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chazza79 t1_j79wj20 wrote

Reply to comment by Levonorgestrelfairy1 in Teenage girl killed by shark while jet skiing in Australia by AldoTheeApache

But she was in a river..

Prob thought it was safer than in the open sea or beach.

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Intern_Boy t1_j7a1fmc wrote

Nah most Australians should be aware of bull sharks in rivers.

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NoodlesrTuff1256 t1_j7a7epo wrote

Bull sharks are pretty widespread all over the globe and here in the US, I think there have been reports of them swimming into the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico.

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HereWeGoAgain-77 t1_j7ax3je wrote

They used to make it up into the great lakes until we developed the river way.

Now they have been spotted as far north as Ohio.

Happy swimming.

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showers_with_grandpa t1_j7bg2w0 wrote

There has never been a confirmed sighting of a bull shark in the Great Lakes. Definitely up the Mississippi as far as Iowa, and once in the Ohio River a dead one was found but pretty safe to say they get in the Ohio all the time.

The Great Lakes are just not a comfortable temp for BULL* sharks and while one could survive during the warms months I don't think environment suits them from a hunting aspect, they aren't deep water predators.

Edit: *forgot to specify bull sharks

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Thighabeetus t1_j7b8ajw wrote

I Need a source on this. I will start googling as well because this is fascinating if true

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watchingsongsDL t1_j7cg6g9 wrote

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 2 - this time with sharks!

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NoodlesrTuff1256 t1_j7chwif wrote

Sounds like a good idea for some kind of horror film. We were up in Mackinaw City, Michigan last summer and rode a boat over to Mackinac Island and drove over that huge bridge to take a side trip to the Upper Peninsula. Bull sharks mutated to be able to survive in colder waters escape from a lake-side aquarium and wreak all kinds of havoc.

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cmmgreene t1_j7dff4o wrote

Probably New Jersey to, Jaws may have been inspired by a summer of shark attacks back in the day. On the last attacks of the summer was in a fresh water creek. Sounds more like Bull Shark then a great white.

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PopTartsNHam t1_j7a2arw wrote

Yea, tmk there’s still a famous golf course/pond there with resident bull sharks that got washed in years and years ago.

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capricabuffy t1_j7a5fxg wrote

Same as the river in colleges crossin in southern Queensland. Back in the 70\s big old flood let the sharks in, then when it receeded the sharks got stuck, bred and are a danger for swimmers, cattle etc. There is an episode of River Monsters dedicated to the colleges crossing sharks.

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Amasterclass t1_j7ar7lf wrote

Tbf if there were dolphins in the river the water is brackish enough for most shark species. That being said i’d have said it was most likely to be a bull

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Lucky-Roy t1_j7adoyr wrote

Most of us are. But most of us don't go hooning around on jet-skis. That said, it is a tragedy for her family but one that was totally avoidable.

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TokyoTurtle t1_j7aji7a wrote

She was swimming at North Fremantle (Fremantle is where the Swan River reaches the ocean). That area gets little rainfall in summer, so that section of the river is likely not much different from seawater.

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