Thrasher sharks are amazing creatures. If that shark was healthy, it could have cracked his skull easily with its tail. I've seen them hit the side of a boat when caught inadvertently, and it sounded like a baseball bat. Glad he did it, though, as the shark was obviously exhausted. We'll done!!
If not apparently we can watch it now, it's on an ad on my vizo TV, so if anyone wants to watch it I guess look it up it's out there, which is jawsome af. š¤£
He obviously knew what he was doing by holding onto the shark as it recovered.
They shouldāve edited out whoeverās goofy laugh is in the background.
Yep. If anyone is wondering why he didn't dump the shark in the water and get the fuck out of there, fishermen usually tire large fish pretty significantly. To the point they can barely swim or stay upright (they'll sometimes flip upside down). So this guy was holding the shark upright, while air flushed through the sharks gills, and it regained some strength so that it could swim properly again.
So about how long would he have to hold him for? And heās holding him under water or partially above? Would the shark give him some kind of signal that heās ready to take off?
He's probably trying to time the waves to either release or give the shark air. Keep in mind it's a shark. If you're not careful, you're gonna get tagged.
There isn't a formula for how long you try to resuscitate the shark/fish. It depends on how tired the fish is and what kind of fish it is. In my experience, the faster the fish, the more worn out it's going to be after you reel it in.
Generally, you just hold onto its tail until it seems like it's rested enough. I just wait until it wants to try to fight to get away from me again. Sometimes they'll kick their tail a few times but still aren't rested enough to stay upright. Again, it depends on the fish.
I feel like that shark wouldnāt have washed up on shore unless something was quite wrong with it.
It might be a lost cause, but yeah, A+ for trying to help.
Or an orca was chasing it or, more likely, the shark was chasing food that used the shallow waters to escape, and the shark got caught out by a big wave that suddenly receded and left him stranded.
My 10 year old girl doesn't draw sharks. She draws cows, dogs, cats, dresses, bobble-heads, sunsets, bunnies, hedgehogs, Perry the Platypus..... but no sharks.
(Your mileage may vary)
You do that because it has to get water flowing through the gills so it will wake up and swim away (they need oxygen and just to wake up to go). Common in sport fishing to hold the fish until it swims away from your hand.
So yeeting it into the water will just result in it beaching again. Either from not acting fast enough or it instinctively just swimming forward and beaching itself.
In sport fishing, you don't swirl the fish around. It basically just has to wake up a bit. Even if it doesn't have ram gills, it's been outside of water and needs water on the gills.
Then, when it goes, you want it to not yeet onto land or straight into a rock, etc.
You hold it so it wakes up from oxygen deprivation, not because of ram breathing
It would be like telling a hypoxic person to drive a car if you just let them go instantly
For those of you who don't know the effects of hypoxia, here's a great video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw
Direct link to the timestamp of where he transitions from oxygen to a hypoxic state: https://youtu.be/kUfF2MTnqAw?t=226
Typically if they're beached, it's because they're sick and weak anyway, so they'll probably end up beaching again anyway or get eaten by something else
This is inaccurate, sharks and cetaceans beach for multiple reasons, including illness. While the reason for beaching is unknown in many cases, it can be simply due to accidental stranding while in shallows feeding.
This is right next to what looks to be an active pier, I'm guessing on the California coast. Piers are both a feeding opportunity, as they attract prey species, and a hazard, due to the structure, and its proximity to shore. Electrical current, lights, structure, and fish guts, all make piers extremely attractive, and dangerous, to predatory fish.
If you're fishing off a pier in CA, the best spot is on the shady side of the pier near the cleaning sinks. You may get a lot of mackerel tho.
You just have to accept that that game isnāt being accurate to fish behaviors. What jelly fish chases you and explodes in a ball of fire in real life?
Welllll I wouldn't be too worried about being eaten, but I'd certainly be mindful of the teeth and the tail.
I've never been *diagnosed* with a concussion and I'd prefer to keep it that way, for as many free beers as "I wasn't paying attention and got shwacked in the face by a thresher's tail" might get me.
But not sand and salt water proof. The particles can get deep inside and cause issues like abrasions, micro-scratches and can hold water inside longer by preventing it from evaporating
If water canāt get deep inside, how is something much bigger than water, such as sand, going get deep inside? I mean the charge port sure, but idk if Iād call that deep inside.
