I was in Galveston last week and did a bit of fishing. I personally caught 5 sharks while surf fishing around the second sand bar. I caught a hammerhead, bonnet head, and black tips. The company I was with caught more total than I did and caught some bigger sharks. I did notice this aquatic plant though before watching this video I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of it. Galveston is loaded with sharks.
What was even the point of this. Instead of using overly dramatic music and presenting the idea that sargassum was responsible before retracting it at the last moment, you could have just done a little mini documentary on the importance of sargassum to marine animals.
@@biancagarciarivas I live in Houston but I am from Port Arthur, TX. Near the Louisiana border but I have been all the way down to South Padre, Chasing the pretty girls down there. Im a black guy by the way
This starts out by calling Galveston a “tourism Mecca”. I live about an hour away. This is news to me. If it wasn’t for my curiosity as to what other stupid things y’all were going to say, I would have turned it off then.
@@alienzordfalcon5162it’s a big tourism spot for the state, but a lot of people have to go thru Galveston to catch a cruise as well. So technically it is a tourism Mecca, just not on a worldwide or even national level. Poor choice of words lol
Silly ending. Since more sargassum = more fish, then if there was an uptick of sargassum in those years 'in the area' of Galveston then there were more than likely more sharks as well. The sargassum didn't attract the sharks to the shore, but since they were in the neighborhood ...
Right! Your biggest concern In Galveston, and I'm not lying here, is the MS-13 gang that's been showing up recently, the violence, theft of homes, vehicles, and apartments in certain areas there, and the very raunchy, out of country tourists! I don't mind Galveston, but the people are horrible!
I've caught and seen caught tiger sharks hammerhead sharks bull sharks blacktip sharks spinner sharks silkie sharks in 8-10 feet of water but if there is a lot of bait in the surf they will get up to 3 foot of water
I surf fish Galveston all the time. I catch tons of seaweed in the process. I never catch or see sharks closer than a few hundred yards from the beach. If you stick to swimming the second gut or closer, you’ll be fine.
I can't do the movie guy voice anymore, Nat Geo. It's stupid and trying to add this urgency to it and it's taking away from the science because you're trying to bait plebs. Please hire a Brit or Aussie. Thanks.
i’ve never been to any public galveston beaches my faimily and i always get a house on the private beach and stay there for one or two weeks at a time and i’ve never seen any of the sargassum but when driving last the public beaches it’s so crazy how much of is in in those waters and on the shore. and one of the times my family and i were there we turned on the tv and there had been two shark attacks and we didn’t go in the waters for the rest of our vacation
So the sharks are drawn to the sea weed. But once it’s about half a mile off shore it’s starts tumbling. So the sharks just swim away??? They are not remotely attracted to the swimmers half a mile away???
When I was about 4 years old, I was sitting in the shallow water with waves coming ashore. When some of that stuff came floating by me. I pick it up and was bitten by something in the seaweed. I have hated that stuff ever since then. Critters in there that bite.
I fish here twice a week no sharks live here people act like they ain't supposed to come close but they do it's their Homeland you don't expect to see a shark walking downtown do you come on people get real that sargassum weed comes from Africa it does it every year it lands on the beach and it starts cooking in the heat it makes an awful gas but then again it's Habitat for the fish and shrimp and microorganisms that attract a lot of the fish we catch here want to give out for shout out to Chester Moore I knew his daddy peace out people
5 minutes of why seaweed is most likely attracting sharks there followed by the last 5 seconds where the PhD denounces the likelihood of that being the case... really?
In the late summer, we had bull sharks swim up the rivers where I lived as a kid. Someone caught one in the freshwater end of the Severn River in Maryland. I've swam in that water at night and heard the sharks thrashing around in the shallows. I think they tend to stay near the bottom and suddenly find themselves in water too shallow to swim in. Not being positive of that, I tended to swim somewhat more quietly. :)
The way the tourists drive on Galveston Island is far more dangerous than any shark
John Lammons you’re so right 😂
Lmfao 😂
Is sargassum attracting sharks to Galveston? (4 min 52 sec of dramatic music)... probably not (the end).
@Donald Trump shark wall?
*Sarcasm* is attracting sharks to Galveston
Lol
Lmao! You guys spent the whole video making the case for this being a fact and then in the last 10 or so seconds said, "Psych!"😂
I should have listened, would have saved me 4.5min.....you can do better NatGeo
Vinthis1 Agree , you can't just take a stranger's word for it but he was right that was a waste
So I disliked this video at the end
But it DID provide us some interesting info about marine life :D
Video clickbait
Galveston: *exists*
Sharks: It's free real estate
Put simply, don’t worry about sharks at the beach in Galveston. If anything, Stingrays and vibrio are more of a worry.
