Sharks?

Yup - several times - had several sims pulled under and die from shark attacks (only ones I wanted to!). Grim just comes up out of the ocean after and you get an urn on the life saver - cute!. The best place is of the island kalaksed said - though I usually use close to the scuba diving buoy there. Sharks probably will not bother your sims if actually diving - it is best to just do a 'swim here' and let them just idle in the deep water for awhile (it's those legs just dangling that attract!) - helps to have other sims they can talk to while just idling - sometimes a rip current pulls a sim and that is pretty cool too - nothing happens other than their position changes but they get like scared from it.

My first shark sighting happened at the same time I met my first dolphin:
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Afterwards I've had four occurences of sharks when my sims were occupied with the dolphins, in which case both shark and dolphin just dive away. Love the animation they are doing, the distressed expression and the arm waving!

The only time a shark swam by without a dolphin nearby was when one of my favorite families was swimming in deep water, but it didn't attack. Poor thing must have known I wouldn't let it eat a member of that particular household (ambrosia or reload).

I have seen some many times. Especially when my sims were swimming around Mua Pel'am island.
One thing I have seen is that sims who have Child of Ocean trait will become happy after a shark encounter. I haven't seen any shark attacks.
I think SimGurus have said that you won't see any sharks in Ohan'ali Town.

This is so weird. I have to try again with all my CC removed and then check half by half which one affects this. Ugh.
Because yeah, I did everything you said, and I never saw any sharks.

"Rhiannon1307;c-17143155" wrote:
This is so weird. I have to try again with all my CC removed and then check half by half which one affects this. Ugh.
Because yeah, I did everything you said, and I never saw any sharks.

One way I can suggest is having 8 sims in the same household swim around in the same area of the ocean. It will increase chances of someone seeing a shark, someone getting caught in RIP-current and so on. There is also a really rare chance of getting pulled underwater by a black mass (though I've never seen that happen without mermaids).

Ok. I did an experiment.
I sent 8 sims swimming in Mua Pel'am neighborhood (one of them was a vampire). I tried to keep them together, but they kept getting caught in currents. Using cheats I maxed out their needs and froze them.
They had many shark encounters. Vampire was first to drown due to their vampire energy need being empty (sunlight you know). After many hours sims started to be pulled underwater by a black mass.
Every time a sim was randomly pulled underwater by black mass, the victim drowned right after. When I looked at sim's moodlets, after resurfacing sims got an uncomfortable moodlet (instead of tense when a mermaid summons the ocean threat). That moodlet immediately disappeared when the sim began to drown. Waited until every sim had drowned, all caused by that black mass.

So shark encounters are harmless (and not rare). Being pulled underwater by black mass is rare and will result in death (I don't know if sim always drowns after it or not) unless it was summoned by a mermaid.

I could try again with multiple Sims, yeah.
I tried just now with one. Removed ALL CC previously, had him in the water for nearly 48 hours. He got the fin fear moodlet multiple times, but I never saw anything. I tried various spots - deep water, semi-deep, shallow - made no difference.
I also repaired my game but still nothing. I'm disappointed.

"jacknchloe;d-962090" wrote:
Has anyone seen one? If so where? I have taken my Sim scuba diving multiple times around dusk and still haven’t seen one.

You don't have to go Scuba diving to see one. I sent my SIM snorkeling in the deep and saw one. Happened twice. The second time was when she came back up from scuba diving.

"kalaksed;c-17143785" wrote:
that 'black mass' thing is the kraken and shark sightings are a precursor to it. you get one 'free' shark sighting, if another happens within a certain amount of time (several sim-hours), that second shark sighting is followed instantly by the sim being pulled under by the kraken (note the thought bubble over the head of my sim who is about to get pulled under above. it shows up when they get the kraken encounter in the caves and when they do the 'imitate mermaids' interaction with another sim). it instantly kills a sim when shows up this way, even full motives, and it's always a drowning death. (unless it was summoned by a mermaid, then it's just a 'scare the plum out of the sim')

It didn't happen after my sim encountered one with that moodlet. And I didn't see any sharks nearby before sim got pulled underwater. Most of these sims did have that moodlet though...
Those attacks (judging from the thought bubble it may be either shark or kraken) did happen more at nighttime.

So I posted about this on the help forum, and they suggested I'd set my object details to high instead of medium. And that worked. I could see the sharks as well as turtles and dolphin swimming in the water. Unfortunately, my graphics card gave out and I had to set it back to medium. So now I've ordered a stronger graphics card and also more ram. My CPU should be sufficient, as I have an Intel 5. This game is costing me so much money.