Imagine witnessing this, let alone it being a family member or spouse! Poor husband to have to live with such a gruesome act. Prayers to him and family
@@bluemarlin8138 WA is just as bad. I’m in Victoria. We get Bronze Whalers in the Summer, and the odd Mako as the main concern for surfers and swimmers. GW’s are around too of course especially around seal colonies.
Byron Bay & Evans Head have plenty of the big predators swimming around, few people taken at Ballina too, so NSW east coast is bitey too. The amount that go into the water though, just depends, although it's totally increasing the amount of attacks last few years
As a South Australian, I remember this attack as a kid in the 80s and have read about it in books since. If i remember correctly It was a father and daughter who went out in their boat after the attack as they had come in from fishing with the father saying "we didn't stay out there too long as the shark was easily as big as our 6 meter boat". It was also witnessed by Mr Wiseman(possibly his family, the beach was named after) from a cliff above the beach.
I live in Australia.. there been mutiple shark attacks including several fatal ones..at my local beach I always laugh when tourists say to me ' you live here..omg you must swim everyday' Um nope.. I know there are big great whites out there.. you couldn't pay me to swim at any Australian beach..
I read about this guy visiting in Australia and being nervous about going in the water and his friends said don’t worry we will protect you. I thought from a great white? Nay, nay, I think not.
This was certainly one of the worst attacks/predations recorded, considering the family was witnessing it. The only saving grace was that the poor soul probably didn't have time to think before her life was over. An animal of that size and strength, full of ferocity, would be like a train hitting you.
So many of these seem to be 100 plus yards off shore. What are you thinking going out that far while totally exposed? They must not be thinking anything intelligent...
A woman died just yesterday from a shark attack in Mexico, 26 years old Maria Fernandez Martinez Jimenez, not sure yet if the species of shark is known.
@@brentohara491 the article I've seen was talking only about sharks. Considering how it severed her leg clean off, it's much more likely a shark, crocs' bites are way more messy, with their death rolls and stuff
The crocodiles in Mexico are rather small compared to the Nile croc and Austrain croc. Only found on the Gulf of Mexico, east coast, and they are considered freshwater crocs. The average size is 7 feet.
Remember looking this attack up on the interwebz. It reads straight out of a horror movie. Witness said the shark was longer than the search boat, anywhere from 5-6m white shark. You won’t catch me swimming in open water in Australia folks.
Peace! I’m from NY, I met a college student from California yesterday…he told me that he encountered a GW shark 🦈 once. He was surfing and he said the shark was about 8 feet…he said all u have to do is punch them in the nose..kid was about 19… now he goes out to Nantucket to surf; 🏄 and said he sees far more GW’s there than in Cali..
What a horrific attack. Can't envision witnessing this happening to anyone much less your wife. Hal your channel.is outstanding and presentations very professional. Thanks for your fine work and detailed research.
ive watched a video of a guy explaining a great white attack that had taken a friend. You can see a change come over the person telling the story. It's haunting a person for life. It disgusts me when I hear the same b.s about shark attacks are rare. Well tell that rare b.s to thousands of people that's had family taken by sharks. It's not rare. It's occasional!! Big difference.
I've read and seen a few reviews of this attack, including Hal's 1st ever episode of Sharks Happen. Out of all of the attacks covered here, this, to me, is the most horrific attack I've heard yet.
I live on the FL gulf coast, & went scallop collecting a few years ago, before I knew of this attack. No more, lol. Mostly Bulls & Hammerheads here, but the Bull sharks can be bitc•y... edt: A girl/woman lost her lower leg to a shark last year(?) while scallop collecting not far from the grounds where I went. 😬
I really like this channel and am glad that despite the BS, you're still putting out content. That so many of these attacks happen in Australia it's a wonder people go in the water at all!
Between Sharks and Salt water crocodiles swimming in Australia can be nerve racking.I stay in the shallows never go out past waist deep.Up North I refuse to go in the water at all lol
@@daryldixon3685 The fact that the great white shark can exceed 20 ft. and weigh over a couple of tons is not enough to keep people out of the water nothing will. I think it was P.T. Barnum that said ...... There is an idiot born every minute.
Well, i will most likely get more money than i need when i sue them. 8 months of games is one thing but going back thru removing all my ads was just stupid on their part. I just want the channel fixed so i can hire an editor and just film and move on to the next attack/show
There have been quite a few recorded white shark attacks in the Adriatic, although not recently since the GW population in the area has declined so much. The problem with GW attacks in the Med/Adriatic is that they usually involve huge sharks and the victim is usually eaten.
