Suspension of all diving and watersports activities in Sharm el Sheikh

[peterbj7]

How do they know it's the same shark?

 

[Crowley]

I am guiding in RasMo tomorrow. I will endeavour to let you all know how many limbs I have left afterwards.

Cheers

C.

 

[tarponchik]

How do they know it's the same shark?

"The shark was "identified" by an Egyptian diver, who rescued one of the tourists. He recognized the predator's damaged fin. However, additional research will be carried out to confirm that this particular shark was responsible for the attacks."

from here: Egyptian killer shark caught after mauling four tourists in Red Sea resort | World | RIA Novosti

 

[tarponchik]

I am confused cause in the article I gave link to (above) they claim that "According to the International Shark File, which has a global shark attack database, there have only been nine reports of attacks by oceanic whitetip sharks on humans since records began in 1580, and only one of them was fatal." Other reports I've seen claim that OWT is the 3d deadliest shark out there. Who is correct?

 

[tarponchik]

Yeah, I got it. When sharks attack 60-80 people annually worldwide, this is mean sharks attacking some nice people. When they attacked Russian tourists, this is nice shark attacking mean Russians who deserved it.

When I see reefs near Florida keys bleached out, I am told that this is global warming or African algae. When this happens in Egypt, this is only because too many Russians come there.

 

[Solly]

"The shark was "identified" by an Egyptian diver, who rescued one of the tourists. He recognized the predator's damaged fin. However, additional research will be carried out to confirm that this particular shark was responsible for the attacks."

from here: Egyptian killer shark caught after mauling four tourists in Red Sea resort | World | RIA Novosti

They also check the stomach content of the shark for remains from the attack

 

[macrobubble]

When I see reefs near Florida keys bleached out, I am told that this is global warming or African algae. When this happens in Egypt, this is only because too many Russians come there.

If you ever have the "pleasure" to watch hundreds of russian snorkelers at the Blue Hole in Dahab walking over the reef, ignoring everybody and everything trying to stop them, you would come to the same conclusion. 99% of these Russians are completely ignorant idiots!

 

[peterbj7]

I hate to generalise like that, but I do recall a Russian diver who killed himself in that Blue Hole some years back. I met him - he was an accident waiting to happen. Believed that with money he could do anything and could buy immunity from danger. Well, he was wrong.

 

[Tigerman]

Was this infact an oceanic whitetip as some sites report?
If so thats the 2nd oceanic whitetip to attack people in the red sea - 5 people in total (atleast that Ive heard of) - this yeah with a french tourist killed in january (I think it was january 2010 anyways).


As for the whole "russian discussion" its a dangerous topic, but one that any russian divers reading this forum should take serious as theres assloads of rude, disrespectful, careless russians down in the red sea who give the few serious ones an incredibly bad name. Its not accidental that some dive shops there try NOT to get any russian buisness..

 

[Ayisha]

In the article linked to above, it again says that 4 divers were attacked, not 3. There were 3 incidents, but 4 victims. From the previous article, one incident involved a couple, plus two other women separately, for a total of 3 women and 1 man.

A killer shark was caught off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh a day after it badly mauled four swimmers on Wednesday, the Egyptian environment ministry said.

In three separate incidents on Wednesday, three Russians and one Ukrainian were rushed to hospital after being attacked by a shark in reefs close to their beach hotels. One Russian tourist remains in critical condition after the attack.