A young 13-year-old boy was attacked by a shark in Florida, but luckily he is alive and well. A lot of people are out on this Memorial Day weekend enjoying the water, and a shark attack is going to make a few people think twice about heading out into the ocean. People shared the details about this shark attack and how the boy is doing now.
Neptune Beach Police Department shared that the young boy was attacked by a shark, and other swimmers helped pull him out of the water. The boy was bitten on the leg, and police said that his shark bite looked like it was from a shark that was about 5 to 6 feet in size. The boy was taken to the hospital after this shark attack and is in stable condition at this time. A witness shared the details about the shark attack.
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It is pretty shocking that this all happened just one week after an 11-year-old girl was bitten by a shark in Jacksonville. It's the third attack this month on the First Coast. Shark expert Larry Cahoon shared his thoughts.
"You have a higher chance of getting into a car accident driving to the beach than you do getting attacked by a shark when you get there. The fact is that sharks have millions of contact hours with humans on beaches every year, yet attacks are really rare. Just be
the drum- lines program with hooks like needles is working even though sometimes it’s a false call but it is keeping every one safe so far. In my opinion, I think that the main reason there is shark attacks because of crowded beaches. I think that because there is so many people in the water that you can’t sea your surroundings.
20 year- old Madison Stewart, many know her as shark girl, is an underwater filmmaker and a dive master. The young Aussie grew up living on a yacht from just two years old, she has spent nearly every day of her life in the water. When she first started snorkeling, one thing grabbed her eye and that was seeing sharks in the wild, She instantly feel in love with the animal and decided to have a future being around sharks every day of her life. When she was young she didn’t once think that she would have to fight for sharks and their lives. When she returned to the Great Barrier Reef at the age on 14 years old, she had expectation’s such as seeing the same beautiful reefs and the same sharks, but what she saw and discovered changed her life forever.
In the movie “Jaws”, which is a 20th century film, the preying shark terrorizes the beaches of New England. After he is finally trapped, he is killed- but not in the same fashion as Grendel was. The shark was shot in the mouth and then blew up to do a CO2 tank he had swallowed. The way in which each antagonist was killed was in two very different ways: with and without weaponry, respectively.
...heir vision is not needed at that depth in the dark water (I 77). These parasites might actually help the sharks. These parasites are biolumiscent and they might attract those fast swimming fish to the oral side of the shark. With out these parasites it is possible that the sharks could not catch as many fish as it does, due to its slow speed. On top of the parasites on its eyes, the Greenland shark also has poisonous flesh. To get rid of the poison n order to eat it, the flesh must be boiled and dried several times (II 63). If the meat is not prepared correctly, it can cause, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, tingling and burning sensation of tongue, throat and esophagus. It can also cause muscular cramps, respiratory distress, coma and death (III Vol 25, 905). This shark may not kill you when it’s alive, but you have to careful when it’s dead.
What different type of sea create are in the deep sea ? Have you ever heard of the Ghost shak if you haven’t the Ghost shark is a deep sea shark,maybe that’s why you haven’t heard about it. According to Cathleen Bester Ghost shark have branched off the shark 400 millions years ago and how it's somewhat different from the sharks. The Ghost shark has a small structure located in on its snout,there mouth are located behind their snout. They have three pairs of tooth plates,the upper jaw are sharp and their like blades,the lower jaw is flat and its use ot crunch it’s pray and their teeth continue to grow. Their bodys are smooth and color is silver white. Also there eye color are green and large that are just set high top of their
“The United States averages just 16 shark attacks each year and slightly less than one shark-attack fatality every two years. Meanwhile, in the Coastal U.S. states alone, lightning kills more than 41 people each year” (Handwerk). Not man people can say that they have been attacked by a shark, or even know someone who has. The story is not the same for Bethany Hamilton. She is a shark attack survivor. When the odds of her surfing again were against her, she proved them wrong.
In Chinese tradition, Shark fin soup is called as “a celebration soup”, which people eat it to celebrate in various occasions. Moreover, people also believed that shark fin consisted of diverse nutrition values which provide them virility, wealth, and power(Wolchover, 2011). These beliefs lead to the beginning of poaching for sharks, the top of food chain in the sea world. Surprisingly, although people are aware of the decreasing number of sharks since the old days, around hundred million of sharks are still hunted each year(Heltus, 2013), to be served on luxury tables surrounded by those believers in things that they do not even prove whether the belief is reliable. Therefore, in the generation that people are mostly educated, sharks should no longer have to be continuously killed for their fins.
