Can we start calling Mick's "attack" something else?
Can we start calling Mick’s “attack” something else? I’m sure it was scary as hell, rattled his cage good and hard. Shed some adrenaline dump tears post heat.
But he wasn’t attacked. He was bumped.
If you stepped out into the road without looking and a truck rolled by, missing by inches, you wouldn’t say you’ve been hit by a car. Because you’d look like a huge pussy. Life’s full of near misses, you’ve gotta sack up and move along.
Which is exactly what he did. Back in the water, back on with his life. He talks about it, sure. Probably the first question every lazy journalist asks.
If you stepped out into the road without looking and a truck rolled by, missing by inches, you wouldn’t say you’ve been hit by a car. Because you’d look like a huge pussy. Life’s full of near misses, you’ve gotta sack up and move along.
It’s gotta be weird, to work so hard at something your entire life then be catapulted to fame by a random encounter. If I were Mick I’d say, “Enough of the shark talk, ya’ cunts.” Or something similarly Australian.
At the same time, the real world doesn’t much about surfing. That bump came with killer exposure. That’s really what Mick’s job is, staying in the public eye. He does it well. One of the very best.
The piece starts with a bunch of nerds holding up full color computer printouts. One of them is wearing a super lame little necklace. They take turns making statements. I don’t know who any of them are. Possibly their presence it’s supposed to lend weight to the following segment?
It plays as though the bump were one of the most traumatic events in Fanning’s life. I don’t believe that. Mick’s made of sterner stuff. Shaken, but not stirred.
Losing two brothers is heavy. I’ve got two baby bros of my own. It’d be hard to lose them.
His mom’s a good presence. Delivers a very real line.
“I just could not believe that this was actually happening. I thought, ‘Oh my god, the universe can’t be this cruel.’ And, uh, I can’t lose another boy.”
Beyond that, there’s nothing new here. It’s justa glimpse of Fanning’s early life, his tribulations set to swelling music, overlayed with an insurance commercial voice over. Not a single glimpse of what makes him a human.
Thats what she said!!
Wondering if the family dynamics of Mick’s family have any thing to do with the loss of his brother’s. What I’m trying to say is when one child gets so much attention/success.. do the siblings suffer? Kelly’s older brother.. I’m sure their are other examples. My nephew whom is in the early stages of being groomed. Poster signings, trips with a whole lot of family attention and resources going in his direction.. Will the older brother pay some emotional price?
Probably… but someone has to stay home and look after the cat and dog. Does Uncle Llama play favourites?
Gtfoh with that bs. That was an attack. The shark just failed. Oh wait, shark advocates will say “but whites don’t fail. If a white wanted to kill you it would.” Hmm. I’ve seen many videos where whites (in non breaching mode) miss seals all the time. And it’s not like when they miss, the shark turns on their 40mph afterburners and chases the critter down like a lion or cheetah.
Really?
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Yeah. And great whites also “attack” like this too. If Mick’s wasn’t an attack… Than what is this? An “exploratory” bite? Why didn’t it just keep attacking and eating her? Do you and shark advocates define it as an attack only when damage or death is inflicted?
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I don’t understand the purpose of the video. Shark bit her leg off. Totally an attack.
Maybe it didn’t go back because she tasted like shit? Or maybe the leg was plenty?
Are you saying that showing interest in something is enough to call it an attack? Because, if so, I’ve been attacked by sharks a ton of times while spearfishing.
Hell, I like the sound of that. Mick was attacked once. I’ve been attacked a dozen times. If Mick is gnarly for going back in the water then I’m king hot shit of awesome mountain.
You used an example of a video of a shark (a juvenile at best learning to hunt – which is what experts said was Mick’s culprit) baited by a boat into a frenzy and then frantically thrashing and chasing a seal as an example of an attack. Funny, it doesn’t appear as if the shark caught the seal either and the thrashing looked eerily similar to Mick’s episode. So the video you used as an example was an attack but Mick’s wasn’t? Or was the video you provided just a shark fucking around?
…Perhaps an attack according to you simply constitutes bodily trauma? You need to actually get bitten for you to consider it an attack? Got it. The point I’m trying to make is that just because Mick was not injured and wasn’t shark punted 10ft in the air doesn’t mean it WAS NOT an attack.
But yet you want to call my provided vid of what was a shark seen from a distance lurking around and “charging” at an insane rate of 2mph towards the victim and then casually taking a calm “exploratory” bite, TOTALLY an attack just because she lost her leg. Hmm.
So Bodily trauma by a calm, curious shark = shark attack. Getting pulled backwards, thrashed, spun around, wacked off your board, having to punch your way to safety = “a bump”. Lol.
bitten by shark = attack
not bitten by shark = not an attack
I can go toe to toe on shark facts all day long, buddy. I’ve got a degree in internet arguing AND amateur sharkology. I bring the fire.
So any animal getting punted 10ft in the air by a white that doesn’t get bitten wasn’t attacked? Got it.
How about failed attack? Im no expert either, but i feel like the leash is what caused it to fail. If it had been creeping up behind him while starting to open its mouth a little, the extra few feet of leash dangling there directly behind mick’s back clearly would have been the first thing to enter its mouth (or get hooked around a tooth or its head), hence the immediate thrashing trying to get that shit out of its mouth or off its head or whatever the fuck it was doing. It was so close to being a major tragedy on live tv, and people still make light of the situation. Go figure. I wonder how you would have handled being “not attacked” in that situation. Poo in the pants?? Never getting in the ocean again? Both? Probably. No shame in that though, it was a pretty serious situation.
Look. It’s your opinion an we can agree to disagree. But consider this in my last comment on the topic.
Look how wide that playing field was. A quarter mile with just two potential marks in the area. The lineup was clear and Mick had been sitting for several minutes, so it’s not like he unluckily paddled right into the path of the shark. That means the shark intentionally sought/came in to explore a potential feed. I can see if you’re the one unlucky bloke in a lineup of 50 surfers. But there was NOBODY but mick out there. An “exploratory” bite, an “exploratory” bump on any potential prey for all intents and purposes, by a large shark is a step in the process of the shark looking to ATTACK something. And sharks attack to eat, not for shits and giggles. That’s what white sharks do. They swim and they eat when they’re hungry. If they’re not hungry.. They just swim. When they’re not hungry, do you think they investigate and bump and mortally wounded prey for fun and then just swim away? I don’t. It’s fact though that many white attack survivors live because surfers/divers/swimmers have the ability to fight back and flee – Other prey just run. I’m sure even a large shark is stunned at a victim kicking and hitting and screaming.
There must be someone out there who can do a mini doc that doesn’t give me the dumb chills.
Jesus you guys make some cheesy TV.
Encounters! that’s for the aliens!!
I don’t care whether it’s an “attack” or not (semantics!), but that was the most superficial of faux-documentaries. Even the Dwyane Wade part that followed it (even heavier shit in his past) was pathetically done.