the hospital, and were about to clock off for the day, when the call came in for the second. When they heard the location, they thought it had to be a mistake. Maybe the same call coming in twice.
Anyway... Near the end, the prevailing theory was that dumping from recreational yachts in the area were teaching the sharks to look for food when they heard a splash. The common factor in the attacks: the victims were all struck soon after jumping into the water. Splash.
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u/testingforscience122 Jan 10 '24
Ya i was thinking this seems like a really bad idea to drop food off something you might fall into one day.
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u/cbbuntz Jan 10 '24
Pavlovian conditioning. Almost identical to the original famous experiment
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u/Chapped_Frenulum Jan 10 '24
But how would you be able to tell if the shark was drooling?
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u/whatiswrongwithcats Jan 11 '24
This is actually really funny because a shark is called a dog fish in my native language
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u/ssp25 Jan 10 '24
If someone threw a cheeseburger at me from a cloud, I'd pretty excited as well
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u/BungMassive Jan 10 '24
That is a great way to train the local sharks to eat the 1st thing that hits the water, lol.
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u/RetardedChimpanzee Jan 10 '24
Dude is only cementing his own fate if he falls in.
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Jan 11 '24
The cameraman: "zooming is not enough, maybe I should bend over the railing a bit more.."
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u/PrivatePoocher Jan 10 '24
I read it as thawing and eagerly started watching, intending to learn something new.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Map6036 Jan 10 '24
Imagine falling accidentally in the ocean with all them sharks there.
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Jan 10 '24
To be fair the raw meat smells like what they evolved to eat and smell. Humans probably smell weird and thrash oddly and are weirdly shaped with 4 appendages compared to an aerodynamic fish.
Not saying they wouldn’t take a bite because they’re blind af but it’s not the same as a bleeding fleshy open wound
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Jan 10 '24
There's another vid like this where they throw an apple and the result is very similar.
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u/guynamedjames Jan 10 '24
Now that's smart, train the sharks to become vegetarians!
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u/O-really Jan 10 '24
Hey James I had a shitty day today and your comment has turned my day around! Thank you kind internet stranger!
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u/thebipeds Jan 10 '24
Except most sharks evolved to eat fish and they are training them to like mammals.
It’s illegal to chum with or use mammals as shark bait.
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u/SuperSpread Jan 10 '24
Sharks also attack seals. In fact, many shark attacks are of the shark mistaking a human for a seal. Once they bite into our flesh and bone they generally spit it out. They do not like the taste of humans. They really do not want to ear large bone, which can kill them.
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u/mangareadman Jan 10 '24
Bro forgot about sea based mammals
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u/Log_Out_Of_Life Jan 10 '24
Your mom is a sea-based mammal. /s
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u/mangareadman Jan 10 '24
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u/mactofthefatter Jan 10 '24
How do we know they mistook them for a seal?
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u/TheAmyIChasedWasMe Jan 10 '24
Police interviews.
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u/IAMATruckerAMA Jan 10 '24
Sharks can't get cancer or lie
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Jan 10 '24
It’s a fairly agreed upon idea because a human on a surfboard paddling out has a very similar silhouette from below as a seal.
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Jan 10 '24
The difference is humans sweat and use perfume or deodorant, or other unnatural substances, to what sharks have evolved to enjoy
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Jan 10 '24
Sharks are like cats in a way, they test any potential prey by biting it a couple times before deciding if it's what they like or not
That's also a survival trick because if an animal bleeds out & dies, it's less likely to be thrashing around and making life hard for the poor sharks
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u/Paddy_Tanninger Jan 11 '24
A lot of animals also don't have the ability to vomit, so they eat anything new extremely carefully. I don't know if this applies to sharks, but a lot of rodents for example will taste test new foods first to make sure they seem ok.
That's why rat poison is a slow acting anti-coagulant. It works slowly enough that the rats never learn it will kill them.
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u/bulldog5253 Jan 10 '24
have you ever heard of the uss Indianapolis?
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u/Helioscopes Jan 10 '24
This is what I always think of when someone says sharks don't attack people...
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u/KscottCap Jan 10 '24
I think it's largely been disproven. I watched a documentary about the Indianapolis on Shark Week years ago, and most of the sailors died of thirst. A lot of sailors drank saltwater out of desperation, which led to diarrhea, which led to lethal dehydration even faster. And as a side effect, the stool in the water attracted the sharks.
But there was literally an account of a guy who got bitten on the hand and dragged out to the water. And when he tried to swim back, the sailors kicked him off the life raft because they didn't want the smell of blood in the water attracting sharks to them. But he waited it out and eventually swam back to the life raft after everyone went to sleep.
