@@curtisbaker5407 nahh its all good - ive learnt to turn big Tiger sharks away with a pat on the nose... see the video 'return to Headstone Hell' and that is about 500m from where i spearfish
As a South Australian mad fisherman I have grown up knowing Great Whites. I have had them visit me on occasion spear fishing , boat fishing and it is always a rush. My father was in 3 spear fishing comps and each year somebody was attacked with the last being Rodney Fox. South Aussie waters are notorious for bad White Attacks and they are pretty brutal .
@ConwayTwitter I have never lived my life by the fear of what if and the hours I have been in the water would run into the thousands . I have outlived over 30 mates that lived by the what if way that would never get near the water. I have 6 mates that continue to spear fish and have done since the start and we have loved the places we have been and food that it provides . We all die so follow your passion and really live. Im 60 now and still get out all the time . Adrenaline never comes into it when holding breath just serenity and calm.
@ConwayTwitter I was immediately thinking of things that would be as bad or worse and then you listed all of them lol. I won't say which I think is the worst out of all of them, just in case someone not on my side happens to read this 😟
@@ravenfeaderI have spent many hours in the ocean too, but the older I get the more passionate I become about not being eaten by a shark lol. I still go in the ocean, but not in the same care free way I did as a kid and young man. Funny how we don't fear driving when that is much more likely to do harm. You're right about not letting fear guide your way. As my grandmother used to say "live it up while you may"
@@ravenfeader Fellow Aussie 👋 would you agree there alot of big females in the water down there? I've heard a theory for a while now they think females that have been attacked by mating males are exhausted and pretty battered by the looks of it and so maybe looking for an easier meal? We just can't fight back or swim as fast as seals would be able to? One thing I wouldn't do, or would want my partner to do, is ab diving down there. I still remember the ab diver that was eaten by 2 whites on a shark week ep. That was the boat owners 2nd diver he lost to shark attack where he swam away from the sinking boat but his diver was too scared to leave the boat and I think tried hiding in the fridge but was still eaten... Please correct me if incorrect 👍👍 Hal, can you talk about other cases where whites attack together like that?
@@Rob-157 Grandma was a smart Lady Rob and you are right , things that we don't even think about on a daily basis are going to kill us all every time . Fear is useful for many things but fear of what if guiding your life is irrational and debilitating .
"they come behind you, whatever you swim, sail, fish" You made a good point. I saw a drone footage from "The Malibu Artist" posted on 5 November where you can see an idiot swim next to his boat in open waters, the white shark, pointed at him from a distance, and people commenting how beautiful they are and that these fish aren’t out there randomly eating people. Now, I understand that that shark was figure out how to sneak that idiot from behind! lol
Actually those guys had the fish that they'd caught tied at the stern of their boat, right where the guy climbed into the water. At the end of the video he brings the drone over to that side of the boat and you can see as clear as day that the shark was coming back to investigate the scent of the fish they'd caught. That particular shark was young and not very big, so it hasn't even established mammals as part of it's diet yet. That shark was absolutely after the fish tied to the boat. Earlier in the same video it was investigating someone spearfishing, who also likely had their catch for the day tied to a line dangling just behind them.
@@swarzchannel9594 I didn't actually see any "idiots" in the video you're talking about. I saw two people enjoying a day out on the water. Have you watched many of the Malibu Artist vids? There are thousands of people in the water with sharks every day and yet negative encounters are almost non existent. I have a friend who hand feeds many species of large shark while in the water with them, five days a week as a full time job for about ten years now. He knows all of the big local Bull sharks and introduces them to high paying tourists who can hardly wait to swim with them. That company puts thousands of grateful people in the water with very large feeding sharks every year for over a decade so far with no incidents whatsoever. I myself have surfed and swam with hundreds of sharks and I'll be in the water with many more. Nobody cares if you don't want to swim with sharks but statistically you are in ten thousand times more danger in a moving automobile than in the water with a shark, and I promise I won't call you an idiot the next time you go for a drive.
We also have to take into consideration the fact that most of the time someone is there to help the victim. If there was no one there to help them, the fatalities and consumption would be alot higher.
Not to mention that there is a reporting bias for shark attacks. Hal is only covering the cases where there were witnesses or remains were found. So there are probably many predations of people gone missing at sea that never make it into the news.
As a South Australian that spent every weekend as a kid on my Dad’s boat I’ve seen enough sharks that I never ocean swim here. Bali and Fiji are my ocean swimming spots.
Yup I have a twenty foot section of wall. Sometimes I’ll look at it and think damn, there’s a great white that long swimming around right now….probably even bigger.
It's hard to put a 20 foot long creature into perspective when we are used to a 2d plane playing field.. something 3 times my length below me frightens the shit out of me.. cannot believe I swam in the ocean without fear or incident my entire life. Thanks to Hal no more chances lol
There is that woman that was terrified of being on a yacht for fear of falling overboard, as she was extremely fearful of sharks. One of her friends was getting married, and had their wedding party on a yacht. They were all drinking. She wasn’t drinking. She was staring over the side, frozen in fear as she was fixated on the dark water. Of course, because of this, (just her/and my luck), she was accidentally knocked into the water by one of the drunk patrons. Now, worst case scenario happened. A large shark, alerted to the splashing and screaming, before the party goers heard her and threw a preserver over the side to her, they watched (nothing else they could do) the shark attacked her, circled back, grabbed her and took her GONE. They radioed for emergency, which was dispatched to their location. No part of her was ever found. Not that night or even the next day, when they could see better. So I am absolutely NOT going in the water or on a boat EITHER!!!
Hi Hal, you showing your teeth reminded me of something that happened when I lived in Sarasota. I used to go looking for sharks teeth all the time, mostly at Venice beach. One day a friend of mine stopped by to see what I was up to. I said I was heading out to look for teeth as we had just had a big storm come through. So he came with me. There was a huge pile of sand, shells etc... washed up about 10 to 15 ft high. We went up to the top & started digging. I had a box full of teeth but was always looking for the big one. We saw it at the same time but he grabbed it quicker than me. His 1st time looking for teeth * I had been looking for 7 yrs. Next time I saw him I told him it was just not fair. He said he went to drill a hole in it to make a necklace & it cracked in half. AAAGGGHHHH SMH
I GREW IN AND AROUND SRQ UP UNTIL 4 YRS AGO..I ACTUALLY FOUND THE MOST AMOUNT OF TEETH FAR AWAY FROM THE BEACH..YOU KNOW WHERE USF SOUTH CAMPSUS IS ??? FOR ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE LEAVING FL THEY HAD THAT PLACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND I FOUND TONS OF MEGLADON TEETH..THEIR WERE LITERALLY THOUSANDS. WE WOULD GO AT NIGHT AND USE LED FLASBLIGHTS BC THE TEETH HAD A CERTAIN OPALESCENT SHINE TO THEM THAT HELPED US PICK THEM OUT FROM THE REST.
Hal, you might want to look into the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead. It was the origin of the “Birkenhead drill” aka “Women & children first”. A lot of the soldiers that wound up in the water were taken by sharks. Given the location (southeast of Cape Town, South Africa) I can imagine great whites were probably involved. There was a Scottish soldier that gave up his spot on a lifeboat to make room for another soldier in the water. As soon as he jumped in the water to relieve the other, a massive shark grabbed him & pulled him under.
