The Drowning Thread

[Admin]

Bull sharks, btw, have been spotted as far as 700 miles up the Mississippi river. Interactions with humans in fresh water are evidently very rare.

They're common in Aussie rivers, and I'm pretty the only reason there aren't more attacks is only insane people go swimming in Aussie rivers.

[Di Wundrin]

Bull sharks, btw, have been spotted as far as 700 miles up the Mississippi river. Interactions with humans in fresh water are evidently very rare.

They're common in Aussie rivers, and I'm pretty the only reason there aren't more attacks is only insane people go swimming in Aussie rivers.

The rivers in the NT are fairly safe from sharks, the crocodiles eat 'em all.

I'm wondering if we lost a tourist here this arvo, there was a chopper flying around over the river from the swimming pontoon down to the mouth and back for about half an hour this arvo. Didn't hear any sirens though so they mustn't have found anyone. ( or else whoever was missing was found sleeping it off in their car or something)

[arthwollipot]

Bull sharks, btw, have been spotted as far as 700 miles up the Mississippi river. Interactions with humans in fresh water are evidently very rare.

They're common in Aussie rivers, and I'm pretty the only reason there aren't more attacks is only insane people go swimming in Aussie rivers.

Years ago I was on holiday in Fiji, and we did a boat trip up a river to a waterfall, which was quite nice. Then we went back downriver on a bamboo raft that the guides had cut down and constructed on the spot. I was amazed that I could dangle my feet in the water with absolutely no concern because there was just nothing dangerous in Fijian rivers. It felt very weird to do that, and I absolutely would not have been able to do that in any Australian river.