@@bluemarlin8138 Lampedusa is filled with GW's. I saw some large ones in Greece too. Lots of breeding ground for GW in the Med. Largest GW in recorded history was captured off the coast of Sicily.
I've heard Shirley was in the water farther behind them because she collected more scallops then they needed and was coming back from getting rid of the excess when the shark came up and grabbed her.
These attacks are horrific. I can't imagine how traumatic this is for those who witness attacks like this, especially when it happens to someone you love and there's nothing you can do for them. I'm always amazed at those who survive often still stick up for the welfare of the sharks and many will still go out into the water. I can understand not blaming the shark for being a shark, but I don't think I could ever get back into the water. Just hearing these accounts is enough to keep me out of the water.
Im from Louisiana&I stay out of the Gulf of Mexico&our swamps,bayou's,lakes&rivers&at Davis island it sits between the Ole' Mississippi River and the new Mississippi River route and there are huge alligators all around Davis Island on record Days Inn recorded over 14 and 1/2 to 15 ft long but the longest alligator caught in Louisiana and killed was it Avery Island by the mcelhaney family that on Tabasco hot sauce and the recorded alligator was 19 ft in one or two inches long
@@kevinroark5024 Louisiana is a beautiful place with so much culture stuffed into one state and the food! I learned real quick that if I didn't recognize the meat, don't ask because it was better if I didn't know. I've always been an outdoor gal, but in Iowa we have very few species that pose a serious threat to humans. I love the ocean from the shore or a large boat. I love visiting the states along the gulf coast, but the only water I'll get into down there is the bathtub. No gators, snakes or fish that can eat me. I actually like snakes in general, but not being surprised in the wild by those that can kill me. Now that I know gators can get to nearly 20' I'll be having nightmares if I ever manage to get down there again.
When you're in the ocean you're in the sharks home. Why is everyone surprised when people get attacked. If you go in the ocean you have to expect that you may be on the menu, especially if you're in parts of the world where there are huge sharks.
Absolutely brutal. Apparently they were collecting scallops for dinner, her husband and their friend had collected their limit and she was a few scallops short, so she was still collecting. Her children were also at the beach and witnessed the whole attack too. Imagine standing there and having you wife and mother just removed from existence withing seconds like that, with no evidence she was ever real but a pool of blood in the water. Heartbreaking.
I absolutely HATE when so called Shark Experts say "they do not eat people or like taste of us"... Look how many people killed and partially eaten or total consumption from Sharks... Sharks as big as most reported are NOT sick or starving... Can't say their teeth are bad like a Lion or Wolf looking for easier prey... They have hundreds in their mouth at a time...
Shark “experts” are paid to lie about sharks eating people. Would a shark prefer a fatty seal? Sure, but they will eat a bony human when they’re hungry. Just like you might prefer a Porterhouse steak but will settle for sirloin.
Oceanic, Bulls, Tigers and Whites are the most likely to Kill and eat humans in my opinion... Sharks have Excellent eyesight, smell, and all other senses to know what they are hitting, biting, killing, and eating... After 1st initial hit they choose to come back and to continue to predate / eat the humans... After these proven cases, HOW can they still say Sharks don't like the taste or eat humans?????????
I remember reading about Mrs. Durdin in TIME Magazine a couple weeks after she was killed. I was a freshman in high school and was in the library reading the magazine. I was so shocked reading the article that almost 40 years later I still remember her name.
This was covered in a documentary that I can't find anywhere. I remember seeing it as a kid, where Ron and Valarie Taylor interview people who witnessed it, It had an effect. Growing in up Nova Scotia and residing in California, I live in the water, and something like this is always on my mind a little bit when I swim out deep in both places. Thankfully for this poor woman it was probably over quickly.
Shirley Durdin, Robert Bartle, the Ray Boundy story and many others are some of the most horrific and brutal attacks ever recorded. But these are only the ones we know about. I sometimes wonder about all the horror stories that will never be told of swimmers or shipwreck survivors who went missing and presumed drowned but were actually eaten by sharks. I'm sure there have been thousands.