@@nickmitsialisInvolvement of OWTs was possible, but unlikely. HMS Birkenhead struck a rock just a couple of miles off the coast of Gansbai, on the Southwestern Cape. The water was shallow enough that the ship’s masts were sticking up out of the water, and a fair number of men survived by clinging to the spars and rigging (although some froze). That’s 100% white shark territory. The water was also pretty cold at that time of year, and OWTs are more of a warm-water shark. Tigers and bulls stick more to the warmer Eastern coast of SA as well. From the descriptions of how easily people were being taken, the only shark in the area powerful enough for that is the white. Apparently, the South Africans concluded this as well (and may have seen some there during rescue attempts the next day). They started calling white sharks “Tommy Sharks” for a long time, because “Tommies” was a slang term for British soldiers.
@@bluemarlin8138 Thank you for the feedback; interesting info--especially the 'Tommy Shark' nickname. It seems sharks have always been willing to eat humans;
can you imagine being in the ocean and having a shark attack you ? the terror, the horror and then, as if you’re already not so seriously disadvantaged by the fear and by the alien environment that you’re in, suddenly you’re faced with a horrific wound, severe blood loss, maybe even the loss of a limb and you’re still facing a huge, incredibly strong and willful predator! me, i don’t go in the water, chief. sharks in the water, big sharks with big sharp teeth. life is short enough.
Bears freak me out too. I saw one about 30 feet away dragging someones trash can away on Halloween. Thank god I only have black bears here, but it was night and I had my dog and it wasnt a good situation. Very lucky some strangers offered me a ride, there was no other route to go home besides past the bear.
@@empiresrikesfat thx you too. What was very interesting was I saw the bear in the shadows and my first thought oddly was how feline it looked. It looked like I was watching a massive black panther almost crawl walking across a rural/suburban american street. Also the urge to run was strong, but thank god I remembered that uhh you'll prolly die if you do that. The bear never even acknowledged me but theres no way he didnt know I was there.
Your shows are always so interesting. I'm just curious why some people are fascinated with sharks and others are not. I never gave sharks a second thought until I saw "JAWS" I'm convinced that a shark attack would be the most frightening and nightmarish experience ever.
Just an interesting fact: In the mid seventies, stationed 3 years on Oahu, I was in the ocean more days than not . One day there was an island wide notice to stay out of the water. A school of 1500 to 2500 sharks were circling the island.
Do you remember what kind of sharks they were? Very interesting 👍 the footage I've seen of massive schools of hammerheads is amazing and I've never seen footage of another shark school like that
@@katherinemorris9354 Hammerheads scare me. I once saw 500-600 in the Sea of Cortez. The fishermen wouldn’t even go out. They had no idea what was going on, one fellow said, as long as we are on land, we are safe. I couldn’t agree more.
RE: White sharks in Brazil, think there are some parts of Brazil (with colder upwellings) where white sharks have been caught and a few minor attacks have happened; All the info was from rather 'scientific' book edited by J. Peter Kilmley called "Great White Shark: The biology of Carcharodon Carcharias"; it's kind of old, originally published in 1998, but pretty good overview of white shark biology and their world wide 'lore'.
Hi Hal.. I love your show. ❤ I'm glad I didn't know as much about sharks years ago! We snorkeled in the Keyes , dove, swam. I never knew great whites were near Florida!!!!! I remember being told specifically they don't swim in our warm waters !! 😮 hello from the treasure coast of Florida
Doesn't stop me. If there was no chance for me to be killed by a shark, I would NOT want to go to the beach. Me, and numerous others were attacked by a Tiger Shark back in 99, but we never got bitten. When we made it to knee-deep water, the shark tried to follow us, but he couldn't, and he looked at us with the saddest eyes. Myself, and another drunken-but-super-honorable man waded back into waist deep water, and the shark would swim up and brush us. It's like he lived to rub against humans. Does that mean shark's are safe to humans, hell no. However, it feel's great to be a part of the exclusive, shark-approved human league! I'm sure if there was some brittish trouser-stain, the shark would have killed him, and that's fine by me. But we had the requisite spirit to party with the shark's. The shark knew we were convict's that admired shark's. I'm certain of it. Take care.
Thats one heck of an experience I would want absolutely no part of. Still a very interesting story you have there. Im really curious though about you get attacked by a shark but not bitten. Anytime I hear about someone getting attacked by a shark they've been bitten at the very least if not completely consumed even. And Im not trying to sound like I know what Im talking about either because I really don't. Im honestly just curious about how you and your buddies were attacked by this shark. Like what did it do when it attacked you guys?
They swim down the East coast to Florida from New England and Canada every winter. Some go through the Florida Straits into the Gulf of Mexico too, albeit usually ones under 15’. Someone caught a 12-foot GW surf fishing for sharks in Pensacola a year or two ago. There’s also decent evidence in historical accounts that they were common in the Caribbean and Gulf prior to the Spanish wiping out the Caribbean monk seals in the 1500s-1700s.
@@ghostwriter1415So did the shark actually try to attack? Sounds like he was just swimming around you and your friends (which would freak me out too). Cool story either way. I just didn’t know if you were leaving part of it out where it tried to attack. It seems as though tiger sharks typically don’t attack humans that see them and turn to face them instead of thrashing around like prey. Even with that poor guy in Egypt, it seemed like he either didn’t see the shark until it bit him, or he turned to swim away instead of keeping his eyes on it.
Sound travels further through water, I think that is a huge reason why abalone divers get attacked often. It is almost as if abalone divers chip away at rock and coral like a miner with metal tools.
Best shark show ever! Primal Waters did a good segment on attacks in Australia where he lives. Seems WA has bigger & hungrier GW's Would love a show with both of you discussing this.
G’day Hal….great job on the stats you’ve compiled. I live in South Australia and am an avid fisherman. I’ve had plenty of encounters with sharks and seen plenty of white pointers, thankfully all from my boat and not when I’m snorkeling. We have plenty of food sources for great whites. Plenty of seals and sea lions, huge stingrays and fish we call snapper that can grow to 40lb but 20 is more the average and pointers chase schools of these and happily snatch them off fishermen. I’d suggest the higher percentage of fatalities here from whites is more likely due to the remoteness of lots of our coast and the fact help is generally not at hand. Keep up the great work.
I think the variety of prey items and the 'mobility' of the sharks probably means the shark is inclined to attack and take advantage of whatever potential prey items crosses their path==like those attacks in the Med. Somebody made the point on another blog I hung around on they mentioned the remoteness of some beaches (and the tendency of some Aussie surfers and swimmers don't do 'buddy swimming') results in death before a rescue can be affected. I mean, here on the West Coast, there were several victims who were killed( Boren and Frye) but their bodies were recovered later, uneaten. It's almost like the Aussies sharks have a sub population who simply are OK with 'bony primate'.
I'm still thinking of that spade of attacks in WA a few years ago though, alot were eaten not just bled out. I've only been the SA once, swam in Port Norlunga just in near the wharf there behind the safety of the breakwall and was still to scared to stay in for very long. For some reason SA and WA just scare me too much with the thought of Great Whites 😱
@@katherinemorris9354someone was attacked along that reef two days ago. 32 year old girl had her face bitten but they haven’t said what type of shark yet. Apparently her partner punched it to get it away. Could be a white, bronzy or wobbegong for all we know at the moment. But yeah….what you though was safety still isn’t really 😁 We’re lucky the odds are against us being attacked but our mind sure as hell doesn’t want to think about being eaten alive so keeps us out the water in some areas.
Hal - glad you're still here! I was getting a bit worried about Sharks Happen as you were going through those gyrations with CZcams. Sorry for the hassles, man, but please keep up your good work. That story about fishing with your dad reminds me of a pheasant hunting trip my brother, sis, and I went on with my dad. Oh man, what a Charlie Foxtrot that was!
Mate, I don't know how else to put it but, I love what you say, especially the little bit at the beginning about you're not into making a book, you just want to get the information out there.. how cool is that ? ! 😎
"Not a lot of entertainment" Meanwhile my heart is thumping a thousand miles an hour!! I freaking love this channel!! major heartbreak when it's over!!
