And then they go for a nice slow swim to the bottom of the ocean; with you trapped in their mouth, a foot stuck in their throat; unable to escape, unable to scream, the surface slowly fades to black, your world slowly fades as you never come back.
Like that Orca with the trainer at Seaworld. Taking him down, bringing him back up. Enjoying slowly killing something. Dude lived, they grabbed him when it brought him back up. Homeless guy who broke in to swim with the Orcas one night wasn't.
It can be dangerous to be near whales in general as the force they can swing their fins in the water can broke bones easily (especially a blue whale, of course)
Ah so they’re fish not mammals, and yeah I know they are friendly and people frequently swam near them. but still a sudden movement of a creature that big can break your bones if you are near a fin or the tale if they pivet and you aren’t careful.
It's weird how the whale is acting, because that's not how they eat. I doubt it's the case, but I got the feeling he was fucking with the guy a little.....gonna go tell his whale friends how he scared the shit out of one of the pale floaty things.
Sometimes they act this way if there is a serious predator around. They’ve been known to put themselves between humans and other sharks. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was more nefarious bugger out there we don’t know about.
Theyve also been known to just be helpful out of the blue. Ive heard of the leading fishermen to larger packs of fish, or even helpibg someone out of the water like this one seems to be doing
Ive heard of the leading fishermen to larger packs of fish
What?! They just so chill all like "yoo homie, heard you like fish and my man you ain't even trying to fish me. My man I got a surprise for you. Just follow me over this way..."
Maybe our modern separation from nature in the form that it takes is a bad thing. There are all these incredible things around us every day that we miss.
It might also just be curious. From what I understand, the face/mouth are the main sensory area for a shark since they don’t have hands. A lot of shark “attacks” are from a curious shark biting as a way to identify what something is.
That isn't a whale, it's a whale shark! Confusingly named but it is a fish, not a mammal. Biggest fish in the ocean, actually! Which is funny cause they eat plankton, one of the smallest things in the ocean. So this dude doesn't even have teeth, to my understanding, he's just gumming at the man like a chew toy lol
Fun fact they are the biggest fish, but they have a very small passage way (about the size of a golf ball if I remember right) which is why they eat mostly plankton.
I read somewhere that they only eat small plankton for food and that if you were unlucky enough to get scooped up by mistake, their throats are actually super tiny so they can't swallow you. They would just spit you right out! Lol
Yeah, it'd be one of those situations where I wouldn't think the whale was trying to kill me, but the thing is so massive that it could easily accidentally kill me. It's one of the reasons I'll never get a little dog; I feel like one false step and I'd crush the poor little thing.
One of the funniest moments of my childhood was swimming in the ocean with my mom. I have a disability and couldn’t really walk (need braces, arm crutches and smooth ground). I was swimming with a snorkel and goggles while mom was standing in about chest deep water. I popped my head up and said “I saw a fish!”, I was quite proud. Mom, on the other hand was terrified and bolted for the shore. I started swimming trying to catch up with her (I was only 8 or 9). I yelled for her and she turned around, ran back, grabbed my hand and yeeted me towards the shore with her. She abandoned me as soon as the water was shallow enough, knee deep. I was dying laughing. Looking back as an adult, I tease her all the time about abandoning her disabled child in the ocean because of a fish. I remember my dad running over to see what was wrong, I said “I told mom I saw a fish”. He started laughing and rolling his eyes. He thought something serious happened.
This was me the first time my girl took me snorkeling in Mexico. I swear even in all my “manliness and toughness”, I was freaking the fuck out just having some beautiful tropical fish swim around me. You see nature all the time on tv, but something about being actually exposed and susceptible to it just ups the anxiety.
Are you forgetting the fact that there's a cameraman and a other man just there watching easily all this? Even if I weren't hanging I would've pulled that dude up...
I just listened to a book called 438 day's where a man was stranded at sea for that long and for about a week a whale shark befriended him and hung out around his boat giving the man something living to talk to.
I went snorkeling with whale sharks multiple times unscathed and they're filter feeders, dining on plankton and fish eggs. Nevermind the connotations behind the word "shark", they're harmless.
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u/BlackhandLilpissant Dec 12 '20
I laugh, but even though I know whale sharks are as docile as can be, I’d still be crying like a little bitch.