Shark Attacks on the Rise

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Two teenagers lost their arms to sharks on Sunday. Both were in shallow water.

Seems like an easy fix (that's of course if it's not due to seasonal variations; like holidays, shark movements based on feeding and/or ocean temps, and whatnot)....

Don't go in the water.

My grandfather was once stung by a jellyfish. I never trusted anything but pools since then.

Yes. As a deep sea fisherman when younger, I've seen what's in the water.

No thanks.

National Geographic is a worthless rag. They posted an online article where they mentioned a boy "suffering" from Asperger's. Now they are sensationalizing shark attacks, which will make the paranoid crazies think that all sharks must be killed on sight, leading to their extinction. Then, without sharks around to eat them, the ocean will be filled with diseased, dead and decaying sea creatures.

summer is finally here

shark attack stories yay

40th anniversary of the release of the movie Jaws has something to do with the publicity.

Did anyone else feel sorry for the shark in 'Jaws' at the end?

I did. Especially when the were shooting the barrels into it.

That's it depicted.

It uses .38 caliber blanks to propel the harpoon.

A bow works just as well for surface fishing (I actually recall the tiger shark that people believed to be "Jaws" that's caught in the movie has an arrow sticking out of it), though it doesn't have that...mechanical contraption of death and the coldness of steel, as a metaphor. Kinda like petrol engines compared to oars.

I was just a kid when Jaws first came out, and I remember how much people freaked out, over and over, any time that they "saw" a shark in the water--which was several times a day, every day. I saw grown adults acting like total wussies (and thereby transferring their hysteria/paranoia to their kids) and I got so sick of it!

He11; sharks are out there alllll the time, and not nearly as big a threat to most in the USA as others would have you believe. Over-exposure to the sun is a more pervasive danger! I'll probably take some earplugs with me when I go to my brother's OBX house in August.

You're more likely to be killed on the highway during the round trip to the beach by a human drunk driver, or by a road rager, than you are to be killed swimming at the beach by a shark. More Americans die from bee stings each year than are killed by sharks in a century.

I understand that wild pigs are responsible for more human deaths than are sharks. But so far, movies about boars just haven't caught on yet.