The humidity could have something to do with humans sweating more and giving off more scent to the sharks! People tend to have more odor in humid weather
Thanks Hal, really interesting about the humidity. I;m more convinced than ever that my decision not to swim in Aussie waters ( especially given my poor eyesight ) is totally vindicated.
Hello Hal, Re: Southern California GWS Between your channel and the MalibuArtist channel I’m convinced the juvenile GWS in Southern California, that spend a significant amount of time watching surfers do not go on to attack humans later in their life.
The sharks that do attack in Southern California, we’re not juveniles in the area. As these juveniles get older and bigger, the Southern West Coast of the 🇺🇸 will see very low numbers of attacks, deaths, and predations, in comparison to Australia, and South Africa! I’m curious to see what happens in Nova Scotia, with Juvenile GWS starting to summer in Nova Scotian waters.
An amazing show, once again. Hal, your statistics are eye opening, to put it mildly. Thank you for your hard work and research to put this content out! You are appreciated! Thanks for another informative show!
Cheers Hal, great show very interesting stats. Im sure i saw on shark bytes the med whites & the aussie whits are genetically similar. I live in cairns so looking forward to the bull & tiger info. Thanks for tge data & being respectful to the victims. Im more concerned with crocs where i live lol
Thank you, I don’t know your education history, but the great Rush Limbaugh proved that you don’t need a degree to understand society or anything else, you have excellent analysis on this subject.
I agree. I obtained a Ph.D. in biological oceanography a number of decades ago and while I never studied sharks specifically, I have a general understanding of subject. I have never heard Hal say anything that wasn't based in fact or sound logic. This is more than can be said of most CZcams wildlife related videos. Many are totally absent of logic or fact!
Hal, I really loved this video. Thanks for your hard work gathering the information. I was surprised though. I thought there would be more fatalities in South Africa. Can’t wait to hear about the tiger and bull sharks. But my favorite is the great white. I think they are amazing animals. They have a nice toothy grin. But anybody that goes in the water with them is crazy. I love your shark teeth and clock. Tell your wife hello from another East Tennessee resident.
Thats what ive always thought too..but..From what I'm hearing...the sharks have about disappeared in SA because of those killer whales...in fact...I've heard that we have more on the U.S. coast than SA right now
@@curtisbaker5407 Yes, I’ve read that the Orcas are driving the great whites out of the area. I think a few have washed up on beaches with their liver gone.
@@curtisbaker5407It was found recently that those white sharks just moved further East on the SA coast. But yes, the population on the US East Coast is really making a huge comeback. The sharks that were juveniles and young adults when they were legally protected are now reaching adulthood and breeding themselves. And the exploding seal population is giving them a food source. Although I will say that, while the white shark population has definitely increased there, SOME of the increase near shore might be due to a falling tuna population combined with that increasing seal population. So the population is concentrated in coastal waters more than it ordinarily would be.
South Africa seems to have a higher proportion of “smaller” (11-15’) white sharks, and not very many of the big 16’-20’ sharks. That might account for the reduced fatality rate in comparison to Australia. But then again, California has massive white sharks (at least up north) and has a much lower fatality rate than Australia. So it may just be something about the habitat in Australia or that particular GWS population that makes them more aggressive.
Been waiting for this one. Great Vid Hal! This is the only time these particular statistics & the events tied to them has been compiled & presented to the public. Like you said it truly is what the show is all about. Well done my man.
Have you ever covered the fatality of the woman in Maine recently? I'm curious about that one. Never been able to find info about the approx size of the shark, etc.
Sharks can't swim backwards so I'm thinking that in shallow water they are going to be more aggressive as there is less room especially if there's a lot of people around.
logically what it tells me is there are large great whites in Australia who require a lot of energy to hunt and get about so eating humans satisfies their hunger and energy reserves. the bigger they are more food is needed and it does not discriminate what it eats.
I’d agree. The 23ft great white had a sea turtle a 9ft dolphin and 6ft blue shark in its gut so they obviously eat what comes its way until it’s full and then repeats the next day or whatever
I have heard the same, humans dont have the calories needed to make up for the energy the shark uses to stalk attack and consume, and that somehow the shark can tell this from a single bite, the fat content...
@@xisotopexHal has a theory that makes pretty good sense: A shark test bites to see if its teeth sink in or not, not really to “taste” the item. If the teeth hit bone before the gums hit flesh, then the shark will probably move on. But if those teeth sink in past the gum line, it might try to eat whatever it is. So if a white shark bites your ankle or forearm, it might just let you go, especially with a few smacks to the face/eye/gills. But if it test bites a thigh, well, you better fight like hell to distract it before it makes up its mind that it wants to eat you. Of course, this is separate from attacks that are full-on predatory from the start. There’s no test-biting there, and almost no chance of escaping either without some really incredible luck.
G’day Hal. Geoffrey Brazier was bitten in half (and probably consumed) by a 6m White Pointer whilst snorkelling off the Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia in 2005. So that one can be added to the snorkelling list.
Great video Hal!! Glad to see you and look forward to your "What were ya thinkin'" end bits and LOVE the stories with Dad... will have to have him come on and be guest sometime maybe via zoom? Peace and Love to you, your wife and family!!
Wow Hal! Phenomenal show!!! I am going on an 8 day family reunion cruise in March to the Western Caribbean. I think I am going to stay on the ship with the family that is in their 90's. My brother wants to go swimming in the Caribbean. I say "no way for me". I live near Ft. Lauderdale and haven't been to the beach in 20 years.
Very informative Hal, Im greatly indebted tp you not only for this information but for the great show you regularly put out for usTHANK YOU SO MUCH! You know, you may already have saved dozens of lives by sharing your videos and stats as freely as you do. I know I'm not getting in the water any time soon. If i vwanna shoot dice ill do it in a secluded ally deep within some landlocked city, not in any coastal waters. How horrific it would be to find your life flashing before your eyes after having heard all these tragic acounts from the comfort of your living room??
Amazing! I also hear you that it's dangerous down here in Australia. Since you've posted this article, there's been another 2 fatalities in South Australia in the last week. A particularly bad week down under.
Wonderful show! The stats are very interesting. I can't wait to see if humidity plays a role. Have you checked into the ammonia smell from people urinating in the ocean, as to why they will swim past multiple people and choose 1 out of the people there? Anyway, thank you again for putting together such an entertaining yet educational show.
Nice to see your videos pop up again. For a long time both me and my friend here in sweden. Have not had your videos pop up, we had to go to your page to find your new videos.
You always hear about a set of animals from a species developing different habits depending on where they live. Such as Kodiak grizzly bears. I wonder if great whites around Australia over time have much more deliberately added humans to their menu than great whites elsewhere.
Ralph Collier is of the opinion that Cali white sharks have been spoiled by those huge elephant seal colonies (unlike fur seal pups which are kind of small 20-40 kilos) and those fat elephant seal pups (200-500 kilos); the Aussie sharks are always 'mobile' so they are always following schools of gamefish, whales, dolpins looking for stragglers; I guess, if an isolated human crosses their path, there's a shark who'll simply "take advantage":
@@nickmitsialis yeah but we do have our own seal colonies here aswell and Australian fur seals get pretty big. I mentioned on another comment thread for this video the possibility that there are mating grounds in our southern waters as they see alot of big GW females that have had damage and scarring consistent with mating males biting them and if they are exhausted from that, or pregnant, they may be looking for easier meals than risking injury with seals or having to swim very fast to keep up with swimming snapper etc... Just a theory I have heard of.
