Quick correction: This attack happened on Friday afternoon (not today). I will try to provide an update on the 45-year-old lady who was also seriously wounded in a separate shark attack the same day. The last I read, she was in stable condition but also suffered very serious injuries.
One story said a 14-foot Hammer Head shark had been spotted by deputies patrolling the water in a boat, but no one has confirmed this might have been the shark involved in the attack. That report did say 14-foot Hammer Head's being spotted in the water is "not uncommon."
As my children said, "I want to stay in the pool" the next time we go to the beach!
Here's a story about the other victim of a separate attack - which occurred four miles to the west of the later attack that injured two teenagers from Mountain Brook, Alabama (a suburb of B'ham).
I'm afraid, Bill, that I have come to the point where I vet any kind of event that provokes a terror response for truth. We are constantly subjected to fear-mongering ... all the better to control us.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken
I ask the questions (and provide answers for shark attack in this instance) :
1. Do we see any clear evidence?
A: We do not.
2. What is provided as evidence?
Nothing at all, simply claims and a photo of a girl said to be victim of a shark attack.
3. Are there anomalies in the reporting?
A: Yes there are:
--- The lack of any kind of compelling evidence seems a little strange, no stills or mobile footage taken by people in the vicinity? No images of paramedics attending?
--- The lack of mention of no sighting of these sharks by others strikes me as a little odd. I'm Australian and I have to confess I don't know what the situation is like in Florida but it sounds as though there's a lot of people on these beaches. Are there no lifesavers patrolling, no one on the lookout for sharks?
--- No clear identification of what sharks were responsible for the attacks
--- If people are waist-deep in that beautiful water then surely sharks would be visible at quite a distance?
We have real shark attacks in Australia, however, in the last few years I've become very suspicious of shark attack reports as we see no physical evidence of them and I know they are faking the news more and more.
Petra, imo, there's enough evidence here to let us know this was a real shark attack. There is now a 15-year-old in a Pensacola hospital without a hand or lower leg. She says she was attacked by a shark and she should know. Many witnesses saw her on the beach, bleeding profusely, including her mother and twin sister.
To fake this event, you'd have to amputate a girls's hand and foot and have her lie about how or why this happened (why would she go along with this ruse?) All of her friends are going to see that she no longer has a hand and leg - and that this was not the case before she went into the Gulf of Mexico.
She had no injuries before she went into the water ... And then there's two other victims as well.
These were shark attacks. (I do understand these happen more often in Australia).
"There is now a 15-year-old in a Pensacola hospital without a hand or lower leg. She says she was attacked by a shark and she should know. Many witnesses saw her on the beach, bleeding profusely, including her mother and twin sister."
we will soon see photos of her without a hand or leg. She'll attend classes this fall - all her friends will be able to tell if she no longer has a left hand and has a prosthetic right leg. That would be evidence that a shark attack did occur and caused these injuries/changes.
Yes it would. But so far we've seen absolutely nothing which is strange considering that there are mobile phones everywhere to capture the evidence.
As I say, we have shark attacks in Australia but of late I don't believe the Australian ones either. In fact, I don't believe the news in general and if news is told where no evidence is provided where it is expected I definitely don't believe it. The media is not supposed to just tell us stories - they are supposed to give us evidence of those stories where it is expected.
If evidence emerges then I shall have to eat my words and I'll be happy to do so.
I'm the last person who is going to criticize a natural skeptic! I guess we should seem more evidence in the days or months to come. (I actually have friends who have chidren who atten Mountain Brook High School. I can ask them when she returns to school. I read somewhere else she was a member of the school volleyball team. I do pray she will be strong and I think all her friends will be very supportive of her as she recovers.
I mean no disrespect, or to sound unempathetic, at all... But, could these attacks be related to all the work being done underwater for wind turbine installations all up and down the East Coast? As most, if not all, marine life uses and relies on waves of energy (electromagnetic frequencies, like sonar) to navigate, find food, find mates, find areas of safety, etc., could sharks also be affected in some way by thoset activities, just as whales and dolphins have?
Exactly... Shallow water. And, they do NOT prefer humans. It's believed that most shark attacks on humans are really mistakes - the sharks mistook them for seals or other marine critters that they DO prefer. Like folks' legs and/or arms hanging over surf and water boards are believed to have been mistaken for seals due similar profile from under water. So, folks wading in shallow water? No, not an expected target for sharks.
