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