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that's a lot of shark bait
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that's a lot of shark bait
Okay, I enjoy and value your posts in the past, but I am pretty sure you meant something other than what you just said. I am fairly confident in saying that this statement is false. If you are out in the Northwoods of Maine where there is ZERO presence of great whites that fact correlates in a straight line to the conclusion and probability of ZERO percent chance of a great white attack in Baxter. Just because there are great whites present doesn't mean I will be bitten but it does factor into the calculation of the probability.the presence of sharks doesn't have any correlation to shark attacks.
Okay, I enjoy and value your posts in the past, but I am pretty sure you meant something other than what you just said. I am fairly confident in saying that this statement is false. If you are out in the Northwoods of Maine where there is ZERO presence of great whites that fact correlates in a straight line to the conclusion and probability of ZERO percent chance of a great white attack in Baxter. Just because there are great whites present doesn't mean I will be bitten but it does factor into the calculation of the probability.
And to drrich2 I am not sure how to respond. Are you suggesting there have been no shark attacks in California waters because I am pretty sure that is not correct. 2015 may have been a good year. Out here the thought of a great white in our diving waters was the stuff of Peter Benchley's imagination until the seals took hold on the Cape. We have already had one shark incident on the Cape and they now have shark patrols on the beaches. Previously unheard of out here.
You guys want to dismiss the threat or otherwise want to think it is not existent, more power to you.
All I have been trying to convey for perhaps the third or more times is that for me the presence of great whites in NE waters where we dive is not a positive. Hugh seals colonies a negative as well for the marine environment. If you think otherwise ok.