Outkick⁠97%

Horrifying Video Shows Fisherman Surrounded By Sharks Off The Coast Of North Carolina ⁠84%

4/18/2026, 8:50:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Availability Heuristic, and Negativity Bias, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 46% saturation with 150 hits. Analysis detected 1,297 faulty-reasoning hits from 326 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠84% (3,611 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.50% of the article peer group.

I'm not a big fisherman , but when I've done it, I've done it from the safety and security of land. 
The biggest risk I've taken is doing it from a kayak and almost dropping my phone in the drink. 
And if I had a desire to start fishing out on the ocean while riding a jet ski, all it took was one video to kill it. 
The video was taken by a fisherman off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks. 
He reportedly moved in when he saw a group of sharks feeding on fish (which is not a "Hey, I need a closer look; let me ride my jet ski over to them" item for me, but to each his own). 
READ: SURFER CAPTURES INSANE VIDEO OF HAMMERHEAD SHARK RIGHT UNDERNEATH HIS BOARD 
However, once he got there, another group of bigger sharks showed up, and he wound up in the middle of an honest-to-goodness feeding frenzy with a bunch of sharks going to town on a school of drum. 
I spent a week on the Outer Banks a couple of years ago, and I spent most of my time hanging out by the pool. 
This video has only made me more sure that this was a good call. 
What do you even do in that situation except give whatever form of watercraft you happen to be on as much gas as you possibly can. 
He's lucky he happened to be on something with an engine strapped to it. 
Fortunately, the fisherman got out of there with all limbs and digits attached, and better yet, he also managed to hang onto the footage, which has since gone viral. 
I mean, you'd think that in the 50 years since Jaws came out, you couldn't freak people out about the ocean more than they already are. 
Well, then something like this comes along. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 4.3%Outkick: 8.8%Confirmation Bias4.3%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 31.6%Outkick: 5.3%Availability Heuristic31.6%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 2.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 6.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 7.7%Outkick: 12.5%Framing Effect7.7%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 6.4%Outkick: 1.3%Status Quo Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 4.3%Outkick: 4.4%Optimism Bias4.3%This article: 16.3%Outkick: 2.5%Pessimism Bias16.3%This article: 27.9%Outkick: 12.8%Negativity Bias27.9%This article: 19.9%Outkick: 3.2%Self-Serving Bias19.9%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 3.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 12.6%Outkick: 0.6%Actor-Observer Bias12.6%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 5.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 12.6%Outkick: 2.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias12.6%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 5.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 12.6%Outkick: 3.4%Recency Bias12.6%This article: 8.0%Outkick: 0.5%Primacy Effect8.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.4%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 4.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 12.6%Outkick: 2.0%Straw Man12.6%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 3.6%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 8.0%Outkick: 2.3%False Dilemma8.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 4.3%Outkick: 0.3%Circular Reasoning4.3%This article: 5.8%Outkick: 11.5%Hasty Generalization5.8%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 8.9%Outkick: 2.4%Bandwagon8.9%This article: 27.9%Outkick: 10.0%Appeal to Emotion27.9%This article: 2.1%Outkick: 1.7%Begging the Question2.1%This article: 14.7%Outkick: 2.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)14.7%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 46.0%Outkick: 4.3%Anecdotal46.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.4%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 12.6%Outkick: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)12.6%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 16.0%Outkick: 0.7%Personal Incredulity16.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 1.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.7%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 8.3%Outkick: 2.1%Unattributed Quote8.3%This article: 3.7%Outkick: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection3.7%This article: 33.4%Outkick: 18.0%Biased Writer Voice33.4%This article: 16.9%Outkick: 2.4%Indoctrination16.9%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Outkick: 2.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 12.6%Outkick: 0.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.6%

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