Omg I’ve never heard of this one before. How horrific! Poor woman being attacked so many times and her family being around. Can’t even imagine. I don’t know why, this attack reminded me of the attack of Doreen Collyer in Mindarie, Western Australia
It's so amazing knowing they can target someone out of a crowd, bypassing so many others, and nobody really knows why. I've read that passing urine in the water attracts sharks and when I think how many times I did this in my younger years, as it was encouraged for girls to hide a wet bottom half, and hide the fact you'd passed urine. Beaches had very very few facilities, and the ones they did have just weren't suitable for many reasons.
Yeah I've heard an injured fish gives off uria in the water and this is why urine is attractive to the sharks. When we pee, we're signaling we're an injured and dying fish
This video hit hard, I couldn’t even imagine what that man went through seeing that happen to your wife. That’s something that must change you entirely. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. Well maybe one.
Her children were there too unfortunately,i hope they found peace and if ever you can come to terms with such a traumatic incident and they got a good life and found peace,would be an absolute horrific scenario to witness let alone a loved one,Thanks for sharing hal! Xx
Another great show Hal… myself and the missus are both so happy to see you back firing on all cylinders.. your shows are always priority viewing in our house 👍🤙🇬🇧
Horrible thing to happen to Shirley and for her husband t witness it is so offull! So much for all the shark conservatives who have said over and over that sharks don't eat humans! Poor Shirley and her husband. I can't even imagine the horror! Hi Hal , thanks for another great show. 👍
When I think about the times I swam in the ocean when I was younger and unknowing, I shudder. After watching Jaws at 12 years old, I never went back in again. That was 45 years ago.
Poor Shirley and her family! Another gruesome tragedy told as only you can Hal ! Heartfelt condolences go out to her family! Looking forward to the next episode brother! As always much love from all of us here in the UK 🇬🇧
One deadly shark attack yesterday in Mexico, a women swimming 70 ft from the shore, and another deadly shark attack today in the Bahamas, a woman from Boston MA, while board paddling at the distance of almost a mile from shore... Same suspects in both incidents: TIGER SHARKS.
I just came here to see if anyone had said anything about the Mexico one. Saw a video on Reddit, and omg people carrying her up on the beach by her arms and her left leg is gone up to her thigh. 😭
@@STEPHANIEH70I saw the same video: horrible! She was a young woman, a marine biologist swimming with his kid son close to the shore in a beach full of people.
@@STEPHANIEH70 "She died while saving her 5 y/o daughter. She saw the shark next to her kid, she moved fast to take her out of the water, sit her daughter in a nearby inflatable, out of the reach of the shark, and that is when the shark attacked her savagely . Experts now says it was a bull shark.
Awesome Hal!!! Ive heard this story before but you tell it much better...I just cant understand how a 20 foot shark can operate in 6 or 7 feet of water...mind blowing
Hey Hal just wanted to say that I am so glad you are doing more of the shark attack videos. I can't watch any of the other ones because they just don't know what the what the real circumstances about the attacks and just make it unbearable to watch
The temptation for some is overwhelming, the sea is beautiful and inviting.....so much water hides the unthinkable. I'm so so sorry for the families & friends dealing with such inexplicable heartache.
The keys water is hard to stay out of with those shades of blue. I understand completely but have not put a toe in that water in the 14 years going down there
One of the most horrific attacks. The shark was 20 feet in 7 feet of water which means it lifted itself up instead of breaching one of the first attacks that brought me to this channel. The men that went out to retrieve her body said they will forever be haunted when the shark went off with the rest of her underneath the boat and her arm was hanging off the sharks mouth waving goodbye. They were absolutely traumatized coming from farm life to be on the beach just to get eaten. They had spotted a large shark near before the attack they failed to listen to the warnings. Some say it could've been her perfume that drew the shark towards her. It's an old attack but I still pray for her kids and husband. I hope they can remember their mom loving them and the sea. Absolutely tragic. She didn't feel a thing she let out a sigh and she was gone. That's a huge shark. Ur talking about Australia to just as in the Simon Nelist case if no one was at the beach it would've been another day that fast that quick and nobody would've known it hit them.
Much worse than Elon with his Twitter files. Google will not exist once the first suit flies because tens of thousands will follow. Is what happens when you rig an algorithm to kill some channels that you dont like
Holy crap!!! That article at 3:30 is crazy!! Sounds like real life Jaws. The shark attacks a boat even going airborne, rips a beach net in half, then absolutely demolished this poor woman. In-freakin-sane!
