What do we think about the Great Shark Coverup theory?www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9q6jVAY_EATL;DW shark fatalities per year are vastly underestimated and the total is closer to 100-400 deaths per year. A mix of tourism boards and shark apologists fudge the numbers for profit-seeking and misguided ideological reasons (Jaws guilt). Perhaps not a true conspiracy but a convenient convergence of interests. The ocean is a jungle infested with gigantic predators and the risks, while small, are still much larger than what people will tell you, especially the 'sea puppies" crowd that insists they are just misunderstood.What is the verdict on this theory?
What about the Orca never attack people theory? That's the real cover up imo.
>>5070515more people get killed by bees
>>5070515He does bring good points tho. Mistaken identity always seemed retarded to me when supposedly sharks have an exceptional sense of smell
>>5070536that's what I'm saying. I went into it skeptical but his reasoning is very compelling. >>5070535The bee statistics aren't being obfuscated by bee apologists. It's not about the total, its about the discrepancy between the real numbers and reported numbers.
>>5070515I believe it. Sharks are fucking terrifying. I never believed that shit about them being wholesome chungus sea puppers.I also don't believe the shit about how they don't like humans because we're too fatty or bony. They already eat seals and sea turtles so clearly neither are a problem to them.
>>5070543They've been doing this forever. The infamous jersey shore shark attacks were likely a white, but they were blamed on all sorts of shit - even sea turtles. Jaws is basically a documentary about officials hiding the truth to protect their tourism industry.
>>5070515what does this have to do with bigfoot?
>>5070555Gymlan's been going on a maneater kick these past few years, I for one welcome it. The video with the japanese bear was fucked.
>>5070556I can't wait for him to make a video on that tiger who killed 400+ people
>>5070548>Jaws is basically a documentary about officials hiding the truth to protect their tourism industry.Jaws literally led to real people believing in fiction and then nearly killing all the sharks in california out of hysteria.
>>5070566It most certainly did not. Shark fuckers and tourist lobbying groups tried to convince people it did. You're doing exactly what's being discussed in this thread right fucking now.>NOOO THINK OF THE WHITE SHARK PUPPERS!!!Fuck em.
The answer is really simple really. One side needs to stop acting like they are evil killing machine and the other needs to stop acting like they are le hecking wholesome sea pupperinos. Just treat them like the dangerous wild animals they are, by which i mean, just don't swim in waters that are known to have sharks you retard
>>5070576Man-eating species of sharks literally are evil killing machines though. Bull Sharks will just straight up kill for no apparent reason.
>>5070578Nah, they aren't smart enough to have a concept of right and wrong
>>5070579Nobody cares. Intelligence isn't what makes good or evil. That's some stupid shit jews taught you. Filthy monsters exist and need to be destroyed. Ethology is a study for weakings and degenerates.
>>5070515It's probably true. Green fuckers and Vegans are the same mentally ill trash that denied Black crime statistics and Pitbull deaths and bites. Sharks are dumb fish retards, shitbulls of the ocean.
>>5070515>the total is closer to 100-400 deaths per yearThis is literally just a guess he made. Did you even watch the video? There’s no evidence to back that up>What is the verdict on this theory?There’s no cover up, just normies who learnt a bit more than the average Joe taking the idea of “sharks don’t generally eat people” too far in the opposite direction and arriving at “sharks are puppies that are just making an innocent mistake”
>>5070556He needs to do a video on Bujang Senang
>>5070588Wew someone is in a full on damage control melty.
>>5070590In what way is that damage control?
>>5070593In what way isn't it. The gayest part of DARPA is when they turned the whole internet to shit so jews could make more money.
>>5070583>>5070515>>5070543https://www.youtube.com/@SHARKBYTESThis redditor Millennial fag is the worst. I wonder how many deaths his retard of a channel has caused. He's a pitmommy of the sea world.
>>5070596I’ll take that as you can’t actually say then
>>5070600This guy makes a lot of the same points as Bob Gymlan does, like how the mistaken identity theory is not well supported or warning against people like Ocean Ramsey
>>5070600>this shark scientist who makes videos about shark attacks is actually trying to convince you that sharks are harmless>>5070602He doesn’t actually watch the videos he’s complaining about. He just wants to be outraged
>>5070604You're as much of a scientist as the rest of your redditor apologists
>>5070515>>5070543retards
OP is probably a turd worlder who is seething about environmental protections.