Was worried that was the case. Sharks don't have lungs so they suffocate a lot easier than most fish. Just putting it back in water while it's unconscious or weakened probably didn't do much cus they need to move to breathe consistently. But I'm no expert on sharks, just speculating.
the shark may be weak if its stranded for long time, but small like in the video can survive up to 12 hours, bigger sharks can only survive as low as 5 min (depends on bread and size).
Part of me would be undeniably wanting to help, but another part would be visualizing what it's like to have a chunk of my flesh ripped from my bones.
I'd spend too long inching close, then backing away, then inching a little closer, only to back away again lol
I definitely understand that fear. I just hope if I ever find myself in this situation I'd consider it's life more important than me possibly getting hurt.
I'm not sure I would. I just hope I can be that man when needed.
Unfortunately, sharks almost always beach themselves when they are going to die regardless. Great gesture though and worth that small fraction of a chance I suppose.
It's a Thresher Shark, one of my favorite kinds of shark. I'd do what I can. They're awesome. [They use that tail to whip their prey and stun them.](https://youtu.be/Mn7NTAHDZuM?si=G0IrZCzaZUl4My8R)
Sharks can end up on the beach for various reasons. If they are trying to catch a fish or a ray or something and are in shallow water it only takes a little mistake to accidentally end up on the beach. The bigger issue is that sharks often can't survive long after being beached because they can't breathe without water flowing over their gills. Small ones like this might be okay after a little while but bigger ones will often die after being out of the water for even a few minutes. Even if you can get it back in the water, they might also not have the strength left to get moving again and just fail to get out of the current and end up back on the beach.
Fun fact, fish and sharks CAN survive in air, the problem is that their gills dry out and oxygen cannot be absorbed by osmosis.
It's no different than if your lungs got scorched by breathing superheated air.
In water the gills process the oxygen that's saturated in the water. Both gills and lungs require membrane osmosis and both need to be moist for that to happen. The concentration of oxygen in air is sufficient for fish to survive, but their gills need to be kept moist for that to work and gills are not built for that. If the gills are kept artificially moist, they work just fine to pull oxygen out of air.
Taking shark courtship rituals into account, she'd think you're sexually harassing her. I suppose sexually harassing a thresher shark is pretty surefire to land on the news.
If you ever find yourself in this situation: ***DO NOT*** drag the shark by its tail. The gills fill up with sand and that will kill it for sure.
This dude had the right idea.
I would and have. A bit smaller black tip shark in Galveston. And I am terrified of being in water I canāt see through because of sharks. Which I definitely knew were there because I was carrying one.
Yeah I would it's tricky though I know that sharks aren't actually aggressive towards humans but a panic bite is a very real danger plus you have to be careful of the release spot as the same tide that brought him in is still happening. But I'd give it my best.
A shark that size, with that small of a mouth? Definitely, without hesitation. Anything larger though, I'll give it a drag from behind but if bro so much as twitches I'm gone xD
Shark oxygenate their bodies by having water move over themā¦ they donāt pump water into them like salmon and troutā¦ best thing he could have done was to push it forward like it was swimmingā¦ standing still prolly suffocated it
I read in r/sharks that sharks will beach themselves if they are sick or have a disease. It affects parts of them that are used in navigation. This being a trasher shark, Iād say itās effected in some way. They are rarely seen closer to shores. And probably why it washed up on shore later and wasnāt as aggressive.
Definitely wouldn't have carried it the way he did that's for sure, probably would have dragged it by it's tail into the sea (that's if I found the balls to do it in the first place)
I was wondering if that's why he was holding it there letting the tide washed over it while it recovered some strength, I hope it was okay! Guys a legend.
Thats a really small shark thats not known to be aggressive, its not going to turn around and attack you like a fox or something. This is from Huntington Beach CA it looks like and apparently its only had 4 shark attacks in the last 80 years
Sharks only kill around 13 people a year.
To put that in perspective, Champagne corks kill 24 a year.
[Source ](https://www.dailycal.org/archives/14-things-that-kill-more-people-than-sharks/article_ec5893a0-7e56-52b7-b750-e60d2e10ee90.html#:~:text=Champagne%20corks24%20people%20die,Enjoy%20your%20drinks%20responsibly%2C%20folks.)
