Posted on 06/29/2005 9:16:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Why do I have a feeling this is going to be another "Summer of the Shark" even if shark attacks are far less than many previous years (as was the last Summer of the Shark)?
A shark loves to eat more than it loves to kill. Most people that are on boogie boards look like either seals or sea turtles (one of the shark's favorite food) to sharks from below. If a shark sees someothing that looks like a meal in above it - it's going to try to eat it!
How stupid do you have to be to be surprised that a large predator behaves like a large predator?
What if it's not sure it's kosher?
Why do I have a feeling hollywood is going rush out and do a remake of "Jaws"? lol
Summer only began a week ago................
DUN DUN DUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
Then look for the mark that says blessed by a rabbi on the boogie board! ;-)
I think it was the location of the attacks, not the number that made it bizarre. Certainly the Va. Beach and Hatteras fatalities.
Exactly - And if people want to be in the ocean and be closer to nature (and all that) well then they need to understand that while shark attacks are extremely rare their is still always that possibility.
That is just reality and it doesn't mean we need to be out there killing sharks over a few attacks each year.
We're gonna need a bigger boat...
To the bane of PETA and other animal freaks.....if shark makes good eatin' we should all go on a shark hunting frenzy and make them an endangered species.
I remember the Summer of 2001 the news was dominated by shark attacks. Then came September 11 and we were no longer worried about sharks. Here's hoping history is not repeating itself.
I agree. We enter their domain - we can't expect them to ignore us although most of them do. But it turned out that there was a guy who was taking pictures from his condo before the girl got attacked of the shark going after fish. The shark must have seen the girl on the boogie board and decided it preferred a bigger prey. Once it's in the feeding mode - that's it.
*Nothing* beats this tale:
http://members.fortunecity.com/gogodncr/IceMan.html
Iceman' Grabs Shark to Save Men
Fri Oct 24, 9:59 AM ET
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - An Icelandic fishing captain, known as "the Iceman" for his tough character, grabbed a 660-pound shark with his bare hands as it swam in shallow water toward his crew, a witness said Thursday.
The skipper of the trawler "Erik the Red" was on a beach in Kuummiit, east Greenland, watching his crew processing a catch when he saw the shark swimming toward the fish blood and guts -- and his men.
Captain Sigurdur Petursson, known to locals as "the Iceman," ran into the shallow water and grabbed the shark by its tail. He dragged it off to dry land and killed it with his knife.
"He caught it just with his hands. There was a lot of blood in the sea and the shark came in and he thought it was dangerous," Frede Kilime, a hunter and fisherman who watched from the beach, told Reuters by phone from Greenland.
Icelandic author and journalist Reynir Traustason, who knows the trawler captain, said the act was typical of the man.
"He's called 'the Iceman' because he isn't scared of anything," he said. "I know the people in that part of the world. They are really tough."
Yeah. If two hikers get mauled and eaten by a grizzly bear, everyone assumes there was an element of "thrill seeking" that they put themselves in that situation.
Others, bitten by a shark in the shark's domain, are just treated as victims of "bad luck."
Even sillier are the people who call on the government to "do something."
Here's something these people can do: NOT go into the water without understanding that they are no longer at the top of the food chain.
"look like either seals or sea turtles."
Hmmmmm, the sea turtles have been laying their eggs in the past few weeks and it could possibly be related?
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