@@katherinemorris9354Could be a combination of the two. White sharks do hunt and kill adult seals, but the pups are a lot easier to catch and can’t really fight back. An elephant seal pup a few months old is as big as an adult fur seal and nearly as big as a sea lion, so those Eastern Pacific white sharks are getting a lot more bang for their buck. And if they take down an adult, it’s almost like a small whale. I have also seen a theory that most fatal white shark attacks in Australia coordinate with the time of year that humpbacks migrate past the SA and WA coasts, but seals aren’t as prevalent. We know white sharks scavenge and sometimes kill even adult humpbacks, so they may be following the whales and eating whatever else they can find between whale kills/scavenging events.
@@katherinemorris9354 Thanks for the feedback, they're interesting points that you make. Truly a bit of mystery as to why they do what they do; but I do love learning about 'lower predators' like Crocs, Sharks, Komodo dragons and the like. Some of them might be lacking in 'grey matter', but they sure are cunning hunters.
@@katherinemorris9354 also wanted to add that, it seems white sharks target inexperienced seals like pups; Fur seals get pretty big and fast, but youngsters are too inexperienced to know the ropes--and fur seal pups are kind of small, too. Elephant Seal pups can be just as inexperienced but grabbing one of THEM results in a meal weighing 200 -500 kilos. Maybe, eventually Southern Elephant Seals will spread to Australia/New Zealand and South Africa and create seasonal breeding colonies like The Farallons, Ano Nuevo or Santa Barbara--then the white sharks will have to learn to deal with new prey items.
I think our Aussie Whites in SA and Victoria have to hunt more in the cold water for energy to keep warm we have water currents from Antarctic .I've had 3 bump the boat in the last 10 years. Great show Hal thanks for the stats
This is important information so people can make a decision to get into the ocean or not. Information is a valuable resource. People don't understand how dangerous the ocean can actually be for swimmers, divers, surfer's and kayaks. Thank you Hal for all the work you do to bring this information to us. Your Texas fans appreciate it very much.
Another great show Hal.🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈 But, great whites can have 2-16 pups which are born about 4-5 feet long. You're not saying your only gonna be covering fatal attacks are you?
Hal, this is absolutely brilliant!! Thank you for your dedication and hard work to put this all together. I’m curious about the South Africa to USA comparison in terms of SA having fewer attacks but more fatalities. Do we think this because of the ferociousness of the attack or because they may not have as sophisticated trauma centers to stabilize and manage the people that have been attacked? Appreciate the feedback from all. Stay sharky. 😉
maybe because America has more attacks by more species? where South Africa its mostly GW along with some bull sharks, which tend to be more fatal than some mistaken ankle biters... also South Africa has a lower population density, colder water, less people getting in the ocean than in the US.
@@xisotopexExactly. Florida, and New Smyrna Beach in particular, gets the reputation as the “shark attack capital,” but the vast majority of those attacks are blacktip/spinner/lemon sharks in the surf zone biting at what they think is a fish, and they’re generally not life-threatening. There are occasional attacks by bull/tiger or other larger sharks, but not often. Any attack north of Virginia on the East Coast, or anywhere on the US West Coast, is almost certainly going to be a white shark, so that’s the area that needs to be compared to Australia and SA.
Thanks for the great stats Hal love the show. Just wanted to mention I watched this whole vid, 2 ads during, 2 at the end, watched it all but then going back to look for the next video directly on your channel I noticed the red bar down the bottom looked like I've only watched the first few minutes. I can guarantee being from Australia I watched til the end to see how much worse our stats were 👍👍
So much data here ty so much Hal for this eye opening information! As a person with chronic pain and nerve pain atacks from weather and barometric pressure it really has me wondering the effects it also has on this large scale ocean predators.
Their hearts are beating faster from exertion, more splashing, at the top of the water so the shark can see how slow they are, less situational awareness, etc.
Yes. I think a bull followed the warmer thsn usual waters snd got in and attacked Stillwell, Fisher and Dunn. I think 2 different whites attacked the 2 Charles in the ocean
Roy Jeffrey Stoddard. And they never found his body. I remember because who ever was talking about the attack claimed it wasn't out of hunger because the shark seemed to have only eaten Jeffrey and not Tamara. I wish I knew that person's name. lol
If I'm ever tempted to swim in the ocean I'll hear Hal's voice in my head and snap out of it.
For real fuck around and become an episode of sharks happen😂
I say that all the time 😅
So true
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Hal's voice..."What were you thinking!"
The only channel that doesn’t push lies to protect tourism
Lots of channels do this, please stop telling lies.
And now on "August 21st, 2024" they (sadly) "ran Hal off of CZcams" for sharing the "truth" about shark attacks with "we, the people."
Proud Aussie spearfisho' here - glad we are representing Shark fatalities in 1st place.
Always proud to keep Sharks Happen and Hal's project exciting
Australia wouldn't be Australia without intently trying to kill you all the time.
@skycloud4802 I know...RIGHT?? I think the damn flies down there are venomous..you wouldn't catch me there!😂
@@curtisbaker5407 nahh its all good - ive learnt to turn big Tiger sharks away with a pat on the nose... see the video 'return to Headstone Hell' and that is about 500m from where i spearfish
@andrewbyronloveshire5209 Kewl beans...I'll check out that video. Is it on Hals channel here or should I do just a Google search? Thanks
RETURN TO HEADSTONE HELL - the biggest Tiger sharks in the world are my puppy-sharks... gotta love Norfolk@@curtisbaker5407
As a South Australian mad fisherman I have grown up knowing Great Whites. I have had them visit me on occasion spear fishing , boat fishing and it is always a rush. My father was in 3 spear fishing comps and each year somebody was attacked with the last being Rodney Fox. South Aussie waters are notorious for bad White Attacks and they are pretty brutal .
@ConwayTwitter I have never lived my life by the fear of what if and the hours I have been in the water would run into the thousands . I have outlived over 30 mates that lived by the what if way that would never get near the water. I have 6 mates that continue to spear fish and have done since the start and we have loved the places we have been and food that it provides . We all die so follow your passion and really live. Im 60 now and still get out all the time . Adrenaline never comes into it when holding breath just serenity and calm.
@ConwayTwitter I was immediately thinking of things that would be as bad or worse and then you listed all of them lol. I won't say which I think is the worst out of all of them, just in case someone not on my side happens to read this 😟
@@ravenfeaderI have spent many hours in the ocean too, but the older I get the more passionate I become about not being eaten by a shark lol. I still go in the ocean, but not in the same care free way I did as a kid and young man. Funny how we don't fear driving when that is much more likely to do harm. You're right about not letting fear guide your way. As my grandmother used to say "live it up while you may"
@@ravenfeader Fellow Aussie 👋 would you agree there alot of big females in the water down there? I've heard a theory for a while now they think females that have been attacked by mating males are exhausted and pretty battered by the looks of it and so maybe looking for an easier meal? We just can't fight back or swim as fast as seals would be able to? One thing I wouldn't do, or would want my partner to do, is ab diving down there. I still remember the ab diver that was eaten by 2 whites on a shark week ep. That was the boat owners 2nd diver he lost to shark attack where he swam away from the sinking boat but his diver was too scared to leave the boat and I think tried hiding in the fridge but was still eaten... Please correct me if incorrect 👍👍
Hal, can you talk about other cases where whites attack together like that?
@@Rob-157 Grandma was a smart Lady Rob and you are right , things that we don't even think about on a daily basis are going to kill us all every time . Fear is useful for many things but fear of what if guiding your life is irrational and debilitating .
"they come behind you, whatever you swim, sail, fish"
You made a good point.
I saw a drone footage from "The Malibu Artist" posted on 5 November
where you can see an idiot swim next to his boat in open waters,
the white shark, pointed at him from a distance, and people commenting how beautiful they are and that these fish aren’t out there randomly eating people.
