South Padre Island shark attacks injure 4, officials say

4 people were injured on South Padre Island on the Fourth of July. The fire chief calls the attacks unprecedented.
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[@patriciarangel9915]

“Why do sharks attack?” Because they’re hungry?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ItzTheZ4]

None of these are true “shark attacks” they are all investigative bites from the sharks. Meaning they didnt know if it was a fish or what. Just took bit them because more than likely thought it was a fish.

[@MikeLopez-g6r]

I live here. Those are baby bull sharks and there are probably thousands of them in the water right now. One shark doesn't bite 4 ppl by mistake. Baby bulls is my guess.b

[@LYRICZ2GOOD.]

The Shark injured 4 on July 4th coincidence??

[@LadiesMan-bo2cc]

The shark hates America

[@Arsewell-Foundation]

They better not go out hunting the sharks. You are swimming in the ocean and it's all over the news that there are a LOT of sharks in the gulf right now. It's scary but a risk you take.

[@EastCoastGal66]

Exactly!

[@PaulHedges-zy8vb]

I keep hearing how rare shark attacks are but Ive heard of attacks in Hawaii, Florida ,now Texas in just in the last 2 days.

[@His_Name_Was_King]

Yes almost as if things to be afraid of is well timed making sure you don't focus on nothing else.

[@itskmillz]

There's 8 billion people on planet earth, 3 shark attacks in a few days is still very rare.

[@Idk-vd8wp]

@@itskmillzflawed logic - of those 8 billion people how many are actually in the ocean at that very spot during that time? There, now use that sample and you’ll see 3 shark attacks is not rare, it’s a warning

[@itskmillz]

@Idk-vd8wp your logic is at least as flawed if your going to pretend sharks only exist in those locations. A more accurate analysis would be to compare ocean beach goers vs shark attacks. There might not be 8 billion but during this time of year it's highly likely still in the billions or high hundred millions

[@Idk-vd8wp]

I’m not pretending anything - you’re simply too invested in your delusion to understand what I wrote. “A more accurate analysis would be to compare ocean beach goers vs shark attacks” Exactly my point!! Compare the amount of people actually swimming I the ocean not to the amount of people on earth and you’ll see that this “rare” label is non sense. It happens too often, people will get attacked by sharks so long as they provide the opportunity. End of story.

[@sarahfwiend1146]

Something has been pushing all the sharks towards shore. Likely because something is causing bait fish to desert the outer oceans too. A freaking huge blue Mako was beached recenty which is also unprecedented. They are deep ocean sharks which hunt tuna out in deep oceans, so what is causing everthing to come in shore?

[@Prisoner_844]

They scared away all their Allie’s and peaceful people. And tore down the wall of protection. So now the kings are being hunted down and ethnically cleansed. They didn’t want to rotate to anything I was warning all sides about. You tear down the wall the kings get killed. Been warning if that for years. No one listened. Been trying to convince the wall not to fall asking people to not flee keep defending what’s right but they don’t listen cuz they are corrupt and accept bribes. So now they are being ethnically cleansed. All the choice pieces first. Cuz no one listen to me. No. Instead they call me an enemy which further radicalized the sharks. And there’s no undoing that now I have become so unclean in everyone’s eyes and that’s being used as fuel to the fire that they are using to kill kings. God told me to stop trying to convince my people to build the wall. That they have to live the life and the consequences of their corrupt cowardice. I have been so alienated no one will listen to anything I say. And the sharks are using their hatred of me to fuel a lot of what they are doing. It’s a sick cycle. Everyone’s connected. And depending on each other. Sacrificing each other only gets more deaths and suffering. Told them also they were wasting time. Tried to work them to build up the wall and start deradicalizing. No one at all did anything. But the kings decided to make me their enemy more and threatened to throw me in prison even though I was trying to serve them. So what do they reap? People who are doing evil to them regardless of what they do to please them cuz that’s the new precedent. They broke that ceal not me. I tried to get along with them and they persecuted me without a cause so they are naturally extending their cruelty to the rest of the kings. That’s what happens when you teach them to repay someone who did good to you with evil. Now everyone’s in significant danger. And a lot of people are probably going to die trying to stop the threats. Cuz they wasted precious time and poured gasoline on the flames and tore down the wall.

[@bluchismoon]

Maybe it's the sea temps warming.

[@Misskitty15]

They've been chem trailing the oceans , maybe they are killing the fish?

[@matthewmartinez3774]

Hurricane season could easily be it amigo

[@H43339]

​@bluchismoon Shallow water is warmer than deep water. Nice try though. 🎉🎉

[@IZA_Grey]

Fun fact: sharks live in the water

[@JWalk-j6v]

I didn't realize that, can they come out on land and bite you? Do Sharks have teeth? Will I get bit or eatened? What's the best kind of shark to bite you? Are Sharks poisonous?

