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(MSN)   Girl Jumps off her Jet ski to try to swim with a pod of dolphins, ends being killed by a shark instead...in a farking RIVER. Yep, Australia   (msn.com) divider line
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Por que tan serioso
2023-02-05 2:44:23 PM  
I mean.
 
fat boy
2023-02-05 2:47:38 PM  
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aerojockey [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 2:48:48 PM  
Vonage Dolphins
Youtube rNlmfqv9YWU


/Darwin with a side of IP violation
 
Bslim
2023-02-05 2:50:57 PM  
"This is the first death in the river for a century, with the only other confirmed fatal attack occurring on Jan. 31, 1923."

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New Rising Sun
2023-02-05 2:51:21 PM  
"It's an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young girl, so I won't be going into the extent of the injuries," Fremantle District Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said

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Makes me think of that video from 1990s shark week where a bunch of people on a cruise were swimming in the ocean off of small skiffs and a great white showed up. One woman wasn't quite fast enough to get out, so her leg became the rope in a game of tug-of-war between a shark and the people on the boat trying to haul her out of the water.
 
Turbo Cojones
2023-02-05 2:56:33 PM  
Never get out of the boat - Apocalypse Now
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maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 2:56:39 PM  
"...we're offering counseling services to anyone who did witness it or is affected by the incident,"

I've been deeply affected.

How do I tell them where to send a plane ticket so I can get counseling?
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 3:02:41 PM  
It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.
 
6nome
2023-02-05 3:03:59 PM  
Was she trying to have sex with the dolphin?
 
capt.snicklefritz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 3:05:03 PM  

fragMasterFlash: It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.


Not every situation needs a silver lining. Very comfortable being an inside person today.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-02-05 3:05:13 PM  
"OMFG! I totally love dolphAAHHHHHHHRRRGHHH!"
 
ShadowWolf
2023-02-05 3:05:19 PM  
Just reading this makes me shudder.
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 3:06:06 PM  

New Rising Sun: "It's an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young girl, so I won't be going into the extent of the injuries," Fremantle District Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said

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Makes me think of that video from 1990s shark week where a bunch of people on a cruise were swimming in the ocean off of small skiffs and a great white showed up. One woman wasn't quite fast enough to get out, so her leg became the rope in a game of tug-of-war between a shark and the people on the boat trying to haul her out of the water.


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frankb00th
2023-02-05 3:07:44 PM  
Pursuing dolphins in a jetski and ending as dinner for sharks. I'm not traumatized.
F*ck your best life however short it was.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-02-05 3:13:21 PM  

frankb00th: Pursuing dolphins in a jetski and ending as dinner for sharks. I'm not traumatized.
F*ck your best life however short it was.


At least she didn't die on porpoise.
 
buravirgil
2023-02-05 3:19:48 PM  

fragMasterFlash: It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.


Those dolphins let her die. Either those dolphins are cowards or they know something you don't.
 
SomeAmerican
2023-02-05 3:20:38 PM  
Couple of things:

1) This was probably a bull shark.  Bull sharks can tolerate fairly fresh water, and are highly territorial.  Jumping into the water next to a bull shark is likely to trigger an attack.

2) Sharks normally stay far away from dolphins though... they are scared of them.  Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.
 
jst3p
2023-02-05 3:22:53 PM  

buravirgil: fragMasterFlash: It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.

Those dolphins let her die. Either those dolphins are cowards or they know something you don't.


There does seem to be something fishy about this whole scenario.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-02-05 3:24:43 PM  

SomeAmerican: Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.


Unfortunately for her, she only exuded assistant manager energy.
 
catmandu
2023-02-05 3:24:55 PM  
 I watched Flipper as a child. I thought dolphins always protected humans from sharks.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 3:26:04 PM  

jst3p: buravirgil: fragMasterFlash: It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.

Those dolphins let her die. Either those dolphins are cowards or they know something you don't.

There does seem to be something fishy about this whole scenario.


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jst3p
2023-02-05 3:26:16 PM  

SomeAmerican: Couple of things:

1) This was probably a bull shark.  Bull sharks can tolerate fairly fresh water, and are highly territorial.  Jumping into the water next to a bull shark is likely to trigger an attack.

2) Sharks normally stay far away from dolphins though... they are scared of them.  Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.



It's a common piece of surfing wisdom that where dolphins swim, there are never sharks. But for ocean-goers who take comfort in a pod of dolphins swimming by, shark experts have bad news.
"This is a myth," Andrew Nosal, a shark expert at the University of San Diego, told Live Science in an email.

Great white sharks will run from orcas though.
 
Nick el Ass
2023-02-05 3:30:07 PM  
For the second time in a month I will change the lyrics to David Bowie's Heroes to fit a story.

I, I wish I could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep me together
Since a shark is eating me for dinner in a river
Oh we can be Australian just for one more day.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-02-05 3:36:43 PM  

jst3p: Great white sharks will run from orcas though.