Wouldn't feel right walking away without at least trying
Thrasher sharks are amazing creatures. If that shark was healthy, it could have cracked his skull easily with its tail. I've seen them hit the side of a boat when caught inadvertently, and it sounded like a baseball bat. Glad he did it, though, as the shark was obviously exhausted. We'll done!!
(*Thresher)
#*Thrasher #[š¤](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjIb3JPIOXw)
A shark/skateboarding hybrid magazine would be pretty badass.
Ever watch Street Sharks?
Yeah, it came on right before Gargoyles, which was probably one of the greatest and most under rated cartoons ever.
Jawsome!
I associate Street Sharks and Gargoyles and never knew exactly why. This makes perfect sense. Thank you.
I only saw them in syndication, at 4pm-5pm weekdays. At 5, I'd switch over to PBS to watch Ghostwriter and first-gen Power Rangers.
Damn straight!
If not apparently we can watch it now, it's on an ad on my vizo TV, so if anyone wants to watch it I guess look it up it's out there, which is jawsome af. š¤£
Sharkultura!
Shayer!!!
Iron Sharkden!!!
Shark Klok šš¤
He swam all the way from Brazil
š thanks for the clarification!
See, this is the information that if I were given beforehand would make me think twice. However, it would still feel shit not at least trying.
If the shark was in better shape, you would have been able to tell that it was an easy way to get hurt. š
He obviously knew what he was doing by holding onto the shark as it recovered. They shouldāve edited out whoeverās goofy laugh is in the background.
Yep. If anyone is wondering why he didn't dump the shark in the water and get the fuck out of there, fishermen usually tire large fish pretty significantly. To the point they can barely swim or stay upright (they'll sometimes flip upside down). So this guy was holding the shark upright, while air flushed through the sharks gills, and it regained some strength so that it could swim properly again.
So about how long would he have to hold him for? And heās holding him under water or partially above? Would the shark give him some kind of signal that heās ready to take off?
He's probably trying to time the waves to either release or give the shark air. Keep in mind it's a shark. If you're not careful, you're gonna get tagged. There isn't a formula for how long you try to resuscitate the shark/fish. It depends on how tired the fish is and what kind of fish it is. In my experience, the faster the fish, the more worn out it's going to be after you reel it in. Generally, you just hold onto its tail until it seems like it's rested enough. I just wait until it wants to try to fight to get away from me again. Sometimes they'll kick their tail a few times but still aren't rested enough to stay upright. Again, it depends on the fish.
Do they ever say thank you, though? I feel like they're ungrateful bastards
I feel like that shark wouldnāt have washed up on shore unless something was quite wrong with it. It might be a lost cause, but yeah, A+ for trying to help.
Or an orca was chasing it or, more likely, the shark was chasing food that used the shallow waters to escape, and the shark got caught out by a big wave that suddenly receded and left him stranded.
Probably caught and released by a fisherman from the pier and the fish is exhausted and washed in to shore.
It's small. A juvenile like that might just be stupid and ended up on the beach when trying to get away from something, or going after a fish.
The favorite shark to draw for every 10 year old boy.
What's the favourite shark for 10 years old girls?
I really liked the shape of the hammerhead as a young girl !
Yes, same!! :D
My 10 year old girl doesn't draw sharks. She draws cows, dogs, cats, dresses, bobble-heads, sunsets, bunnies, hedgehogs, Perry the Platypus..... but no sharks. (Your mileage may vary)
Hammerhead or maybe a Nurse shark š¤
i always liked tiger sharks!
he was too close to the beginning of the tail to be trashed
(*Threshed)
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> separate the hydrogen and oxygen molecules into H2 and 02, forming bubbles. wat
It requires many watts.
I just made bubbles in the tub, I guess Iām a thresher now
That isnāt how cavitation works
Oxygen and hydrogen are also molecules. And like the other guy said, thatās not how chemistry works. But nice try with the bs
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Yeah I probably wouldn't have spent that much time in waist deep water with it but definitely would have dragged it in by it's tail
You do that because it has to get water flowing through the gills so it will wake up and swim away (they need oxygen and just to wake up to go). Common in sport fishing to hold the fish until it swims away from your hand. So yeeting it into the water will just result in it beaching again. Either from not acting fast enough or it instinctively just swimming forward and beaching itself.
I'm so glad you used the word yeet in your incredibly correct explanation.
