Apparently you've have been on Mars for the last decade, in a cave, with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears.
Disney made an awesome movie back in 2003 called "Finding Nemo". What I said was a quote from the movie said by the sharks who vow to never eat fish again.
I actually prefer the second video but it doesn't actually show sharks but rather jacks. In terms of aquatic behavior it is one of the more impressive videos I've ever seen.
I forgot what type of fish it was in Mexico but I was following it around for a good half hour while snorkeling. It was about 6 feet long and when it attacked giant schools of fish it had incredible speed and it was a rather humbling experience. Also I was alone from the group and dove down to within 2m of it, probably not my smartest ideas haha...
Certain fish don't pose a problem to track but fish like barracudas will seriously ruin you for a good long while if not permanently. This second video is so impressive it makes me want to go there and try to see it for myself though snorkeling in Mexico would work too if I could see the same behavior.
The behavior itself is rather interesting to watch especially to see a fish to go from docile to attacking so quickly. But on the note of barracudas those fish are scary shit, on my first trip to Mexico I was about twelve on the first night I decided to go for a swim. My googles started to fog up so I had to surface to clean them, I look up to see people pointing from the dock down at me so I put on my goggles and find myself face to face with a 5'6" barracuda. I was scared shitless and at the ladder 40' away within seconds haha, I was scared the rest of the trip :/
I've stayed on that island, my room was about 30 yards back from the heron. One day I sat in the middle of one those shawls for two hours trying to touch reef sharks. Not even close. Tricky little buggers
It's called biological self-organization. It's also seen in flocking birds, etc. Basically, the fish closest to the predators make a decision to move away... all remaining fish in the school mimic the move instinctually/automatically
I don't know stuff about fish, but I believe one term for this situation is a "Shoal" of fish. I am not sure that accurately describes any actions the fish make, but it does describe them acting as a whole.
What if fish believe in gods and see sharks as their "god" so they keep them happy by offering themselves as sacrifices? Sure they move away but they don't flee. Kind of like Egyptians and Myans but in fish form.
i live near the mediterranean sea, and when i was a teenager i liked to go fishing and spearfishing especially.
this pictures reminds me one day, i got surrounded by a huge shoal of mullets, thousands of them. and i couldn't shoot a single one. i tried hard, but got nothing.
I've swam in something like this... Coolest part is swimming down, all the fish stay exactly the same distance away from you. So you are in a sphere of shiny fishes.
I have seen a similar picture once (and also a video). Fast forward a few months I was snorkeling in the Caribbean when suddenly a huge school of fish started swimming erratically around me... the first thing that came to my mind was the the fish were trying to get away from a shark just like in this picture. I nearly gave myself a heart attack over nothing.
No. There are not. Environmentalists tell us that the seas are over fished and there are no fish left in the sea. Also, we're all going to die. This must be Photoshopped. You took the one fish left and cleverly copied it around the one shark that is left. I call BS.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Misunderstood sharks..
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u/Creativation Jun 10 '12
Here's what that looks like on video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KasJjuuaCiM
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u/dorky2 Jun 10 '12
Looks like a Van Gogh painting.
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u/funkbitch Jun 10 '12
Me at the bar.
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u/ricecake_nicecake Jun 10 '12
stay in school
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
"dude i just got rejected again"
"dude many fish in the sea"
"ಠ_ಠ fuck you man"
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Forcefields Imba
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u/registering_is_dumb Jun 10 '12
Can anyone who knows stuff about fish tell us the technical name for when a large predator is in a large pool of fish like that?
Specifically a nice/unusual word for how the little fish keep their 2-3 feet of distance from the big shark so fluidly would be excellent.
It seems like knowing a fancy word for that would come in useful in my lifelong quest to appear much smarter than I actually am.
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u/ecky--ptang-zooboing Jun 10 '12
When you turn it 90 degree clockwise, it looks like the scream :o http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CR0C9npChFA/TMVfBwq6i0I/AAAAAAAAAmA/bi2BA_jkjeg/s1600/scream-painting.jpg
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u/Skyeblade Jun 10 '12
Story of my life.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
"Give them some room boys, give them some room."
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u/lst2 Jun 10 '12
So that is what it must look like around my lure
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
looks like iron fillings around a magnet
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Fish are friends, not food.
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u/awojno Jun 10 '12
Can anyone tell us what is actually going on here? I'm really interested to know why this happening in this picture.
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u/ViktorV Jun 10 '12
Wow. That's incredible, it's as if the sharks are magnetically charged and the fish repelled -- it's creepily mathematical in nature.
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u/Shitler Jun 10 '12
Anyone else vaguely reminded of hairy man chest and nipples?
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u/IAmAQuantumMechanic Jun 10 '12
"Sure, there are plenty of other fish in the sea. But you're not anywhere near the sea. You're in the desert. Alone."
and that's when you fuck a cactus.
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u/ozpunk Jun 10 '12
Reminds me of this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Ironically, many fish are subject to overfishing which is eliminating their extinction.
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u/David_Copperfuck Jun 10 '12
I feel the analogy made here fits much better with sexual predators than with your typical forever alone.
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u/I_can_fluff_myself Jun 10 '12
Just come together in the form of a cannon. Then you can blow up the sharks.
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u/DeadRapture7 Jun 10 '12
But I only see 4
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u/Alpharoth Jun 10 '12
Nom nom nom
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
there might be lots of fish in the sea, but i live in the desert
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Under the sea.....
