Are Floridians numb to sharks? Sure seems like it, as recent footage showing a large shark just a few feet from shore, rampaging in the water, munching a pelican, and swimmers a mere few feet away…just standing there nonchalantly, and watching it all go down.
Reporting on the video, awesomely-named Louisiana country music station 97.3 “The Dawg,” described: “A video on social media shows a small crowd of beachgoers standing in the water as a large bull shark reportedly eats a pelican. You can see some people rush out of the water as the shark approaches the shore, but two women closest to the shark were undeterred by this potential threat.”
Yeah, those two women seem totally unfazed; watch below.
The footage was posted on June 20th on a Facebook page called “All Things Navarre Beach & Pensacola Beach Official,” with the caption: “Footage captured of a shark taking down a pelican yesterday at Pensacola Beach! Be careful & alert.”
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And while the action is most obviously happening between the bull shark and the bird, most people couldn’t get past the fact that these two women just stood there, very close, and watched as the vicious attack went down. One commenter wrote:
“Probably should get all the way out of the water. These are the ones you can’t feel sorry for if something were to happen. I promise that shark is quicker in that water than anyone in the picture. Best of luck have fun.”
In other Florida shark news, at the same spot in Pensacola, an angler hooked an 11-foot, 1,000-pound tiger shark, then posed with it for this insane photo:
And before that, avid surfer Matt Bender was attacked by a shark while surfing at New Smyrna Beach – aka the “shark bite capital of the world” – getting his arm totally shredded in the process. And yet, he vowed to paddle back out once he’s healed up.
Yep, safe to say, Floridians are thoroughly desensitized to shark activity.
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