Orca are all about shark organs
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halfjack
2023-02-05 3:49:44 PM  

SomeAmerican: Couple of things:

1) This was probably a bull shark.  Bull sharks can tolerate fairly fresh water, and are highly territorial.  Jumping into the water next to a bull shark is likely to trigger an attack.

2) Sharks normally stay far away from dolphins though... they are scared of them.  Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.


This is correct. Chances are the 'dolphins' were likely bull sharks. Fatal, but understandable, mistake.
 
philodough [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 3:56:33 PM  
I've never been to Australia and I admit not knowing a ton about it, but I often wonder when hearing stories like this, how hard is it to raise and keep a toddler alive in Australia for the average bush parent.
 
tedthebellhopp
2023-02-05 3:56:46 PM  
There is bull sharks in the water hazards of some golf courses in Brisbane.
 
khatores
2023-02-05 3:59:59 PM  

New Rising Sun: "It's an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young girl, so I won't be going into the extent of the injuries," Fremantle District Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said

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Makes me think of that video from 1990s shark week where a bunch of people on a cruise were swimming in the ocean off of small skiffs and a great white showed up. One woman wasn't quite fast enough to get out, so her leg became the rope in a game of tug-of-war between a shark and the people on the boat trying to haul her out of the water.


So what happened?

At least there were people who were like, "Fark you, shark!" and weren't just standing around like a bunch of idiots filming with their phones.
 
jst3p
2023-02-05 4:06:27 PM  

khatores: New Rising Sun: "It's an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young girl, so I won't be going into the extent of the injuries," Fremantle District Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said

[thumbs.gfycat.com image 292x203]

Makes me think of that video from 1990s shark week where a bunch of people on a cruise were swimming in the ocean off of small skiffs and a great white showed up. One woman wasn't quite fast enough to get out, so her leg became the rope in a game of tug-of-war between a shark and the people on the boat trying to haul her out of the water.

So what happened?

At least there were people who were like, "Fark you, shark!" and weren't just standing around like a bunch of idiots filming with their phones.


If this is the incident they were talking about, she lost her leg.

Trigger warning, kinda gory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgSsjSimMbo
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2023-02-05 4:09:26 PM  

khatores: New Rising Sun: "It's an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young girl, so I won't be going into the extent of the injuries," Fremantle District Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said

[thumbs.gfycat.com image 292x203]

Makes me think of that video from 1990s shark week where a bunch of people on a cruise were swimming in the ocean off of small skiffs and a great white showed up. One woman wasn't quite fast enough to get out, so her leg became the rope in a game of tug-of-war between a shark and the people on the boat trying to haul her out of the water.

So what happened?

At least there were people who were like, "Fark you, shark!" and weren't just standing around like a bunch of idiots filming with their phones.


Then again, those people in the 90s weren't equipped with phone cameras.
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 4:25:01 PM  
As mentioned up thread, presence of dolphins does not equal no presence of sharks, as they are often hunting the same food- fish. But then, this poor girl also thought it was safe to throw herself after a bunch of wild dolphins. Just really unfortunate all around.
 
sinko swimo
2023-02-05 4:29:45 PM  

catmandu: I watched Flipper as a child. I thought dolphins always protected humans from sharks.


in Hollywood, they do. they are all about the good publicity.
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 4:35:23 PM  

Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist: jst3p: Great white sharks will run from orcas though.

Orca are all about shark organs
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Orcas: the Hannibal Lecters of the sea.

aka steroid Flipper
aka swimming sociopath
aka zebra guppies
aka homicidal sea pandas
aka ocean oreos
 
frankb00th
2023-02-05 4:39:21 PM  

Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist: frankb00th: Pursuing dolphins in a jetski and ending as dinner for sharks. I'm not traumatized.
F*ck your best life however short it was.

At least she didn't die on porpoise.


Mes hommages. That was perfect.
 
frankb00th
2023-02-05 4:42:59 PM  

buravirgil: fragMasterFlash: It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.

Those dolphins let her die. Either those dolphins are cowards or they know something you don't.


They watched while saying "f*ck your jetski"
 
LordOfThePings [OhFark]
2023-02-05 4:45:44 PM  
There was a half-eaten stingray was found last month, wasn't this the same river? Roy Scheider didn't close the beaches.

https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/technology/science/massive-creature-takes-bites-out-of-stingray-on-swan-river/news-story/14a1be85f3cf64a251a4486e7a4aada1?nk=8412974c8faa81573a4668f2e709106a-1675633179
 
Noah_Tall
2023-02-05 4:49:59 PM  

buravirgil: fragMasterFlash: It sucks that she died but there are worse ways to spend your last day in this world than farking around on a jet ski and swimming with dolphins. She took a shot at living her best life, which is more than I can say for myself.

Those dolphins let her die. Either those dolphins are cowards or they know something you don't.


Dolphins are actually sadistic bastards who delight in watching humans suffer. All that stuff you see about them being friendly and saving people is propaganda spread by some of them wearing human suits and infiltrating Hollywood.
 
Lady J [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 4:57:23 PM  

Wendigogo: As mentioned up thread, presence of dolphins does not equal no presence of sharks, as they are often hunting the same food- fish. But then, this poor girl also thought it was safe to throw herself after a bunch of wild dolphins. Just really unfortunate all around.