>>5070515So where exactly are these hundreds of deaths going? Surely they'd have to be missing cases where the body is never found? I'd find it hard to believe people are fishing up chewed corpses and lying about drowning being the cause of death to protect le wholesome shark.By his estimate, half or more of all missing at sea cases worldwide would be shark attacks. If that's where the bodies are hiding, then plotting missing sailors or beach goers on a map should line up with aggressive shark populations. I hope he dug into actual data like that in the video, I'm not listening to an hour of what sounds like a retarded bigfoot obsessed teenager though.
>>5070650>I hope he dug into actual data like that in the videoHe does. Contrary to what certain retards in this thread might have you believe he states that he doesn’t think sharks are particularly interested in eating people or else we’d be getting eaten all the time. The only things I really disagree with in the video are the 100-400 fatality figure and that he seems to think the vast majority of white shark bites are territorial. Territorial attacks do happen but the majority are low commitment/exploratory attacks where the shark rejects the human as prey. Also he makes some implications for one case that the shark carrying around a human body might be taunting or warning onlookers, as if a fish has that sort of brain power
>>5070515the less australians the better, I say
>>5070515I am much less excited about swimming after this video
>>5070536>"sharks dont want to eat people"Yeah I never believed this either. Sharks are apex predators and eat whatever they feel like and are able to, just like gators or polar bears.
>>5070582You can't just exterminate predators you dont like from an entire eco system retard. That's why everyone in my state hit dear all the time with their cars. We shot all the wolves in the 1700s because we are dumb rednecks
>>5070515OP is a moron retard dipshit loserI bet he's a flat eather also
>>5070515Most shark species really are harmless though. Only great whites, bull sharks, and tiger sharks pose a real threat to humans.
>>5070709explicitly addressed in the video, starting at 26:45
>sharks actually kill 100x more people than statistics say but DA JEWS are covering it up because..... they just are ok
>>5070713Because>marine biologists suffer from Jaws anxiety and worry without constant downplaying all the funding for their scientific efforts dries up if sharks become perceived as monsters again.>tourism boards with real money to make will lose it if people become properly aware of the threat sharks present and their omnipresent existence in the waters.>victims of the above being misinformed about the true nature of sharks and aiding in these narratives due to making their identity about the heckin' sea pupposThere are plenty of real, reasonable reasons to downplay shark attacks, none of which necessitate a coordinated conspiracy. Just a bunch of guys across the country with the same motives, coupled with a lack of reporting in underdeveloped places like africa and southeast asia.
>>5070717Or, sharks truly control the media and finance. Choose what you want to believe. Choose freedom or slavery.
>>5070537>The bee statistics aren't being obfuscated by bee apologists.Thats what the jews want you to think
>>5070713>>5070724damn this jew is fucking pissed
>>5070604>this shark scientist who makes videos about shark attacks is actually trying to convince you that sharks are harmlessThey literally do that and have for years. It's actually a serious issue.
>>5070632What do Great Whites eating surfers have to do with the environment, you seething low IQ retard?
>>5070650He explains it in the video. Lots of people go missing at sea permanently and lots of others are recovered as "boating accidents". Pay attention to the part about the american warship hit during WW2.
>>5070681We absolutely can. Here come the rancher and hunter lobbyists trying to destroy the field of ecology to push their propaganda. Carnivores are mostly worthless wastes of space with few exceptions (Sea Otters are a keystone species, for example). Animals like wolves or big cats have no significant impact on megafauna numbers in a healthy ecosystem. Modern managed parks are not healthy ecosystems. And wolves SHOULD be eradicated. And so should you.
>>5070709Nobody is talking about most shark species though. We're specifically talking about the maneaters.
>>5070579If a Tiger eats an Indian its hunted down and slaughtered. If a crocodile eats a Brazillion its hunted down and slaughtered. If a bear eats an American its hunted down and slaughtered.None of these animals know right from wrong either, so why do sharks get special treatment?
>>5070771Yes we can because humans are better predators anyways and we need meat to live. Your alternative is what, a bunch of deer starving and feeding a strong vulture population?This only applies to colonized terrestrial ecosystems, not marine ones. Marine ecosystems are so full of shit that predator eradication REDUCES fish stocks.
>>5070771> Animals like wolves or big cats have no significant impact on megafauna numbers in a healthy ecosystemthey do but humans do the same thingthe reason yellowstone didnt change much was because humans were already culling the parasites of the plants. filthy dumb grass munching scum. the losers of evolution.