UPDATE: Here's a story on the 45-year-old lady who also suffered serious injuries in a separate shark attack four miles from where the second attacks happened.
This lady also lost a hand and has serious injuries to her abdomen.
This tragic event will hopefully caution more people about ocean swimming and thrashing about in areas where sharks can be hungry and hunting.
I hope the place is posted for Future Cautionary decision making.
What makes me sad is the young girl’s experience, but also the realization that blood supply is now infected with Bioweapon material from those with the Clotshots. Survive an event, and die from infected blood.
Hospitals are not safe places to be, per continued reports.
I hadn't thought about that - even though I interviewed embalmer Richard Hirschman, who suspects that vaccine-tainted blood might already be producing those terrifying clots in a minute percentage of people who received blood transfusions. If this, God forbid, turns out to be the case, this would be more nightmarish collateral damage from a never-ending series of Covid cover-ups.
Lulu is lucky to be alive. She needs to understand that. Fitting in or acceptance should be the least of her worries. In time, she may want to connect with others who have shared her survived experience and who have also suffered from like injuries to help her in her journey to heal.
Never been a fan of the fish toilet!! It’s peaceful to look at, but it’s also a very unpredictable environment, especially when it’s difficult to see what’s lurking around and especially beneath 🙄.
Sharks are instinctual predators whose only purpose is to hunt and eat. Unfortunately, many 🏄♀️ have found that out a little too late. Sharks tend to come up from the bottom out of nowhere, so there’s rarely any time to react. Like an alligator attack, the prognosis usually always depends on the extent of wound damage and tissue loss/infection.
Lulu was extremely lucky to have medical professionals with the knowledge of how to tourniquet wounds to stop major blood loss. She was going into shock. Know that it was that immediate response of those hero doctors/nurses on the beach that more than likely saved her life to stabilize her wounds prior to any further medical interventions. Timing is so crucial in making a difference in life and death under such grave conditions. She’s a very lucky girl to have survived such a harrowing experience. She was spared because a higher power has a plan for her! 😇
Well, Bill, it's a bona fide tear-jerker. I did read a more typical, bloodless account yesterday (I think) that did not make it clear exactly where the attack occurred - probably worried about tourism. Your account explains how it happened. It seems like a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I live near the northern California coast where there are sharks, usually Great Whites. I have, luckily, not had any encounters, close or otherwise, with sharks. And I'm happy to continue that way. My interest in warm water has cooled. Good writing!
I am glad you never met the beasts. I occasionally read of shark encounters in the San Diego area, where a cousin of mine lives. So far, no fatalities.
Praying 🙏 for all involved in the shark attacks. My family vacations in the area where the shark attacks happened several times every year. My sister’s family lived in Mt. Brook until a few years ago.
SAD UPDATE: Warren Kulo, the journalist for al.com who wrote the first “shark attack” stories, died suddenly this week at age 60.
No cause of death was given although his wife said he’d just experienced a normal and enjoyable day and died peacefully in his sleep.
One assumes Mr. Kulu had probably received multiple vaccines and boosters like all of his colleagues at this giant media company. (The parent company of aldot com owns scores of widely-read websites across the country like NJ.com.)
One also assumes that none of Mr. Kulo’s colleagues will ask any questions, trying to determine if his (presumed) vaccines might have contributed to his death.
I did email the journalist who wrote the story on Mr. Kulo’s death and asked him if he or anyone in his news organization will try to find out if vaccines could have contributed to the death of their colleague and friend.
If I get an answer, I’ll pass it along to my readers. I also suggested this journalist, or someone at his news organization, investigate the embalmers’ clots and interview embalmer Richard Hirschman, who is from Ozark, Alabama in our state.
Very, very common for sharks to attack in shallow water. They chase schools of fish into the shallows and in their excitement attack people standing and splashing. So mass attacks are not uncommon because sharks hunt bait fish in groups depending on how the fish are schooling (season, etc).
Also surfers - from below, the outline of the surfboard and the paddling legs and arms looks like the outline of a seal. They don't have great eyesight and so will usually take one bite out of the surfboard and leave people alone when they realise it's not a seal. It gets dangerous when they get a limb and smell blood. You have to fight them off by gouging their eyes with your thumbs.
I was surfing once and a dorsal fin nearly bumped me - in my terror I paddled to shore so quickly that I did not actually look. Once I hit the shore I kept running all the way up to the carpark - it was a school of dolphins lol.