When you enter a domain that is not your own to hunt of gather, you take the risk of being on the receiving end of something that has evolved to hunt in that domain. Not enough people consider this before they go into the water. Arrogance is dangerous.
Anytime someone enters the ocean one must accept the fact they may not come out alive. I love sharks, but I’m not entering their dining room. Humans are no match for apex predators.
Is there a way to speak to Hal? I have a very good friend, shark expert and director of one of the biggest oceanography departments in the US, south California based. Attached to a top tier research university. He allowed my daughter, 12 now, to be involved in research and preservation of rock sharks and short fin Makos in a study he was leading. Starting when she was 8. I have a picture of her holding a rock shark (very short period of time, very supervised). That's how good of a guy. Anyway, only a suggestion!!!
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No test bite or mistaken identity BS. That shark wanted to kill her and consume her as chosen prey, fact. Absolutely horrific.
She went out very quick, but barry and Keith live with that memory. I doubt we could imagine something that brutal.
What a sad and terrifying shark tale. RIP Shirley.
RIPieces.
In 2 metres of clear water 10 metres away, horror movie stuff
@@empiresrikesfat definitely. So shallow, so close, and it sounds like maybe 2 seconds before she was seperated... super sad
Absolutely horrific! That poor woman and her loved ones, especially her husband. I would be traumatized for life and probably have nightmares forever.
This is one that’s always stuck with me. Probably the most horrific attack I’ve ever heard about.
Yes, I believe her four kids witnessed it from the beach and the traumatized husband had to deal with them, also. Doesn't bear thinking about.
This, Bob Bartle, Albert Kogler… the prolonged attacks are always scariest
Do you know what episodes you covered those attacks in?@@SharksHappen
Imagine witnessing this, let alone it being a family member or spouse! Poor husband to have to live with such a gruesome act. Prayers to him and family
It’s getting a little out of hand when shark experts say “Mistaken Identity”. It drives me insane
As an Australian, you couldn’t pay me enough to swim off those SA beaches.
WA seems pretty scary too.
@@bluemarlin8138 WA is just as bad. I’m in Victoria. We get Bronze Whalers in the Summer, and the odd Mako as the main concern for surfers and swimmers. GW’s are around too of course especially around seal colonies.
Byron Bay & Evans Head have plenty of the big predators swimming around, few people taken at Ballina too, so NSW east coast is bitey too. The amount that go into the water though, just depends, although it's totally increasing the amount of attacks last few years
As a fellow Aussie, I never go into the ocean at all- ever..😳😖
@@AlwaysPossible100 2009 the navy diver was attacked in the Sydney harbour, not a fatality, yet a vicious attack.... be safe out there
What a horrible way to die 😢 That's the chance you take when you go in the ocean 🦈
I remember reading about that attack so sad for her family how horrible to witness that
As a South Australian, I remember this attack as a kid in the 80s and have read about it in books since. If i remember correctly It was a father and daughter who went out in their boat after the attack as they had come in from fishing with the father saying "we didn't stay out there too long as the shark was easily as big as our 6 meter boat". It was also witnessed by Mr Wiseman(possibly his family, the beach was named after) from a cliff above the beach.
I live in Australia.. there been mutiple shark attacks including several fatal ones..at my local beach
I always laugh when tourists say to me
' you live here..omg you must swim everyday'
Um nope.. I know there are big great whites out there.. you couldn't pay me to swim at any Australian beach..
I read about this guy visiting in Australia and being nervous about going in the water and his friends said don’t worry we will protect you. I thought from a great white? Nay, nay, I think not.
What beach is that?
This was certainly one of the worst attacks/predations recorded, considering the family was witnessing it. The only saving grace was that the poor soul probably didn't have time to think before her life was over. An animal of that size and strength, full of ferocity, would be like a train hitting you.
This is horrifying....
So many of these seem to be 100 plus yards off shore. What are you thinking going out that far while totally exposed? They must not be thinking anything intelligent...
A woman died just yesterday from a shark attack in Mexico, 26 years old Maria Fernandez Martinez Jimenez, not sure yet if the species of shark is known.
They're not sure if it was a shark or a croc yet.
