02-19-2007, 05:37 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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02-19-2007, 09:30 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| I think "shark net" would be a good name for a band.
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02-19-2007, 10:13 PM
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#3 | | No, your mom's a lemur
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| Dude, if there are 5 shark attacks in one year on a beach, there's an issue with that beach. There aren't 5 shark attacks a year in, like, the planet. | |
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02-19-2007, 10:21 PM
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| I suppose it's possible, in 1995, 3 swimmers died from shark attacks in 10 days at a beach in Hong Kong.
And last year there were 62 total attacks in the world.
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02-20-2007, 02:48 PM
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| very short survey.
But if you get 3 shark attacks in 10 days, wouldn't you have to look at issues such as migration patterns?
I know down in Florida at a certain time of the year sharks swim very close to Miami beach as part of an annual migration...
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02-20-2007, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by silvercross  I know down in Florida at a certain time of the year sharks swim very close to Miami beach as part of an annual migration... | Yes, the migration is called "Spring Break." Lots of pale pickin's....
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02-20-2007, 03:51 PM
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#7 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by Westley There aren't 5 shark attacks a year in, like, the planet. | There are about 60 a year on, like, the planet. There have been more than five in a given area within a year more than a few times...and that's not counting shipwrecks like the Indianapolis".
Do a search for "Matawan Creek". Five within 2 weeks.
Durban, South Africa, had 7 in a 3-month period back in 1957.
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02-21-2007, 04:06 AM
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| Thanks for filling out the survey! Yay for lurkers. I have way more responses than I expected. Woohoo.
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02-21-2007, 09:45 AM
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| The survey failed to take into account that I don't really swim at the beach anyway, regardless of sharks. | |
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02-21-2007, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing? The survey failed to take into account that I don't really swim at the beach anyway, regardless of sharks. | Which gives me another two pages to talk about how the study can be improved... *nods nods*
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02-22-2007, 06:17 AM
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#11 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by akaiyuki Which gives me another two pages to talk about how the study can be improved... *nods nods* | You could also add that some people swim at beaches where there are no sharks at all, like where I live for instance.  
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02-22-2007, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen You could also add that some people swim at beaches where there are no sharks at all, like where I live for instance. | Err... that is not entirely correct.
The sea close to your hometown is home to the small-spotted catshark, http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...ary.php?id=845 and the nursehound, http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...ary.php?id=854
In Swedish waters, the basking shark, which is recorded as traumatogenic, has also been observed, http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Spec...mary.php?id=90
The piked dogfish has a poisonous spine: http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Spec...ary.php?id=139
While not a shark, the greater weever likes to hide in the sand, with only its poisonous back spines sticking up. They do that in very shallow water (up to a meter) and there have been numerous occasions where swimmers have stepped on them. The poison is about as strong as that of a wasp, and has caused at least one recorded fatality. http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Spec...ry.php?id=1363
All of those creatures can be seen, stuffed, at the Gothenburg Museum of Natural History.
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02-22-2007, 07:39 AM
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#13 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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| I knew that, Peter...
...but the 'Brugd' (or the 'Håkäring' sharks) that lives here usually keep out deep at see and VERY rarely swim in to the beaches; which was my statement.
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02-22-2007, 07:43 AM
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#14 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Besides, you have that thick layer of ice between you and any sharks.
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