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Down Under
Woman Feeding Shark Survives Attack in Australia [VIDEO]
2018-07-03
[Daily Caller] A nurse shark in Dugong Bay, Australia, attacked a woman Sunday, leaving her with a fracture and torn ligament in her hand.

The normally docile breed of shark attacked the woman while she was on a boat platform just above surface level, aggressively dragging her into the water as she shrieked. The woman was reaching to pet the shark when it bit her hand, and she escaped with help from people nearby.

There have been a total of 52 recorded nurse shark attacks in the world, and none have resulted in fatalities.

"Nurse sharks are slow-moving bottom-dwellers and are, for the most part, harmless to humans. However, they can be huge‐up to 14 feet‐and have very strong jaws filled with thousands of tiny, serrated teeth, and will bite defensively if stepped on or bothered by divers who assume they’re docile," National Geographic writes in its description of the shark.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Jacques Clousteau?
Posted by: Frank G   2018-07-03 15:18  

#6  Does your shark bite?
Nope.
Ow! WTF? You said it didn't bite.
That's not my shark.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-07-03 12:16  

#5  Forrest is smarter than that.
Posted by: gorb   2018-07-03 11:58  

#4  Stupid is as stupid does. That's Forrest Gump, right?
Posted by: Bobby   2018-07-03 11:50  

#3  Nurse sharks are the ones scuba divers leap overboard to swim among, we were told when I was training for basic dive certification. She must have dangled her fingers as if they were food in order to get that reaction from the poor thing, or tried to poke or pet it on the snout.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-07-03 09:41  

#2  I was going to say "what kind of an idiot feeds man person-eating sharks?", but then I remembered Muslim Immigration.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-03 09:36  

#1  You are not supposed to feed the shark, you are supposed to jump the shark. Bugwit.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2018-07-03 07:36  

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