RIP tides is what kills people in Galveston. Look it up. They pull bodies out of our water all the time.
and crime....
did... did nat geo just lowkey clickbait us?
Yup
I was in Galveston last week and did a bit of fishing. I personally caught 5 sharks while surf fishing around the second sand bar. I caught a hammerhead, bonnet head, and black tips. The company I was with caught more total than I did and caught some bigger sharks. I did notice this aquatic plant though before watching this video I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of it. Galveston is loaded with sharks.
As soon as I heard Galveston, I knew it was a joke.
What was even the point of this. Instead of using overly dramatic music and presenting the idea that sargassum was responsible before retracting it at the last moment, you could have just done a little mini documentary on the importance of sargassum to marine animals.
“Tourism Mecca” bruh lmao
Did anyone else read that as "sarcasm"? 🤦♀️
Im from the Texas Coast. My neck of the woods baby!!!
AB Compound same
@@biancagarciarivas I live in Houston but I am from Port Arthur, TX. Near the Louisiana border but I have been all the way down to South Padre, Chasing the pretty girls down there. Im a black guy by the way
AB Compound okay.. sounds to me like you are trying to get a girl
@@biancagarciarivas nope just saying I have crossed the texas coastline.
This starts out by calling Galveston a “tourism Mecca”. I live about an hour away. This is news to me. If it wasn’t for my curiosity as to what other stupid things y’all were going to say, I would have turned it off then.
Haha I would say beach outlet for Houston residents. I agree, “Mecca” is super intense. I got a laugh out of that
@@alienzordfalcon5162it’s a big tourism spot for the state, but a lot of people have to go thru Galveston to catch a cruise as well. So technically it is a tourism Mecca, just not on a worldwide or even national level. Poor choice of words lol
Silly ending.
Since more sargassum = more fish, then if there was an uptick of sargassum in those years 'in the area' of Galveston then there were more than likely more sharks as well. The sargassum didn't attract the sharks to the shore, but since they were in the neighborhood ...
i went to cancun in early june and boy there was ALOT of sargassum
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I hope they are using the sargassum as fertilizer for food plants. Wonderful organic compost for fertilizer!
Indeed!
I visit Galveston quite frequently and I’ve always wondered what that stuff is called.
Name not found me to.. we usually go stay at that resort down in Jamaica beach..
jeez, over dramatic much?
typical media fearmongering
Right! Your biggest concern In Galveston, and I'm not lying here, is the MS-13 gang that's been showing up recently, the violence, theft of homes, vehicles, and apartments in certain areas there, and the very raunchy, out of country tourists! I don't mind Galveston, but the people are horrible!
I live in houston... if you go to galveston for a beach day, your expectations should be LOW. I drive to Florida instead of going into that water lol
Touching Galveston water alone is scary enough. I’ll visit the sea wall but don’t ask me to get in that nasty ass water. 🙅🏽♀️🤣
Dude I've lived here for 3 years I have not once gone into the water
Ariel A. Then you’re an idiot who’s afraid of water
Everything is bigger in Texas like Texans
"You can actually SEE Sargasm, from space."
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I've caught and seen caught tiger sharks hammerhead sharks bull sharks blacktip sharks spinner sharks silkie sharks in 8-10 feet of water but if there is a lot of bait in the surf they will get up to 3 foot of water
I don't know but am I the only one who is a bit disappointed with Nat Geo this days?
Sarcasm attracts sharks to Galveston. You can actually see sarcasm from space.
I’m from Galveston
I surf fish Galveston all the time. I catch tons of seaweed in the process. I never catch or see sharks closer than a few hundred yards from the beach. If you stick to swimming the second gut or closer, you’ll be fine.
Donald Trump just you?
Second gut? What does that mean?
@@alleycat616 gap between the second and third sandbars.
I can't do the movie guy voice anymore, Nat Geo. It's stupid and trying to add this urgency to it and it's taking away from the science because you're trying to bait plebs. Please hire a Brit or Aussie. Thanks.
Same with the dramatic music
I fail to see how an Aussie or a Brit will change this for the better?
The sharks are having Sorgasms
I live in Galveston
What in the map? 0:18 why is Austin so close to Galveston lmao
Dee Frank cause that’s where Austin is
NG: Sharks in Galveston.
Us: really?
NG: No.
