Danilo Gallinari’s Pregnant Wife Bitten by Shark While Swimming in PR

[Godymas]

https://basketnews.com/news-228697-pregnant-wife-of-former-nba-star-reportedly-bitten-by-shark-in-puerto-rico.html

[tsherkin]

Well that's terrible. I hope she comes through okay. Damn. What an awful sentence to read.

[Enso]

Hope they're ok

[bonita_the_frog]

I've never been bitten or even seen a shark in person.
They must be really rare because i've been to the beach hundreds of times.
Never been pregnant though either, but will in the next 20 years i assume.
Maybe sharks can sense pregnancy and their is a connection?
Sounds like a PhD study.

[chilluminati]

Glad shes okay. Not trying to be insensitive but this is one of the most random things I've ever read.

[LuDux1]

Probably small or baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo

[Froob]

Lot to unpack here. Hopefully everyone is okay

[LuDux1]

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[Clay Davis]

Even a small shark bite in the thigh can cause major damage should it strike an artery.

I am glad she is in stable condition. I imagine this would not be the case if she had lost a lot of blood. Her rizz and the child's rizz have gone up magnitudes.

[Capn'O]

I've never been bitten or even seen a shark in person.
They must be really rare because i've been to the beach hundreds of times.
Never been pregnant though either, but will in the next 20 years i assume.
Maybe sharks can sense pregnancy and their is a connection?
Sounds like a PhD study.

I literally was just reading an article yesterday talking about how scientists think that most shark attacks are caused by sharks mistaking humans for seals due to their poor eyesight. This is also why surfers are often victims as the boards look like seals fishing in the waves. Once they get to us, they're usually not that interested because we don't have blubber so, like in this case, many shark attacks are an initial bite where the shark then backs off when they realize they don't want to eat us.

Maybe a pregnant woman looks more like a seal?

It sounds like wife and baby are ok:

https://heavy.com/sports/nba/new-york-knicks/danilo-gallinaris-wife-attacked-by-a-shark/

According to a further report by El Nuevo Dia, the most popular newspaper on the island, Commissioner of the Carolina municipal police Ruben Moyeno confirmed that the woman was bitten on her thigh, causing an open wound. Moyeno would state that her condition was described as “stable”.

[NyKnicks1714]

I've never been bitten or even seen a shark in person.
They must be really rare because i've been to the beach hundreds of times.
Never been pregnant though either, but will in the next 20 years i assume.
Maybe sharks can sense pregnancy and their is a connection?
Sounds like a PhD study.

I literally was just reading an article yesterday talking about how scientists think that most shark attacks are caused by sharks mistaking humans for seals due to their poor eyesight. This is also why surfers are often victims. Once they get to us, they're usually not that interested because we don't have blubber so, like in this case, many shark attacks are an initial bite where the shark then backs off when they realize they don't want to eat us.

Maybe a pregnant woman looks more like a seal?

It sounds like wife and baby are ok:

https://heavy.com/sports/nba/new-york-knicks/danilo-gallinaris-wife-attacked-by-a-shark/

According to a further report by El Nuevo Dia, the most popular newspaper on the island, Commissioner of the Carolina municipal police Ruben Moyeno confirmed that the woman was bitten on her thigh, causing an open wound. Moyeno would state that her condition was described as “stable”.

a pregnant woman looks more like a seal

[JimmyPlopper]

Probably small or baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo

Similar thing happened to a family friend of ours in Hilton Head and although the bit did puncture the skin pretty good, it was only a baby, and there was no permanent damage. Hoping the same here.

[Airmiess]

People really need to start being more cautious about oceans and lakes. They're extremely dangerous.

[bonita_the_frog]

I literally was just reading an article yesterday talking about how scientists think that most shark attacks are caused by sharks mistaking humans for seals due to their poor eyesight. This is also why surfers are often victims as the boards look like seals fishing in the waves. Once they get to us, they're usually not that interested because we don't have blubber so, like in this case, many shark attacks are an initial bite where the shark then backs off when they realize they don't want to eat us.

Maybe a pregnant woman looks more like a seal?

I swim with a kickboard (because i can't swim) but at least it's yellow and seals are NOT yellow.
Maybe when i'm preg my kickboard will save my life in more ways than one...

People really need to start being more cautious about oceans and lakes. They're extremely dangerous.

I agree oceans are the worst even when i look at google earth i feel sick when it shows water.

[UcanUwill]

Well, you wont see news like this every day. Hope she is ok.

[bisme37]

I came here to express concern for Gallo's wife and now I'm singing that baby shark song while chuckling at how pregnant women look like seals.

[ThunderBolt]

People really need to start being more cautious about oceans and lakes. They're extremely dangerous.

How would a person be more cautious about sharks while in the ocean? Do you think municipalities and beaches should set up shark crossing signs?

[NyKnicks1714]

People really need to start being more cautious about oceans and lakes. They're extremely dangerous.

How would a person be more cautious about sharks while in the ocean? Do you think municipalities and beaches should set up shark crossing signs?

They can't close the beaches, it's the Fourth of July.

[Billl]

I've never been bitten or even seen a shark in person.
They must be really rare because i've been to the beach hundreds of times.
Never been pregnant though either, but will in the next 20 years i assume.
Maybe sharks can sense pregnancy and their is a connection?
Sounds like a PhD study.

Sharks absolutely are not rare - something like 1 Billion - with a B - in the world. If you've been in the ocean, you've almost certainly been within a few hundred yards of one and just didn't know it. The thing is that they generally avoid people and you are incredibly unlikely to get bit unless you basically kick them in the mouth. The attacks that make the news are often "surfer mistaken for a seal by big shark" , but that is even rarer. Most sharks aren't big enough to try to eat something as big a human. A 3-4 ft shark could still do a ton of damage and even kill a person if they mistake your leg kicking for a floundering fish, but they most certainly are not searching out pregnant women for dinner.

[gavran]

Fish.