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Any Great Whites in the Bahamas?
I need to quit watching Shark Week by the way, this is nuts!
I need to quit watching Shark Week by the way, this is nuts!
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havnmonkey:Sharks have just gotten a very bad rap... And there is too many humans on this planet so we need to be thinned out!
Lost_At_Sea:Sharks can see about as good as you can in murky water. There is no reason for concern. Sharks are just animals, animals do animal things. When a shark does attack a human, (not very often), all it is, is a case of mistaken identity.
Hank49:Well, call me crazy, (don't worry, you won't be the first) but if I start to get cold and my body shivers, I think it's wise to get out of the water and move to another spot. I believe that this could be a dangerous situation because when I spear fish and they do their death "shiver", it's a shark magnet. Those little shock waves travel far and fast and many a curious, and hungry, sharks will come check it out....looking for a bite to eat. The problem is if he's BIG.
Fish Wrangler:I've never had a shark follow me around the way barracudas do. I've done a shark feed dive off of Roatan and never felt threatened. And when I see reef sharks cruising the walls in the Cayman Islands they never pay any attention to me.
Barracudas are a different story.
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scrapdizzy:Any Great Whites in the Bahamas?
Fish Wrangler:I don't know if statistics are kept on barracuda bites, though I'll wager that more people get bitten by barracudas than by sharks.