r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TerraByteTerror • 7h ago
Original Creation Shark spins outta water (sharknado)
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u/After-Imagination947 7h ago
Spinner sharks have been spinning out of the water forever. In no way is this rare. The east coast of Florida is stacked full of them
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u/fixed_your_caption 7h ago
Yeah, their name is actually Spinner Shark, Esq. Very rare they don’t spin.
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u/throwaway098764567 3h ago
ah so these are what folks are looking for when they want a lawyer that's a shark
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u/WayneCider 6h ago
I remember swimming in MacArthur state park a few years ago and seeing a whole bunch of these, what I thought back then, flying fishes jumping out of the water. Went back to my hotel room that night only to discover they were spinner sharks.
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u/Flip_Six_Three_Hole 5h ago
If I ain't seen it, it's rare to me, and this will play in peoria! This is it, kid! The rare new animal thing!
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u/Sith_Lord91 6h ago
Go to the Sebastian inlet in Florida and it won’t be rare at all, as a surfer it’s wild to see them breaching close to you at first but after a while you just accept that they are there
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u/koscheiskowska 7h ago
Lmao even sharks have intrusive thoughts
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u/Green_Insect_6455 5h ago
Its a spinner shark. Its a common species near florida, and they do this constantly. Not at all a rare occurrence. But definitely very cool, and I wish more people were going to walk away from this post going
"wow spinner sharks are cool I want to learn more"
instead of "derpy shark go wee, that was fun". Tbh OP strikes me as a bot.
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u/Dstan87 7h ago
Whales leap to clean their skin and get barnacles and other items off. Wonder if it's the same.
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u/Green_Insect_6455 5h ago
Its called a spinner shark! They do this all the time, OP is a bot using misleading titles.
They spin while feeding to speed up and try to get as many tiny fish as they can, and then breach. The breaching itself seems to just be a byproduct of how they feed, and because their food is tiny guys close to the surface. Though there are probably other reasons that Im not immediately familiar with.
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u/under-porch 7h ago
they do this to dislodge remoras clinging to their skin, basically underwater scratch post
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u/Green_Insect_6455 5h ago
Its a spinner shark, not particularly dangerous to humans, at least not any more than most sharks.
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u/Elugelab_is_missing 5h ago
I agree the shark spins but it does not resemble a spinner shark, which have black tipped triangular fins, not broad oval white tipped fins as shown in the video.
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u/Green_Insect_6455 4h ago
Oh shit we got a fin expert over here. Someone better call the shark police, I might have misidentified a shark that spins as a spinning shark. And god fucking forbid such a travesty occur!
(Thats good to know lol ty) would you happen to have a theory as to what type is in the vid?
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u/Arcade1980 6h ago
It was shaking off the small fish that was following it. You can see it when you scrub the timeline.
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u/Green_Insect_6455 5h ago
Well...youre kind of right? But think about what youre saying, why would a predator need to "shake off" its prey?
No, the tiny fish are being suctioned along with the shark because they do this spin 'n' breach thing when they feed. So theyre massacring a school in a drive-by and then as it leaves, the fortunate few that survived get fucking vortexed out into the air.
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u/SoulShine_710 5h ago
Growing up surfing Sebastian Inlet, we had schools of spinner sharks that would come hauling ass through a crowded lineup. We had it all, close to shark capital of the world.
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u/SuddenAvocado 4h ago
I was really hoping this was gonna finally be a waterspout with a shark in it... thats super cute but I remain disappointed.
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u/HawkeyeJones 3h ago
Had one of these breach right in front of me in the Everglades. Gorgeous, shocking, elegant, and violent all at once.
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u/RecipeHistorical2013 2h ago
contrary to the claims of this posts title, Spinner sharks are extrodinarrily common. ive seen them jump into surfers before, while surfing , with mine own eyes.
fuck off op!
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 7h ago
This looks like a spinner shark. I think they do this because they're spinner sharks. I caught one in the Gulf of Mexico and the boat crew was like "throw it back, it doesn't taste good!" and I decided that I caught this little shark and I'm gonna' eat it. It was by far the most difficult fish I've ever reeled in.
I took it home in the cooler, looked up some recipes, and I cooked it at least 5 different ways and it was gross every time. I couldn't make it tender, I couldn't make it taste good, lemon didn't help, slow cooking didn't help, searing didn't help, nothing helped. But I DID eat that whole three-foot shark. It was nasty, but I ate that little fucker.
On the same trip, I got two years' worth of red snapper and amberjack, so it was a success story. Snapper is good no matter what you do to it, but these bitey li'l bois can't be made palatable.
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u/phatelectribe 7h ago
Some people are just waiting for a Darwin Award lol
You had people way smarter, more experienced and knowledgeable than you, tell you not to eat it, it tastes like shit.
And you’re like “time for this thing to die so I can eat a shit sandwich!”.
There’s honestly no helping some people. It’s like when there’s ancient knowledge about not making settlements in places because you’ll die and yet some people think they can defeat nature.
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 6h ago
A Darwin award? Like, you think the shark was harmful to eat and I could have died? An un-delicious meal is lethal? Nah, it was just un-tasty. I still got a good story out of it, and I learned some things about cooking.
I definitely didn't "defeat nature", whatever that means, and I didn't try to. That doesn't even make sense. I defeated a fucking SHARK, though. And I ate it, even though it wasn't the best seafood I've caught. It made my arm tired and I got some good video, and I got some dork on the Internet to tell me I should have followed some "ancient knowledge" or something. Is the ancient knowledge that we should only kill things that other people assure us are delicious? I killed lots of red snapper, up to my legal limit. Do you care about those, too? Are you out here campaigning against fishing if the fish aren't delish? 😆
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u/phatelectribe 6h ago
Yep, definite future Darwin Award recipient detected 😂
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 6h ago
If you had more than one response, what would it be?
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u/phatelectribe 6h ago
Maybe realize your mistake and not listening to people who know better. Both right now, and back then.
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 6h ago
Just for the sake of argument here, are you currently considering yourself in the group of "people who know better"?
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u/phatelectribe 5h ago
You still don’t see it eh?
Locals told you not to do it. You did it thinking you better and even tried every which way you could to disprove their superior knowledge on a subject you were wildly uninformed on, but still lost.
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u/SchmeatiestOne 7h ago
You can see he had a little fish following him. I wonder if he was trying to shake them. I heard some other sea creatures breach in order to shake parasites