>>5070515It’s a coverup because otherwise idiots would prioritize worthless marine recreation over the ocean supplying us with effectively endless food[1] since shark elimination results in a mesopredator imbalance humans are unable to rectifyhttps://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/2025/how-sharks-keep-the-ocean-healthy.htmlhttps://www.ifaw.org/journal/sharks-keep-oceans-healthyYou do not need to go surfing. You do need to eat animal protein, animal fatty acids, and iodine to not turn out as a stunted cretin. Grow up. Sadly many are unable to grow up and would rather prioritize the immediate pleasure of swimming in a liquid jungle because it’s warm and pretty. [1] the oceans are only endless if china gets nuked in the next 20 years because they are literally raping the sea floor and wiping huge swaths clean of life, like the watery version of americans growing corn and soi for ethanol and gross livestock overproduction rather than improving farm and supply chain efficiency so 2/10 cows aren’t thrown away (gotta keep them shelves stocked with every possible brand and run as fast and hard as possible to keep that cost to dock down ya’ll - the free market works for everything all the time especially when we subsidize the parts we like! "capitalism"!)
>>5070771in a theoretical ecosystem without any large predators, predators would evolve from the herbivores that scavenged the inevitable die-offs. Those with mutations for stronger stomach acid, stronger bodies, and larger brains would suddenly become more successful, breed more often, and form their own populations that follow other animals around waiting for them to die, and eventually, just killing them.
>>5070535A lot more people are around bees than sharks. If I said more people die from cinnamon than Hydrochloric acid, would you sprinkle some on your chai latte?Fucking retard.
>>5070843A lot of people die from dogs too but its all thirdies getting rabies because they’re too dumb to society, and like 30 pitbulls. Maybe 100 pitbulls globally. And that’s the supermajority of fatal dog attacks.
>>5070804>If a Tiger eats an Indian its hunted down and slaughteredthis is a true tragedy. Not even one single indian deserves to breathe air and the world is running out of tigers. What are the streetshitters going to do when the world decides to collectively destroy them down to the last little 9 penised deformed baby jeetlet by 2030? It's not like they can fight back even with their endless hordes.
>>5070901Indians would be more successful as a race without hinduism. They’re west asians same as russians, germans etc. all of their ills come from the caste system and hindu morality.
>>5070815>Uhm actually food should be so expensive the average person should have an existential crisis if they rip a pair of pantslisten I think the chinese should be nuked but you are an anti-human retard and clearly don't have kids. Luckily if humans survive the next 70 years every one of you morons is going to have been bred out of existence and then we can see if a couple million white guys can kill every shitskin on the planet (spoiler: probably)
>>5070903"would" and "should" don't exist, there is only "is". Stop with this bullshit magical thinking.>west asians>same as germansyou're saying wat you bloody bich lasaga basterd
>>5070907Would is a solid guess and should is persuasion. >>5070905Food would be cheaper if china were depopulated. Food would be cheaper if production and distribution were centrally planned to ensure efficiency and americans switched to storing ALL unsold meat in freezers instead of refrigerators.
>>5070908okay nvm I like you anon. I take it back. Wanna meet up and fuck?
>>5070515>You are in danger if you swim near a predator bigger than youNo shit, first name Sherlock.
>>5070515Can't decide if this is a bait thread or not so good job. The reality is you can double or even triple most death statistics just from retarded thirdies dying in shitholes with no reporting. Sixteen jeets got killed by trains while you read this. Sharks probably kill hundreds of people a year but they're brown so who gives a shit. There's also reverse inflation at play where public transportation people drown and then a shark comes by and eats the body, and the shark gets framed for murder. So in conclusion, who knows, who even gives a shit.
>>5070804I never said they shouldn't retard. I said in my original message that they SHOULD be treated as the dangerous animals they are. I just think it is retarded to call them evil.
>>5070717>tourism boards with real money to make will lose it if people become properly aware of the threat sharks present and their omnipresent existence in the watersNo they won’t. Crocodiles are a hundred times more likely to eat you and the Great Barrier Reef still gets a million bajillion tourists every year
>>5070767But he doesn’t. He makes videos on attacks and says the mistaken identity theory is bullshit
OP is a faggot
Holy shit this thread reminded me why /an/ is such a shithole
The thread is not bait. I believe its the same retarded anon that posts schizo things about shark whale hybrids and whatnot. Also the video is made by a retarded dude that believes in ghosts and is just trying to impress another youtuber by claiming "the big science" tries to hide the statistics. While failing to understand that science money is minuscule and not used in such things. Next to that he barely understands the distribution of sharks by claiming that "they are hiding" the attacks in south american coasts. Where there are no sharks bugger than a meter or even close to the shorelines. > tldr: retard tries to impress another eceleb and claims things he doesnt understand as fact
>>5070515>he believes in bigfootOpinion discarded
>>5070679Yeah they eat whatever they feel like, which is not humans 99.9% of the time. You only need to compare shark attacks to crocodile attacks to see the difference
>>5070769>Lots of people go missing at sea permanentlyWhere and why should they be assumed shark victims is the thing though.
