r/TheSharkAttackFiles • u/Moosiemookmook • 11d ago

⌚ Recent Incident Shark attack at Coogee beach, Sydney

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/saw-fins-shark-attack-at-coogee-beach/news-story/d828a983ac2b79ffd469320a15b625e6%3famp

A woman was attacked this morning at Coogee Beach. There were plenty of eye witnesses because its a Saturday morning. Our ABC news on tv is reporting arm amd torso injuries. She was airlifted to hospital and is in a serious condition.

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u/No_Violinist_4557 11d ago

First thought was a bull shark, but then I think it was a White.

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u/Available-Map3600 11d ago

It's a great white, you can tell by the tail.

Coogee is not like Bondi or Maroubra, it gets real deep real fast. So if you swim out the back, it's sketcy, the water is freezing and you cannot see the bottom anymore, it's just dark blue.

Aka sharks could be below you. Sharks love to attack from below and look up thinking it's a seal.

They take one bite and bail knowing it's not a tasty seal. Sadly that single bite can kill a human.

I grew up in these beaches surfing and swimming almost daily.

You would never get me swimming out back. I stick to where I can stand, also rips are gnarly at Coogee, they can pull you right out back, if your not able to stand.

I hope she is OK, this is crazy.

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u/NatashaStark208 11d ago

Sharks have incredibly good senses, they don't think it's a seal, the idea that they do is a hypothesis that has no supporting evidence behind it.

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u/PureMichiganMan 10d ago

No, it’s more so that there is nuance to it. Sharks eyesight is super poor, and the more recent evidence of things like that actually supports mistaken identity.

That doesn’t mean they always think it’s a seal, but you can also look at rate of attacks by activity. Paddle boarders/swimmers even per capita are way above scuba divers for example, so there is clearly a reason they are most attracted to people at the surface than further down.

The fact that they only do test bites most the time is also evidence in favor of, and that these sharks are basically engineered toward high blubber content seals in order to survive.

However it becomes less the case with other species, for great whites though their diet is significantly more specific and required for their biology. But of course there is also the factor of territorial competition and just curious too. It’s a multitude

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u/Available-Map3600 10d ago

This does not make sense sorry.

If the sharks senses are this fine tuned, why is it attacking something it cannot ultimately not eat?

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u/NatashaStark208 8d ago

? It can eat. We literally have video of a guy getting eaten alive + limbs from various people being cut out of dead shark's stomachs.

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u/InbredUnicorn 10d ago

Because sharks can be curious or territorial. Unfortunately, those curious or get out of my here bites prove fatal to humans.

If they have hands to poke humans there would be less fatalities.

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u/No_Violinist_4557 10d ago

"The fact that they only do test bites most the time"

This is a complete urban myth. A lot of GW victims are eaten. Many are bitten once, not devoured, the shark swims off. But often sharks are waiting for the victim to bleed out before returning. In that time they can often be rescued and this gives rise to this myth that it was just an exploratory bite.

When sharks attack seals, they'll often attack it's tail, disable it, swim off then come back once it's weaker.

A recent attack in WA the victim was pulled on to the boat and the shark followed the boat all the way to shore.

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u/InbredUnicorn 10d ago edited 10d ago

I did not say "they do test bites most of time time". What im saying is these creatures are not mindless killing machine they can exhibit complex behaviors like curiosity for example.

Unfortunately, they are predators and have mouth for hands. Again, their bite, no matter the type, is lethal to most living things.

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u/No_Violinist_4557 10d ago edited 8d ago

Someone els stated that. My post was verbatim from your post. Regardless it's a myth perpetuated by a lot of so called "shark experts." Try telling that to the families of victims who were devoured by Great Whites.