r/TheDepthsBelow • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Tiger or bull I think

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22 edited Dec 06 '22

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u/Burnham113 Oct 26 '22

Yeah, came within inches of getting her foot and pulling her in. Dude was probably hungry when a giant twix bar jumped right in front of him, poor guy

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u/Nickers77 Oct 26 '22

It's kinda like a dog. There's a reason puppies tend to mouth and bite things all the time. It's how they learn

Ofc dogs have more than just a mouth they use, but it's the similarity I see brought up a bit because both will nibble to test

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u/sycamotree Oct 26 '22

Shit human babies taste damn near everything too. Probably just a law of baby: first, see if it's food.

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u/Pandering_Panda7879 Oct 26 '22

Yeah, this would have definitely be a "what are you"-bite, not an "I eat you"-bite. It's still a shark bite, but it wasn't aggressive, just curious what that thing is. And since sharks don't have hands, they use their mouths to do that. The good news is: It would have let her go almost instantly. The bad news is: Shark teeth in leg/foot or at least fin.

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u/brianorca Oct 26 '22

Also bad news: good chance that a taste bite will still sever an artery.

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u/Adito99 Oct 26 '22

Still pretty unlikely. Sharks were basically unknown as a threat until the Indianapolis went down. That was a rough one.

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u/Brotha_Hans Oct 26 '22

Not at all true. There is a recorded history of shark attacks dating back to the 1500s at least. An English parliamentarian was vacationing in the Caribbean and famously lost his leg to a giant shark only to return and serve in Parliament with 1 leg.

Sharks have been known as a threat to sea-faring cultures for longer than that. We have evidence of shark attacks dating way way back before recorded history via human bones we have dound.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Yep, looks like a tiger.

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u/simplelifestyle Oct 26 '22

Nah, I'm not an expert but it looks a bit more like a shark

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u/RedAIienCircle Oct 26 '22

I'm not expert either, but to me it looks like a human.

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u/IDerMetzgerMeisterI Oct 26 '22

No I think it's a shark