Now, I understand that that shark was figure out how to sneak that idiot from behind! lol
Actually those guys had the fish that they'd caught tied at the stern of their boat, right where the guy climbed into the water. At the end of the video he brings the drone over to that side of the boat and you can see as clear as day that the shark was coming back to investigate the scent of the fish they'd caught. That particular shark was young and not very big, so it hasn't even established mammals as part of it's diet yet. That shark was absolutely after the fish tied to the boat. Earlier in the same video it was investigating someone spearfishing, who also likely had their catch for the day tied to a line dangling just behind them.
True, but do you really think that once that big shark get close to you,
it has the ability to discern the bloody fish from the idiot?
Ding!
@@swarzchannel9594They can absolutely discern a human from a fish. Or from a seal.
@@swarzchannel9594 I didn't actually see any "idiots" in the video you're talking about. I saw two people enjoying a day out on the water. Have you watched many of the Malibu Artist vids? There are thousands of people in the water with sharks every day and yet negative encounters are almost non existent. I have a friend who hand feeds many species of large shark while in the water with them, five days a week as a full time job for about ten years now. He knows all of the big local Bull sharks and introduces them to high paying tourists who can hardly wait to swim with them. That company puts thousands of grateful people in the water with very large feeding sharks every year for over a decade so far with no incidents whatsoever.
I myself have surfed and swam with hundreds of sharks and I'll be in the water with many more.
Nobody cares if you don't want to swim with sharks but statistically you are in ten thousand times more danger in a moving automobile than in the water with a shark, and I promise I won't call you an idiot the next time you go for a drive.
@@bluemarlin8138 true they do have an excellent view 👍 scary shit when u think of it lol 😆
We also have to take into consideration the fact that most of the time someone is there to help the victim. If there was no one there to help them, the fatalities and consumption would be alot higher.
Not to mention that there is a reporting bias for shark attacks. Hal is only covering the cases where there were witnesses or remains were found. So there are probably many predations of people gone missing at sea that never make it into the news.
As a South Australian that spent every weekend as a kid on my Dad’s boat I’ve seen enough sharks that I never ocean swim here. Bali and Fiji are my ocean swimming spots.
White sharks have been spotted in Fiji, but not in large numbers or very frequently. Bali is mostly tiger territory.
@@bluemarlin8138 💯 😅true 👍
Does anyone else start measuring their living room when their listening to these? I can't even imagine running into a twenty foot shark.
Lol 😂yes
Yup I have a twenty foot section of wall. Sometimes I’ll look at it and think damn, there’s a great white that long swimming around right now….probably even bigger.
It's hard to put a 20 foot long creature into perspective when we are used to a 2d plane playing field.. something 3 times my length below me frightens the shit out of me.. cannot believe I swam in the ocean without fear or incident my entire life. Thanks to Hal no more chances lol
Yes, ours is 16.5 feet long × 15.4 wide. I don't want to be in the ocean where sharks that size are.
There is that woman that was terrified of being on a yacht for fear of falling overboard, as she was extremely fearful of sharks. One of her friends was getting married, and had their wedding party on a yacht. They were all drinking. She wasn’t drinking. She was staring over the side, frozen in fear as she was fixated on the dark water. Of course, because of this, (just her/and my luck), she was accidentally knocked into the water by one of the drunk patrons. Now, worst case scenario happened. A large shark, alerted to the splashing and screaming, before the party goers heard her and threw a preserver over the side to her, they watched (nothing else they could do) the shark attacked her, circled back, grabbed her and took her GONE. They radioed for emergency, which was dispatched to their location. No part of her was ever found. Not that night or even the next day, when they could see better. So I am absolutely NOT going in the water or on a boat EITHER!!!
Peace! Seems like The Law of Attraction scenario there..
Hi Hal, you showing your teeth reminded me of something that happened when I lived in Sarasota. I used to go looking for sharks teeth all the time, mostly at Venice beach. One day a friend of mine stopped by to see what I was up to. I said I was heading out to look for teeth as we had just had a big storm come through. So he came with me. There was a huge pile of sand, shells etc... washed up about 10 to 15 ft high. We went up to the top & started digging. I had a box full of teeth but was always looking for the big one. We saw it at the same time but he grabbed it quicker than me. His 1st time looking for teeth * I had been looking for 7 yrs. Next time I saw him I told him it was just not fair. He said he went to drill a hole in it to make a necklace & it cracked in half. AAAGGGHHHH SMH
I GREW IN AND AROUND SRQ UP UNTIL 4 YRS AGO..I ACTUALLY FOUND THE MOST AMOUNT OF TEETH FAR AWAY FROM THE BEACH..YOU KNOW WHERE USF SOUTH CAMPSUS IS ??? FOR ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE LEAVING FL THEY HAD THAT PLACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND I FOUND TONS OF MEGLADON TEETH..THEIR WERE LITERALLY THOUSANDS. WE WOULD GO AT NIGHT AND USE LED FLASBLIGHTS BC THE TEETH HAD A CERTAIN OPALESCENT SHINE TO THEM THAT HELPED US PICK THEM OUT FROM THE REST.
Hal, you might want to look into the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead. It was the origin of the “Birkenhead drill” aka “Women & children first”. A lot of the soldiers that wound up in the water were taken by sharks. Given the location (southeast of Cape Town, South Africa) I can imagine great whites were probably involved. There was a Scottish soldier that gave up his spot on a lifeboat to make room for another soldier in the water. As soon as he jumped in the water to relieve the other, a massive shark grabbed him & pulled him under.
'Back then', there were still plenty of white tip oceanics in the ocean--not to mention 'copper sharks', whaler sharks and dusky sharks.
@@nickmitsialis I understand that. That’s why I said “I can imagine great whites were involved”. Didn’t say they were the main culprit.
@@mikerryan85 It's all good.
@@nickmitsialisInvolvement of OWTs was possible, but unlikely. HMS Birkenhead struck a rock just a couple of miles off the coast of Gansbai, on the Southwestern Cape. The water was shallow enough that the ship’s masts were sticking up out of the water, and a fair number of men survived by clinging to the spars and rigging (although some froze). That’s 100% white shark territory. The water was also pretty cold at that time of year, and OWTs are more of a warm-water shark. Tigers and bulls stick more to the warmer Eastern coast of SA as well. From the descriptions of how easily people were being taken, the only shark in the area powerful enough for that is the white.
Apparently, the South Africans concluded this as well (and may have seen some there during rescue attempts the next day). They started calling white sharks “Tommy Sharks” for a long time, because “Tommies” was a slang term for British soldiers.
@@bluemarlin8138 Thank you for the feedback; interesting info--especially the 'Tommy Shark' nickname.
It seems sharks have always been willing to eat humans;
can you imagine being in the ocean and having a shark attack you ?
the terror, the horror
and then, as if you’re already not so seriously disadvantaged by the fear and by the alien environment that you’re in, suddenly you’re faced with a horrific wound, severe blood loss, maybe even the loss of a limb and you’re still facing a huge, incredibly strong and willful predator!
me, i don’t go in the water, chief. sharks in the water, big sharks with big sharp teeth.
life is short enough.
Bears freak me out too. I saw one about 30 feet away dragging someones trash can away on Halloween. Thank god I only have black bears here, but it was night and I had my dog and it wasnt a good situation. Very lucky some strangers offered me a ride, there was no other route to go home besides past the bear.
@@jefclark sounds like you and doggo bearly made it..
have a good day!
Imagine what Shirley Ann Durden was thinking as the shark emerged and snatched her in its mouth.
@@Spooky_515 i hope she never really saw it. from what i understand it was brutal but hopefully quick. a 20 foot shark would be incredibly powerful.