Could bigfoot defeat a great white shark?
>>5070955>t. paid shill for Big Shark
>>5071108>bigfoot>not steller's sea apeyou had one job
>>5071189The steller's sea ape is very obviously too small to fight a great white shark
>>5071103They shouldn’t. Like 10 people get killed by sharks and 100,000 people drown at sea each year
>>5071210Most humans can swim though so that seems retarded. They could just swim to shore instead of drowning.
>>5071210It's 1-3 thousand per year and the guy is alleging that up to a quarter are sharkmurders. A decent number of deaths should be easy to say no shark was involved (lost during a storm, recovered with no bites or only propeller injuries, no aggressive shark species found in area etc), so I don't think the window of unexplained fatalities is actually that big compared to how many people he estimates sharks are killing every year.
>>5071230>Most humans can swim thoughSpoken like somebody who’s never watched Bondi rescue
>>5070515I've tried to watch that video but I really can't. It's all completely unintelligible random strings of words to me. I don't get how people are responding to it and talking about it as though there's anything of substance in the video, is it some sort of joke/meme I'm not in on? The only thing I can make out are occasional mentions of shark species, "consumption", and "fatal", the rest sounds like made up jargon or gibberish following no clear grammatical structure.The guy who made the video is clearly an actual schizophrenic or in some sort of manic or intoxicated state. I was going for a psych undergrad before I switched majors and would volunteer to help psych patients and he sounds exactly like an unmedicated schizophrenic or someone undergoing a manic episode. I feel bad for him, since he should be getting intervention instead of posting his ramblings online where people will make fun of him for being deluded about sharks or whatever. The danger posed by sharks to an individual human is astronomically low since we mostly only eat fish and the idea that there is a conspiracy about deliberately under-reporting human fatalities to sharks sounds so absurd it can only be taken as a joke by anyone with any degree of rational thought.
>>5070572Nah, fuck you retard. Literally the author of Jaws and Spielberg both had admitted guilt to that outcome. Your supposition is literally just dude trust me it's real.
>>5070515I am disappointed some people want to believe in a bigfoot truther when it comes to discussing real animals. This guy with no actual scientific background that doesn’t cite any kind of empirical or statistical evidence to back up his "theory" at all. He's a guy that takes creative liberties on cases just for the sake of being sensational.
>>5070771Retarded ass pseudo intellectual.
>>5070771Most retarded post of 2025 award
>>5071187What are you talking about anon. Take your meds...
>>5071210How do people even drown? i swear i was never taught how to swim but i can at least float in place
>>5071237I think you might just be retarded
>>5071428They go too far into the ocean and the undertow gets them.
>>5071254his other Bigfoot vids are admittedly entertaining but when you look up the backstories online after watching them, the “evidence” is always lacking or incredibly sus. Just another true believer, not someone interested in truth.
>>5071254I would honestly bet 1/2 of people on here believe in Bigfoot
>>5071456His bigfoot videos are very fun if you take them as campfire stories. I can be convinced into believing bigfoot is an extinct species of ape that lived like 10k years ago and ancient native americans saw and wrote stories about. But bigfoot being alive today is fucking retarded
>>5071460yep agree. Fun to have in background while driving through forests in my area. However as someone who has even only taken a few biological anthropology and anatomy classes, Bob clearly gets all of his knowledge from maybe reading a few articles not actual education.
>>5070515>What do we think about the Great Shark Coverup theory?Its true, there are a lot more sharks out there than we like to believe because of the cry for conservation. I grew up in the fishing industry and dealt with conservationists and their enforcers. These people have no qualms about lying to save every little thing in the ocean, be it a massive white shark or a littleneck clam. I think him going>well they won't report the actual numbers so I'm going to make a crazy claim too and say up to 400 deaths a yearhurts his case but otherwise its a good video that goes over the reality and consequences of the situation.