But I'm too old for this shit so stay out of the water now. I prefer land in Australia with the poisonous snakes.
Edit: I am quite shocked that people do not understand it is normal for sharks to chase schools of fish into shallow water. Australians see this all the time. This is what it looks like: https://www.wral.com/lifestyles/pets/video/17512735/
When I was growing up I swam and worked in the Atlantic and LI sound off of popular beaches. Being oblivious rendered me fearless.
(I read Benchley's 'Jaws' while aboard a fishing boat off Montauk Point, shivers!!)
Now, you can view helicopter and drone footage of the sharks taken within yards of the surf break and summer bathers along NC, SC and FL live on the evening news.
>If you swim in the ocean, you're out of your element and into "someone" else's.
Facts.
I used to do a lot of SCUBA and would again but ultimately dislike being cold and seasick lol. That's why I now stay on land with the nice poisonous snakes.
Although I never scuba's, I am part fish and have enjoyed hopscotching along the campervan coast swimming in the Pacific from Broome to Swan, skipping the shark infested (closed) Perth beaches, decades ago.
Quick correction: This attack happened on Friday afternoon (not today). I will try to provide an update on the 45-year-old lady who was also seriously wounded in a separate shark attack the same day. The last I read, she was in stable condition but also suffered very serious injuries.
One story said a 14-foot Hammer Head shark had been spotted by deputies patrolling the water in a boat, but no one has confirmed this might have been the shark involved in the attack. That report did say 14-foot Hammer Head's being spotted in the water is "not uncommon."
As my children said, "I want to stay in the pool" the next time we go to the beach!
Here's a story about the other victim of a separate attack - which occurred four miles to the west of the later attack that injured two teenagers from Mountain Brook, Alabama (a suburb of B'ham).
https://www.al.com/news/2024/06/thank-the-lord-she-is-so-tough-virginia-woman-who-lost-hand-in-florida-shark-attack-on-path-to-recovery.html
I'm afraid, Bill, that I have come to the point where I vet any kind of event that provokes a terror response for truth. We are constantly subjected to fear-mongering ... all the better to control us.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken
I ask the questions (and provide answers for shark attack in this instance) :
1. Do we see any clear evidence?
A: We do not.
2. What is provided as evidence?
Nothing at all, simply claims and a photo of a girl said to be victim of a shark attack.
3. Are there anomalies in the reporting?
A: Yes there are:
--- The lack of any kind of compelling evidence seems a little strange, no stills or mobile footage taken by people in the vicinity? No images of paramedics attending?
--- The lack of mention of no sighting of these sharks by others strikes me as a little odd. I'm Australian and I have to confess I don't know what the situation is like in Florida but it sounds as though there's a lot of people on these beaches. Are there no lifesavers patrolling, no one on the lookout for sharks?
--- No clear identification of what sharks were responsible for the attacks
--- If people are waist-deep in that beautiful water then surely sharks would be visible at quite a distance?
We have real shark attacks in Australia, however, in the last few years I've become very suspicious of shark attack reports as we see no physical evidence of them and I know they are faking the news more and more.
Petra, imo, there's enough evidence here to let us know this was a real shark attack. There is now a 15-year-old in a Pensacola hospital without a hand or lower leg. She says she was attacked by a shark and she should know. Many witnesses saw her on the beach, bleeding profusely, including her mother and twin sister.
To fake this event, you'd have to amputate a girls's hand and foot and have her lie about how or why this happened (why would she go along with this ruse?) All of her friends are going to see that she no longer has a hand and leg - and that this was not the case before she went into the Gulf of Mexico.
She had no injuries before she went into the water ... And then there's two other victims as well.
These were shark attacks. (I do understand these happen more often in Australia).
"There is now a 15-year-old in a Pensacola hospital without a hand or lower leg. She says she was attacked by a shark and she should know. Many witnesses saw her on the beach, bleeding profusely, including her mother and twin sister."
This is narrative. Where's the evidence?
we will soon see photos of her without a hand or leg. She'll attend classes this fall - all her friends will be able to tell if she no longer has a left hand and has a prosthetic right leg. That would be evidence that a shark attack did occur and caused these injuries/changes.
Yes it would. But so far we've seen absolutely nothing which is strange considering that there are mobile phones everywhere to capture the evidence.
