at California beaches: link to news.
"Lucas Ransom, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was bodyboarding with friend Matthew Garcia off Surf Beach some 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles on Friday when the shark pulled him under the water. He resurfaced with his leg nearly severed amid what Garcia told The Associated Press was a wave of pure red."
Horrible.
Still in shock at the death of Fran Crippen.
Even in shark "infested" waters, the chances of being killed in an attack are miniscule compared with drowning, heart attack, or hypothermia.
www.terradaily.com/.../Human_Deaths_From_Shark_Attacks_Hit_20_Year_Low_Last_Year_999.html
Worldwide there are usually less than 10 people die per year.
A public health professor told me that every day there are a dozen healthy people who get out of bed, trip, fall, hit their heads and die. Every day.
Even in young, healthy people the danger of heart attack while swimming is much higher.
Still, those are SCARY critters.
I know what articles say, but I tend to disagree with that logic. It just makes sense to me that if If I choose to swim in shark-infested waters, I have a much greater chance of being bitten (or killed by a shark). It's kind of like winning the lottery. The chances of it happening to me are slim-to-none, but someone wins eventually.
Here's a funny twist on the subject: www.thedivingblog.com/.../
Then there's the old saying of "it's more likely you'll be hit by lightning than be attacked by a shark". I find this amusing, since I now live in Arizona, where we get incredible electrical storms during the summer monsoon months.
I guess when I moved from California to Arizona, I swapped one potential danger for another. :D
Even in shark "infested" waters, the chances of being killed in an attack are miniscule compared with drowning, heart attack, or hypothermia.
www.terradaily.com/.../Human_Deaths_From_Shark_Attacks_Hit_20_Year_Low_Last_Year_999.html
Worldwide there are usually less than 10 people die per year.
A public health professor told me that every day there are a dozen healthy people who get out of bed, trip, fall, hit their heads and die. Every day.
Even in young, healthy people the danger of heart attack while swimming is much higher.
Still, those are SCARY critters.
I know what articles say, but I tend to disagree with that logic. It just makes sense to me that if If I choose to swim in shark-infested waters, I have a much greater chance of being bitten (or killed by a shark). It's kind of like winning the lottery. The chances of it happening to me are slim-to-none, but someone wins eventually.
Here's a funny twist on the subject: www.thedivingblog.com/.../
Then there's the old saying of "it's more likely you'll be hit by lightning than be attacked by a shark". I find this amusing, since I now live in Arizona, where we get incredible electrical storms during the summer monsoon months.
I guess when I moved from California to Arizona, I swapped one potential danger for another. :D
