[Opinionated Blowhard]

I saw one of those "Shark Week" specials the other day about Australia's "summer or sharks" a year or so ago. The government's main concern seemed to be telling everyone that it was wrong to think of sharks as bloodthirsty killers and that everyone had to understand they were just animals and that the killings were flukes. People kept going to the beaches and kept getting bitten or killed.

I don't want to understant sharks. If I see one close to a populated beach, it needs to be shot, period.

[george76]

Remember the Shark that rips legs and arms off four Russian tourists an Egyptian Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheikh ?

Dec 2010

[Roos_Girl]

In Florida there are sharks close to populated beaches all the time. Most of the time no one is bitten.

[OldNewYork]

If I see one close to a populated beach, it needs to be shot, period.

Agree. The understanding them part should be in understanding how best to kill any of them which are even mildly threatening. That 'it's their territory; we're just visitors' business is complete nonsense. We're mammals long accustomed to being at sea, and especially living by, and in, the shoreline, surfing, swimming, diving, whatever.