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UPDATE: 7-foot shark pulls man under water Ocracoke Island in NC, victim airlifted to hospital
myfox8.com ^ | Stephanie Doyle

Posted on 07/02/2015 5:11:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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1 posted on 07/02/2015 5:11:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Yeah this is I think the fifth shark attack off North Carolina in two weeks. So anyone who goes in the water now is just not overly bright.


2 posted on 07/02/2015 5:13:08 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema

I have flown over those waters many times. There are always dozens of sharks within 100 yards of the shore, that is where they feed. They are very easy to spot from the air.


3 posted on 07/02/2015 5:17:25 AM PDT by wrench
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To: MarMema

no, it’s the 7th NC attack in a few weeks.

I live on the NC coast....I’ll be staying in the boat for a while.....


4 posted on 07/02/2015 5:17:59 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: wrench

They are indeed...aerial photos are stunning sometime. Around Cape Lookout, which is part of the Beaufort Morehead City Atlantic Beach area, it’s shark infested from aerial looks....


5 posted on 07/02/2015 5:18:57 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

They’re staging there hoping to get a walk-on role in Sharknado 3


6 posted on 07/02/2015 5:22:27 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: C. Edmund Wright

When I got married, wife and I went to the beach. She wanted to go swimming, I told her I had no desire, but go if she wanted. Then I told her why I had no interest in going in the ocean. She hasn’t been in the ocean since.

That’s where the Sharks are!


7 posted on 07/02/2015 5:23:27 AM PDT by wrench
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To: wrench
Except landsharks.


8 posted on 07/02/2015 5:29:21 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: wrench

...my wife just showed me an 11 foot alligator that came ashore at Holden Beach NC.........gators AND sharks!


9 posted on 07/02/2015 5:32:25 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: RoosterRedux

Sharks are, like, the ONE thing of which I have a deep-rooted fear. When you’re in the water, you’re in their element. You have no idea which direction they are coming from and they can move so fast. Screw that.

Now, a bear... I could take a bear...


10 posted on 07/02/2015 5:32:32 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: C. Edmund Wright

NC has gators as far north as the “Alligator River”.

Wonder how it got the name?


11 posted on 07/02/2015 5:34:10 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Scutter

ROFL


12 posted on 07/02/2015 5:42:42 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Scutter; JoeProBono; dfwgator
They’re staging there hoping to get a walk-on role in Sharknado 3
“I’m afraid of sharks, but only in a water situation. If I saw a shark on the street, I’d be like ‘WHAT?! **** YOU!’ It's like the opposite of how I am with lions.”
-- Demetri Martin, "Personal Information Waltz", These Are Jokes

13 posted on 07/02/2015 5:50:36 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: RoosterRedux

If we restrict the list to U.S. deaths and omit mosquitoes and deer, the listing becomes 1) bees (53 deaths each year in the U.S.), 2) dogs (30-35 deaths), 3) cows (22), 4) horses (20), 5) spiders (6.5), and 6) rattlesnakes (5.5). Yep – you are 10 times more likely to die in the U.S. because of a bee sting than a bite from a rattler and 22 times more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark.

#1. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with other mammals, a category that includes cats, cows, horses, pigs, raccoons, and other hoofed animals: 655. The biggest bringers of death are cows and horses.
#2. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with hornets, wasps, or bees: 509.
#3. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with dogs: 250.
#4. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with nonvenomous insects or nonvertebrates: 85.
#5. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with non-venomous reptiles. This would include lizards and non-venomous snakes and the cause of death being bitten or crushed by the animal: 77.
#6. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with venomous spiders: 70.
#7. The number of deaths that resulted from other venomous arthropods such as fire ants: 63.
#8. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with venomous snakes or lizards: 59.
#9. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with marine animals: 10, 8 of them from sharks.
#10. The number of deaths that resulted from interactions with crocodiles and alligators: 9.

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/events/department-news/1195/forget-sharks-cows-are-more-likely-to-kill-you/


14 posted on 07/02/2015 5:52:38 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Lol!


15 posted on 07/02/2015 5:53:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: bolobaby

“Now, a bear... I could take a bear..”

Maybe a Care Bear! I’m pretty sure I can kick it’s arse.


16 posted on 07/02/2015 5:59:09 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: MarMema

It is actually the 7th. I think there have been an additional 2 in SC waters as well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVJ4s7k0vU8


17 posted on 07/02/2015 5:59:51 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Scutter
They’re staging there hoping to get a walk-on role in Sharknado 3

Shark Week starts July 5th!!!

It's the most wonderful week, of the year!

18 posted on 07/02/2015 6:01:21 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: RoosterRedux

No one likes Massachusetts tourists.


19 posted on 07/02/2015 6:02:25 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: RoosterRedux

I was just swimming in those waters with my kids last month.


20 posted on 07/02/2015 6:05:45 AM PDT by oincobx
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