@@empiresrikesfat thx you too. What was very interesting was I saw the bear in the shadows and my first thought oddly was how feline it looked. It looked like I was watching a massive black panther almost crawl walking across a rural/suburban american street. Also the urge to run was strong, but thank god I remembered that uhh you'll prolly die if you do that. The bear never even acknowledged me but theres no way he didnt know I was there.
Your shows are always so interesting. I'm just curious why some people are fascinated with sharks and others are not. I never gave sharks a second thought until I saw "JAWS" I'm convinced that a shark attack would be the most frightening and nightmarish experience ever.
Crocodiles are the other one
10:50 you know .. the moderately OK, Caucasian sharks .. priceless.
Love you, Buddy .. hope you are well.
😄
Yeah like a lot of human classifications;funky,flawed and subject to change!
@@ianmorris4922I think you missed the joke about wokeness...
I not only appreciate the free stats, but I trust your stats over any other groups.
Just an interesting fact: In the mid seventies, stationed 3 years on Oahu, I was in the ocean more days than not . One day there was an island wide notice to stay out of the water. A school of 1500 to 2500 sharks were circling the island.
Wow! I wonder how often that happens and if it was a mating thing or something else?
That’s scary. Imagine being in the middle of that.
Do you remember what kind of sharks they were? Very interesting 👍 the footage I've seen of massive schools of hammerheads is amazing and I've never seen footage of another shark school like that
Don’t recall species being stated.I have been diving all over the world and never heard anything like that again.😊
@@katherinemorris9354 Hammerheads scare me. I once saw 500-600 in the Sea of Cortez. The fishermen wouldn’t even go out. They had no idea what was going on, one fellow said, as long as we are on land, we are safe. I couldn’t agree more.
RE: White sharks in Brazil, think there are some parts of Brazil (with colder upwellings) where white sharks have been caught and a few minor attacks have happened;
All the info was from rather 'scientific' book edited by J. Peter Kilmley called "Great White Shark: The biology of Carcharodon Carcharias"; it's kind of old, originally published in 1998, but pretty good overview of white shark biology and their world wide 'lore'.
Hi Hal.. I love your show. ❤ I'm glad I didn't know as much about sharks years ago! We snorkeled in the Keyes , dove, swam. I never knew great whites were near Florida!!!!! I remember being told specifically they don't swim in our warm waters !! 😮 hello from the treasure coast of Florida
Doesn't stop me. If there was no chance for me to be killed by a shark, I would NOT want to go to the beach. Me, and numerous others were attacked by a Tiger Shark back in 99, but we never got bitten. When we made it to knee-deep water, the shark tried to follow us, but he couldn't, and he looked at us with the saddest eyes. Myself, and another drunken-but-super-honorable man waded back into waist deep water, and the shark would swim up and brush us. It's like he lived to rub against humans.
Does that mean shark's are safe to humans, hell no. However, it feel's great to be a part of the exclusive, shark-approved human league! I'm sure if there was some brittish trouser-stain, the shark would have killed him, and that's fine by me. But we had the requisite spirit to party with the shark's. The shark knew we were convict's that admired shark's. I'm certain of it.
Take care.
Thats one heck of an experience I would want absolutely no part of. Still a very interesting story you have there. Im really curious though about you get attacked by a shark but not bitten. Anytime I hear about someone getting attacked by a shark they've been bitten at the very least if not completely consumed even. And Im not trying to sound like I know what Im talking about either because I really don't. Im honestly just curious about how you and your buddies were attacked by this shark. Like what did it do when it attacked you guys?
They swim down the East coast to Florida from New England and Canada every winter. Some go through the Florida Straits into the Gulf of Mexico too, albeit usually ones under 15’. Someone caught a 12-foot GW surf fishing for sharks in Pensacola a year or two ago. There’s also decent evidence in historical accounts that they were common in the Caribbean and Gulf prior to the Spanish wiping out the Caribbean monk seals in the 1500s-1700s.
@@ghostwriter1415So did the shark actually try to attack? Sounds like he was just swimming around you and your friends (which would freak me out too). Cool story either way. I just didn’t know if you were leaving part of it out where it tried to attack.
It seems as though tiger sharks typically don’t attack humans that see them and turn to face them instead of thrashing around like prey. Even with that poor guy in Egypt, it seemed like he either didn’t see the shark until it bit him, or he turned to swim away instead of keeping his eyes on it.
I am well aware now. This is back in early 70s . Misinformed .
Sound travels further through water, I think that is a huge reason why abalone divers get attacked often. It is almost as if abalone divers chip away at rock and coral like a miner with metal tools.
This is really interesting! “ we’re going to save Australia for last…” I bet!
Best shark show ever! Primal Waters did a good segment on attacks in Australia where he lives. Seems WA has bigger & hungrier GW's
Would love a show with both of you discussing this.
G’day Hal….great job on the stats you’ve compiled. I live in South Australia and am an avid fisherman. I’ve had plenty of encounters with sharks and seen plenty of white pointers, thankfully all from my boat and not when I’m snorkeling.
We have plenty of food sources for great whites. Plenty of seals and sea lions, huge stingrays and fish we call snapper that can grow to 40lb but 20 is more the average and pointers chase schools of these and happily snatch them off fishermen.
I’d suggest the higher percentage of fatalities here from whites is more likely due to the remoteness of lots of our coast and the fact help is generally not at hand.
Keep up the great work.
Yeah when great whites attack they’re really just trying to tickle someone with their teeth.
I think the variety of prey items and the 'mobility' of the sharks probably means the shark is inclined to attack and take advantage of whatever potential prey items crosses their path==like those attacks in the Med. Somebody made the point on another blog I hung around on they mentioned the remoteness of some beaches (and the tendency of some Aussie surfers and swimmers don't do 'buddy swimming') results in death before a rescue can be affected. I mean, here on the West Coast, there were several victims who were killed( Boren and Frye) but their bodies were recovered later, uneaten. It's almost like the Aussies sharks have a sub population who simply are OK with 'bony primate'.
I'm still thinking of that spade of attacks in WA a few years ago though, alot were eaten not just bled out.
I've only been the SA once, swam in Port Norlunga just in near the wharf there behind the safety of the breakwall and was still to scared to stay in for very long. For some reason SA and WA just scare me too much with the thought of Great Whites 😱
@@katherinemorris9354someone was attacked along that reef two days ago. 32 year old girl had her face bitten but they haven’t said what type of shark yet. Apparently her partner punched it to get it away. Could be a white, bronzy or wobbegong for all we know at the moment. But yeah….what you though was safety still isn’t really 😁 We’re lucky the odds are against us being attacked but our mind sure as hell doesn’t want to think about being eaten alive so keeps us out the water in some areas.
@@bradheath6079 thanks for the notice, I hadnt heard about it yet but just looked it up, sounds terrifying having your face bitten 😳
Hal - glad you're still here! I was getting a bit worried about Sharks Happen as you were going through those gyrations with CZcams. Sorry for the hassles, man, but please keep up your good work. That story about fishing with your dad reminds me of a pheasant hunting trip my brother, sis, and I went on with my dad. Oh man, what a Charlie Foxtrot that was!
Mate, I don't know how else to put it but, I love what you say, especially the little bit at the beginning about you're not into making a book, you just want to get the information out there..
how cool is that ? ! 😎
"Not a lot of entertainment" Meanwhile my heart is thumping a thousand miles an hour!! I freaking love this channel!! major heartbreak when it's over!!
For some reason, no other predator has 'mistaken identity attacks" but the "experts" say sharks do....yeah right lol
Mind blowing to hear the stats. I don’t plan to ever swim in the ocean again and for sure never in Australia.
