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dwemthy@lemdro.id
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Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

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Noble Shift@lemmy.world
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The Bahamas you can do this, but you are absolutely correct, and I think they are like ranked 5 or 6 in human bites, something ridiculously high, because they are all calm and people get stupid, mostly divers from what I’ve heard.

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ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone
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They’re little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that’s the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you’re describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

Grey nurses also used to have a rep as “man eaters” but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

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Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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Grey Nurse Shark in Australia is a Sand-Tiger in the rest of the world.

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MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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I was able to pet a bunch of them and huge stingrays off of Belize while snorkeling. The boat I was on tossed a bunch of chum and then five minutes later we jumped in. They were all so chill with full bellies.

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MrShankles@reddthat.com
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They’re normally docile, unless you get caught up in them while they’re feeding

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