Morris Island - just east of Folly - is where all them tigers breed, plus a whole buncha other sharks if you want teeth

Terrififying LMAO 🤣 Why do we swim with these? 🤣 

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/public-safety/scarborough-shark-lifeguard-attack-maine/97-45f3ce58-807a-47c0-8349-55c6dd92037e

This was a wild one. Big ol' white shark goes after lifeguards floatation device and pulls him under due to the leash. Dude is super lucky. 

forgot to mention, but there was a shark attack up in Garden City, south of Myrtle beach, a couple weeks back. This was north of the pier, surfing is better south of that. Left a teenager with 15 stitches. Anyways, very very rare in South Carolina. Like i can't remember the last one, rare

Yeah, it typically is. But we had two shark bites on Hilton Head Island last June. Two attacks in 3 days. It was crazy. 

Prior to that, here is a list of bites in SC in the past 20 years. 

That said, there are many others over the years that don't make the paper or the shark attack file. We can all understand local tourist communities don't want the bad press, but I think it's unethical....

The story I use as the example is when I sliced the finger off the side of my pinky during a hurricane swell about 10 years ago. I was an ass hat and grabbed my center fin as a wave went over me on the inside. It ripped across my hand and pulled the skin off. Anyway, it was bad enough that I exited the water and went to the hospital for stitches. Everyone from the waiting room, front desk etc. all asked me (because I am in board shorts, flip flops, soaking wet and covered in sand, and when they asked what happened, I said I was surfing). So anyway, everyone asked me if it was a shark. I am like no... No. No... When i get to a room, this older couple is in there behind a curtain. "Did you get bit by a shark"? No.... Nurse, did you get bit by a shark... NO!

So, they actually glued it back on, but while that was happening, a doctor comes in and says to the nurse "We have a shark bite victim en route. Little girl. Going in room 11".... So then everyone turns and looks at me, and I am like, why are you guys looking at me...

So, I see the EMTs and who I suppose is the father, carrying his daughter past us with gauze and ace bandages all around her right ankle.... So, the nurse leaves, I wait.... Yada yada. One of the EMTs is my boat captain's son, so I ask him "Where was did the shark bite take place?"... Burkes Beach, they reply... Oh.... 

Walk back in the room. The couple was like "What beach did you say you were surfing?".... "Burkes, I reply".... and then I get it... And I was like, look, this happened to me over 30 minutes ago. Yes, I let a lot of blood out in the water there (because I didn't realize how bad it was and paddle all the way back out. I was sitting on the board and saw the blood, then pulled my hand up and saw the skin hanging".... 

But anyway, everyone was looking at me like "Yeah dude, you bled all over the water at Burke's beach, and 30 minutes later this girl gets bit in that same spot.... Whatever I say... No f'ing way....

Anyway, reason I mention this story, is because usually the local paper is all over that kind of thing. They are like ambulance chasers. They hear the EMT radios and report on it.... I checked the local media for DAYS. Nothing. No story. No report. Never ended up in the official shark attack files.... The main reason I was so interested is because I wanted to see if the nurses or EMTs or anyone that was interviewed about it had mentioned that some random guy was surfing that beach, got injured, bled all over the water and attracted sharks. 

That is impossible in my mind, or at least that is what I tell myself. But at any rate. No report. No story. Like it never happened. 

So I just find it hard to believe that up in Myrtle and all those spots that this doesn't happen more than we think....

Granted, the numbers I am citing still make it VERY rare. It's not like NSB where there are like 40+ every year. But still, SC is home to the "sharkiest" water, per capita as far as the whole east coast from what I am told. Not necessarily a ton of big boys, but that isn't the case in NSB Florida either.... 

I was actually on Swellinfo WAY back in the day. Discussing potential places on the east coast that I might move to. There was a dude that lived on Hilton Head Island, and he DM'ed me and said a few basic things. He said "You need a longboard. We don't get a lot of surf here. Few loggable days each week, with occasional fun stuff, but you will only be out in really good surf, challenging stuff, about 12 times per year. And the other thing he said was "It's sharky as FUCK around here." I think he went as far as to say the sharkiest spot on earth. 

And Unfurld, you boys up in Chucktown still have the only bad ones. Both over 100 years ago, on in the Charleston Harbor and while they didn't say Folly Beach as the other spot, they did say the second guy was a shrimp on a shrimp boat by the beach.... The first guy was on a Naval Vessel, fell overboard and as they turned around to get him. Witnesses say it was a "25+ foot long white shark". Again, 100 years ago, so that is like an old fishing tale. But in both cases, it was fatal shark attacks, both in Charleston. And from the way the stories were told, it was like as soon as these guys fell in the water, they were hammered immediately. I get the shrimp boat one. If you have ever been around shrimp boats, sharks and dolphins just follow them around all day for a free lunch. And 100+ +years ago, I assume there were no regulations on dumping shit in the ocean, so who knows what use to get dumped off old naval vessels back in the day that attrack sharks....

There is a spot on the east coast of Brazil, and over the past 10 years, there are INSANE amounts of fatal shark attacks on these beaches because they say giant tigers and whites just follow the big ships in through the channel all day for whatever reason, so there are always huge packs of them hanging out there.....

In San Diego, I had Navy buddies tell me that even back in 2005ish, they would take ships out with bulldozers on the decks and once they hit international waters, they would just dump all kinds of shit off the ships. Metal, scap, furniture, trash, food, you name it.... 

And international waters are like 200 miles out, so that is plenty far. I am just saying that back in the 1800s, they were probably clearing out leftovers and scraps from the mess halls and just dumping it overboard in the Charleston Harbor.