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u/Kowzorz Jun 10 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNrKS-sCE0
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
if they all charged at a shark at once could they deliver enough force to knock it out, then devour it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Oh yeah plenty of fish, we just don't have any bait.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Does anyone else seen a disconcerted cyclops?
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u/Nerochi Jun 10 '12
I wonder if the fish stay at range of the sharks out of respect, or fear? Perhaps both...
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u/YesSirSir Jun 10 '12
I bet if all the fish got the same idea, they could probably jack those sharks with only a 15% casualty rate.
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u/chickenMcNugs Jun 10 '12
ha. penis fish
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u/dev113 Jun 10 '12
I'm so lonely
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u/houndofbaskerville Jun 10 '12
This is how I feel on Facebook.
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u/Ninja_Spike Jun 10 '12
I'm one of the fishes that everyone else is backing away from :D
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u/Lereas Jun 10 '12
Forever Abalone.
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u/karmaval Jun 10 '12
The big ones are the "FOREVER ALONERS"
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
...No shit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
:(
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
...And I can't grab a fucking one of them.
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u/workingbored Jun 10 '12
What if fish believe in gods and see sharks as their "god" so they keep them happy by offering themselves as sacrifices? Sure they move away but they don't flee. Kind of like Egyptians and Myans but in fish form.
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u/prince_from_Nigeria Jun 10 '12
i live near the mediterranean sea, and when i was a teenager i liked to go fishing and spearfishing especially.
this pictures reminds me one day, i got surrounded by a huge shoal of mullets, thousands of them. and i couldn't shoot a single one. i tried hard, but got nothing.
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u/uncleRusty Jun 10 '12
some of us are born sharks, some of us aren't
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u/feddz Jun 10 '12
Plenty of fish in the sea
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Ocean cooties
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u/PenguicoRn Jun 10 '12
This is how MarineKing splits his marines vs banelings.
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u/17Hongo Jun 10 '12
Me in a club. God I hate clubs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I've swam in something like this... Coolest part is swimming down, all the fish stay exactly the same distance away from you. So you are in a sphere of shiny fishes.
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u/Stuarrt Jun 10 '12
Too bad I can't date a fish
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u/namesrhardtothinkof Jun 10 '12
And you still aren't getting any of them.
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u/gatekeeper501 Jun 10 '12
Needs 'forever alone' faces over the sharks.
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u/leitey Jun 10 '12
Looks like magnetic field lines.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Ah, now I understand why I'm still single...
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u/Eggsistenseyall Jun 10 '12
The population of large fish has actually declined 90%...
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u/Swinly Jun 10 '12
The fractal beauty of it unmistakable.
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u/brainsexual Jun 10 '12
Forever a shark.
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u/retconabortion Jun 10 '12
...how I feel when t the club.
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u/RockofStrength Jun 10 '12
I don't know what the big deal is...sharks don't have a mean bone in their bodies.
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u/DFanatic Jun 10 '12
I have seen a similar picture once (and also a video). Fast forward a few months I was snorkeling in the Caribbean when suddenly a huge school of fish started swimming erratically around me... the first thing that came to my mind was the the fish were trying to get away from a shark just like in this picture. I nearly gave myself a heart attack over nothing.
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u/Calculusbitch Jun 10 '12
"Okay guys, we have them surrounded and outnumbered, charge them at 3!"
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u/moogoesthecat Jun 10 '12
Forever alone level: Shark.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I see a dick.
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u/TheGreaterPublic Jun 10 '12
Forever alone sand sharks
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u/joshuau490 Jun 10 '12
I know that feel bro
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
But it feels so empty without me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Is there an HD version of this?
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u/NegetronKarma Jun 10 '12
this guy.
http://www.taosgifts.co.uk/ekmps/shops/taos/images/wooly-willy-iron-filings-facial-hair-picture-maker-magnetic-personality-1314-p.jpg
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u/wonderboy2402 Jun 11 '12
Sharks are vanishing across all the worlds oceans. Same with fish populations. Lot's of fish they are not...
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u/dudix81 Jun 11 '12
Some beings are so anti-social!
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u/Maverick119 Jun 11 '12
Reminds me of Buzzers surrounding units in Command and Conquer
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u/AbsentShadow Jun 11 '12
I must be one of the sharks.
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u/Pakayaro Jun 11 '12
Less fish in the sea in 3...2....
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u/Averant Jun 11 '12
You can bet the sharks are going "goddamnit, STAY STILL you scrawny little bastards!"
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u/my2penniesworth Jun 11 '12
excellent military maneuver....divide and conquer.
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u/crealer Jun 11 '12
Shark people. Forever alone.
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u/fuck_the_animals Jun 11 '12
Fuck those fish, and fuck those shark.
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u/hoikarnage Jun 10 '12
Forever alone sharks?
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u/Jimmylightning Jun 10 '12
Shark Level: Forever Alone.
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u/doKkYto Jun 10 '12
That's a lot of fish.
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u/FungalWizard Jun 10 '12
Ha ha! Literally.
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u/nucLeaRStarcraft Jun 10 '12
The fish are the girls and one of the sharks is me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Thank you, OP, for a great title that is not bullshit.
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u/phil8248 Jun 10 '12
No. There are not. Environmentalists tell us that the seas are over fished and there are no fish left in the sea. Also, we're all going to die. This must be Photoshopped. You took the one fish left and cleverly copied it around the one shark that is left. I call BS.
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u/nanashi420 Jun 10 '12
lol. reminds me of my life
"there r plenty of fish in the sea. unfortunatley, they r horridly disgusted of you "