Posted on 10/24/2012 6:41:45 PM PDT by youngidiot
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California – A shark that bit and killed a surfer off of California's central coast probably was a great white and may have mistaken the boarder for prey, experts said Wednesday.
"Most shark attacks in California are caused by great whites. There's no other species that regularly occurs off of California that could inflict that kind of injury," said Andrew Nosal, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
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1. Ummm, no sh1t the shark regarded him as prey.
2. why do we have to have “experts” tell us this? F@ck the stupid “experts”.
It’s the surface that’s the dangerous spot. You’re at the boundry of two worlds. I thing I’ve noticed during my few dives (I’ve only done my certification dives) and been told also by veteran divers is that once you are under the water most of the critters really don’t care about you since you’re pretty much part of their world. It’s when you’re on the surface that you’re seen as prey (since animals like sharks like to ambush from beneath).
It's not Obama's fault!
-PJ
One thing’s for sure...
“This was NOT a boating accident!”
Nope! It was still hungry from one of Michelle’s lunches.
Her legs are malformed.
But then, who cares!
I envy you. I've wanted to go to the Farallon Islands since reading The Devil's Teeth -a journalist who spends fall shark season on the small inhabited island with the scientists studying the giant Great Whites that spend that time in the Farallons.
We never set foot on them - just fished for steelhead in the waters around them. It is a very unfriendly environment.
Yes. We scuba divers are most vulnerable at the surface or when engaged in spear fishing activities. No different than surfers. I’m not so sure about our absolute safety while submerged, however. Sharks may also be aggressive for reasons other than actual hunger. Territoriality is another possibility. I’ve seen grey reef sharks swim past casually. I’ve also seen them drop their pectoral fins & arch their backs in a threatening manner. So who knows?
One thing is for sure. There’s not a darn thing you are going to do a out it if a large shark takes a run at you. So you either adopt a realistic attitude or stay out of the ocean.
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