It just fits in this situation. Just throwing it back would be yeeting it because it's not thoughtful in any way.
The scientific admonition of yeet
Yes, yeet was very correctly used. Bravo, bravo. š
Not every shark has to. This looks like a Thresher shark, which does not have the ram filtering that Great whites have, for example.
In sport fishing, you don't swirl the fish around. It basically just has to wake up a bit. Even if it doesn't have ram gills, it's been outside of water and needs water on the gills. Then, when it goes, you want it to not yeet onto land or straight into a rock, etc.
You hold it so it wakes up from oxygen deprivation, not because of ram breathing It would be like telling a hypoxic person to drive a car if you just let them go instantly
For those of you who don't know the effects of hypoxia, here's a great video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw Direct link to the timestamp of where he transitions from oxygen to a hypoxic state: https://youtu.be/kUfF2MTnqAw?t=226
He knew what he needed to do and he did it well.
I agree, he's probably braver than me is what meant by that
Oh, absolutely. Braver, stronger, probably lays more pipe
Agreed and Iām very afraid of sharks lol
Typically if they're beached, it's because they're sick and weak anyway, so they'll probably end up beaching again anyway or get eaten by something else
Better to be eaten by something in the ocean than to feed the seagulls.
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This is inaccurate, sharks and cetaceans beach for multiple reasons, including illness. While the reason for beaching is unknown in many cases, it can be simply due to accidental stranding while in shallows feeding. This is right next to what looks to be an active pier, I'm guessing on the California coast. Piers are both a feeding opportunity, as they attract prey species, and a hazard, due to the structure, and its proximity to shore. Electrical current, lights, structure, and fish guts, all make piers extremely attractive, and dangerous, to predatory fish. If you're fishing off a pier in CA, the best spot is on the shady side of the pier near the cleaning sinks. You may get a lot of mackerel tho.
Little Thresher shark. Great job. Hope the little shark was ok.
Yeah, very recognisable tail
also harmless to humans
Not in Dave the Diver! Bastards got me way too many times.
That's so funny. Dave the Diver is the reason I was able to identify it as a thresher right away too!
Yeah that surprised me in that game because in real life they're peaceful around humans, they're also not like 12ft long like they are in the game.
You just have to accept that that game isnāt being accurate to fish behaviors. What jelly fish chases you and explodes in a ball of fire in real life?
Australian jellyfish
Portuguese Mine-O-War
Fucking hell dude. Bravo. A+
While they dont typically attack humans, they absolutely can deliver a lethal attack with their tail.
Welllll I wouldn't be too worried about being eaten, but I'd certainly be mindful of the teeth and the tail. I've never been *diagnosed* with a concussion and I'd prefer to keep it that way, for as many free beers as "I wasn't paying attention and got shwacked in the face by a thresher's tail" might get me.
This is so incredibly misleading. One that size could absolutely kill you if it felt threatened and at a minimum take a chunk out of you
That's reddit for you lol
Little shark, you say? I think you meant infant shark. Wait, that doesn't sound quite right either....
Youāre a terrible person lol
BABY SHARK DO DO DO DO
I can pick up the shark but I can't throw my phone like that. I trust the shark not biting me more than my homies' ability to catch.
I was wondering about that, that wasn't like a small toss, he full on launches his phone
That's when I knew he had the situation under control.
That was a dad "sigh aight let's do this" moment.
It would only land in sand if it dropped though
It's a phone lol it's not going to explode
It's not like his friends were on the pavement, they had soft sand beneath them.
Sand and water...quickly ruins phones
Itās 2024, most phones are waterproof.
But not sand and salt water proof. The particles can get deep inside and cause issues like abrasions, micro-scratches and can hold water inside longer by preventing it from evaporating
If water canāt get deep inside, how is something much bigger than water, such as sand, going get deep inside? I mean the charge port sure, but idk if Iād call that deep inside.
The waterproofing for these new phones is IP68, which is waterproofing for clean water. Not salt water. Salt water corrodes very fast.
r/gifsthatendtosoon
https://www.tiktok.com/@camdizzy22/video/7150276053284506922?_r=1&_t=8Y1zT883XAM&is_from_webapp=v1 Found the source, it didn't survive.
