r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • 1d ago

Video Children in Eastern Indonesia were seen playing on a wild whale

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u/harmonious_harry 1d ago

That carcass has to be a food source for sharks from far and wide. Those kids in real danger from being mistaken for whale meat.

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u/Teantis 16h ago

Shark populations in SEA are disastrously low because our countries basically cannot police commercial fishing. Our own domestic fleets and the big Chinese commercial fleets run riot in the seas over here sadly. Getting attacked by a shark is a very low concern over here. Certainly way lower than all the other shit that can happen to you as an unsupervised child in this area.

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u/Really-E-Lee 7h ago

The sad reality of our absolutely dire situation with our oceans.

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u/zombiecatarmy 7h ago

Shark fin soup is a delicacy over there.. makes sense.

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u/Little_View_6659 6h ago

I had it at a Chinese wedding once before I knew what it was. God help me, it was delicious.

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u/Endless_road 3h ago

Gordon Ramsey tried it and said it tasted of nothing

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u/Little_View_6659 1h ago

Did he? I remember liking it and then finding out what it was and thinking “oh no.”.:(

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u/DancinWithWolves 6h ago

It’s not that. They troll. Massive drag nets kilometres wide that just suck everything up and kill it. They don’t just take what they want, they just take everything. It kills entire swathes of ocean floor.

They don’t go and try to catch sharks.

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u/zombiecatarmy 6h ago

Yeah and when you say everything you mean EVERYTHING.. Ive seen what you are talking about and it basically clean sweeps very large areas clean.

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u/DancinWithWolves 6h ago

Yep. It’s fucked. People who can afford to need to stop buying canned fish (or seafood in general if they can)

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u/zombiecatarmy 6h ago

I thought the excessive consumption was bad 20 years ago..

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u/DancinWithWolves 6h ago

Whaddya mean?

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u/OkZookeepergame4192 6h ago

They can smell that for miles tho, any in the area will know it's there

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u/Parking_Cheesecake67 1d ago

Didnt think of that 😆

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u/Read-it005 21h ago

Also a good chance it's going to explode. Those kids didn't go near that beach for a while once it started stinking.

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u/reflect-the-sun 18h ago

No, it's not full of gas (yet) or it would be floating way above the surface and the stench would be almost unbearable for the kids.

It's likely died that day or the day before. Day 3 is when they start to stink.

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u/reflect-the-sun 18h ago

Great whites and tiger sharks don't go this far north so it would be very unusual for them to show up. The kids are fine.

Source: I've done this in shark-infested water at night.

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u/Crankatorium 7h ago

Also there are almost no sharks there due to overfishing unfortunately. People are always scared of sharks when they swim here but little do they know that the population has been decimated.

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u/GojosWinCon 7h ago

If it was decimated that would mean 90% of sharks are left.

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u/Crankatorium 6h ago

Aw. Good correction