"The Shark Attacks of 1916" is about a boy named Chet who gets attacked by a shark after many events that made him think that sharks wouldn't attack a human. The main characters of the book are Chet, who is visiting his Uncle Jerry in New Jersey, and Chet's new friends Sid, Monty, and Dewey. The attacks took place in Elm Hills, New Jersey in the Matawan Creek in July of 1916. The problem of the story is no one believing a shark can attack a human in a creek miles away from the ocean. In the beginning of the story Chet, Sid, Monty, and Dewey find a newspaper article saying a shark attacked a human, Uncle Jerry said it was a lie and that something like that would never happen. The next week at Matawan creek, Monty wore a fake shark fin and preteneded
“Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” is preparing to strike again after its first installment became a pop culture phenomenon that gave way to more feeding frenzy movies. Tara Reid, who plays the role of April Wexler in the movie said that at first she did not expect that “Sharknado” would have two movies but now they are showing the third installment, Fox News reported. The satirical disaster will open its story with flying sharks attacking the entire Eastern coast.
When people swim in the ocean, whether diving, snorkeling, surfing, or just playing on the beach, the thought of a shark attack is always looming on their minds. The fearful part is that sharks are unseen when approaching its victim. In fact, only about nineteen percent of shark attacks are fatal worldwide. About half of all victims are surfers, and they usually occur within 100 feet of the shoreline.1 The four most common sharks involved with attacks are the great white, tiger, whitetip, and bull. However, unknown to most except deep sea divers, is the presence of the goblin shark.
...s. According to studies and statistics done, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a shark. They are often misinterpreted as scary and violent creatures, however this is merely due to media. Shark based films such as Jaw show that these sharks are harmful when they really aren't. Tapes/recordings of sharks slaughtering humans are published so often because of its actual unusualness.
Sharks have several ways to dispatch their prey with surprise attacks, agility, and camouflaged sneak attacks. The shark’s dentition also tells the story of their diet as well as their method of attack. The Great White Shark, (Carcharodon carcharias), is the largest extant predatory shark on Earth and has large serrated teeth that tear through the flesh of its prey. Their teeth are 2.5-3 inches in height and have prominent serrations which allow them to tear large chunks out of prey including large fish, seals, sea lions, other sharks, carrion, dolphins, elephant seals, stingrays, and fish [8], [13]. These sharks hunt by swimming below the intended prey item and with a sudden burst of speed; they will attack with a large single bite and then swim off to allow the prey to bleed to death. These sharks are famous for breaching the water to grab seals and sea lions around the coast of South Africa in an area called Seal Island [7]. When the seals swim farther off from the island where the water is much deeper, the shark’s rate of a successful attack increase compared to the lowered success rate in shallower waters where the seals can easily outmaneuver them [7]. The bite force of the Great White measures around 4,000 pounds and is able to bite prey in half [10]. Great Whites
...k. Scared and moving back a little more, the shark was in a freeze position no flipping or wobbling, the only thing that was making a move was his gills. Wanting to know more I asked what kind of shark it is and was told that it’s a Caribbean Reef Shark. After the adult left all the children there, we start to poke it with a stick and was touching it with our hands and feet to feel the skin, which felt rough like I was touching sandpaper. When the kids were poking the reef with the stick I thought it would react in a very aggressive way but that wasn’t the case, it was still calm until they start getting aggressive their self. I sacred cause that’s when the reef begun to start snapping at every movement that was making. It was getting too much for me to take especially since it was going out of control, so I left and have no clue as to what happen to the Reef Shark.
Thesis: Sharks should be conserved because they are an important part of the ocean, attacks are often incidental, and human behavior influences the behavior of sharks.
It is no secret that sharks have a bad reputation for being blood-thirsty man-killers. Sharks are known as the “killers of the sea.” Every year, on average, 10 people are killed by sharks; however, every second 3 sharks are slaughtered by humans. So who is the real “killer of the sea?” Sharks are victims to a cruel and inhumane practice known as finning. Finning is a practice that is more practiced in the pacific today but used to be practiced all around the world. Finning refers to when commercial fishermen will pull a shark onto the boat and slice off the fins. The typical target fins that are cut off the shark are the primary dorsal fin, secondary dorsal fin, the lower caudal fin, anal fin, pelvic fin, and the pectoral fins. The removal of these fins leaves the shark a slender, finless carcass. After cutting the fins off, the fisherman toss the still living shark back into the water to die a gruesome and painful death. The practice of finning sharks should be banned and enforced internationally.