CT-Rich
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My position is very easy to uphold because the position of the majority on this thread is plainly ridiculous and indefensible. It is that they 'don't care' about the risk of a fatal shark attack. That they have no regard for their own safety in this matter. That even if a fatal attack was inevitable they'd dive.
Numbers have been provided for the area in which I live. Also check the Shark Attack Files for many more.
Those were the comments that preceded the inclusion on the thread of the option 'don't care' by Netdoc, one of the Scubaboard administration. Incidentally I've never witnessed that kind of interference without the approval of the person who created the poll and OP before by the administration of any internet chat forums. I'd hazard a guess that this is the first time it was done on this board.
The fact that this position has been defended by so many on this forum and the site administration is disturbing. It testifies to how fanatical and deluded people have become in their support for Greeny ideology.
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This was discussed at length and the evidence tendered previously in the thread.
Would you jump in with scuba gear and no shark protection behind a boat with cages divers with a number of big, hungry, man-eating white pointers milling around?
First off why was I not included in your ranty-tirade? Doesn't my snarky disdain qualify? Huh?
Back to explaining the bloody obvious....
A) I think you misunderstood "don't care" they care if they die, but they worry about things that might actually kill them, like auto-erotic asphyxiation and Jellyfish (man, box Jellies scare the crap out of me).
B) I "don't care" wasn't actually offered as an option in this poll.
C) if the fatal attack is inevitable, why not dive? I mean, why hide on land if those buggers are just going to find you anyway? (see earlier Sharknado refence)
D) Doc was actually doing you a favor, most admins on most board would have deleted your posts and banned you for being a troll, especially since this is supposed to be a basics area. And here you are espousing irrational tripe to people who might not realize what an irrational point of view you are holding. (by the way doc, thanks for not bouncing my posts....)
E) you say in your area this is a problem and you have already shown documentation.... would you cut and paste specific examples and link back to the original source. I didn't see those posts and am not going to scan back through a 200+ posts to find it. I think repeating the phrase "I have already gone over that" doesn't really cut the mustard. If you had data (the generally accepted NUMBER-ie types of data) to discuss I would like to see it. Consensus seems to be about 5 deaths world wide per year (my guess is that there are a number that are never reported, but hey, who's counting....).
Speaking of Fanatical and deluded people.... You have a community of people that have TENS OF THOUSAND combined dive hours, PhDs and commercial divers, instructors and site administrators saying the opposite of what you know with unwavering certainty
And trust me, I am probably the biggest Greeny here (well maybe not) but there are PLENTY of people on SB that doesn't apply to... Just go read what gets written in the pub.... I think you need on who is deluded....