[@IZA_Grey]

@@JWalk-j6v Ask again later

[@bluchismoon]

Yeah, not usually in spi waters, though.

[@T2R0U2M4P]

Funny how you sounded more stupid than smart Fun fact: they don't live in shallow water.

[@michaelhale442]

Another damn high school class clown 😂

[@keithridge197]

Bet it was a bull shark

[@MartinRodriguez-gu3nj]

Yha it lookd big

[@JWalk-j6v]

@@keithridge197 thats a pretty safe bet I noticed the tail was one of several different types and a Bull is one that has that tail. Could be a hammer head but probably a bull

[@Idk-vd8wp]

Yea I sure did! That would still be more accurate than trying to compare the entire population on earth to those swimming in the ocean at a certain given time. You’re really inept. Dude keep reaching - there’s no reasoning with stupid. So go on and take a swim in the deep ocean…shark attacks are so rare 🙄

[@keithridge197]

​@@JWalk-j6vnever thought about hammer but that could be it as well. Good call

[@JohnAnderson42]

The image I saw sure looked like a bull... the little flag on the tail and dorsal is consistent as is its head shape... Uless that it a different shark. and I believe the Bull it the most deadly shark.

[@vFANGv]

Humans use the water for recreation; sharks have to live there.

[@EastCoastGal66]

My husband and I vacationed there a few years ago. It’s a beautiful place. I think that the recent hurricane probably brought the sharks closer to shore.

[@daduck8792]

Duck's are people too

[@Laughing_At_The_PedoLiberals]

It's a known fact that sharks won't attack and eat clowns because they yaste funny

[@MthenS]

It was probably a Rottweiler shark.

[@themouseonthebike]

"You yell barracuda, people say what? You yell shark and you have a panic on the Fourth of July."

[@maymoon8851]

Just went to watch Jaws in theater yesterday 🙄

[@EastCoastGal66]

Great movie!

[@RasMatases]

That's a bull

[@juliaweber212]

There were two sharks would Bull sharks travel together

[@bluchismoon]

​@@juliaweber212 you mean in the video? No, that's all one shark. What's seen are it's dorsal fin and it's tail.

[@Snake.br549]

Hey can you hear me there are sharks in the water !

[@nellylewis8763]

Shark dont come to your house bothering you.

[@Linda-sk9hl]

So true!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@benknowbi3380]

Land shark does.

[@mrsjamessmom9044]

They pushed it out to deeper water but can't tell what kind of shark it was? Ok....

[@mambagarden]

@mrsjamessmom9044 I'm sticking with sandbar shark... protected in texas... that's why they pushed it into deeper waters instead of culling it

[@DeeBo_77]

Sharks bite. They don't "attack" . Calm down and quit acting like sharks just suddenly appeared in the ocean, this weekend...

[@VulcanAvenger]

Pushed out to deeper water to tell his friends there's good eating on South Padre Island, follow me.

[@Prisoner_844]

Seems more people are joining in on it and will continue to because no one has build the wall and no one has taking seriously who the real radicles are long ago after the first murders.

[@izzawigsis5331]

I told my child no beaches this summer.

[@Kevinator956]

They found out and fck around… 😂😂 this is why i don’t go in the beach water…..

[@tgirl1012]

I don't blame you

[@christieoneill4277]

You invaded their home. So please stop complaining.

[@bluchismoon]

Nah, there have never been any sharks at the beach when I've gone to SPI. This one was a tourist, not a local.

[@QuanPookie]

@@bluchismoonShe said what she said.

[@LadiesMan-bo2cc]

“Pushed out to deeper water” pushed by who?!

[@uwinsome]

Aquaman

[@uwinsome]

Thank God that Aquaman came to "push " the shark out to deeper water 😮

[@eugenefirebird8938]

I haven't been in the ocean since Jaws came out in 1973. I don't miss it.

[@wulozhero6684]

Damn battery powered boats forcing people to swim with sharks so they dont get electrocuted.

[@ediesimmons9391]

Sharks can swim 95 miles an hour

[@marshmicemiller2306]

What drugs you on? Lol

[@JWalk-j6v]

@@marshmicemiller2306 lol. Their a little off with "sharks" can reach 90 mph but I think Mako confused them because the short fin Mako cruises 30-45mph and have been arrested for 60

[@michaelhale442]

Tell wheelchair not to go out there in floaty😮😮

[@larry930legend]

Any live footage or dead feet

[@pleiku887]

Lots of people go to the beach and go in the water like it's a swimming pool with waves. But there's lots of things in the water that live by eating other things. And lots of things that defend themselves with violence. Would you hang out on the plains of Africa with some sun screen and a beach chair?

[@erincrooke7202]

It’s called a safari.

[@AZVIDS]

Landshark…

[@pageroo9644]

People are invading the shark's territory and if it deems that it must attack, well it's just a consequence of that fact! Plus, pochers have attacked them for years, so it's about time the tables were turned for a change!!!

