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🌊🏊Sharks are nice!🏄

Since its summertime and people are gonna be hitting the beach to swim and/or surf, i decided to make this informative shark post.
In the media sharks are portrayed as mean bloodthirsty and vicious creatures. Such as in movies like “The Shallows” and “Jaws”. But are sharks really that vicious? The answer is no. No they are not. Sharks are really nice and sweet creatures. I am a surfer and have been bitten a couple of times by sharks but i still know the truth… sharks aren’t evil creatures.
You may be thinking “but you’ve been bitten by one! How can they not be evil!?” Well the answer to that my bro
is simple, its all a misunderstanding. You see, sharks dont have great eyesight. They are blind as fuck. So they rely on other senses to find food. They see the silhouette of us surfers on our boards and they see it from a below angle and they think we kind look like seals, their favourite meal (as seen in the pics above). So they take just a nibble to see what the fuck we are. Once they realize we aint a seal, they go away. Why? Sharks HATE the taste of human meat. We disgusting af to them. Thats why the majority of shark attacks are just sharks bitting once and then leaving. They just wanted to know what the fuck we are bro. Its a case of mistaken identity. A misunderstanding. Have there been shark attacks where the shark bites more than once? Yeah. But thats rare and it only happens if the shark is either
(1) feeling threatened or provoked.
Or
(2) very hungry. Like, i mean STARVING.

Sharks just wanna eat but they dont wanna eat us. Its just a simple misunderstanding. As you can see in the photos above, people can swim with sharks and nothing happens. Its totally fine my dudes. So there you have it, sharks are homies, not hostile.

Sources:
Jaws- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)

The Shallows- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(film)

http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/shark-attack.htm

MORE INFO:
The likelihood of being attacked by a shark is thought to be 1 in 11.5 million, and only 4 or 5 people in the entire world die each year from shark attacks.[1]. If you’re still nervous about meeting one of these ocean predators, check out these guidelines to help you further minimize the chances of an encounter- http://m.wikihow.com/Avoid-Sharks-While-Surfing

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If you’re scared of sharks don’t go in the water, but don’t actively hate sharks.
Even Peter Benchley (the creator of jaws) hated what his story did, and actively tried to fix what damage had been done due to the paranoia caused by his book/the movie. He defended sharks until he died, and hated the shark hunting craze and fear he caused.

Sharks are good animals, don’t hate them just because you don’t understand them  

It may be just one bite, but one bite can be fatal or extremely harmful.

Sharks are not puppies. They’re not sweetums. They’re apex predators. They’re not bloodthirsty monsters, but they are dangerous. Unless you know what you’re doing, stay the fuck away from them. Same as any smart person would go and try to cuddle wild wolves.

I would pay good money for a legitimate source on the internal experience of sharks disliking human meat. It’s way more likely that they leave after one bite because we’re not the fatty seal they thought they were preying upon.

Sharks are, in some ways, more dangerous to people who want to cuddle them than wolves. They don’t show typical mammalian behaviors that code to our instincts as ‘danger’ so we as humans are way more likely to underestimate the risk they pose or misinterpret their reactions to us.

Sharks are not good or bad. Sharks are fish. That does not mean that you should ever assume they have any affiliative intentions towards you in the wild, no matter how many tour guides and dive masters tell you otherwise so they’ll profit off your desire to interact with them.