Oh no š
Dang
Was worried that was the case. Sharks don't have lungs so they suffocate a lot easier than most fish. Just putting it back in water while it's unconscious or weakened probably didn't do much cus they need to move to breathe consistently. But I'm no expert on sharks, just speculating.
Shark washed right back ashore
the shark may be weak if its stranded for long time, but small like in the video can survive up to 12 hours, bigger sharks can only survive as low as 5 min (depends on bread and size).
I didn't know bread could help sharks survive on land
Yeah put them in rice bro
I dropped my shark in the ocean so I put it in rice. It didn't work. Nobody told me the rice had to be raw.
Yeah otherwise itās just Big Sushi š¤·āāļø
> Give us today our daily bread -- sharks
They only survive on whole organic bread.
Not gluten free though, bros like flavour
Bread shark is best shark
But maybe the shark wasnāt super well to begin with. Or is it common that they just randomly wash up on shore?
I'd like to have the balls to
The most genuine answer of the thread.
/r/biggerballsthanme
Part of me would be undeniably wanting to help, but another part would be visualizing what it's like to have a chunk of my flesh ripped from my bones. I'd spend too long inching close, then backing away, then inching a little closer, only to back away again lol
I definitely understand that fear. I just hope if I ever find myself in this situation I'd consider it's life more important than me possibly getting hurt. I'm not sure I would. I just hope I can be that man when needed.
You can get the guys that carried the shark out.... from the shark.
š«” Thank you kind human. He was actively working to save its life. Iām not sure if he was successful, but amazing attempt.
Unfortunately, sharks almost always beach themselves when they are going to die regardless. Great gesture though and worth that small fraction of a chance I suppose.
This asshole just drowned an endangered land shark
Well done. Laughed harder than I should have
Yeah and it's clearly a young one fallen from the nest, it has not learned how to swim yet. Fucking clueless asshole.
Why is this funnyšš Iām in stitches Seriously tho I hope the wee shark is alright
Im not just going to let it die. Ofcourse ill help
via a facebook like
Thoughts and prayers
Little whippy tail shark :)
The sea was angry that day my friends.
Like an old man trying to send soup back at a deliā¦
I tell you, he was ten stories high if he was a foot.
All of a sudden I found myself on top of the great beast, staring down into the blowhole!
Like a young man trying to send a shark back at the beach
Was it a titleist?
āIs anybody here a marine biologist???ā
I assume this man is Australian
Could definitely be Australian, but this happened in California for sure.
This is HB, no?
It's a Thresher Shark, one of my favorite kinds of shark. I'd do what I can. They're awesome. [They use that tail to whip their prey and stun them.](https://youtu.be/Mn7NTAHDZuM?si=G0IrZCzaZUl4My8R)
I was gonna say Iād be more concerned about getting whipped by the tail when it woke up and started bucking than actually being attacked.
I would not go in with shoes on
Hell, I was thinking I might take my pants off too, unless I was going home anyway.
My first thought too, I'd help but barefoot
I thought they beach themselves when they are nearing death or knowing they are going to die?
They can, but they also can be beached for other reasons. Sure, the shark may just end up re-beaching itself, but it's worth a shot.
Sharks can end up on the beach for various reasons. If they are trying to catch a fish or a ray or something and are in shallow water it only takes a little mistake to accidentally end up on the beach. The bigger issue is that sharks often can't survive long after being beached because they can't breathe without water flowing over their gills. Small ones like this might be okay after a little while but bigger ones will often die after being out of the water for even a few minutes. Even if you can get it back in the water, they might also not have the strength left to get moving again and just fail to get out of the current and end up back on the beach.
Fun fact, fish and sharks CAN survive in air, the problem is that their gills dry out and oxygen cannot be absorbed by osmosis. It's no different than if your lungs got scorched by breathing superheated air.
It sounds to me like you are describing why they can not survive in air.
In water the gills process the oxygen that's saturated in the water. Both gills and lungs require membrane osmosis and both need to be moist for that to happen. The concentration of oxygen in air is sufficient for fish to survive, but their gills need to be kept moist for that to work and gills are not built for that. If the gills are kept artificially moist, they work just fine to pull oxygen out of air.
I would, but I would have (gently) bitten the shark. Just to make headlines.
Taking shark courtship rituals into account, she'd think you're sexually harassing her. I suppose sexually harassing a thresher shark is pretty surefire to land on the news.
āMan Bites Shark, Saves Lifeā
Good job!