>>5071237>muh schizo buzzwordIf you want to find the turth about something you need to look at both the normies and schizos say.Normies:>sharks are just curious wholesome chunguses who didnt mean to bite you!Schizos:>BIG SHARK IS COVERING UP THE SIX GORILLION SHARK ATTACKS EVERY YEARReality in between the two:>sharks are large unpredictable territorial predators and we really have no idea about what goes on behind shark attacksThe most compelling thing in the video was the shark that killed the russian tourist and was holding his body above the surface to show other beachgoers. That implies a scary amount of intelligence we didn't know about before.
>>5071503>was holding his body above the surface to show other beachgoers. That implies a scary amount of intelligence we didn't know about beforeIt implies nothing but anthropomorphism. It’s a fish, it does not know or care about how the beach goers would react. This is like when people see videos of a tortoise on its back being flipped upright by a second tortoise and think it’s a heartwarming rescue, when in reality the second tortoise was the one who flipped the first upside down to begin with
>>5070804There are no crocodiles in Brazil anon
>>5070515This guy has made a living out of supposing something about nothing over and over again. I listen to his vids when I'm bored (with adblock obv) and its fine but I mean FFSHe did a fucking video on ghosts haunting christ watts' house. give me a fucking break dude. the video is legit laughably stupid and embarrassing. He should be so ashamed of it.
>>5070679You're thinking of crocs not gators. Gators are lazy fucks who prefer smaller prey. Crocs are the ones who see everything as food.
>>5070515>bob gymlanyeah i saw that video too. first time hearing about him. he's a pretty good video maker. watched that and his chaitan one. great storyteller. but i was devastated when i learned 95% of his videos are bigfoot-slop. i thought he'd be more intelligent than that but i guess not.
>>5070535>more people get killed by bees
>>5071713I am a regular Bob Gymlan watcher and i agree, that video was fucking retarded. So was the one where he blamed the dead mountain incident on Bigfoot
>>5071713>>5071757you guys seen this one where he took pictures at his overnight workplace? i think his bigfoot shit is retarded but one of the pics at the end of the video is quite unsettlinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7vCBxOziTQ
>>5071765It is very spooky indeed but i am not big into ghosts personally
>>5070590This site has rotted your brain if you think every single disagreement no matter how small is a melty
>>5070515this guy has been becoming more and more schizophrenic ever since he appeared on the jo rogan podcast. It's hilarious. I actually like his content normally but he's been diving headfirst without any level of skepticism for like a year now and it's hilarious. I guess his fagbrain has finally caught up to him.
>>5070664>as if a fish has that sort of brain powereh, all large predators are fairly intelligent, and sharks are known to play and scuffle. I wouldn't put this particular suggestion down with absolute rejection.
>>5071970I would. Even the most intelligent apes, dolphins, etc are toddler level. A shark is magnitudes less intelligent even if it’s fairly smart by fish standards
>>5071978it’s crazy how many people think that Dolphins are adult human-level intelligent, based seemingly only on Reddit and Facebook posts
>>5071991>based seemingly only on Reddit and Facebook postsPeople have been over hyping and anthropomorphizing dolphins since people first started sailing the Mediterranean.Sorry that your understanding of the world begins and ends with the internet.
>>5071428Most people have less than 20% body fat.Muscle and bone sink.
>>5071991And also seaQuest DSV in the 90's.
>>5070677>there were 9 confirmed shark attacks in 2015 which means the entire ocean is dangerousstop being hysterical. millions of people go swimming in the ocean each year and are unharmed.
>>5071428Currents can drag you under water; waves make it harder to keep your head above and so does exhaustion; if you're in water for a prolonged period your body gets colder and you loose controll over your limbs; cramps etc.
>schizo doesn't understand something (common)>ITS DA GOVERNMENT/JOOZ/PAKIS
>>5072057GOOD MORNIGN
>>5071531We don't know shit about animal intelligence as it is. For all we know, being a spiteful bitch is a basal part of all animals.
>>5072008There are no statistics on how many people are reported as "lost at sea"It's tens of thousands a year, people who just vanished when out diving, fishing, swimming, surfing, paddling etc. There are no answers as to what caused them to go missing, but when you have video of a guy being dragged under next to a boat at sea, and the official cause of death is "lost at sea" then that should be all you need to know.A significant percentage of people "lost at sea" were likely taken by sharks. Especially out at sea. If an oceanic whitetip spots you, then you're likely the first possible meal it has seen in days, you are going to be attacked.
