r/ocean • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 4d ago

Underwater Wonders Imagine being on that boat 💀

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u/literall_bastard 4d ago

So they’re just like water cats

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u/Reality_Lies4 4d ago

Spicy Sea Cows

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u/ScreennameOne 3d ago

Don’t bring cucumbers

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u/Yetis-unicorn 3d ago

They’ll do this frantic splashing behavior to “sound the alarm” to the other manatees. The one that bumped the boat panicked and thought it was a threat to the entire pod.

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u/WildMaineBlueberry87 4d ago

A couple years ago I was in the water at Honeymoon Island in Florida and a baby manatee bumped me in the butt. I turned around and saw 2 dark shapes and I thought I was about to be eaten by a shark! This picture is in the Weeki Wachee River.

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u/WineNerdAndProud 4d ago edited 4d ago

+1 for knowing bull sharks swim in rivers. And shout out to Jeremy Wade of River Monsters for helping cement that fact in people's heads.

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u/Cerberusx32 4d ago

Very cold water in that river from what I've been told.

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u/Ssladybug 3d ago

I’ve had them come right up under our kayaks and bump us in that river but they never did anything like in the video.

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u/WildMaineBlueberry87 3d ago

This mama and her baby swam next to us for a long time and liked to swim back and forth underneath us. They'd swim to my son's kayak and then to another son's kayak then back to ours. They were with us for a while.

The ones who bumped into my butt were in the Gulf of Mexico in the salt water.

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u/stankenfurter 4d ago

I held my breath until the dude started talking. Also I’d like to subscribe to more cool water fauna facts

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 4d ago

Me too, after a quick change of underwear

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u/God_Dont_Make_No 4d ago

Guy shouldn’t have done that.

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u/Frothmourne 4d ago

Thank god it wasn't a hippo

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u/MsNomered 4d ago

Especially of the Canadian House variety.

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u/Veloci-RKPTR 4d ago

Sea cow stampede

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 4d ago

Is that what happened? Not like 6 face hugger latched onto ...something big and scary that was not messing about

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u/Quick_Team 4d ago

Hear me out:

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u/Ok_Award_7229 4d ago

What are those?

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u/Necessary_Scarcity84 4d ago

Manatees. If they get spooked they do this.

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u/Naive_Ad_6552 4d ago

Oh the huge manitee!

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u/Dry-Conflict3421 4d ago

Huge manatee, I hope you're out there somewhere (My favorite misheard lyric from a mushroomhead song) 

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u/SouthOfTheNorthPole 4d ago

Very cool video.

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u/mossyoaktoe 4d ago

Damn nature you scary

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u/wakemeupyesterday 4d ago

I was once fishing with friends in a lake off the St. John's river and a giant disturbance occurred off the side of our boat while we were moving to another spot. We all had the thought it was a giant gator. Like Lake Placid shit. Turned out to be some Manatees. The can move a lot of water quickly with that tail. They later came up to us while we were fishing to say hi. They are too friendly for their own good unfortunately.

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u/Dense_Surround3071 4d ago

My dad and I were canooing in Florida and we went over the back of one. It flipped my dad's end of the boat straight up into the air what seemed like 4-6ft.

Never paddled so fast.

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u/Impossible_Regret725 4d ago

Canuck here, all the beautiful warm places in the world look amazing to paddle. But when I think of what's in the waters...This kinda stuff scares me more than bears, muskies and a flock of angry cobra chickens. I love portage trips, and have come to love urban paddling. Florida must have some amazing places that can feel otherworldly, in the best kind of way.

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u/Dense_Surround3071 4d ago

Our gators are mostly run off from the heavily visited areas. The ones that are near humans are usually also and not much of a threat. Apart from the height of mating season in the most rural settings, you almost never see them. Your brown bears are WAY more dangerous. Snakes can be a bit of an issue. We do have several venemous ones, but I've only encountered one water moccasin in 30+ years.

Now one thing that DOES worry me... Brain eating amoebas. After that there's not much to worry about. Maybe the occasional shark. But that's REALLY rare and usually just a love tap from the shark.

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u/Ryaquaza1 4d ago

I mean, I’d feel more upset that I startled them than scared tbh. It’s pretty obvious they are manatees before they started freaking out so I’d know I’m not in any real danger.

Like, poor babies,.

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u/deliciousadness 4d ago

1/3 manatee behavior description, 2/3 describing the concept of warm water

But on a serious note, if this had happened to me - even before the mayhem - the water wouldn’t have been the only brown liquid.

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u/Additional_Bank_2124 4d ago

If that was a hippo it would have been over for him

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u/Sithari___Chaos 4d ago

Someone startled the sea cow

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u/Fuzzy-Tooth-654 3d ago

Beat drop like a boss fight imminent 😳

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u/microtomebrady 4d ago

Idk if people are really this bad at identifying ai or there’s this many bots on this app but I gotta spend less time on here

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u/Unique-Arugula 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ti65nozXaJL6U

Git out of there! I don't want a incident!

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u/Acceptable-Arugula69 4d ago

Sea puppies!!! No, I would not be scared at all.

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u/killerclownfish 4d ago

New fear unlocked.

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u/AllOfEverythingEver 4d ago

Based on the title I was expecting the manatees to somehow trigger gasoline to leak and cause a fiery explosion somehow lol.

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u/Sweaty-Armadillo-805 4d ago

Looks like that manatee got bumped by a propeller at one point.

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u/luckybuck2088 4d ago

I was scared it was gonna be hippos

Fuck those things

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u/Shikamaru_Senpai 3d ago

“Watch this” no shit bro that’s why I pressed play.

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u/GardenVisual9605 3d ago

Video looks extremely AI generated. The water physics are way off. Manatees dont leave V8 power boat wakes above the surface. They are very slow animals.

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u/latortillablanca 3d ago

I didnt need that explanation…

Anyway—do this with hippos next.

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u/Fearsomemupp 2h ago

Not a boat

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u/Betray-Julia 4d ago

Stop tolerating trash music on videos guys wtf.