{"id":46589,"date":"2018-07-02T09:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=46589"},"modified":"2018-07-02T09:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:07:22","slug":"melissa-brunning-shark-attack-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/melissa-brunning-shark-attack-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Feeding Sharks Gets Pulled Into Crocodile Invested Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46593\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46593\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-46593 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shark-feeding-1.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Brunning shark attack Australia\" width=\"931\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shark-feeding-1.jpg 931w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shark-feeding-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shark-feeding-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shark-feeding-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>34-year-old Melissa Brunning was on vacation in Australia when she made the decision to hand-feed up to four tawny nurse sharks swimming around her boat.<\/p>\n<p>Brunning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/sharks\/shark-feeding-in-kimberley-ends-with-painful-lesson-after-perth-woman-bitten-ng-b88882775z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the West Australian<\/a>\u00a0that she didn&#8217;t realize she shouldn\u2019t hand feed a shark, until the animal became &#8220;like a Hoover,&#8221; sucking her right index finger into its mouth full of rows of razor-sharp teeth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46594 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/melissa-shark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/melissa-shark.png 657w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/melissa-shark-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/melissa-shark-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the shark was in shock as much as I was &#8230; the only way I can describe it is this <a href=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/baby-shark-bites-man-stomach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immense pressure<\/a> and it felt like it was shredding it off the bone,\u201d she told the paper. \u201cI came up and I was like, \u2018I\u2019ve lost my finger, my finger\u2019s gone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7newssydney\/videos\/10155814353009072\/\" data-width=\"1060\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7newssydney\/videos\/10155814353009072\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7newssydney\/videos\/10155814353009072\/\">Shark attacks tourist Melissa Brunning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Brunning was taking advantage of a rare opportunity to feed what she thought was a placid shark in northern Western Australia. But, then the two-metre tawny nurse got a hold of her.Story: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KyCFSh#Sharks #7News<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7newssydney\/\">7 News Sydney<\/a> on Saturday, June 30, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The entire ordeal was captured on video and luckily for Melissa, her friend was there to grab her and keep her from going under.<\/p>\n<p>The shark also pulled her into the water of Dugong Bay, which is inhabited by saltwater crocodiles that can grow up to 23 feet long and weigh more than a ton,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/shark-pulls-woman-into-crocodile-infested-waters-in-australia-11422571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Sky News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sharks Melissa was feeding are normally quite relaxed and not dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34-year-old Melissa Brunning was on vacation in Australia when she made the decision to hand-feed up to four tawny nurse sharks swimming around her boat. Brunning\u00a0told the West Australian\u00a0that she didn&#8217;t realize she shouldn\u2019t hand feed a shark, until the animal became &#8220;like a Hoover,&#8221; sucking her right index finger into its mouth full of rows of razor-sharp teeth. \u201cI think the shark was in shock as much as I was &#8230; the only way I can describe it is this immense pressure and it felt like it was shredding it off the bone,\u201d she told the paper. \u201cI came <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6580,1,619],"tags":[1006],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46595,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46589\/revisions\/46595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46589"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}