You're at 84 ft and you see a school of bullsharks. Now what?

[Wayward Son]

They took the PADI accelerated OW course

 

[chugmeister]

I'm really confused now, the bears are a football team, the sharks are a hockey team, the tigers are a baseball team and the bulls are a basketball team. Now how can they all be in the same area at the same time?

It must be a strip club.

 

[chugmeister]

As far as divers being attacked by Bulls here are a few links

http://www.scubaradio.com/gsaf/index.cfm
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/scuba/Shark/Shark.htm
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/statistics/species2.htm

Here is what I gleened from these pages.
- Bull sharks are the #3 attacker (10% of total) historically. (#1 White, #2 Tiger)
- Scuba Divers (Non Spear Fishing) only account for 7% of all attacks
- In the US since 1959 there have been 1857 die from Lightning strikes and only 22 from Sharks (740 attacks)

 

[Mike Veitch]

Thanks for the links, interesting seeing the stats on that stuff.

ANd yes, i am impressed....

 

[pilot fish]

As far as divers being attacked by Bulls here are a few links

http://www.scubaradio.com/gsaf/index.cfm
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/scuba/Shark/Shark.htm
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/statistics/species2.htm

Here is what I gleened from these pages.
- Bull sharks are the #3 attacker (10% of total) historically. (#1 White, #2 Tiger)
- Scuba Divers (Non Spear Fishing) only account for 7% of all attacks
- In the US since 1959 there have been 1857 die from Lightning strikes and only 22 from Sharks (740 attacks)

That is very, very helful. That is impressive stuff you dug up. I thank you a lot for that. A bit reassuring.

 

[Kim]

I should imagine that more people get bitten by dogs than sharks - and I expect that the fatality rate is also higher.

 

[Bill51]

I should imagine that more people get bitten by dogs than sharks - and I expect that the fatality rate is also higher.

I read somewhere that more people die from hog attacks and accidents in Arkansas every year than from sharks.

 

[mweitz]

Uh, yeah, there aren't a lot of sharks in Arkansas <VERY EVIL GRIN>

 

[james croft]

Just think of the gallons of shark fin soup you could make from a whole school of sharks.

 

[fmw625]

Why are ya'll picking on Arkansas?