14-Year-Old Girl Dies in Fla. Shark Attack

AP ^ | 6/25/05

[cubram]

It happens enough to discourage me from going too far into the water.

[zencat]

Wonder if the MSM will bring backthe "Summer of the Shark"?

[Txsleuth]

I just heard some shark expert on Fox News say that the incident happened in Walton County in Florida and there has NEVER been a shark attack recorded in that area...

[Calico Cat]

You always hear of how rare this is, how it almost never happens; I'll bet that this girl heard the same thing.

So what! If there's a chance of it happening, I'm not going in the ocean! Being attacked by a shark is probably mankind's most primitive fear. I'm going in up to my ankles, and that's it.

[nuconvert]

"100 yards offshore " seems a bit far to me.

[blackbart.223]

"I just heard some shark expert on Fox News say that the incident happened in Walton County in Florida and there has NEVER been a shark attack recorded in that area...

Time for a shark hunt. And if PETA protests we can throw them to the sharks.

[TwoSue]

Land shark!

[Log]

Wonder if the MSM will bring backthe "Summer of the Shark"?

Somehow it will be Rumsfeld's fault.

[spetznaz]

Being attacked by a shark is probably mankind's most primitive fear

Hmmm ....I always thought being attacked, squeezed, and eaten by a giant constrictor (eg Reticulated Python) was the most primal. Anyways, definitely been eaten by anything is pretty dire.

[SunnySide]

Must mean either sharks natural food sources are dwindling or they're evolving into sticking near the shore lines, easy prey like people since we resemble seals swimming on the waters surface. Who knows. I'm never swimming past four feet of ocean water ever again.

[blackbart.223]

"Somehow it will be Rumsfeld's fault."

If you stub your toe tonight the libs will tell you Bush did it.

[blackbart.223]

"Who knows. I'm never swimming past four feet of ocean water ever again."

Won't work. They attack at that depth as well.

[Dog Gone]

There isn't a seal anywhere near Destin, Florida. I think this 14 year old resembled FOOD.

[cajungirl]

My biggest fear is a bear attacking although sharks are in close second with gators third, and most likely given where I live, and rattlesnakes fourth.

What kind of shark? Anbody heard? Where we go in Destin it is shallow at low tide way out. My husband routinely goes out to swim that far at least.

[SunnySide]

"Won't work. They attack at that depth as well."

Yeah but at least I can attempt to run out of the shallow water than try to out swim a giant shark.

[catpuppy]

"100 yards offshore " seems a bit far to me.

Last year's "Ivan" and "Arlene" from a few days ago have moved much of the beach sand offshore in sand bars. That, coupled with the girls using--according to one news report--"boogie boards" could explain both why they were attacked and how they were able to get back to the shore.

[hadaclueonce]

As a surf fisherman here in Texas, the momement you step in the saltwater you are part of the food chain.

It does not have to be a shark, Ray barbs, man of war or even Viro, as humans we are not superior.

I know the risks and I chose to take them.

[Dog Gone]

[tahotdog]

We'd only have to exterminate three or four species of sharks and there'd never be another shark attack on a human. "Scientists" would still have 297 species of the ****ing things to "study"...

The basic idea is that you go out in a boat and throw chum in the water until sharks appear, and then you kill ten or twenty of them with a FAL rifle, and the rest will all kill eachother.