One of the sexiest things Iāve ever seen
Was gonna say... I'd fake a seizure to get this guy to rescue me...
Absolutely! Thresher shark. Beautiful animal.
If you ever find yourself in this situation: ***DO NOT*** drag the shark by its tail. The gills fill up with sand and that will kill it for sure. This dude had the right idea.
Iād try, wouldnāt just leave it there.
He saved a baaaaaabyyy shark tootoo tootoo turu
No. You donāt do that. EVER. Too late, damn it, youāve got me started.
I have a kid and have to listen to this shit, so I'm taking you down with me!!!!
My kids aged outā¦ been a while. Fuck.
Damn you!
Wow dude even knew it takes em a few to "catch their breath" hero
At first I thought he was trying to ride it.
Why did he hold him for so long after getting to the water?
Fish out of water too long are suffocating, they need time to ābreatheā the water before they have the strength to swim.
the fish would need a minute he totally did that right
That guy is really brave to throw his cell phone like that.
I would and have. A bit smaller black tip shark in Galveston. And I am terrified of being in water I canāt see through because of sharks. Which I definitely knew were there because I was carrying one.
I would try, Iād feel like shit if I just left it
Yes, I would definitely film while someone rescued the shark.
Is anyone here a marine biologist?
George Castanza here, I am a marine biologist, and I once saved a whale by pulling a golf ball out of its blow hole. AMA!
So glad he helped the smooth dog
It's only a Thresher, I'm pretty sure it's a harmless shark
Baby shark dududududu
We are our brother's keepers. This man's a good man let's keep taking care of the world we live in.
Being in water helps keep it thresher for longer
No I would not throw my phone like that
Sharks wife just left him for a hammerhead, heās gambled all his money and wanted to end it! Let the shark end it bro!
Yeah I would it's tricky though I know that sharks aren't actually aggressive towards humans but a panic bite is a very real danger plus you have to be careful of the release spot as the same tide that brought him in is still happening. But I'd give it my best.
I would but I've seen too many "whacked in the nuts" videos to put it between my legs like that. I also would've taken off my pants and shoes lol
If anyone is ever faced with this (easier to do on a boat) you want to get water flowing into the gills to force them to get oxygen.
Iād take my shoes off first
At that point in his life, he was a marine biologist
Not after that one guy lost his pinky recently
Good bro. Well done.
A shark that size, with that small of a mouth? Definitely, without hesitation. Anything larger though, I'll give it a drag from behind but if bro so much as twitches I'm gone xD
Shark oxygenate their bodies by having water move over themā¦ they donāt pump water into them like salmon and troutā¦ best thing he could have done was to push it forward like it was swimmingā¦ standing still prolly suffocated it
I read in r/sharks that sharks will beach themselves if they are sick or have a disease. It affects parts of them that are used in navigation. This being a trasher shark, Iād say itās effected in some way. They are rarely seen closer to shores. And probably why it washed up on shore later and wasnāt as aggressive.
Definitely wouldn't have carried it the way he did that's for sure, probably would have dragged it by it's tail into the sea (that's if I found the balls to do it in the first place)
I thought i read somewhere that the dragging method could fill the gills with sand.
Yeah the poor thing is already suffocating. They need the flow over the gills in the correct direction is my understanding
I was wondering if that's why he was holding it there letting the tide washed over it while it recovered some strength, I hope it was okay! Guys a legend.
Depends on the shark. Some require movement to breathe, others can force water into their gills.
Dragging can also separate the spinal column
Don't drag it.
You would have to, releasing it too soon would just result in the shark getting pushed to shore again.
Thats a really small shark thats not known to be aggressive, its not going to turn around and attack you like a fox or something. This is from Huntington Beach CA it looks like and apparently its only had 4 shark attacks in the last 80 years
so youre saying they are so efficient they dont leave evidence /s
Sharks only kill around 13 people a year. To put that in perspective, Champagne corks kill 24 a year. [Source ](https://www.dailycal.org/archives/14-things-that-kill-more-people-than-sharks/article_ec5893a0-7e56-52b7-b750-e60d2e10ee90.html#:~:text=Champagne%20corks24%20people%20die,Enjoy%20your%20drinks%20responsibly%2C%20folks.)
Yeah, but holding a scared shark is a wonderful way to place yourself well outside of statistical averages.