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.
Won't work. They attack at that depth as well.
There isn't a seal anywhere near Destin, Florida. I think this 14 year old resembled FOOD.
Seals, I will be in the condo in a week and definitely will look for them. Haven't ever seen one though.
Play it safe make it less than two feet. - tom
By Douglas McCollam Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 12:00 AM PT
On July 6, as 8-year-old Jessie Arbogast waded in about 2 feet of water along Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore, a 7-foot-long bull shark ambushed him, tearing off his right arm and a chunk of his right leg. The attack came so near to shore that Jessie's uncle and another beachgoer were able to grab the shark and drag it onto land where park rangers shot it, pried its mouth open, and retrieved the severed arm.
The boy almost bled to death and lapsed into a coma. Surgeons reattached the limb, and though Jessie is showing signs of coming to, doctors say it's too soon to know if he'll make a full recovery.
There are no seals in the Gulf of Mexico. Or on the east coast of Florida either.
"I'm never swimming past four feet of ocean water ever again."
I believe that most shark attacks occur in water that's less than four feet in depth.