Comments by "American Plague" (@American-Plague) on "The Matawan Man-Eater | The Inspiration for Jaws" video.

@TexasViking_INFJ-t_5w4 Correct. I grew up and still live in a coastal city on the ocean with a river flowing through downtown and into the ocean. I spent a LARGE portion of my life IN the ocean and ALL my life within a 5 minute walk of either the ocean or river (where sharks also frequent as it empties into the ocean right here) and spent a LOT of time fishing. That's a good way to make yourself paranoid about the water: seeing what else is out there besides sharks (plus all the sharks you catch). I've been "bumped" by some rather large sharks a few times and it's SCARY AS SHIT and yes, being attacked crosses my mind frequently. However, you have an EXPONENTIALLY higher chance of being sucked out to sea by a rip tide and drowning, especially if you don't know what they look like from the surface. I'm actually more afraid of stepping on a sting ray than getting bitten by a shark.
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RARELY Does anyone die. Even less rarely is anyone actually eaten. Out of the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people in Florida's oceans last year, 104 people were "attacked" by sharks. Only 76 caused an injury of some kind. 24 were actually PROVOKED. 6 were fatal. Also last year, roughly 600 people per 100 million were attacked by (a) dog(s). If only 100 million people were in Florida's waters last year, you would have a 100 times greater chance of being attacked by a dog than killed by a shark. However...this doesn't include the time spent in the ocean:time spent on land. More time in one or the other raises your chances of attack by either land or sea animals. I don't like using the NATIONAL average because....what do you think the chances of someone in Nebraska being attacked by a shark are? My point I guess is: who really knows?
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@xchamp101 While that may be true: Great Whites absolutely would NOT enter a brackish creek. Also I live in Florida. While Great Whites aren't extremely common, they are common enough that people catch quite a few of them every year.
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There's absolutely no question that it was a bull shark. It's the ONLY shark big enough to kill a child in a creek. I've caught hammer heads and blacktips in feeder creeks but they were babies. No other shark that big will be in a creek...unless they are severely distressed...like dying and confused...at which point they aren't attacking anything.
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@xchamp101 I hear that. I like facts....not people's opinions that they think become facts after an allotted amount of time in their own minds. 😊
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Wtf? 😵 Lmao. These were LUXURY beaches?! God damn! Paying a lot of money to be swimming around rotting cattle carcasses and dead whales and watching people next door butcher whales all day long throwing their entrails and blood into the water. Jesus Christ. Sounds like a nightmare and an outbreak of disease just WAITING to happen. I can't imagine what the normal people's beaches were like if these were luxury beaches.
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@xchamp101 I will look into that. 👍
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Idk....I spent quite a significant portion of my life actually IN the ocean. When it was warm enough (which in Florida is most of the year) I was in the ocean at LEAST every Saturday and Sunday for at least 8 hours. I spent a LOT of time in the ocean. I've been bumped a couple times but never been bitten. I have however been assaulted by other humans quite a few times and attempted murdered once. I'm more scared of other people.
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