>>5072180But there are statistics on how many people drown and are recovered each year, which are in the hundreds of thousands. If 300,000 people drown and 15 people get killed by sharks why would you assume a major proportion of the 10,000 who go missing would also be shark victims?
Why don't sharks ever attack deepwater jews despite sharing the same habitat? Yet sharks attack normal land-dwelling humans. Something doesn't add up here. I think I have a lead on who is behind the shark attacks and their coverups...
>>5072617>deepwater jews
>>5071429>>5071503Both of you are idiots, read the post carefully and you'll understand it. One word should clue you to what they were doing
>>5072015>Currents can drag you under waterI don't believe you.>exhaustionYou are positively buoyant. Just fucking relax and take a deep breath. You don't actually need to swim.>if you're in water for a prolonged period your body gets colder and you loose controll over your limbs; cramps etc.Exposure and dehydrations are actual problems. I agree.
>>5070600Yeah, retard is a full blown USS Indianapolis denialist shitting on the graves of veterans directly responsible for ending the world's bloodiest war.
>>5073243>theythat faggot got a mouse in his pocket?
>>5073243It's a retarded tranimeposter, why would I want to understand what they have to say?
>>5070515Entertaining video, this thread started me watching more of his stuff, most of his maneater videos are pretty good. But 90% of his material is creepypasta, demon talk, bigfoot and the paranormal, the dude was even on Rogan apparently. Nothing against Rogan's politics but you know the dude rotates through 4 topics at most (standup, wrasslin, bigfoot and weed) - not my cup of tea.
>>5070515>bob gymlanAaaan it's disproven
>>5071237>The guy who made the video is clearly an actual schizophrenicHe said that he had aliens and monsters visiting him in his childhood so you might be onto something
>>5071503>le truth is in the middleMidwit
>>5071921uh oh melty
>>5071254As a bigfoot truther I despise gymlan
>>5070518Orcas kill all witnesses if they decide to attack a human, they also understand what Cameras areThey'll also eat humans hole or burry the dead
>>5072175So you have no proof
>>5074593>You are positively buoyant. Just fucking relax and take a deep breath. You don't actually need to swim.It's easy to do that in a pool, now go do it in the ocean or the middle a river
>>5075344Its even easier in the ocean because you are more bouyant there so I don't know what the fuck you are talking about.>riverjust swim to the bank ffs
>>5075353>Its even easier in the ocean because you are more bouyantNot if a shark is dragging you down.
>>5074593>>5075353I see you've never actually been in an ocean.
>>5075353Go try it and report back
>>5071237>we mostly only eat fishYou’re on thin ice Bruce
>>5072180Do you have any idea how easy it is to die out at sea?
>>5075795Just float nigga it's easy in a pool
>>5075795Sounds like a skill issue.
>>5075814The ocean isn't a pool retard
>>5070650counting migrants the Mediterranean had like 3000 missing people on the sea
>>5070578Sharks are in the same category as Lion, Leopards and Polar Bears in that if you make yourself so available in their own territory then they'll naturally consider eating you.He's right that going into the ocean is provoking a shark attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fawk7fI3ftg
>>5070535more people are on land at all times stupid.
>>5076954Something like 90% of the time when a drone spots a shark there’s a swimmer in close proximity, yet they don’t attack. If those same people were in close proximity to a polar bear they’d be dead
>>5070515>What do we think about the Great Shark Coverup theory?I could easily believe something like that being done locally, but not globally. Both marine biologists and tourist destination marketers hate the shit out of other marine biologists and tourism shills, if they found their direct competitors fudging data they'd instantly expose it. Not a chance in hell for a cartel-like detente regarding the issue, it's basically like expecting TikTok influencers to maintain a conspiracy. Shitting on each other is how these people survive.
I'm from Amity Island, and I say KILL EM ALL!!
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>>5077203kek
>>5070515>shark fatalities per year are vastly underestimated and the total is closer to 100-400 deaths per year.Possible but I find it a little hard to believe that it's some kind of universal thing that numbers get fudged. I live in a place with lots of sharks and it's a pretty big deal when there's an attack, and fatalities are huge news and only happen once a year if that. If sharks were actually killing more people but being kept quiet they'd be treated as disappearances for people who went swimming or something which does also happen here but feels even rarer. >>5070679I thought most shark attacks were sharks biting people due to not knowing wtf they are (e.g food or not) and then they tend to fuck off. Actually repeatedly attacking and EATING people feels pretty rare.
