How many fatal shark attacks to stop you diving

[Lost down under]

Should have gone for the last one!


However I doubt many people, bravado aside, would go diving in an area with a FATAL shark attack once a week.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

... sharks gotta eat too ...



... Bob (Grateful Diver)

---------- Post added March 10th, 2014 at 02:16 PM ----------

... for some reason this made me think of Foxfish ...

Man fights off shark, stitches up own leg, goes to the pub | World news | The Guardian

"bugger, now I have to try and get this thing off my leg" ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[bowlofpetunias]

picture is worth a thousand words

 

[Diver0001]

... sharks gotta eat too ...



... Bob (Grateful Diver)

---------- Post added March 10th, 2014 at 02:16 PM ----------

... for some reason this made me think of Foxfish ...

Man fights off shark, stitches up own leg, goes to the pub | World news | The Guardian

"bugger, now I have to try and get this thing off my leg" ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Wow.... That's a real man!

R..

 

[The Chairman]

However I doubt many people, bravado aside, would go diving in an area with a FATAL shark attack once a week.

That's just it. That doesn't even happen on a worldwide basis and definitely not to Scuba Divers. It's a paranoid "what if" that could never come true.

 

[nimoh]

That's just it. That doesn't even happen on a worldwide basis and definitely not to Scuba Divers. It's a paranoid "what if" that could never come true.

I also wouldn't go diving in an area that had random weekly meteor showers, weekly hurricanes, or weekly pirate attacks.

...but then again, I would probably be in support of pirate culling

 

[Jim Lapenta]

It depends on the.kind of attack as well.. On swimmers or surfers would not stop me from diving. Spearos? Nope don't do it so less risk in my mind. If you could prove that they were specificay targeting divers maybe I would stay away. But have never heard or seen any evidence that has occurred. Much more risk in bear country or when you discipline a 22lb himalayan cat like the one that is all.over the news now.

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[MXGratefulDiver]

 

[The Chairman]

I also wouldn't go diving in an area that had random weekly meteor showers, weekly hurricanes, or weekly pirate attacks.

It's funny, but popular perceptions are very often wrong. If I were to ask you when was the last hurricane to really hit Key Largo, would you be surprised that it was almost 50 years ago in 1965 with Hurricane Betsy? Sure, Andrew had an impact, but even that was 22 years ago. The hype is almost always worse than reality. I don't live my life catering to my paranoia.

 

[The Chairman]

Kind of funny:



Sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted. What a cool video.