@@brentohara491 the article I've seen was talking only about sharks. Considering how it severed her leg clean off, it's much more likely a shark, crocs' bites are way more messy, with their death rolls and stuff
@@serfranklin6022 Could well be, I read a Daily Mail article saying they think it was a croc - I'm sure we'll find out for sure soon
@@serfranklin6022 There was also a fatal shark attack in the Bahamas today
The crocodiles in Mexico are rather small compared to the Nile croc and Austrain croc. Only found on the Gulf of Mexico, east coast, and they are considered freshwater crocs. The average size is 7 feet.
Remember looking this attack up on the interwebz.
It reads straight out of a horror movie. Witness said the shark was longer than the search boat, anywhere from 5-6m white shark.
You won’t catch me swimming in open water in Australia folks.
I wouldn’t go past knee-deep in anywhere even connected to salt water in Australia without a shark cage.
RIP Ms. Shirley and condolences to her husband and family. I wouldn't wish such a thing on anyone. Thanks for the report Hal.
Horrid and feel for the husband !
Peace! I’m from NY, I met a college student from California yesterday…he told me that he encountered a GW shark 🦈 once. He was surfing and he said the shark was about 8 feet…he said all u have to do is punch them in the nose..kid was about 19… now he goes out to Nantucket to surf; 🏄 and said he sees far more GW’s there than in Cali..
Problem is you have to see them to hit them
Went in the surf today, got 3 feet deep and I heard Hal's voice saying "If you go in that water...."
What a horrific attack. Can't envision witnessing this happening to anyone much less your wife. Hal your channel.is outstanding and presentations very professional. Thanks for your fine work and detailed research.
ive watched a video of a guy explaining a great white attack that had taken a friend. You can see a change come over the person telling the story. It's haunting a person for life. It disgusts me when I hear the same b.s about shark attacks are rare. Well tell that rare b.s to thousands of people that's had family taken by sharks. It's not rare. It's occasional!! Big difference.
I've read and seen a few reviews of this attack, including Hal's 1st ever episode of Sharks Happen. Out of all of the attacks covered here, this, to me, is the most horrific attack I've heard yet.
I live on the FL gulf coast, & went scallop collecting a few years ago, before I knew of this attack.
No more, lol. Mostly Bulls & Hammerheads here, but the Bull sharks can be bitc•y...
edt: A girl/woman lost her lower leg to a shark last year(?) while scallop collecting not far from the grounds where I went. 😬
If a sharks eats me, just leave me out there. I don’t want someone having nightmares about pulling my headless torso out of the water lol
Oh man. Did that make me laugh!
I really like this channel and am glad that despite the BS, you're still putting out content. That so many of these attacks happen in Australia it's a wonder people go in the water at all!
I’m convinced if the Megladon was still alive there still would be a lot of people in the water
Between Sharks and Salt water crocodiles swimming in Australia can be nerve racking.I stay in the shallows never go out past waist deep.Up North I refuse to go in the water at all lol
@@daryldixon3685 The fact that the great white shark can exceed 20 ft. and weigh over a couple of tons is not enough to keep people out of the water nothing will. I think it was P.T. Barnum that said ...... There is an idiot born every minute.
Well, i will most likely get more money than i need when i sue them. 8 months of games is one thing but going back thru removing all my ads was just stupid on their part. I just want the channel fixed so i can hire an editor and just film and move on to the next attack/show
As soon as the shark made contact bet she wished she was on land
Man, what an awful way to die. I live in Croatia and hell I am afraid to swim in Adriatic Sea, no way in hell I am swimming in the ocean.
There have been quite a few recorded white shark attacks in the Adriatic, although not recently since the GW population in the area has declined so much. The problem with GW attacks in the Med/Adriatic is that they usually involve huge sharks and the victim is usually eaten.
@@bluemarlin8138 Lampedusa is filled with GW's. I saw some large ones in Greece too. Lots of breeding ground for GW in the Med. Largest GW in recorded history was captured off the coast of Sicily.
I've heard Shirley was in the water farther behind them because she collected more scallops then they needed and was coming back from getting rid of the excess when the shark came up and grabbed her.
These attacks are horrific. I can't imagine how traumatic this is for those who witness attacks like this, especially when it happens to someone you love and there's nothing you can do for them.
I'm always amazed at those who survive often still stick up for the welfare of the sharks and many will still go out into the water. I can understand not blaming the shark for being a shark, but I don't think I could ever get back into the water. Just hearing these accounts is enough to keep me out of the water.