As I say, we have shark attacks in Australia but of late I don't believe the Australian ones either. In fact, I don't believe the news in general and if news is told where no evidence is provided where it is expected I definitely don't believe it. The media is not supposed to just tell us stories - they are supposed to give us evidence of those stories where it is expected.
If evidence emerges then I shall have to eat my words and I'll be happy to do so.
I'm the last person who is going to criticize a natural skeptic! I guess we should seem more evidence in the days or months to come. (I actually have friends who have chidren who atten Mountain Brook High School. I can ask them when she returns to school. I read somewhere else she was a member of the school volleyball team. I do pray she will be strong and I think all her friends will be very supportive of her as she recovers.
Tears streaming down my cheeks... I will pray for all that Lulu's strong Mom has requested. Thx Bill, for sharing this compelling story.
🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼♥️ Much love Lulu, for you and your family.
I mean no disrespect, or to sound unempathetic, at all... But, could these attacks be related to all the work being done underwater for wind turbine installations all up and down the East Coast? As most, if not all, marine life uses and relies on waves of energy (electromagnetic frequencies, like sonar) to navigate, find food, find mates, find areas of safety, etc., could sharks also be affected in some way by thoset activities, just as whales and dolphins have?
This happened on the gulf, not the Atlantic.
Exactly... Shallow water. And, they do NOT prefer humans. It's believed that most shark attacks on humans are really mistakes - the sharks mistook them for seals or other marine critters that they DO prefer. Like folks' legs and/or arms hanging over surf and water boards are believed to have been mistaken for seals due similar profile from under water. So, folks wading in shallow water? No, not an expected target for sharks.
We do not have seals in the gulf. There prey here are stingrays.
Sharks hunt by chasing schools of fish into shallow water. This is normal shark behaviour.
UPDATE: Here's a story on the 45-year-old lady who also suffered serious injuries in a separate shark attack four miles from where the second attacks happened.
This lady also lost a hand and has serious injuries to her abdomen.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/06/thank-the-lord-she-is-so-tough-virginia-woman-who-lost-hand-in-florida-shark-attack-on-path-to-recovery.html
This tragic event will hopefully caution more people about ocean swimming and thrashing about in areas where sharks can be hungry and hunting.
I hope the place is posted for Future Cautionary decision making.
What makes me sad is the young girl’s experience, but also the realization that blood supply is now infected with Bioweapon material from those with the Clotshots. Survive an event, and die from infected blood.
Hospitals are not safe places to be, per continued reports.
I hadn't thought about that - even though I interviewed embalmer Richard Hirschman, who suspects that vaccine-tainted blood might already be producing those terrifying clots in a minute percentage of people who received blood transfusions. If this, God forbid, turns out to be the case, this would be more nightmarish collateral damage from a never-ending series of Covid cover-ups.
Lulu is lucky to be alive. She needs to understand that. Fitting in or acceptance should be the least of her worries. In time, she may want to connect with others who have shared her survived experience and who have also suffered from like injuries to help her in her journey to heal.
Never been a fan of the fish toilet!! It’s peaceful to look at, but it’s also a very unpredictable environment, especially when it’s difficult to see what’s lurking around and especially beneath 🙄.
Sharks are instinctual predators whose only purpose is to hunt and eat. Unfortunately, many 🏄♀️ have found that out a little too late. Sharks tend to come up from the bottom out of nowhere, so there’s rarely any time to react. Like an alligator attack, the prognosis usually always depends on the extent of wound damage and tissue loss/infection.
Lulu was extremely lucky to have medical professionals with the knowledge of how to tourniquet wounds to stop major blood loss. She was going into shock. Know that it was that immediate response of those hero doctors/nurses on the beach that more than likely saved her life to stabilize her wounds prior to any further medical interventions. Timing is so crucial in making a difference in life and death under such grave conditions. She’s a very lucky girl to have survived such a harrowing experience. She was spared because a higher power has a plan for her! 😇
Praise God for His faithfulness and protection even when we don’t ask for it! May He bring glory to Himself through this trial.🙏🏼✝️
Well, Bill, it's a bona fide tear-jerker. I did read a more typical, bloodless account yesterday (I think) that did not make it clear exactly where the attack occurred - probably worried about tourism. Your account explains how it happened. It seems like a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I live near the northern California coast where there are sharks, usually Great Whites. I have, luckily, not had any encounters, close or otherwise, with sharks. And I'm happy to continue that way. My interest in warm water has cooled. Good writing!
