“While Kentucky doesn't have an ocean, it does have aquariums. In 2006, at least 12 people at Kentucky's Newport Aquarium were bitten by sharks while at an exhibit that allows visitors to touch the animals”
Keep in mind that this aquarium is just across the river from the zoo where parents let their kids fall into the gorilla exhibits.
I know you already found the answer, but I want to add that shark skin is only smooth in one direction, if at all. The scales are made of V-shaped grooves, like their teeth. Their skin can definitely break yours if rubbed in the wrong direction at a fast enough speed.
I can personally vouch for this. I used to volunteer at aquariums. The sharks and manta rays were my favorite exhibits to work in. Penguins were dope too, but they smell.
Just realized New York has a lot of shark attacks unless you're taking about loan sharks where the fuck do you get attacked by a shark in the toxic wasteland that is the entire state every water source is a pond full of garbage and other stuff you really don't want to touch
I remember reading the NM one happened in a aquarium, but it is still counted. Bull sharks do travel up the Mississippi River and tributaries and have been reported in IL.
Washington State? Aren’t our waters too cold and with the seafloors all barren wastelands except a few kelp forests that somehow exist despite only getting sunlight for 4 months a year?
There are great whites that have been spotted up off the northern coast of Vancouver Island in BC when the currents are right. I don't know about attacks, but the possibility is there.
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witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 2y
“While Kentucky doesn't have an ocean, it does have aquariums. In 2006, at least 12 people at Kentucky's Newport Aquarium were bitten by sharks while at an exhibit that allows visitors to touch the animals”
Keep in mind that this aquarium is just across the river from the zoo where parents let their kids fall into the gorilla exhibits.
ButtCheekOnAStick@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
HARAMBE!!!!!
foo@programming.dev · 14 pts · 2y
Is this an example of American exceptionalism?
Gingernate@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Yes
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
And yet it's an awesome aquarium and I highly recommend it. Including the 'touch a shark' part.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It was surprising how sandpaper-ish they feel.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Yes! Me too! I was totally expecting them to be slick.
cynar@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 2y
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/outreach.png
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 21 pts · 2y
This is shockingly relevant
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
sharkingly*
cynar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Definitely.
I also want to get the last 3 frames printed on a t-shirt. I have a young daughter, and it amuses me even more since that happened.
ADTJ@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2y
I can suspend my disbelief to a point but I have just one question.
Where did the helium come from?
Knusper@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
Electrolysis and then nuclear fusion.
cynar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
SCIENCE!
Gigan@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2y
They swim up the Mississipi
rifugee@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y
People don't realize that Mississippi is an acronym and all of the s's are for 'shark.'
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social · 47 pts · 2y
Most
Inland
Sharks go
Sharking
Incessantly.
Sharks
Shark
In
Parts of
Places
Inconceivable
snooggums@kbin.social · 19 pts · 2y
Really rolls off the tongue!
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
bull sharks are the only ones that go that far north right? they can maintain the salinity around them or some cool shit like that
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y
pretty sure they're just the only shark that handles freshwater
3ntranced@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I mean if you throw enough sharks in eventually one has gotta be like "aight imma breath salt"
Granite@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
That doesn’t explain New Mexico though.
Buffaloaf@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
It was a diver feeding sand sharks at an aquarium.
D1G17AL@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
The Rio Grande connects New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. Sharks can swim against the current.
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
How do people not know this?
Guru_Insights99@lemm.ee · -3 pts · 2y
Yeah, this post shows how little Lemmiers understand about basic geography 🙄🙄
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2-bull-sharks-swam-up-mississippi-river-to-st-louis-study-finds
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 2y
NEW MEXICO?!?!?
Decoy321@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 2y
It's hilariously stupid. In 2005 one dude was cleaning an aquarium's shark tank and cut his arm on a passing shark.
https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/15/new-mexicos-shark-attack/
Still counts.
Caspase8@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
How does one cut one's arm on a passing shark? Sharks are smooth as can be.
Edit: Never mind just read the article and he cut his arm on a tooth while the shark swam past open-mouthed.
Decoy321@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I know you already found the answer, but I want to add that shark skin is only smooth in one direction, if at all. The scales are made of V-shaped grooves, like their teeth. Their skin can definitely break yours if rubbed in the wrong direction at a fast enough speed.
I can personally vouch for this. I used to volunteer at aquariums. The sharks and manta rays were my favorite exhibits to work in. Penguins were dope too, but they smell.
drekly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Sorry but you're wrong, sharks are well known for having the smoothest skin
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 22 pts · 2y
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah (had a shark attack)
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 2y
oh no i just released Kentucky too THE SHARKNADOES ARE COMING
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Not_mikey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Non-midwesterners: surprised
Midwesterners who've had a fear of bull sharks since their friend told them about them when they were 5: see I knew it could happen
Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
My childhood nightmares of encountering a shark in a hotel pool can actually happen
Voyajer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Bull sharks yo
Shard@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Could it be loan sharks?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 2y
The chances of a shark attacking you on dry land are low but never zero!
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
That's just basic quantum physics.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
https://youtu.be/p_NS2H55dxI?si=MlQFJlxO69diH-QS
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 2y
Ah, the elusive lank-shark!
creditCrazy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Just realized New York has a lot of shark attacks unless you're taking about loan sharks where the fuck do you get attacked by a shark in the toxic wasteland that is the entire state every water source is a pond full of garbage and other stuff you really don't want to touch
scutiger@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
At the New York Aquarium
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
NM, IL, KY, PA?
CptOblivius@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I remember reading the NM one happened in a aquarium, but it is still counted. Bull sharks do travel up the Mississippi River and tributaries and have been reported in IL.
FrigidAphelion@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Okay, but New Mexico??? We barely have lakes here!
Decoy321@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/15/new-mexicos-shark-attack/
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
You rock! I'm spreading that information like gospel to everyone I talk to this week!
Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 2y
Sharknado motherfucker
unreachable@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
now that's some kind of horror
son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Sharks Georg, who lives in Missouri with his shark collection, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
Could it be a zoo? No, that would be too easy
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 8 pts · 2y
Flying street sharks are more likely
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
True, there are more streets than zoos
snooggums@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
Bull sharks can swim up freshwater rivers. In this case, the Mississippi for the central US.
I would guess Rio Grande for New Mexico.
Curiousfur@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 2y
New Mexico's incident was actually in an aquarium, a commenter above posted a link.
snooggums@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Thanks for the heads up!
KeefChief13@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Bull shark attack in the Ozarks no? At least that is what all the locals claim haha.
mjhelto@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
🎤🎤 Scary flying shark, scary flying shark, Careful you, he's out hunting in the dark 🎤🎤
Rayspekt@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
THERE'S A SHARK IN THE BATHTUB
TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
OP probably: "What's that squiggly line between these landlocked states? Probably not important."
Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
Washington State? Aren’t our waters too cold and with the seafloors all barren wastelands except a few kelp forests that somehow exist despite only getting sunlight for 4 months a year?
Taniwha420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
There are great whites that have been spotted up off the northern coast of Vancouver Island in BC when the currents are right. I don't know about attacks, but the possibility is there.
JewGoblin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
freshwater shark?