Im from Louisiana&I stay out of the Gulf of Mexico&our swamps,bayou's,lakes&rivers&at Davis island it sits between the Ole' Mississippi River and the new Mississippi River route and there are huge alligators all around Davis Island on record Days Inn recorded over 14 and 1/2 to 15 ft long but the longest alligator caught in Louisiana and killed was it Avery Island by the mcelhaney family that on Tabasco hot sauce and the recorded alligator was 19 ft in one or two inches long
I've been to the Gulf a few times but only saw smaller sharks at night. What's the biggest you've seen?
@@kevinroark5024 Louisiana is a beautiful place with so much culture stuffed into one state and the food! I learned real quick that if I didn't recognize the meat, don't ask because it was better if I didn't know. I've always been an outdoor gal, but in Iowa we have very few species that pose a serious threat to humans. I love the ocean from the shore or a large boat. I love visiting the states along the gulf coast, but the only water I'll get into down there is the bathtub. No gators, snakes or fish that can eat me. I actually like snakes in general, but not being surprised in the wild by those that can kill me. Now that I know gators can get to nearly 20' I'll be having nightmares if I ever manage to get down there again.
Supposedly, they were so far out, her poor husband was the only one who witnessed it. 😢💔
Hi Hal, that's horrific! I agree with what others are saying, I think sharks know what they're doing. This is why I don't go in the water.
When you're in the ocean you're in the sharks home. Why is everyone surprised when people get attacked. If you go in the ocean you have to expect that you may be on the menu, especially if you're in parts of the world where there are huge sharks.
I think a lot of it is the nonsense that comes out about attacks from MBs and others saying how these are just fish seeing seals
Absolutely brutal. Apparently they were collecting scallops for dinner, her husband and their friend had collected their limit and she was a few scallops short, so she was still collecting. Her children were also at the beach and witnessed the whole attack too. Imagine standing there and having you wife and mother just removed from existence withing seconds like that, with no evidence she was ever real but a pool of blood in the water. Heartbreaking.
That's a terrible attack in that much water crazy how thay come in so close for an attack all best hal from UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I thought you said they were "collecting scalps" lol.
I might have
Man, she wake up that day not knowing she was going to be eaten alive by a monster Great White Shark.
This is a really horrible one. I'm glad that his friend held him back from going after his wife but what a tragedy. I hope the children didn't see.
@@JohnnyDanger36963 poor guy... And four children. I hope the guy met someone and got married and is happy now, because that is incredibly traumatic
The next time you're having a bad day, just remember at least you're not getting eaten alive by a 20ft shark...
Welp.... That's a bad one.
note to self, dont swim in shark infested waters, and NEVER EVER hold a bag of scallops while swimming in the ocean.
I absolutely HATE when so called Shark Experts say "they do not eat people or like taste of us"... Look how many people killed and partially eaten or total consumption from Sharks... Sharks as big as most reported are NOT sick or starving... Can't say their teeth are bad like a Lion or Wolf looking for easier prey... They have hundreds in their mouth at a time...
Peace! Yea I think they enjoy the taste of humans..😮it’s practically proven in fact..
Shark “experts” are paid to lie about sharks eating people. Would a shark prefer a fatty seal? Sure, but they will eat a bony human when they’re hungry. Just like you might prefer a Porterhouse steak but will settle for sirloin.
I think it’s like getting hit by accident by a driver as opposed to being hit on purpose. Either way you got hit.
@@wlphantomWhat??? (Russell Westbrook Face)
Oceanic, Bulls, Tigers and Whites are the most likely to Kill and eat humans in my opinion... Sharks have Excellent eyesight, smell, and all other senses to know what they are hitting, biting, killing, and eating... After 1st initial hit they choose to come back and to continue to predate / eat the humans... After these proven cases, HOW can they still say Sharks don't like the taste or eat humans?????????
Good to see you.
I remember reading about Mrs. Durdin in TIME Magazine a couple weeks after she was killed. I was a freshman in high school and was in the library reading the magazine. I was so shocked reading the article that almost 40 years later I still remember her name.
I was about the same age. 16 at the time so probably a sophomore
This was covered in a documentary that I can't find anywhere. I remember seeing it as a kid, where Ron and Valarie Taylor interview people who witnessed it, It had an effect. Growing in up Nova Scotia and residing in California, I live in the water, and something like this is always on my mind a little bit when I swim out deep in both places.
Thankfully for this poor woman it was probably over quickly.
My man Hal back at it again with the quality content!
