World Record Shark Caught off Florida

[narlacat]

There's more sharks on land than there are in the water

 

[Dark Knight]

There's more sharks on land than there are in the water

Not in Australia, I bet!

 

[narlacat]

Well lol, we do have our fair share of attacks here...those ugly old White Pointers.
We've had a couple of people killed this year already.....
When the attacks are caught on film , it is truly horrifying to watch.

 

[Buzz Mills]

According to the International Shark Attack File, between 1580 and 2005 there were 2,035 confirmed shark attacks around the world.
Region Confirmed Attacks Deaths
United States 798 39
Hawaii 104 15
Australia 305 136
Africa 271 69
Asia 116 54
Europe 38 19
South America 96 22
Antilles and the Bahamas 62 19
Bermuda 4 0
Mexico and Central America 62 31
Pacific Islands, Oceania 118 49
New Zealand 45 9
Other 19 6
World 2,035 468
What Are My Chances of an Attack?
In the U.S., your chances of getting killed by lightning are 30 times greater than dying of a shark attack.

Bees, wasps, and snakes kill more people each year than sharks.

Drowning, heart attacks, beach accidents resulting in spinal injury, sunburn, cuts from stepping on sea shells, dehydration, jellyfish stings, and traffic accidents going to or from the beach are all far more common than shark attacks.

In 1996 in the U.S. there were 18 reported injuries and deaths from shark attacks, but 198,849 injuries from working with screws, nails, tacks, and bolts; 138,894 injuries from ladders; 43,687 injuries from toilets; and 36,091 injuries while pruning, trimming, or edging plants.

Between 1959 and 1990, 5,528 people were stuck by lightning in the 22 coastal states (excluding Alaska) and Puerto Rico, with 1,505 fatalities. During the same period, there were 336 shark attacks in the coastal waters of those states, with 12 fatalities.

In 1987, New York City reported the following number of people bitten by dogs: 8,064; other people, 1,587; cats, 802; rats, 291; squirrels, 95, raccoons, 11; ferrets, 7; skunk, 3. There were 13 shark injuries reported nationwide the same year.

In the meantime there are more than a million sharks killed each year. Shark Fin soup accounts for a high number of shark deaths. They slice off the top fin and throw away everything else.

 

[narlacat]

Thanks for the info Buzz

Even though I don't much like sharks, that is just cruel making soup out of their fins.
Betcha it's the Japenese that do that

 

[mooner123]

my friend was killed by a great white shark in california and i know of someone else that was injured by a shark. 2 separate incidents. and i don't even live near the beach!!

 

[Buzz Mills]

Thanks for the info Buzz

Even though I don't much like sharks, that is just cruel making soup out of their fins.
Betcha it's the Japenese that do that

The Brutal Business Of Shark Finning

http://www.seashepherd.org/longline/longline_shark_finning.html

 

[Buzz Mills]

my friend was killed by a great white shark in california and i know of someone else that was injured by a shark. 2 separate incidents. and i don't even live near the beach!!

mooner123, when, and where, was your friend killed in CA?? Thanks for any info.

 

[narlacat]

Thanks for the link Buzz
Chinese, Japenese.....close LOL

How bizarre, did you see the wedding pics in there, is that for real

 

[Buzz Mills]

Thanks for the link Buzz
Chinese, Japenese.....close LOL

How bizarre, did you see the wedding pics in there, is that for real

I think those are someone using PhotoShop; someone's trying to create the shock effect.


When you think of the number of sharks sacrificed, it's appalling and tragic. It's going to take a lot of education to change the way people view sharks. It has been all downhill for the sharks, ever since "Jaws."

 

[narlacat]

Yeah ok, I didn't think they were real...

It is appalling Buzz, even though I am scared to death of sharks I don't condone how they are slaughtered.
I was writing to the government re: whaling when I was just a wee kid...

I like how it says at the end of the article, we need only to look into a mirror.
How true.

 

[mooner123]

near mendocino. he was a diver. aug 2004. his name was randy.

 

[Buzz Mills]

near mendocino. he was a diver. aug 2004. his name was randy.

Here's a good article on the incident mooner123:

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/whiteshark.html

 

[mooner123]

thanks buzzm.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I used to do a fair amount of abalone diving in that same relative white shark area, known as the "red? triangle" mooner123. There are a lot of white sharks off of our coast here. The fishermen always have a fair amount of stories about whites that they ran across.