One of my favorite channels on CZcams I'm a commercial fisherman in North Carolina sharks are nothing too f@#$ with
The humidity could have something to do with humans sweating more and giving off more scent to the sharks! People tend to have more odor in humid weather
You’re really doing something amazing that no one else has publicly done. Congratulations and keep it up. :D
Thanks Hal, really interesting about the humidity. I;m more convinced than ever that my decision not to swim in Aussie waters ( especially given my poor eyesight ) is totally vindicated.
Hello Hal,
Re: Southern California GWS
Between your channel and the MalibuArtist channel I’m convinced the juvenile GWS in Southern California, that spend a significant amount of time watching surfers do not go on to attack humans later in their life.
The sharks that do attack in Southern California, we’re not juveniles in the area. As these juveniles get older and bigger, the Southern West Coast of the 🇺🇸 will see very low numbers of attacks, deaths, and predations, in comparison to Australia, and South Africa!
I’m curious to see what happens in Nova Scotia, with Juvenile GWS starting to summer in Nova Scotian waters.
Been looking forward to a full show on stats… fantastic work Hal 🙏👍👍👍👍👍
Mate, this is a fascinating study.
I wonder why Australia is so high in fatalities?
Everything is aggressive in Australia 🇦🇺 😳 🦈.
Lots of uninhibited coast line, many hours from help.
Yeah, cone shells, box jellyfish, irukanji, and even the delicate little blue ringed octopus. It's rings light up when it's got the shits.
You should publish a book.
YES!!! I'd buy a few!
Children's book lol.
My first shark attack.
A is for attempt to predate
@@grottybt5006😂
An amazing show, once again. Hal, your statistics are eye opening, to put it mildly. Thank you for your hard work and research to put this content out! You are appreciated! Thanks for another informative show!
Sara u deserve a sub
Good on you Hal.
Talking about the man in the gray and white suit ❤!
Yep, Good old Mr. Whitey!!
Cheers Hal, great show very interesting stats. Im sure i saw on shark bytes the med whites & the aussie whits are genetically similar. I live in cairns so looking forward to the bull & tiger info. Thanks for tge data & being respectful to the victims. Im more concerned with crocs where i live lol
i saw that also, the med GW and Aussie GW are closest genetically, which isnt very obvious...
@xisotopex yes very interesting and more aggressive maybe 🤔
Love these stats episodes!
Thank you, I don’t know your education history, but the great Rush Limbaugh proved that you don’t need a degree to understand society or anything else, you have excellent analysis on this subject.
I agree. I obtained a Ph.D. in biological oceanography a number of decades ago and while I never studied sharks specifically, I have a general understanding of subject. I have never heard Hal say anything that wasn't based in fact or sound logic. This is more than can be said of most CZcams wildlife related videos. Many are totally absent of logic or fact!
Hal, I really loved this video. Thanks for your hard work gathering the information. I was surprised though. I thought there would be more fatalities in South Africa. Can’t wait to hear about the tiger and bull sharks. But my favorite is the great white. I think they are amazing animals. They have a nice toothy grin. But anybody that goes in the water with them is crazy. I love your shark teeth and clock. Tell your wife hello from another East Tennessee resident.
Thats what ive always thought too..but..From what I'm hearing...the sharks have about disappeared in SA because of those killer whales...in fact...I've heard that we have more on the U.S. coast than SA right now
@@curtisbaker5407 Yes, I’ve read that the Orcas are driving the great whites out of the area. I think a few have washed up on beaches with their liver gone.
@@curtisbaker5407It was found recently that those white sharks just moved further East on the SA coast. But yes, the population on the US East Coast is really making a huge comeback. The sharks that were juveniles and young adults when they were legally protected are now reaching adulthood and breeding themselves. And the exploding seal population is giving them a food source. Although I will say that, while the white shark population has definitely increased there, SOME of the increase near shore might be due to a falling tuna population combined with that increasing seal population. So the population is concentrated in coastal waters more than it ordinarily would be.
South Africa seems to have a higher proportion of “smaller” (11-15’) white sharks, and not very many of the big 16’-20’ sharks. That might account for the reduced fatality rate in comparison to Australia. But then again, California has massive white sharks (at least up north) and has a much lower fatality rate than Australia. So it may just be something about the habitat in Australia or that particular GWS population that makes them more aggressive.
Been waiting for this one. Great Vid Hal! This is the only time these particular statistics & the events tied to them has been compiled & presented to the public. Like you said it truly is what the show is all about. Well done my man.
Another great show Hal, love how you present the data without drama, and I think that is respectful to the victims.
Love the breakdown per shark species in different countries. Great video Hal.
Thanks, Hal,for another terrific video. You are much appreciated. (You are a wonderful storyteller!)
Have you ever covered the fatality of the woman in Maine recently? I'm curious about that one. Never been able to find info about the approx size of the shark, etc.
My man Hal back at it again with the quality content!
Sharks can't swim backwards so I'm thinking that in shallow water they are going to be more aggressive as there is less room especially if there's a lot of people around.
logically what it tells me is there are large great whites in Australia who require a lot of energy to hunt and get about so eating humans satisfies their hunger and energy reserves. the bigger they are more food is needed and it does not discriminate what it eats.
I’d agree. The 23ft great white had a sea turtle a 9ft dolphin and 6ft blue shark in its gut so they obviously eat what comes its way until it’s full and then repeats the next day or whatever
I have heard the same, humans dont have the calories needed to make up for the energy the shark uses to stalk attack and consume, and that somehow the shark can tell this from a single bite, the fat content...
@@xisotopexHal has a theory that makes pretty good sense: A shark test bites to see if its teeth sink in or not, not really to “taste” the item. If the teeth hit bone before the gums hit flesh, then the shark will probably move on. But if those teeth sink in past the gum line, it might try to eat whatever it is. So if a white shark bites your ankle or forearm, it might just let you go, especially with a few smacks to the face/eye/gills. But if it test bites a thigh, well, you better fight like hell to distract it before it makes up its mind that it wants to eat you. Of course, this is separate from attacks that are full-on predatory from the start. There’s no test-biting there, and almost no chance of escaping either without some really incredible luck.
G’day Hal. Geoffrey Brazier was bitten in half (and probably consumed) by a 6m White Pointer whilst snorkelling off the Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia in 2005. So that one can be added to the snorkelling list.
Synchronisation at it SWEETEST!👋🏻😊👍🏻
Great video Hal!! Glad to see you and look forward to your "What were ya thinkin'" end bits and LOVE the stories with Dad... will have to have him come on and be guest sometime maybe via zoom? Peace and Love to you, your wife and family!!
Wow Hal! Phenomenal show!!! I am going on an 8 day family reunion cruise in March to the Western Caribbean. I think I am going to stay on the ship with the family that is in their 90's. My brother wants to go swimming in the Caribbean. I say "no way for me". I live near Ft. Lauderdale and haven't been to the beach in 20 years.
Very informative Hal, Im greatly indebted tp you not only for this information but for the great show you regularly put out for usTHANK YOU SO MUCH!
You know, you may already have saved dozens of lives by sharing your videos and stats as freely as you do. I know I'm not getting in the water any time soon. If i vwanna shoot dice ill do it in a secluded ally deep within some landlocked city, not in any coastal waters.
How horrific it would be to find your life flashing before your eyes after having heard all these tragic acounts from the comfort of your living room??
Thank you Hall. Very informative. Awesome job.
Thanks for the spreadsheet, Hal!
Will post on fridge to look at, before I head out to the beach (FL 🏝🦈).
Amazing! I also hear you that it's dangerous down here in Australia. Since you've posted this article, there's been another 2 fatalities in South Australia in the last week. A particularly bad week down under.
Great episode, Hal 😊
Brilliant episode.