I am glad you never met the beasts. I occasionally read of shark encounters in the San Diego area, where a cousin of mine lives. So far, no fatalities.
Right, cold water does numb the body.
Praying 🙏 for all involved in the shark attacks. My family vacations in the area where the shark attacks happened several times every year. My sister’s family lived in Mt. Brook until a few years ago.
For those who don't know, Mountain Brook, a suburb of B'ham, is the wealthiest city in Alabama.
SAD UPDATE: Warren Kulo, the journalist for al.com who wrote the first “shark attack” stories, died suddenly this week at age 60.
No cause of death was given although his wife said he’d just experienced a normal and enjoyable day and died peacefully in his sleep.
One assumes Mr. Kulu had probably received multiple vaccines and boosters like all of his colleagues at this giant media company. (The parent company of aldot com owns scores of widely-read websites across the country like NJ.com.)
One also assumes that none of Mr. Kulo’s colleagues will ask any questions, trying to determine if his (presumed) vaccines might have contributed to his death.
Here’s the story on Mr. Kulo’s sad death:
https://www.al.com/news/2024/06/warren-kulo-veteran-mississippi-and-alcom-journalist-dies-at-60.html
Here’s Mr. Kulo’s very good story from June 8th on the shark attacks I highlighted in a recent post of mine.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/06/warren-kulo-veteran-mississippi-and-alcom-journalist-dies-at-60.html
I did email the journalist who wrote the story on Mr. Kulo’s death and asked him if he or anyone in his news organization will try to find out if vaccines could have contributed to the death of their colleague and friend.
If I get an answer, I’ll pass it along to my readers. I also suggested this journalist, or someone at his news organization, investigate the embalmers’ clots and interview embalmer Richard Hirschman, who is from Ozark, Alabama in our state.
Another update: Lulu's twin sister gives her version of events:
https://www.al.com/news/2024/06/mountain-brook-teen-recalls-twin-sisters-gruesome-shark-attack-harrowing-rescue-i-only-see-blood.html
Prayers and love to Lulu💕
Very, very common for sharks to attack in shallow water. They chase schools of fish into the shallows and in their excitement attack people standing and splashing. So mass attacks are not uncommon because sharks hunt bait fish in groups depending on how the fish are schooling (season, etc).
Also surfers - from below, the outline of the surfboard and the paddling legs and arms looks like the outline of a seal. They don't have great eyesight and so will usually take one bite out of the surfboard and leave people alone when they realise it's not a seal. It gets dangerous when they get a limb and smell blood. You have to fight them off by gouging their eyes with your thumbs.
I was surfing once and a dorsal fin nearly bumped me - in my terror I paddled to shore so quickly that I did not actually look. Once I hit the shore I kept running all the way up to the carpark - it was a school of dolphins lol.
But I'm too old for this shit so stay out of the water now. I prefer land in Australia with the poisonous snakes.
Edit: I am quite shocked that people do not understand it is normal for sharks to chase schools of fish into shallow water. Australians see this all the time. This is what it looks like: https://www.wral.com/lifestyles/pets/video/17512735/
If you swim in the ocean, you're out of your element and into "someone" else's.
There are conservation groups dedicated to the study of marine life who track sharks. 'There's an app for that!'
One website with real-time shark location data:
https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/
When I was growing up I swam and worked in the Atlantic and LI sound off of popular beaches. Being oblivious rendered me fearless.
(I read Benchley's 'Jaws' while aboard a fishing boat off Montauk Point, shivers!!)
Now, you can view helicopter and drone footage of the sharks taken within yards of the surf break and summer bathers along NC, SC and FL live on the evening news.
>If you swim in the ocean, you're out of your element and into "someone" else's.
Facts.
I used to do a lot of SCUBA and would again but ultimately dislike being cold and seasick lol. That's why I now stay on land with the nice poisonous snakes.
Although I never scuba's, I am part fish and have enjoyed hopscotching along the campervan coast swimming in the Pacific from Broome to Swan, skipping the shark infested (closed) Perth beaches, decades ago.
❤️
Couldn't get my hubby in H20 on the GB reef because of sea snakes on last trip, 2006.
Florida has a python, alligator, and shark issue
https://palexander.substack.com/p/florida-has-a-serious-alligator-and
We were considering going to the panhandle. We are vacationing in St Augustine