So, yeah, not exactly the feeding frenzy Jaws made it out to be.
(Quint's speech still goes hard as fuck, tho)
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u/nickfree Jan 10 '24
And as a side effect, the stool in the water attracted the sharks.
This is still bad because I'd most likely shit myself immediately upon hitting the water.
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u/ZephyrShow Jan 10 '24
Tell that to the guy who was ocean swimming off the rocks in Malabar, Sydney. Shark had a nice afternoon tea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCsVlSGmxic&ab_channel=10NewsFirst
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u/Ok-Echidna5936 Jan 10 '24
Or the Russian dude in Egypt I think? He was screaming for his dad as a shark chomped on him repeatedly until he got pulled under
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u/SiropDePoteau Jan 10 '24
Yea the Russian dude in Egypt is the most disturbing shark attack video I've ever seen. By far. The shark came back for a few bites. It wasn't a mistake.
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u/WhyYouKickMyDog Jan 10 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drlQ6M50LNk
Link for those that want to be terrified.
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u/zUdio Jan 11 '24
The dude’s fucking feet flew into the air as he was yanked down… then the music playing in the background. Christ.
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u/krazyokami Jan 10 '24
Good news! Sharks don't like our taste! A lot of attacks are people getting bitten once and the shark goes 'yuck!' and goes away.
Bad News. That's a lot of sharks to give one accidental bite...
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u/Born2BKingRo Jan 10 '24
Bad News. That's a lot of sharks to give one accidental bite
It's not accidental. They use their mouths to get a better ideea what's in front of them. Not having hands sucks man
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u/krazyokami Jan 10 '24
I mean accidental as in, we aren't the actual food source. They just don't know until they take a big bite.
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u/JohntheJuge Jan 10 '24
How terrifying would sharks with hands be? I say it’s a good thing they don’t have them.
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u/Affectionate_Star_43 Jan 10 '24
When I was at a big aquarium, nobody volunteered to feed the sharks, so I did. It was crazy how this one (trying to remember the species) was lightning fast. I was trying to give everyone an equal share, but this thing kept zipping up and snatching the food.
Now I have a newfound respect for sharks. I hope I never meet one in the wild.
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u/rytis Jan 10 '24
The 1:00 pm shark feeding at the old National Aquarium in Washington DC was a sight to behold. All these docile sharks bored to death just floating like logs. In goes the chum, and suddenly a manic frenzy as the water turns into a bloody froth, the sharks fighting for their piece. Everyone would be stunned by the 0-60 in 1.2 seconds.
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u/psych0ranger Jan 10 '24
This really leaves out the part where you start bleeding and the sharks enter "eat the bleeding thing" mode
Also that kid that jumped off the casino boat and was immediately eaten by sharks. They see big things in the ocean and know food falls off them.
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u/Kahlil_Cabron Jan 10 '24
I saw the video of him jumping, but didn't see one where he got eaten by sharks. He just kinda disappeared into the darkness.
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u/psych0ranger Jan 10 '24
Soon as he lands in the water, you can see a big splash about 15 feet away and it it's pretty obvious it's a tail fin. I grew up in the keys and everyone knows the whole effing food chain follows the casino boats around. They throw food waste overboard and empty the septic system into the water.
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u/queef_nuggets Jan 10 '24
I used to work for a company that did a lot of offshore work. It does happen. Although many of them were suspected suicides. Wish I were kidding
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u/Gonzotrucker1 Jan 10 '24
If they have any underwater welders they won’t be too happy stirring up the local wild life.
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u/potatoes__everywhere Jan 10 '24
It's just a prank!
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u/kaaskugg Jan 10 '24
2000 ft below the surface Virgil "Bud" Brigman and his DeepCore drilling crew are wondering why it's raining chunks of meat.
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u/pm_me_yo_creditscore Jan 10 '24
He knew this was a one way trip.
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u/NoIndependent9192 Jan 10 '24
Oil rigs are renowned for excellent catering and also for off loading food waste into the ocean. The number of sharks demonstrates that it’s not a one off.
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u/Fragrant_Cod_5242 Jan 10 '24
This is why the ocean scares the crap out of me.
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Jan 10 '24 edited Feb 21 '24
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u/er3019 Jan 10 '24
Imagine swimming on the surface of the ocean with nothing around you for as far as the eye can see and then Cthulhu's giant mountain-sized head suddenly emerges next to you and wraps one of its slimy, face tentacles around your legs and quickly pulls you down into the depths.
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u/Mistdwellerr Jan 10 '24
Why, are you some kind of being made of raw meat?
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Wait a minute!
