OT: Do you like surfing? - Page 2

TurinTurambar · #11 December 17th, 2004, 01:22 PM

No, sharks don't have an intellect built that way. It's not the same as it is with dogs or the Big Cats.

narf poit chez BOOM · #12 December 17th, 2004, 05:08 PM

Interesting. Do you have any links?

(Am wondering how they would find the shark in the first place...)

Slick · #13 December 17th, 2004, 06:08 PM

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Interesting. Do you have any links?

(Am wondering how they would find the shark in the first place...)

Well if you jump in the ocean, they find you.

narf poit chez BOOM · #14 December 17th, 2004, 06:32 PM

Yes, but that would not nessasarily find you the specific shark they are looking for.

Ruatha · #15 December 17th, 2004, 07:37 PM

Sharks attack 50-90 people each year worldwide, with perhaps 5-10 fatalities. In the year 2000, an estimated 264,000,000 people visited beaches in the US alone. Of those, 71,000 people were given medical treatment by lifeguards and 132 died by drowning or other water sport injuries. In the same year in the US, there were just 23 shark attacks, with no fatalities. And on a global scale consider how many millions of people enter the water each year, and how many millions of sharks inhabit the same waters. Now the shark doesn't really seem to live up to his image, does he?

Every year, more people are injured by lightening strikes and by dog bites than by sharks. And take flu, for example, do you quake with fear at the thought of contracting the flu virus? No? You should. The World Health Organisation estimates that every year between 250,000 and 500,000 people die as a result of flu in industrialised countries alone. Our mass murdering sharks seem rather tame in comparison, with a measly 5-10 deaths a year to their name. This is not to diminish the trauma and terror of a shark attack, but it is time to see the shark for what he really is.

Above source

By comparison, more people are killed by dogs in just the USA each year, than all the known shark fatalities in the world for the past 100 years.

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Parasite · #16 December 17th, 2004, 07:41 PM

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I have never done it before. Surffing that is.

The water up here is way to cold to even try, and it smells horrid.

I once tried to pass a slower rider on the surf side and was hit by a sneaker wave that sucked me nearly 10 feet out into the surf and soaked me to skin in stinking nasty foul dead creature infested parasite sea water. Thank god my DS had a sealed Air Box at the time and kept running. I tell you what, I learned an important lesson that day. Leave the surf to the guys who like it.

Huh? Translation?

Motorcycles and beach riding I bet. Hope both your bike and body were OK after.

narf poit chez BOOM · #17 December 17th, 2004, 07:44 PM

And dogs that attack humans are generally killed.

Puke · #18 December 17th, 2004, 08:42 PM

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Motorcycles and beach riding I bet. Hope both your bike and body were OK after.

or maybe a jet-ski.

Kamog · #19 December 17th, 2004, 11:06 PM

No, never surfed. I'll need to become better at swimming before I try something like that. I did not learn to swim until I was in university and I took some lessons, and then I could swim a little bit in the pool.

Randallw · #20 December 18th, 2004, 01:19 AM

I was just discussing the Shark attack and was told my second cousin once removed was taken by a shark off his surfboard when he was 18.