Howdo mate.
How horrible, in front of her husband and children! Thanks for another great show, Hal!
What a story to wake up to😳
Man I love this channel
Shirley Durdin, Robert Bartle, the Ray Boundy story and many others are some of the most horrific and brutal attacks ever recorded. But these are only the ones we know about. I sometimes wonder about all the horror stories that will never be told of swimmers or shipwreck survivors who went missing and presumed drowned but were actually eaten by sharks. I'm sure there have been thousands.
When they say "taken by a shark", that about tells the story.
Omg I’ve never heard of this one before. How horrific! Poor woman being attacked so many times and her family being around. Can’t even imagine.
I don’t know why, this attack reminded me of the attack of Doreen Collyer in Mindarie, Western Australia
It's so amazing knowing they can target someone out of a crowd, bypassing so many others, and nobody really knows why. I've read that passing urine in the water attracts sharks and when I think how many times I did this in my younger years, as it was encouraged for girls to hide a wet bottom half, and hide the fact you'd passed urine. Beaches had very very few facilities, and the ones they did have just weren't suitable for many reasons.
Yeah I've heard an injured fish gives off uria in the water and this is why urine is attractive to the sharks. When we pee, we're signaling we're an injured and dying fish
Gross!!
This video hit hard, I couldn’t even imagine what that man went through seeing that happen to your wife. That’s something that must change you entirely. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. Well maybe one.
He fell apart and lost his head after that attack.
@@JohnnyDanger36963 ouuuuuch lol too soon, too soon. 😂
Utterly horrific.
Her children were there too unfortunately,i hope they found peace and if ever you can come to terms with such a traumatic incident and they got a good life and found peace,would be an absolute horrific scenario to witness let alone a loved one,Thanks for sharing hal! Xx
Thank you for all your videos. ❤
That's a horrible way to go!
Absolutely horrifying. Poor Barry. There’s no way I’d recover from seeing that happen to my spouse.
Another great show Hal… myself and the missus are both so happy to see you back firing on all cylinders.. your shows are always priority viewing in our house 👍🤙🇬🇧
Tragic. Thank you, Hal from South Africa 🇿🇦
As a family how and where do you even begin to recover or come to terms with this? Omg.
Yay!! Wish this was a longer one, but I’m still thankful you posted!
Another great video, 1:06 Hal! ❤
Hungry shark, poor Shirley poor husband. There is no chance against a hungry 20-footer
Horrible thing to happen to Shirley and for her husband t witness it is so offull! So much for all the shark conservatives who have said over and over that sharks don't eat humans! Poor Shirley and her husband. I can't even imagine the horror! Hi Hal , thanks for another great show. 👍
When I think about the times I swam in the ocean when I was younger and unknowing, I shudder. After watching Jaws at 12 years old, I never went back in again. That was 45 years ago.
Like Popov, this story was particularly gut wrenching to imagine from the loved ones POV 😮
Thx Hal 👏👏👏
Popov very hard to watch for sure
Poor Shirley and her family! Another gruesome tragedy told as only you can Hal ! Heartfelt condolences go out to her family! Looking forward to the next episode brother! As always much love from all of us here in the UK 🇬🇧
Great show Hal, surely it was a terrible day for everyone.
Let me guess, "not an attempt to predate." 😂
One deadly shark attack yesterday in Mexico, a women swimming 70 ft from the shore, and another deadly shark attack today in the Bahamas, a woman from Boston MA, while board paddling at the distance of almost a mile from shore... Same suspects in both incidents: TIGER SHARKS.
I just came here to see if anyone had said anything about the Mexico one. Saw a video on Reddit, and omg people carrying her up on the beach by her arms and her left leg is gone up to her thigh. 😭
@@STEPHANIEH70I saw the same video: horrible! She was a young woman, a marine biologist swimming with his kid son close to the shore in a beach full of people.
@@STEPHANIEH70 "She died while saving her 5 y/o daughter. She saw the shark next to her kid, she moved fast to take her out of the water, sit her daughter in a nearby inflatable, out of the reach of the shark, and that is when the shark attacked her savagely . Experts now says it was a bull shark.
That is the other one i need to look into, the Mexico attack
@@SharksHappen What is happening with sharks in 2023, Hal? Saddly so many attacks in this almost gone year and a lot of them on video.
We love ya Hal!
Horrific to witness! Poor Barry..
