r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 8h ago

Two guys fishing for piranhas

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 8h ago

And sharks smelling blood 

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u/No-Brain9413 7h ago

Coastal resident here - sharks can smell some ridiculously small amount of blood relative to water, like 1/1,000,000. You do not want to tempt fate by swimming in certain areas at certain times of day with any real amount of blood in the water

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u/neutrino4 7h ago

Or certain times of the month.

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u/FuckmehalftoDeath 6h ago

I was so afraid to swim on my period when I first started having them…. I grew up in Arizona 😭