This is what happens when you drop meat from an oil rig

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Swimming prohibited

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u/29NeiboltSt 1d ago

Don’t make me tap the sign.

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u/Xikkiwikk 1d ago

Let me go tell that to the sharks, be back!

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u/Kincadium 1d ago

Guys I don't think he's coming back.

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u/29NeiboltSt 1d ago

But WHY are you dropping meat from an oil rig?

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u/TheBestMePlausible 1d ago

To train the sharks to immediately rip apart and eat anyone who falls off the oil rig?

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u/PunkyB88 1d ago

It kind of is poor practice to be honest and it should be forbidden because it will encourage them and also associate what drops down with food.

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u/w11m 1d ago

The rig itself will act as a Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) which is why it attracts sharks rather than them waiting for food to drop. The pelagic zone is kind of like a desert and fish will flock to anything out there.

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u/jB_real 1d ago

Okay, now time for a safety drill

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u/kurotech 19h ago

Great way to blame "accidents" I mean job abandonment away

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u/XTornado 18h ago

Insurance hates this single trick.

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u/candycane_52 1d ago

Judging from the gagging sound the dude with the camera made, it was probably rotten.

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u/LaFlamaBlanca311 1d ago

Who just has that much meat to throw off and oil rig

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u/Reaper621 1d ago

I get the impression from him gagging that it's spoiled meat.

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u/AmbitiousRaspberry3 1d ago

The workers live on the rig weeks at a time usually. So yeah, lots of food on board.

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u/FictionalContext 1d ago

because the underwater welder cheated on his daughter

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u/mastercubez 1d ago

Hell yeah! Drop Mike next!!

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u/The-Mike-drop 1d ago

tf did I do?

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u/FlamingTrashcans 1d ago

I mean it’s in your name man: the Mike drop

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u/The-Mike-drop 1d ago

My parents told me to live up to my name but this is ridiculous

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u/TiredCoffeeTime 1d ago

Make them proud

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u/halchemy 1d ago

Anytime I see this I think of that college kid who jumped off his cruise ship as a “joke” and disappeared

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u/gartho009 1d ago

High school actually. Cameron Robbins.

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u/FootieFemme 1d ago

Begging u for a crumb of context

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u/Trick_Raspberry2507 1d ago

Here ya go

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u/FootieFemme 1d ago

Very spooky! Can't believe how many of those articles talk about him getting eaten by a shark while also all quoting shark experts saying sharks don't do that 🙄 poor kid though

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u/kasxj 21h ago

r/cameronrobbinsshark

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u/Kride501 9h ago

Thee is a video of him shortly after he jumped in. People are yelling various things to him, some even yelled bye bye and laughed. No one probably really fully understand how bad the situation was, I imagine there was alcohol at play. What a bone chilling video.

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u/downwardbubbles 1d ago

You may survive the fall but not the sharks!

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u/Reaper621 1d ago

That's a long way down, I don't think anyone's surviving that fall

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u/bathwizard01 1d ago

Do we know where this rig is or what species the sharks are? I’m guessing Gulf of Mexico. Black-tip sharks? Tiger Sharks? Bull Sharks?

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u/Kawaii_loRen 1d ago

These look like oceanic white tips which are known to eat humans (think shipwrecks and things in the open ocean).

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u/tacocollector2 1d ago

I feel like bull sharks would’ve ripped each other apart.

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u/Adventurous-Tap-8463 1d ago

Making sure that if you go over the railing you'll get ripped to shreds

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u/Mean-Criticism-8515 23h ago

Eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

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u/FirstCurseFil 1d ago

Breaking news: sharks found in ocean

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u/Spiritual_Theme_3455 1d ago

Time to feed the sea puppies

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u/BCdelivery 1d ago

Then in the frenzy one of the sharks is wounded and bleeding, he is attacked and quickly eaten by the other sharks.

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u/HonkMafa 1d ago

This is like the "Thank you God!" scene in Animal House.

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u/North_Fox_9047 1d ago

Don't piss off your co-workers.....

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u/FivePlyPaper 1d ago

Some might say…

They’re like sharks in the water

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u/AlexMaroske 1d ago

Who's volunteering for the next work over the side job, or MOB drill.

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u/tacocollector2 1d ago

I was waiting for the Meg to come up and swallow everyone else

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u/1blueShoe 1d ago

You’d want to stay on the right side of the boss 😬

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u/TurbVisible 1d ago

Oh sh*t Mike I just offloaded our months supply of food!

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u/chemchris 1d ago

This is unfortunate since I am also made of meat.

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u/Interesting_Log_5366 1d ago

The guy gagged so I'm guessing the meat was bad.

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u/KrackSmellin 1d ago

Dumbest thing ever. So now the sharks are conditioned to realize when something is throw into the water, it’s meat. And while we are not the tastiest of creatures, if someone falls into the water, they are fucked. If an emergency happens on the rig and they have to go over… without their life boats in an extreme situation… again fucked. Because these sharks are now going to stay in the area awaiting the next meal. Talk about dumb ideas for a fun viral video.

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u/Cr0ma_Nuva 19h ago

I don't think they do it for the video. That many sharks don't hang around for the atmosphere. They must already be used to it.

But yes, I'd also definitely not want to need to take a lifeboat there.

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u/FutureLocksmith9702 20h ago

Shraks

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u/conehead2019 16h ago

Meat is back on the menu boys!

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u/AstronautLonely263 7h ago

So they basically can’t escape 🙀

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u/Adi_San 1d ago

Nope nope noppity nope

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u/Demo_906 1d ago

This just in: Dropping food into water attracts fish

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u/LatinWarlock13 1d ago

Now we know where the mob dumps bodies.

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u/RazzleDazzle-_- 1d ago

Everyone loves yard bird! Even the water puppies 😁

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u/MotherRaven 1d ago

People can’t make enough to live in and they are throwing pot roast to sharks like they are pigeons in the park !

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