[@user-id1mx9ze8f]

You telling me shallow waters are a sharks territory? They're not like us people, they go wherever in salt water.

[@pageroo9644]

​@@user-id1mx9ze8fDo I really need to spell it out for you? The OCEAN is their territory. Every part and every crevice of the OCEAN is theirs!! Clear enough for you?!

[@user-id1mx9ze8f]

@@pageroo9644 Shallow waters isn't, not only that, if that were true, then the fish and jellyfish would own that territory, not the sharks, get your head outta where the sun don't shine, boomer ahh

[@scarletrose6356]

​@@user-id1mx9ze8fshallow waters very much is their territory seeing as most sharks only need a few feet of water to swim and breathe. Tons of sharks venture into shallows for food. It's apart of the ocean and any time you step foot into the ocean you are stepping foot into the home of thousands of different species many of which can be deadly. That's just nature and humans need to accept that we don't run the entire world we share it with other species. A shark isn't going to go "oh that's a human my bad bro let me actually bow down and kiss your feet". It's going to either leave you alone like they usually do OR attack if it sees you as food.

[@uwinsome]

Shark attacks a person, and you don't close off the beach .... simply negligence ! Let alone 4 people .... Texas at its finest, at least they didn't get electrocuted by boat batteries 😂

[@dancorry4305]

Bull Shark 🦈

[@BekiDException]

Shark attacked cuz it's tired of humans

[@mikealvord55]

Do you think it might have something to do with the incoming hurricane Beryl?

[@AvacadoStarbucks]

Knee deep is where most attacks occur lol

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

I have been using the wrong bait.

[@canubeleiveit]

His name is really pigg??? And you didn't want to alter it

[@Prisoner_844]

If I wasn’t full of so much contempt and anger I would be crying and say I told you so.

[@Denmark7771]

4 attacks but the officials say don't worry these attacks are rare...hmmm- sounds like the officials in the movie Jaws

[@lyndoncmp5751]

"We have in fact caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers." Mayor Larry Vaughan, Amity Island July 4th 1974.

[@goarmysleepinthemud.]

Thoughts and prayers anybody? Shall we pray to Jesus?

[@QuanPookie]

That shark is anti American.

[@t0mmyh3llfr39]

on behind attacks so for them to suspect it’s the same shark makes more sense cuz a whole group of sharks suddenly deciding humans are on the menu is very unlikely. Sharks can mistake humans for seals but this is unlikely due to the shark attacking multiple people sharks don’t like the taste of humans so this is not a shark mistaking humans for seals, sharks also don’t like to go near the shore at all due to them having the ability to get stuck. What time were the attacks? And what type of shark? Sharks hunt mostly at night and are more active at night as well. Some sharks are more aggressive than others but what is the reasoning behind the attacks? Does it feel threatened? Is it territorial? Maybe it has an injury making it act out. The temperature of the water also can affect the sharks mood. I feel like we need more info on this… sorry my sister is studying marine biology and I love sharks, though it’s never ok when a human gets bitten, I just find this behavior so odd. They seem to just be doing a small taste bite or nibble…

[@Kfred1]

They were probably displaced due to the storm. They are just snaking 😂🎉❤be careful 😮

[@GodLovesYou828]

Shark week baby

[@twins3099]

It was a bull shark .

[@Worklikeyoushouldbe]

Nun nun, nun nun...

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The religious version of Jaws?

[@mambagarden]

Big dorsal.. slim towards tail.. graceful swm motion (see DPS helicopter footage) = sandbar shark

[@mrbaab5932]

Blame San Jose Sharks 🦈.

[@conniewolf7300]

There NEVER used to be shark attacks there!!!

[@BootsBauer-tq4uu]

Holy Sh!T

[@phantomxjedi]

Jaws. 🦈

[@roxiekelley5023]

Popes stay out tham wotert earry wher thay can have sokes ans tham and thay can a tack ayou

[@juliaweber212]

I bet its tiger sharks

[@luerodgers1795]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@srhintz]

They attack because they are fish attracted to shiny white lures like all fish. Your palms and soles of feat shine bright in that chocolate water.

[@bluchismoon]

Yooooo, SPI mentioned! Thank god I don't go to the beach anymore, wtf is going on in the oceans? I've never even seen a shark here before.

[@andreabyrd8954]

🌊🌊🦈🌊🌊

[@franniea]

We dont know why the shark attacked? How about because its an animal hungry terroritorial or all three reasons

[@Kenneth-nx4uv]

GOD'S WRATH 👉 Prior To The Return Of CHRIST, ALL The Animals And Beasts SHALL Turn Upon Man For That Which, They've Done To This Planet.

[@daduck8792]

Duck's are people too

[@shanna1518]

Noooo not in the ocean..