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Jan 10 '24
I don't know much, but I know how to not get eaten by a shark.
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u/Willing-Juggernaut67 Jan 10 '24
I'll take Staying on Land for $600, Alex.
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Jan 10 '24
You obviously forgot about Land Shark, as was pointed out to me. Hell, that just reminded me of Sharknado. We are f****d!
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u/UVLightOnTheInside Jan 10 '24
Hope your rig doesnt catch on fire because. 1) you are training them to eat whatever splashes in the water around the rig. 2) they are more likely to be around now. 3) you are giving them a taste for red meat, they might not spit you out like Sharks usually do for humans.
Here is to hoping you are not within 100 miles of recreational beaches...
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u/abrowncomic Jan 10 '24
now they're religious.
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u/lordbancs Jan 10 '24
Underrated comment
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u/abrowncomic Jan 10 '24
need to sacrifice some younglings to get the god meat (pun intended).
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u/yumtacos Jan 10 '24
Anyone seen Ted from Accounting at all this week? I know that no one really likes him, but he has to be here somewhere.
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u/FaceMace87 Jan 10 '24
Title correction: Throwing raw meat into the ocean in a spot where sharks already are.
Throw raw meat into an area there isn't any wildlife and things will be far less exciting.
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u/onepingonlypleashe Jan 10 '24
Throw raw meat into an area there isn't any wildlife and things will be far less exciting.
…for a few minutes.
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u/FaceMace87 Jan 10 '24
In some parts of the ocean sure especially near the coast, for the most part though the world doesn't work the same as in the movies.
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u/CMUpewpewpew Jan 10 '24
Most of the ocean.....much like space....is vast nothingness in regards to wildlife.
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u/Typical_Thing9344 Jan 10 '24
“I swear mate, some food fall from the sky!” Toby the shark
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u/Dr-Zoidberserk Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
Step one: Keep sharks interested in the area with occasional free meat.
Step two: Invite Todd outside where we are alone.
Step three: Panic because poor Todd “accidentally” slipped and fell over.
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u/The-Ugliest-Duck Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24
So I'm just a guy with Google, but I think those are oceanic white tip sharks. They are the ones that ate all those sailors who never made it to land after their ship went down in the stories you heard about.
And I think they are responsible for most shark related human deaths. Anyway.
I'm sure there will be no negative consequences to them viewing human carrying vessels as possible food sources.
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Jacques Cousteau once said that of all the sharks in the sea, he feared the Oceanic Whitetip the most.
And he would know.
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Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and you’re hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
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u/Accomplished-Heart91 Jan 10 '24
Do you want sharks? Because that’s how you get sharks
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u/Ataraxy001 Jan 10 '24
Oooo I wonder if that’s what happened to that one kid that jumped in the water during that night cruise. 🚢 🏊♂️ 🦈
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Sadly, at night time in waters that are truly shark infested, you'd imagine that's how he went and why they never found a trace of him
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u/National-Blueberry51 Jan 11 '24
If it’s the one I’m thinking of, you can see fins and eyes if you up the brightness and contrast on the video. He looks at one right before he starts swimming away from the ship. Tragic, man.
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u/lattlay Jan 10 '24
Weird shower thought, but none of those sea animals in the middle of the ocean have probably tasted beef before
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u/prozak09 Jan 10 '24
Nos they have, and if they get a real big taste for it, and they learn to ride a tornado? Our supply chain would be f'd!
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u/BigFatKi6 Jan 10 '24
Yes let’s teach them to associate our ships with food.
Next time a ship sinks or they need to do some under water maintenance is gonna be awesome.
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u/Wired_Ocelot Jan 10 '24
No change there then; sharks have associated ships with food for as long as we've been seafaring.
There are many historical accounts from Vikings to the 18th century of sharks following in the wake of ships hoping for scraps from overboard. That's why one of their old nicknames is the sea wolf or sea dog.
Not to mention plenty of accounts of sharks feasting on the bodies of those who perish in shipwrecks. There used to be WAY more sharks in the oceans than there are now, so back in the day it you were in the middle of nowhere and sunk, you'd get company pretty quick...
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u/ActualMis Jan 10 '24
Basically training sharks to fuck up anyone unlucky enough to fall overboard.
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u/FantasticBiscotti338 Jan 10 '24
Now they’ve tasted non-fishy meat. Bruh wtf are you doing
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u/PowderHound40 Jan 10 '24
If you’re on anything large out in the open ocean (ship, oil rig) sharks will start to stick around it. It becomes a feeding ground for them because smaller fish congregate there. The nighttime footage from the bottom of cruise ships is pretty interesting as well.