Shark attack

[vetteheadracer]

Didn't realise you are nearly twice as likely to get bitten by a shark off the coast of Florida than the whole of Australia!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4623990.stm

[DBSV8]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/459187

check out recent shark fatality.

happened in australia............at wait for it.........AMITY POINT....ring any bells !!!

[UKBob]

Without getting too philosophical, off the cuff I'll quip: Id rather be eaten and die, than loose my limbs and survive.

Why dont statistics report on limbs lost, rather than just deaths. Gives a much more accurate idea of how dangerous the waters are.

[FourWheelDrift]

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

[john75]

You mean like in

[DJ111S]

vetteheadracer said:

Didn't realise you are nearly twice as likely to get bitten by a shark off the coast of Florida than the whole of Australia! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4623990.stm

Is this because there are more people in the water?

[R988]

We eat more of them than they do of us

www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/isaf/graphs.htm

only 7 fatalities out of 61 total attacks. I like those odds, you'd have to be the unluckiest person in the world to die of a shark attack.