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Vacationing shark-attack victims were in shallow water
AP ^ | 06/15/15

Posted on 06/15/2015 8:35:00 AM PDT by Enlightened1

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1 posted on 06/15/2015 8:35:00 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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2 posted on 06/15/2015 8:36:44 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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“we’re going to need a bigger boat”

CC


3 posted on 06/15/2015 8:38:23 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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How many milliseconds after this story broke did liberals blame it on gorebull warming?


4 posted on 06/15/2015 8:38:25 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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We used to vacation at Ocean Isle where one attack took place. Oak Island was a redneck beach back in the day when it was called “Long Beach”.
Yeah I stayed there.


5 posted on 06/15/2015 8:40:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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Bad news I live very close, rarely swim in ocean but when friends visit it is the first thing why want to do. Had a nephew visit from Illinois first time at ocean, after 4 hours had to coax him off boggy board a take him to eat.


6 posted on 06/15/2015 8:40:45 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only source of change.)
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Most shark attacks are in shallow water because thats where the people are. Not rocket science.


7 posted on 06/15/2015 8:41:38 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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boggy board

Def: boggy board, a waterlogged boogie board.

8 posted on 06/15/2015 8:42:40 AM PDT by pfflier
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“The emergency call about the girl came in about 4:40 p.m., and the one about the boy at 5:51 p.m., local officials said.”

I grew up on the water and swam when I was four because I didn’t know I couldn’t. It was just something people did.

We were also told not to go into the water toward evening. Feeding time. We usually had a last swim around three.


9 posted on 06/15/2015 8:43:36 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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Correct. Kids on boogie boards look like food to large sharks.


10 posted on 06/15/2015 8:44:41 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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I like being near the ocean; but not IN the ocean.
Fish and other creatures belong there; not humans.

We belong on the shore; with a drink in our hand gazing out at the ocean.


11 posted on 06/15/2015 8:45:12 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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Can we send the pool of candidates for 2016, into the water here ?


12 posted on 06/15/2015 8:45:28 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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I would not want to come face to face with Mary Lee the great white shark. She hasn't been in that area since 2013. The distance she travels is unbelievable.

She's traveled 20,000 miles since 2012!!!

13 posted on 06/15/2015 8:45:32 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Listening to the news reports this morning sounds like JAWS 2015. The Great Whites are doing their yearly migration up the East Coast. Authorities should be on the lookout.


14 posted on 06/15/2015 8:46:46 AM PDT by McGruff (Never Forget)
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Yup, the surfline in summer has always been a potential dinner buffet for sharks.

Sometimes off of Blacks Beach at Torrey Pines in San Diego you can watch the shark schools swim casually along the first wave break. The funny thing is when people enter the water near them, they scatter away from the "apex predator".

15 posted on 06/15/2015 8:47:18 AM PDT by pfflier
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Bass like shallow water, too.

Fish brain: ...food...gulp...swallow.


16 posted on 06/15/2015 8:48:06 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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When will they blame climate change?


17 posted on 06/15/2015 8:49:36 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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They say that in New Smyrna Beach (where more bites take place than anywhere in the world) if you are in the water, you are within 10’ of a shark.


18 posted on 06/15/2015 8:50:27 AM PDT by FlJoePa
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They are re-releasing a restored Jaws:

For its fortieth anniversary, the film will be released in selected theaters (across approximately 500 theaters) in the United States on Sunday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 24, 2015.


19 posted on 06/15/2015 8:50:32 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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I grew up in Jacksonville, FL. I think the blues are running this time of year and they come in real shallow. Even they will bite you. Its possible the blues were in the water and the sharks following them.


20 posted on 06/15/2015 8:56:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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