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

Oh you......

There's no need to lash out. You can't help that you're dumb.

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Oh you......

There's no need to lash out. You can't help that you're dumb.

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WIldlife management is a thing, whether you like it or not.

One way out, but you just can't go out the door.

What would make you feel "safe"?

Killing every alligator within five miles of that woman's house?

Killing any bison that happens to get close to a parking lot at a national park?

Killing every bear or mountain lion that defends its cubs or is startled by a hiker?

Dousing millions of acres with wasp spray to kill all the wasps because your scared arse got stung one time?

Should we kill all the sharks that ever get close to the shore? Would that make you feel safe?

How about deer? We should kill them all, because even where we manage them well people still hit them with their cars......and some of those people die.

What will make YOU feel safe when YOU step off of your doorstep?

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I haven't called you any names in this thread, but you keep calling me names.

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You acted like a condescending prick from the jump.

And I didn't call you "names", I called you dumb.

That's about what I figured.

You have a good night. Keep playing good music.

Y’all kiss.

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I just keep things simple… the sharks don’t come where I am at, so I don’t go where they are….

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And there you go.

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This is insane. A random shark encounter (a smallish bite and immediate release) is par for the course along the gulf coast once a month in the summer. What is NOT random is more than one in a week, Three in one day?...in the same general area? And violent attacks involving loss of a loss of limb?

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It’s worse than that.

Typical shark attacks are curiosity bites on surfers, those swimming past the second sandbar or in low light/muddy water conditions.

The shark bites a person, realizes it doesn’t want to eat them and let’s go. Sutures, a unit of blood and a cool story for the surfer.

This was completely different. In all three cases the shark(s) involved bit people close to shore, in full daylight in clear water and proceeded to try to eat them. In one case a man apparently had to battle it for the woman’s life.

There was video of some Orcas near destin this week. Its possible the sharks are getting chased out of their preferred hunting grounds by apex predators. Of course all of that is speculation.

But either way, this was a really bad, albeit incredibly unusually situation and all three women were in serious to critical condition, with one having lost her hip, part of her stomach, part of her arm and other injuries.

I promise you people will be out hunting that shark tomorrow so they can open the beaches and reassure beach goers that what might well be a true predatory shark or sharks are dealt with and publicly.

All that said its 100x more likely you get hurt in a car wreck than bitten by a shark on the Emerald Coast.

They have artificial reefs at the marine park in Navarre Beach.

I was down there at the end of May. We stayed on the 14th floor of Belle Mer and boy did we see sharks from the balcony. Many close to the beach. It was shocking how much marine life came through. Massive migration of stingrays going on. Lots of king mackerel swimming by regularly. Massive amounts of bait fish, everywhere. It seems like that area is thriving.

We also had a big moon every night so maybe that stirred it.

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10-20’ off the shore you’re usually good. You go out to the sand bars - roll in the dice

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I've watched a greater hammerhead that was cruising about 20' from the shore. Bullsharks will damn near walk up the beach.