"There were so many tooth marks all over the skeleton that the attack must have lasted for some time."
This year’s staging of the XXXII Olympic Games has been nothing if not easy. Host nation Japan has had to battle Covid-19, a less-than-happy population, staggering costs, nightmarish logistical challenges, a year’s delay and no way to call the whole thing off.
Surfing, which will make its grand debut, seems particularly snakebit with many injuries, Kelly Slater recently declaring that competition could happen in “lake-flat conditions” since the governing bodies chose not to hold the event in his eponymous tank and now the discovery of the world’s oldest shark attack victim.
Surfer?
It cannot be ruled out.
The body was found by Oxford scientists all the way across Honshu island from Tsurigasaki, where Olympic surfing will take place.
Researchers told CNN, “We were initially flummoxed by what could have caused at least 790 deep, serrated injuries to this man. There were so many injuries and yet he was buried in the community burial ground, the Tsukumo Shell-mound cemetery site. Through a process of elimination, we ruled out human conflict and more commonly-reported animal predators or scavengers.”
Which left either the mighty Great White or extra-vicious Tiger.
After mapping his wounds and creating a 3D model of his skeleton, it was concluded that the man was still alive at the time of the attack.
“We suspect that the man was probably out fishing with some companions in the Inland Seto Sea in southern Japan. They could have been fishing from a boat, or diving for shellfish. Perhaps they were even hunting sharks, as shark teeth are sometimes found in Jōmon archaeological sites. One or more sharks — we suspect one but can’t be certain about that — attacked the man either while he was already in the water, or perhaps he lost his balance and fell, or was pulled overboard if the shark was on a fishing line — this would not have been a small shark. There were so many tooth marks all over the skeleton that the attack must have lasted for some time.”
Will the brutal, lengthy and likely very painful strike be weighing in on the minds of Olympic-bound surfers as they ready to paddle into the nature Kelly Slater warned about?
How could it not be.
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Will he be alright?
Over the target area. Don’t worry, the Olympics are only every little while. Most people will forget your Country lost. Cheer up, there’s always next decade because this one is pretty wrapped up with brown Champions.
And that’s where the Japanese first came up with the idea of sushi.
And that, kids, is how I met your mother.
A shark eating somebody on a wooden Alaia seems more like a cheese and cracker type meal. Much more appealing than fiberglass and fins.
You’re just mad that your Country is going to get smashed by brown people! Might want to start making excuses for ur people.
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Great White: “That was okay sushi man. Maybe I should have tempura’d him.”
I’ve tried to warn EVERYONE for the 40yrs I’ve surfed. There’s sharks in the water, stay out. Sharks are evolving(evo hippies have to believe), and soon they will walk up on the beach and shred you. Stay inland!
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By the looks of the shark I don’t think he’ll be getting a tip.
Looks like that shark played football with the wrong muthafuka.
its the shark version of passing out drunk in the uber.