Thread: Shark Attacks .

Yep this really ****es me off. You swim in the ocean you take the chance you can be eaten. Would you go jogging with lions or Tigers? I think more people are killed by bee stings then shark attacks every year. Should we kill all the bees? Where do you stop? Humans kill each other all the time.

Originally Posted by SPROVER

[...]Where do you stop? Humans kill each other all the time.

The surging global population growth makes its clear that many humans are not doing their fair share (of killing). But soldier on. Don't stop.

See people are still bitching that the Authorities are not doing enough to prevent shark attacks !!! , here,s a tip , don,t go in the ocean

I Agree, If you don't want to take the chance of getting eaten then stay in the boat.
I have spent many years at sea and it still gives me the "heebeejeebee's" if I have to go over the side regardless of the depth of the water.
Sharks just do what Sharks have been doing for eons and that is hunting to eat

What else are they going to eat, we are catching there tucker before them and making a mess of there back yard with our pollution of plastics and sewage...

And then we complain and want to kill them when we go in there back yard and they come up to us and complain the only way they know how, a little bite...

I love eating fish, but I dont swim with them and then eat them...

Next they will close the coast line because they cant kill all the skarks, maybe we should try feeding the pollies to them... Nah thats too cruel to the sharks!

Originally Posted by SPROVER

Yep this really ****es me off. You swim in the ocean you take the chance you can be eaten. Would you go jogging with lions or Tigers? I think more people are killed by bee stings then shark attacks every year. Should we kill all the bees? Where do you stop? Humans kill each other all the time.

Indeed. Same thing with crocs, really. They even put signs up, but people think "it won't happen to me". Here's a tip: it will.

A shark is doing what a shark does, and has been doing for more than 50,000,000 years, apparently.

I rather jump in the pond with a shark than a croc, 99% of the time a shark is only cruising, but a croc is thinking about eating 99% of the time. Worse fear I ever had in the water was having a ski rope brake in the middle of a feeding frenzy of couta, absolutely petrified.
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I love a swim in the ocean but the Noahs are always at the back of my mind. Certain conditions will make attacks more likely. Its best to keep your feet dry at such times.
Culling does no one any good except for a brief placation of the vengeful and the fearful.

When I first started to dive back in 1990, my dive instructor told my class "welcome to the food chain", and that's how I have thought about it ever since. Not long after that I attended a lecture by Sylvia Earle and when asked what was her most dangerous part of her career in the water (given she was a hard-hat diver before turning to scuba, and also spent lots of time in submersibles), her very sensible answer was "driving to the marina". The closest she had ever come to getting killed was by other drivers.

To me that pretty much sums it up as we humans are appallingly bad at judging risk. Over 1.2 million people die in car accidents every year (with tens of millions seriously injured) but less than 100 people are attacked by sharks annually with the fatality rate averaging less than 15 per year. Given the way so many people drive, I would rather take my chances in the water.....