Thanks Hal. Very horrific attack on Shirley RIP 💠
Awesome Hal!!! Ive heard this story before but you tell it much better...I just cant understand how a 20 foot shark can operate in 6 or 7 feet of water...mind blowing
Hey Hal just wanted to say that I am so glad you are doing more of the shark attack videos. I can't watch any of the other ones because they just don't know what the what the real circumstances about the attacks and just make it unbearable to watch
The temptation for some is overwhelming, the sea is beautiful and inviting.....so much water hides the unthinkable. I'm so so sorry for the families & friends dealing with such inexplicable heartache.
The keys water is hard to stay out of with those shades of blue. I understand completely but have not put a toe in that water in the 14 years going down there
One of the most horrific attacks. The shark was 20 feet in 7 feet of water which means it lifted itself up instead of breaching one of the first attacks that brought me to this channel. The men that went out to retrieve her body said they will forever be haunted when the shark went off with the rest of her underneath the boat and her arm was hanging off the sharks mouth waving goodbye. They were absolutely traumatized coming from farm life to be on the beach just to get eaten. They had spotted a large shark near before the attack they failed to listen to the warnings. Some say it could've been her perfume that drew the shark towards her. It's an old attack but I still pray for her kids and husband. I hope they can remember their mom loving them and the sea. Absolutely tragic. She didn't feel a thing she let out a sigh and she was gone. That's a huge shark. Ur talking about Australia to just as in the Simon Nelist case if no one was at the beach it would've been another day that fast that quick and nobody would've known it hit them.
First show title is the newspaper headline. Woman ripped in two. One of the more violent attacks from the 80s i can remember
I think that's probably the most gruesome think I've ever heard in my entire life!
Did you really refer to yourself as the left's worst nightmare? You gotta laugh 🤣
Much worse than Elon with his Twitter files. Google will not exist once the first suit flies because tens of thousands will follow. Is what happens when you rig an algorithm to kill some channels that you dont like
To make Shirley’s case even worse, her 4 children were also at the beach and witnessed everything from the sand. Just terrible.
Oh my! What a vicious attack. Sounds like it was desperate to feed. Poor Shirley and her family.
This is superbly done, no covering up the reality of exactly what Happened, but done with warmth and compation towards the victims ❤❤
Holy crap!!! That article at 3:30 is crazy!! Sounds like real life Jaws. The shark attacks a boat even going airborne, rips a beach net in half, then absolutely demolished this poor woman. In-freakin-sane!
I'm never swimming in the ocean again...pools are much more inviting!
In half. That is amazing. Must have been a large shark.
Quite common with the 16+ footers. They're massive in size compared to us
This attack, they said it was around 20ft
Good to see so many marine biologists in the comments here. Stay in school.
I think sharks know what we are, know that our heads are a vital area, knows what our eyes look like and can tell when we are not looking at them
This was so tragic. I’m so sorry
Horrific! To not to be able to do anything and watch is just unthinkable.
Yep. Like the recent Popov attack
Great job Hal I appreciate your work with ya all the way!
Shocking.
Thanks Hal. I like ur shark stories man.
Poor bloke having seen all that so brutal the shark consumed everything wow so vicious !!!
Wow... This was a horrific one, for sure. My condolences to Shirley's loved ones.
I love to nap to the sound of waves, but you couldn’t Pay me to even wade in the ocean..
Wow…. a living nightmare. Horrific. God bless her soul.
Geez. Her husband witnessed it, and had to go home and live his life.. just suddenly, your 33 yo partner is GONE. Horrible
When you enter a domain that is not your own to hunt of gather, you take the risk of being on the receiving end of something that has evolved to hunt in that domain. Not enough people consider this before they go into the water. Arrogance is dangerous.
What gets me is how clearly visible this attack was.
What a terrible sight. Hard to recover from seeing something like that.
Anytime someone enters the ocean one must accept the fact they may not come out alive. I love sharks, but I’m not entering their dining room. Humans are no match for apex predators.
Is there a way to speak to Hal? I have a very good friend, shark expert and director of one of the biggest oceanography departments in the US, south California based. Attached to a top tier research university. He allowed my daughter, 12 now, to be involved in research and preservation of rock sharks and short fin Makos in a study he was leading. Starting when she was 8. I have a picture of her holding a rock shark (very short period of time, very supervised). That's how good of a guy. Anyway, only a suggestion!!!