re: 3 shark attacks in Destin in the last 5 hours

That has nothing to do with it. Bait from piers don’t attract sharks. I’ve caught two sharks in my life both within 1( minutes of each other on an isolated beach with no pier in sight.

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Any sharks taken into custody?

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All sharks are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

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Your position is one-sided and obtuse.

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Nah.

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If a hiker goes in the woods and gets mauled by a bear or a mountain lion, oh well, shouldn't have gone in the woods.

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You post that as though it's self-evidently fallacious, but it's not.

If you go where dangerous wild animals live, you run the risk of encountering dangerous wild animals.

That's what seems self-evident to me.

Parks and preserves warn hikers and campers when they are entering areas where dangerous wild animals have been observed.

The difference is, like he said, humans do not share an underwater living environment with sea creatures. We don't have constructed/developed human habitats underwater that dangerous wild animals learn to avoid like the dangerous wild animals learn to avoid our land developments. They are invaders/visitors/aliens in developed human habitats. We are the invaders/visitors/aliens in wild/undeveloped habitats.

Beneath the surface of the ocean is pretty much 100% a wild habitat. None of us live down there. We're always visitors.

You keep using the word "fault," which I don't think is a very accurate word.

The correct word in my opinion would be "risk."

And yeah, every time we get in the ocean we are risking encountering an animal that could harm us, whether it's a jellyfish or a shark. Sure, there's areas of greater or lesser risk, but there's still a risk.

There's a risk every time you get in a car and go somewhere. My mother died in 2022 in a car accident barely more than a mile from her house (which is what the statistics predict). That wasn't her "fault" (well, actually it was according to the accident report, but it wouldn't necessarily be her fault just because she chose to drive somewhere and died), but she did accept the risk associated with driving, which was slightly elevated due to the fact that it was at dusk and she was elderly.

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If an old 70+ woman is walking to her car at a restaurant in Yellowstone and a bison gores her in the parking lot

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Tell you what, the next time a shark crawls up through the sand and bites someone in the beach parking lot, let me know.

70-80% it usually a Bull. They don’t stop until they want to stop.. Hammers and Tigers are hunting turtles and stingrays & usually mistake us. Bulls go after anything

Can't prove it, but I bet bull sharks are responsible for more attacks (not fatalities) on humans than great whites and tigers combined.

Bull sharks are bad news.

Check out google earth for views of the reefs.

This sort of thing happens, but is very rare. Crazy to have multiple attacks is such a small area.

Pridenado

It's climate change

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What artificial reefs are there off 30a?

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"reef" is a bit generous. Its concrete pilings dotted in the shape in some sea theme. But it does the job of attracting wildlife. One is off Topsail park and one is off Grayton park. There is a few more elsewhere too I think. They are a long ways out and swimming that far is a bit sketchy. The last few times I've taking a kayak or paddleboard. IIRC they are about a 1000ft off the beach....like I said, wherever the second bar starts to drop off.