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Not to downplay the seriousness of the injury incurred by an exploratory bite, it was a BIG shark (possibly a great white, unknown), It left the woman in shock, in and out of consciousness. She would have drowned if not for the off duty life guard who held her head above water until the on duty rescue team arrived.

I do think calling every injury caused by a shark an "attack" and every listless approach a "close call", is alarmist in an extremely unhelpful way.

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As a side note. If you stay calm and keep your head, you do have a superpower in most curious shark encounters (when the shark is smaller than a great white). As a creature with hands you have the ability to redirect an approaching shark with a solid sideways guiding shove to the snoot.

You just might have to be brave enough to open your eyes underwater in the ocean to perform the move if you're not wearing a mask or goggles. The water should be pretty shallow where people are swimming casually, so you would only need to dabble like a duck, like "*ducks below the water* no, fuck off *push*"

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"Queensland Anglers Fear Rise In Bull Shark numbers, Saying They're Getting Bigger Too"

A petition has been lodged with the state government calling for population control measures on bull sharks in Queensland waterways as experts warn the species is difficult to comprehensively count.

Best not to tilt their heads back, they'll lose what's left of their brains.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

That being said, efforts to bring it back are underway, and they have been making amazing progress, and succeed in creating Dhaka Muslin yet again.

This is a pretty good updated article, it has a lot of the same info as the BCC one (which also discusses some of the revival efforts) but with more of a focus on that process, an update to the story, and it details some of the other ongoing projects working on the revival!

Here's the first weaver to manage to produce a finished piece in nearly 200 years, Al Amin.

His first piece was 300 threads, according to the article they have now been able to get into the 700s for thread counts, which is absolutely incredible.

Several projects are actually underway now each with different weavers and slightly different methods, producing fabric intended to meet or best the original!

And if you're curious, "okay but can it pass through a ring" yes! Yes they can!

All three of these photos are of pieces made in the modern century, photos by Wasiul Bahar!