Replies

Wow, thanks for the information, but maybe you should share that bit of information with the families who lost loved ones to shark attacks after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during WWII. What follows is from site that has first hand accounts from back then.

"The U.S.S. Indianapolis was hit by a Japanese torpedo after it dropped off the atom bomb, on it's way back to sea duty. It was under strict radio silence so no one knew where they were. The ship sank in a matter of minutes and no word was sent out for help ( A mayday) or S.O.S.

The sailors, about 1100 of them were in the water for up to three days before Washington sent out search planes to see what was going on.

They found about 500 sailors still floating waiting for help. Many of the sailors were killed by sharks, it was the most or worst attack by sharks in history. Many men were pulled in, only to have the bottom halves of their bodies gone.

The men lost to shark attacks in the sinking of the Indianapolis were killed the same way almost anyone killed by a shark is: they are badly bitten, but not eaten. Most attack victims die from the blood loss caused by a single bite. The sailors on the Indianapolis were even worse off than someone attacked at a beach in that they were thousands of miles from medical care.

The overwhelming majority of attacks on humans occur in water less then four feet deep, and in nearly every instance the victim is bitten once or twice. Even in instances where a swimmer has been badly bitten (loss of an arm or leg, torso bite) by a large requiem shark, the victim has not been eaten when the attacking shark could have very easily consumed them. The victim is bitten, the shark breaks off the attack when he finds what he bit into was not to his liking. The injury and death occur as a function of our frail human form going up against multiple rows of shark teeth driven by several thousand pounds of bite force per square inch.

If sharks hunted humans for food, the only safe spots for swimming would be in areas that are heavily netted. There are literally millions of miles of unprotected coastline where nearly 100% of swimmers are able to swim unmolested.