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December 17th, 2004, 06:02 AM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
It has to be killed. It attacked a human once, it might have gotten a taste for it.
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December 17th, 2004, 01:22 PM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
No, sharks don't have an intellect built that way. It's not the same as it is with dogs or the Big Cats.
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December 17th, 2004, 05:08 PM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
Interesting. Do you have any links?
(Am wondering how they would find the shark in the first place...)
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December 17th, 2004, 06:08 PM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
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Interesting. Do you have any links?
(Am wondering how they would find the shark in the first place...)
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Well if you jump in the ocean, they find you. 
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December 17th, 2004, 06:32 PM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
Yes, but that would not nessasarily find you the specific shark they are looking for.
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December 17th, 2004, 07:37 PM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
Sharks attack 50-90 people each year worldwide, with perhaps 5-10 fatalities. In the year 2000, an estimated 264,000,000 people visited beaches in the US alone. Of those, 71,000 people were given medical treatment by lifeguards and 132 died by drowning or other water sport injuries. In the same year in the US, there were just 23 shark attacks, with no fatalities. And on a global scale consider how many millions of people enter the water each year, and how many millions of sharks inhabit the same waters. Now the shark doesn't really seem to live up to his image, does he?
Every year, more people are injured by lightening strikes and by dog bites than by sharks. And take flu, for example, do you quake with fear at the thought of contracting the flu virus? No? You should. The World Health Organisation estimates that every year between 250,000 and 500,000 people die as a result of flu in industrialised countries alone. Our mass murdering sharks seem rather tame in comparison, with a measly 5-10 deaths a year to their name. This is not to diminish the trauma and terror of a shark attack, but it is time to see the shark for what he really is.
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By comparison, more people are killed by dogs in just the USA each year, than all the known shark fatalities in the world for the past 100 years.
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December 17th, 2004, 07:44 PM
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Re: OT: Do you like surfing?
And dogs that attack humans are generally killed.
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