I've thrown myself into the sea after a bunch of wild dolphins, in Mauritius.
I mean it's a tourist thing, a legit enterprise- you're out there on a boat and everybody goes in the water.  but they're wild animals, you're not allowed to feed them or anything.

sounds like she was super unlucky
 
Iczer
2023-02-05 5:22:57 PM  

SomeAmerican: Couple of things:

1) This was probably a bull shark.  Bull sharks can tolerate fairly fresh water, and are highly territorial.  Jumping into the water next to a bull shark is likely to trigger an attack.

2) Sharks normally stay far away from dolphins though... they are scared of them.  Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.


It's extremely likely to be a Bull. Going off the information online, Swan River is a freshwater river which rules out pretty much most sharks but the Bull, the Northern River Shark (which is unlikely due to the scarcity of them), and the Speartooth Shark. The problem is only the Bull is found anywhere close to where the attack was.
 
Jeff5
2023-02-05 5:31:49 PM  
"One witness suggested the young man could have been the girl's boyfriend."

When running such a contest having all contestants compete at once increases the chances somebody gets a girlfriend out of it...
 
snowjack [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 5:34:35 PM  
The shark was just trying to save her from a salty croc. He just forgot how soft and delicate humans are and got carried away.
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 5:55:41 PM  

Lady J: Wendigogo: As mentioned up thread, presence of dolphins does not equal no presence of sharks, as they are often hunting the same food- fish. But then, this poor girl also thought it was safe to throw herself after a bunch of wild dolphins. Just really unfortunate all around.

I've thrown myself into the sea after a bunch of wild dolphins, in Mauritius.
I mean it's a tourist thing, a legit enterprise- you're out there on a boat and everybody goes in the water.  but they're wild animals, you're not allowed to feed them or anything.

sounds like she was super unlucky


I've heard of tourist groups who go out and swim with dolphins or they have coves that dolphins swim to and from freely and interact with tourists. I've never heard of this just jumping in thing. Seems risky, though I understand the desire to do it. Definitely unlucky for her :(
 
NotARocketScientist
2023-02-05 6:14:28 PM  
Throwing yourself off a jet ski doesn't show good judgement. Neither does not checking for sharks before doing so. That said, she was 16 and most people don't expect good judgement from teenagers.
 
J_Kushner
2023-02-05 6:35:36 PM  

SomeAmerican: Couple of things:

1) This was probably a bull shark.  Bull sharks can tolerate fairly fresh water, and are highly territorial.  Jumping into the water next to a bull shark is likely to trigger an attack.

2) Sharks normally stay far away from dolphins though... they are scared of them.  Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.


Having caught a few bull sharks, I just assume they are everywhere... you just don't see them, but they see you.  Stand Up Paddleboard thru the mangroves eco-tour?  Yup, bull sharks everywhere.
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 6:44:36 PM  

J_Kushner: SomeAmerican: Couple of things:

1) This was probably a bull shark.  Bull sharks can tolerate fairly fresh water, and are highly territorial.  Jumping into the water next to a bull shark is likely to trigger an attack.

2) Sharks normally stay far away from dolphins though... they are scared of them.  Dolphins will often murder sharks just to show them who's boss.

Having caught a few bull sharks, I just assume they are everywhere... you just don't see them, but they see you.  Stand Up Paddleboard thru the mangroves eco-tour?  Yup, bull sharks everywhere.


Nope nope nope.
 
Don't Troll Me Bro!
2023-02-05 7:29:11 PM  
They have been confirmed in the MS River (USA) as far from the mouth as St Louis; nearly 1000km up a fresh water river.
 
Don't Troll Me Bro!
2023-02-05 7:30:13 PM  

Don't Troll Me Bro!: They have been confirmed in the MS River (USA) as far from the mouth as St Louis; nearly 1000km up a fresh water river.


Bill sharks, that is. Very well adapted to fresh water.
 
Madman drummers bummers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 7:37:25 PM  

philodough: I've never been to Australia and I admit not knowing a ton about it, but I often wonder when hearing stories like this, how hard is it to raise and keep a toddler alive in Australia for the average bush parent.


I have it on good authority (an elderly Australian person) that the deadliness of the flora, fauna, and terrain of the country is, while amusing as a recurring joke, purposely exaggerated so as to keep tourists away from a rather nice place.

Which doesn't mean it can't be dangerous, though I can't be arsed to look for comparative statistics. Anywhere can be dangerous, although, apart from rare outliers, only in Australia can you be murdered by a drop bear or clock spider.
 
schrepjm
2023-02-05 8:10:56 PM  

6nome: Was she trying to have sex with the dolphin?


Probably not, I'm sure the victim wasn't Margaret Howe...she must be in her 80s at this point.
 
morg
2023-02-05 8:11:24 PM  

6nome: Was she trying to have sex with the dolphin?


Yes, regardless of what she thought she was doing, she was going to have sex with dolphins. Also, what happened to all the feel-good stories about dolphins attacking sharks to defend humans?
 
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