I think we need a bigger boat

[Doc1647545523]

Maybe a coincidence, but perhaps a pattern?

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jIIYioymk7QfMfM8Y5r5E31H5Zvg

 

 

My favorite quotation from the article: "An ocean swimming race will also go ahead this weekend, organisers said, with competitors well protected by a fleet of accompanying water craft."

 

 

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/ALeqM5j9QR8O5KLUB0XisfSzp9FiMbhSqg.jpg

[sol740]

Most important part of the article, and the most likely to be ignored.

 

But John West, curator of the official Australian Shark Attack File held at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, dismisses claims that the number of attacks on humans is increasing.

"The human population is increasing and more and more people are going into the water, but there has not been a corresponding spike in fatalities from shark attacks," he told AFP.

"There is still an average of 1.2 fatalities a year over about the past 50 years -- if anything the fatality rate for shark attacks is dropping in comparison to the increase in the human population.

[Doc1647545523]

You've certainly got a valid point, but I'm not sure it is any comfort to the two victims currently hospitalized from two separate incidents in a week that .... "There is still an average of 1.2 fatalities a year over about the past 50 years -- " According to the article, there had been no reported attacks in this harbor for 10 years, and now two serious attacks in a week. It could just be coincidence, but it sounds to me like a shark problem. I base my considerable expertise on having watched all of the Jaws movies, some even twice.

 

And the idea of holding a swimming event in the harbor anyway reminds me of the scene in the original movie of the flotilla of fisherman going out to "hunt" the shark.

[justinwebb]

sounds to me the sharks are just mistaking them for food. Maybe food is getting scarce and they are mistaking people as seals or whatnot. The shark bit and let go meaning once he figured out what it was it said oh shit my bad dude and swam away. If the shark wanted to eat him he would be long gone. Been scuba diving before and wen under water most sharks were scared of us.

[ForeverMaker]

Clearly global warming is to blame. We all need to be driving electric cars within 10 years or the sharks will take over.

[evan9381]

who's listened to the dane cook skit talking about the shark attacking the guy

 

"so the shark came up and bit you, and you punched it in the face and the shark was just like "ALRIGHT!!!! I GET IT ALREADY!!!!" lol.

[Farkas]

As a swimming competitor, I'd be afraid to swim in any of those waters.. lol

[Cordell]

It's El Nino's fault, oh wait no blame PETA, or just blame the fact that these people are stupid and don't realize they have legs hence making them land mammals.

[justinwebb]

just sucks to know that we are once and a while the prey as we are in their domain in the water.

[Ramsey]

Thats why "Im on a boat(on a boat)"

[ImUrOBGYN]

Pfft. Who cares about simple sharks when there's Sharktopus.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k58/ImUrOBGYN/Sharktopus.jpg

[ImUrOBGYN]

And these:

http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sharks_with_laser_beams-w72pgv-d.jpg

 

http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/helicopter_shark_russian.jpg

 

http://swimatyourownrisk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/helicopter.jpg

[Brrcats]

some of those swimmers are goin down.

 

that is, unless this guy will be there.

 

http://www.addiction-guild.com/sites/addiction-guild.com/files/images/news_10_03_07/shark_piledriver.jpg