Wonderful show! The stats are very interesting. I can't wait to see if humidity plays a role. Have you checked into the ammonia smell from people urinating in the ocean, as to why they will swim past multiple people and choose 1 out of the people there? Anyway, thank you again for putting together such an entertaining yet educational show.
Nice to see your videos pop up again. For a long time both me and my friend here in sweden. Have not had your videos pop up, we had to go to your page to find your new videos.
Hal is so funny...he says " its funny GW babies look just like a smaller version of a GW"......haha I couldn't stop laughing
Hey Hal! I just loved this show with the stats!! Can’t wait for the next show!
love these videos, reminds me of watching shark week as a kid
I really enjoy your videos Hal 👍 please keep on uploading, your community appreciates it.
Hi Hal!! Hope all is well…U made my night lil better with watching you’re videos thank u 🙁
You always hear about a set of animals from a species developing different habits depending on where they live. Such as Kodiak grizzly bears. I wonder if great whites around Australia over time have much more deliberately added humans to their menu than great whites elsewhere.
Ralph Collier is of the opinion that Cali white sharks have been spoiled by those huge elephant seal colonies (unlike fur seal pups which are kind of small 20-40 kilos) and those fat elephant seal pups (200-500 kilos); the Aussie sharks are always 'mobile' so they are always following schools of gamefish, whales, dolpins looking for stragglers; I guess, if an isolated human crosses their path, there's a shark who'll simply "take advantage":
@@nickmitsialis yeah but we do have our own seal colonies here aswell and Australian fur seals get pretty big.
I mentioned on another comment thread for this video the possibility that there are mating grounds in our southern waters as they see alot of big GW females that have had damage and scarring consistent with mating males biting them and if they are exhausted from that, or pregnant, they may be looking for easier meals than risking injury with seals or having to swim very fast to keep up with swimming snapper etc... Just a theory I have heard of.
@@katherinemorris9354Could be a combination of the two. White sharks do hunt and kill adult seals, but the pups are a lot easier to catch and can’t really fight back. An elephant seal pup a few months old is as big as an adult fur seal and nearly as big as a sea lion, so those Eastern Pacific white sharks are getting a lot more bang for their buck. And if they take down an adult, it’s almost like a small whale. I have also seen a theory that most fatal white shark attacks in Australia coordinate with the time of year that humpbacks migrate past the SA and WA coasts, but seals aren’t as prevalent. We know white sharks scavenge and sometimes kill even adult humpbacks, so they may be following the whales and eating whatever else they can find between whale kills/scavenging events.
@@katherinemorris9354 Thanks for the feedback, they're interesting points that you make. Truly a bit of mystery as to why they do what they do; but I do love learning about 'lower predators' like Crocs, Sharks, Komodo dragons and the like. Some of them might be lacking in 'grey matter', but they sure are cunning hunters.
@@katherinemorris9354 also wanted to add that, it seems white sharks target inexperienced seals like pups; Fur seals get pretty big and fast, but youngsters are too inexperienced to know the ropes--and fur seal pups are kind of small, too. Elephant Seal pups can be just as inexperienced but grabbing one of THEM results in a meal weighing 200 -500 kilos.
Maybe, eventually Southern Elephant Seals will spread to Australia/New Zealand and South Africa and create seasonal breeding colonies like The Farallons, Ano Nuevo or Santa Barbara--then the white sharks will have to learn to deal with new prey items.
I think our Aussie Whites in SA and Victoria have to hunt more in the cold water for energy to keep warm we have water currents from Antarctic .I've had 3 bump the boat in the last 10 years. Great show Hal thanks for the stats
Glad to see you back!😊
This is important information so people can make a decision to get into the ocean or not. Information is a valuable resource. People don't understand how dangerous the ocean can actually be for swimmers, divers, surfer's and kayaks. Thank you Hal for all the work you do to bring this information to us. Your Texas fans appreciate it very much.
I will never get in the water but I enjoy all of your videos. Sharks scare me.
Thanks Hal. You make my day when you post a new video. $450.00 for a tooth?!
Cheaper than the Dentist.
As an Australian I don't go in the ocean.
Love to see you go over these statistics from time to time, very interesting! Thanks man.
You’re right. There is a difference between attacks & predation!
Another great show Hal.🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
But, great whites can have 2-16 pups which are born about 4-5 feet long.
You're not saying your only gonna be covering fatal attacks are you?
Aussies must taste better than us Yanks. 😂
Hal (or anybody)……has any more information come out yet about that fatal shark attack a few days ago in AUSTRALIA?
Shallow Water Hal!
Hal, this is absolutely brilliant!! Thank you for your dedication and hard work to put this all together.
I’m curious about the South Africa to USA comparison in terms of SA having fewer attacks but more fatalities. Do we think this because of the ferociousness of the attack or because they may not have as sophisticated trauma centers to stabilize and manage the people that have been attacked? Appreciate the feedback from all.
Stay sharky. 😉
maybe because America has more attacks by more species? where South Africa its mostly GW along with some bull sharks, which tend to be more fatal than some mistaken ankle biters... also South Africa has a lower population density, colder water, less people getting in the ocean than in the US.
@@xisotopexExactly. Florida, and New Smyrna Beach in particular, gets the reputation as the “shark attack capital,” but the vast majority of those attacks are blacktip/spinner/lemon sharks in the surf zone biting at what they think is a fish, and they’re generally not life-threatening. There are occasional attacks by bull/tiger or other larger sharks, but not often. Any attack north of Virginia on the East Coast, or anywhere on the US West Coast, is almost certainly going to be a white shark, so that’s the area that needs to be compared to Australia and SA.
Great update and not quite what I was expecting. I thought South Africa would be the worst. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for the great stats Hal love the show. Just wanted to mention I watched this whole vid, 2 ads during, 2 at the end, watched it all but then going back to look for the next video directly on your channel I noticed the red bar down the bottom looked like I've only watched the first few minutes. I can guarantee being from Australia I watched til the end to see how much worse our stats were 👍👍
Ooo I can’t wait for the bull shark episode
I think we’re just more tasty here in the land down under
I think there's one hanging around eastern Canada 🇨🇦 in the gulf of the St.Lawrence and you know that water is cold 🥶
They dont account for missing people, especially in coastal areas
So much data here ty so much Hal for this eye opening information! As a person with chronic pain and nerve pain atacks from weather and barometric pressure it really has me wondering the effects it also has on this large scale ocean predators.
Have you heard anything about deep blue it would be nice to know if she's still alive
Back to the best type of videos king. Glad to see you picked your crown back up
very interesting content congratulations and thank you
Do you think the fatality rates for swimmers and snorkeling is higher because they have less situational awareness than free divers and scubas?
Their hearts are beating faster from exertion, more splashing, at the top of the water so the shark can see how slow they are, less situational awareness, etc.
9:02;I am GLAD that Seal saw it comin'!
An adolescent Great White, has been speculated as the possible shark, in the 1916 Matawan Creek, NJ, fatalities.
Yes. I think a bull followed the warmer thsn usual waters snd got in and attacked Stillwell, Fisher and Dunn. I think 2 different whites attacked the 2 Charles in the ocean
Awesome to see you Hal!! 🤘🏻
Glad to see you back. Love your show
Roy Jeffrey Stoddard. And they never found his body. I remember because who ever was talking about the attack claimed it wasn't out of hunger because the shark seemed to have only eaten Jeffrey and not Tamara. I wish I knew that person's name. lol
Hello. Good Evening Hal 🦈🦈Happy Shark Tuesday 🦈🦈
Great video Hal. Interesting conclusions. But, don’t rule out a book. It’d be a great seller.
Thanks for all you work. Glad to see and hear REAL stats!!
Great show Hal, incredibly interesting and entertaining.