Shark Attacks

We’re going to need a bigger boat to hold all our shark attack paranoia. Ever since a series of shark attacks on bathers occurred on the Jersey Shore in 1916, the idea of fanged maritime predators preying on innocent swimmers has plagued the American consciousness. The underwater slasher-flick Jaws only encouraged this fear. Shark attacks were a media fixation in the summer of 2000, and while occasional incidents still make the front pages, conventional wisdom suggests that if you leave sharks alone, they'll return the favor.

More Shark Sensationalism From The Popular Press

Laelaps - Brian Switek blames much of the hysteria for shrak attacks on data released by the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), which has claimed that, even though shark populations are falling, increasing numbers of swimmers mean that shark attacks rate will increase. Switek compares this data with that from a competing source, the Global Shark Attack File (GSAF). The GSAF’s data indicates that, while shark attacks have been on the rise in recent years, the rate of this increase is not significant enough to cause alarm....

Shark Attack Tragedy

Paul Auerbach, M.D. - The death of a shark-watching diver this week leads Auerbach to debate the minimum safety precautions that should be observed from such tourist organizations. In this case, sharks were attracted with bait, while the tourist were not protected from these predators' natural instinct by any precaution such as a shark=proof observation cage. Summarizng the evolutionary characteristics of sharks, Auerbach argues for the necessity of appropriate precautionary measures for tourists who wish to see sharks up-close and underwater. ...

3.2.08

04:34 PM -

The odds of

yeskey - you getting attacked by a shark flirt with those of you winning the powerball....

04:33 PM -

We Eat Fish

Anonymous - Sharks eat us. Sharks don't naturally come in close to land but the more we overfish, the more desperate they become..... Also keep in mind that shark attacks aren't really a problem at all, it's just that when one happens the whole world goes bananas.

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