https://globalnews.ca/news/9517224/missing-father-found-inside-shark-stomach-identified-tattoos/
I don't know much about sharks but there was no way he was eaten alive, correct? I think sharks hesitate to eat live humans?
--Michael D. Clarke
An arm of the poor man was found inside a little shark ( about 1,50 metres). I guess he was already dead.
shareMaybe you're joking. It happens. If they found him, they found pieces of him. It is my vague impression that wearing wet-suits increases hazard, because that resembles seal skin.
The 2022 worldwide total of 57 confirmed unprovoked cases is lower than the most recent five-year (2017-2021) average of 70 incidents annually. There were nine shark-related fatalities this year, five of which are assigned as unprovoked. This number is in line with the 5 year annual global average of six unprovoked fatalities per year.
Annual fluctuations in shark-human interactions are common. Despite 2021’s spike in fatalities, 2022 was a return to typical long-term trends which show a decreasing number of annual fatalities. Year-to-year variability in oceanographic, socioeconomic and meteorological conditions significantly influences the local abundance of sharks and humans in the water.
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/
Sharks don't usually "eat people alive", usually they take a big bite out of a human, decide the human tastes bad, and leave the person to die of rapid blood loss.
Bears are the ones who will eat humans alive for real, grizzly or polar bears! There was a case in Russia where a woman was on her cell phone with her mother, while a grizzly bear took its time eating non-essential bits of her.
I thought bears were gay and not into eating women?
shareidk that shark from Jaws 1, Jaws 2, Jaw 3, and Jaws 4 Revenge seemed to develop a taste for human meat after trying it out
shareYeah, well, fiction. But people who've studied man-eating predators have come to the conclusion that humans seem to taste bad to a lot of predators, that most predators will actively avoid easy human prey and go after a species they like better. There are a few exceptions, some big cats will develop a taste for human flesh, and of course polar bears aren't in a position to be picky about what they eat.
But of course a shark that takes a bite out of a human is probably going to think "Yuck, it tastes like neoprene", and spit it out.
An acquaintance of mine at UC Davis, years ago, was attacked by a shark in the bay, maybe outside on the coast surfing (more likely) - it was in the Chronicle.
shareMay I ask if your friend fishing in SF Bay itself, or was out in the deeper water where sharks are normally found? I used to SCUBA dive, and the local divers thought that you were most likely to find great white out by the Farralones or away from shores and shallows.
Which didn't stop me from worrying like hell, the one time I went diving in Monterey Bay. Much of Monterey Bay is deep and cold and there are definitely sharks out there, hoping for seals and occasionally taking chunks out of surfers. The visibility is crap there, like 30 feet, and where did the dive tour go? A seal colony! The one place in shallow water most likely to attract great white sharks!
Its been many years, so my memory is not good. It seems like it was in the bay. For sure, encounters are much more common on the coast. Here is a map of historic encounters in the bay and along the coast over the last century or more :
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-last-100-years-of-shark-attacks-in-the-Bay-6400365.php#photo-7270318
Whoa - several of those attacks were in the Golden Gate channel or in the Bay itself! Thanks!
It kinda makes me glad that I had to give up regular diving, not that I ever dove much in NoCal, with its icy seas and poor visibility. Southern California has much better diving so I visited there frequently, the water is much clearer and warmer, and the sharks are mellower.