Has anyone here actually seen a shark attack or the victim of one?

I stepped on a little nurse shark on St Pete Beach about 10 years ago...I
ran very fast....
My brother was scuba diving while he was stationed in Hawaii and a shark
wouldn't leave him alone so he planted his fist in its' nose and it left....

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Yup... two guys spearfishing off Shark Point in Brewer's Bay... on the point
before you enter Cane Garden Bay. They cleaned their catch and tied the fish
to a rope... then swam to their boat from shoretowing the stringer of fish..
The Lemon Shark bit at the fish on the stringer and ended up removing a
large chunk of calf muscle. Lucky for the victim there was a conference of
vascular surgeons on the island at the time.

I used my towel to stem some of the bleeding. We loaded him into a Suzuki
and drove him to the hospital. If that shark had been interested in anything
but the fish... neither of those two would be alive now. Shark attacks are
largely based on the ignorance of the humans in the water. We are not their
natural food source.

Nurse Sharks won't bite you unless you man handle them. I had a ride on an 8
foot Nurse Shark in the Samoas... I hung on to the dorsal... for about 30
seconds.. then the shark turned on the power and left me spinning at 45 feet
under water. I was skin diving at the time... no tanks. What a Blast!

CM

"katysails" wrote in message
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| Has anyone here actually seen a shark attack or the victim of one?
|
| I stepped on a little nurse shark on St Pete Beach about 10 years ago...I
| ran very fast....
| My brother was scuba diving while he was stationed in Hawaii and a shark
| wouldn't leave him alone so he planted his fist in its' nose and it
left....
|
| --
| katysails
| s/v Chanteuse
| Kirie Elite 32
| http://katysails.tripod.com
|
| "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
| and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein
|
|

"katysails" wrote:

I stepped on a little nurse shark on St Pete Beach about 10 years ago...I
ran very fast....

I used to hang out in St. Petersburg 10 years ago. We could have crossed
paths and never knew it.

Last time I was there were baby Stingrays by the hundreds in very shallow
water. I didn't want to get in the water, but the locals told me to
"shuffle my feet" in the water and they would leave. Seemed a bit strange
to me...

LP

I didn't want to get in the water, but the locals told me to
"shuffle my feet" in the water and they would leave. Seemed a bit strange
to me...

We had to do that this April when we went to Fort Myers....they lay on the
sand in shallow water sunning themselves and they blend in...they're really
rather benign but if you get whipped by the tail it's quite painful, even
from a little one....
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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein



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