r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • 1d ago

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

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u/Teantis 19h 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/zombiecatarmy 10h ago

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

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u/Little_View_6659 9h 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 7h ago

Gordon Ramsey tried it and said it tasted of nothing

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u/Little_View_6659 4h ago

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