I’m the only one who noticed that the Galveston beach is blue when actually is brown the whole year. 🙄
I live In Houston and I go to Galveston all the time
My wife hates it when my drawers are filled with sargassum
😂
I gave my chick a multiple sargassum a few minutes ago.
We still in the water. Ain't nothin changed. 🤣🤣
i had a sargasm watching this
These things are scary
Sarcasm attracts a lot of emotions
i’ve never been to any public galveston beaches my faimily and i always get a house on the private beach and stay there for one or two weeks at a time and i’ve never seen any of the sargassum but when driving last the public beaches it’s so crazy how much of is in in those waters and on the shore. and one of the times my family and i were there we turned on the tv and there had been two shark attacks and we didn’t go in the waters for the rest of our vacation
Thanks!
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So the sharks are drawn to the sea weed. But once it’s about half a mile off shore it’s starts tumbling.
So the sharks just swim away???
They are not remotely attracted to the swimmers half a mile away???
Barbara 1 no, they aren’t.
Jason Draughon 😄 That’s not what the video is suggesting.
No, swimmers don’t attract sharks. Sharks eat fish and rays. I wade fish Galveston weekly. Sharks want nothing to do with humans.
that’s my guy chester moore
This channel should get demonetized for the BS in the last 10 seconds.
Poor innocent cute looking sea turtle
Sargassum=no surf fishing 🙁
I just went to Galveston on the 6th
Jasay It ME TOO
Wow so great and where is place? So so great 👍👍👍
It’s in Texas
XboxGamer FTW Thanks so much friend ❤️🥰🥰
Natural World no problem!
When I was about 4 years old, I was sitting in the shallow water with waves coming ashore. When some of that stuff came floating by me. I pick it up and was bitten by something in the seaweed. I have hated that stuff ever since then. Critters in there that bite.
The world is Full of critters that bite.
I thought it said sarcasm attracts sharks
Still a better ending than GOT
imagine sharks like sarcasm 😄
I fish here twice a week no sharks live here people act like they ain't supposed to come close but they do it's their Homeland you don't expect to see a shark walking downtown do you come on people get real that sargassum weed comes from Africa it does it every year it lands on the beach and it starts cooking in the heat it makes an awful gas but then again it's Habitat for the fish and shrimp and microorganisms that attract a lot of the fish we catch here want to give out for shout out to Chester Moore I knew his daddy peace out people
I didn't read the title probably, I thought bull sharks were having none of our sas.
We call it Cabbage broski
love ur videos
Is it literally a threat, or was that just sargassum?
I guess the ocean is giving us a warning or a lesson
It’s probably like the deadly algae blooms. Hopefully it’s natures way of cleansing the ocean.
There is plenty of sargassum on Florida beaches... esp South Beach and also plenty of sharks
5 minutes of why seaweed is most likely attracting sharks there followed by the last 5 seconds where the PhD denounces the likelihood of that being the case... really?
They get up close to those sharks
Shark's are awesome!
I was In Galveston last month and I went to the beach. I wasn’t going to get in the water tho I ain’t want to.
I'm so disappointed with my brain today
Tourism boards dictated the last 15 seconds of this film.
Can you eat that sort of seaweed I wonder
Sarcasm - nobody can take a joke these days 🤨
Yeahhh. I’m sure sarggasm is really wiping out sharks. I’m also ten feet tall. (See what I did there?)
Are you being Sargasstic?
Yeah boy!
G-Town
We need to monetize sargassum to encourage people to use it and get it off the beach.
Tell them one can smoke it .Its sea "weed" .One Dollar a gramm and its gone rapidly.
I HATE THE GUY TALKING
I Love! !
Shark!!!!!
Sarcasm?
Oh no 😬
*Answer: No, fresh human meat is =D*
In the late summer, we had bull sharks swim up the rivers where I lived as a kid. Someone caught one in the freshwater end of the Severn River in Maryland.
I've swam in that water at night and heard the sharks thrashing around in the shallows. I think they tend to stay near the bottom and suddenly find themselves in water too shallow to swim in. Not being positive of that, I tended to swim somewhat more quietly. :)
4:30
i got the sharks in the back
🌊🦈🏄♀️🌊
Excellent. 🇮🇳
You are basing this video on THREE attacks? Lol... I'm laughing at you.
Its the fish feeding of it it attracts sharks the end good bye
Sharks are sorry but doc
I’m here
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Click bait
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Moronic video, I am Galveston 24/7. He doesn’t even use local footage throughout.
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LOL
All thar buildup...
Like hit
National Drama Queen
Im the first like
As soon as he mentioned climate change I hit the dislike button and stopped the video 💋
Are you dumb or is that supposed to be a joke ?