DO NOT CLICK this link if you are bothered by gore.

This is the result of a powerboat accident, injuries inflicted by propellers.

If nothing else, this ought to instill deep respect for how dangerous a
spinning prop can be!!!

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/d...s/cj_36012.jpg

RB

I have some better ones. Shark Bite Pictures!

http://www.sharkattacks.com/bites.htm


Bobsprit wrote in message
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DO NOT CLICK this link if you are bothered by gore.

This is the result of a powerboat accident, injuries inflicted by
propellers.

If nothing else, this ought to instill deep respect for how dangerous a
spinning prop can be!!!

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/d...s/cj_36012.jpg

RB

It looks like OZ, New South Wales, leads the world in shark attacks
and fatal shark attacks. Distribution chart.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks...tack/mapau.htm

Bart Senior wrote

I have some better ones. Shark Bite Pictures!

http://www.sharkattacks.com/bites.htm

Bobsprit wrote

DO NOT CLICK this link if you are bothered by gore.

This is the result of a powerboat accident, injuries inflicted by
propellers.

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/d...s/cj_36012.jpg

No, Florida is the clear leader. Your numbers are totaled over 200 years -
Here's the worldwide numbers for the last decade:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks...ics/statsw.htm


"Bart Senior" wrote in message
t...
It looks like OZ, New South Wales, leads the world in shark attacks
and fatal shark attacks. Distribution chart.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks...tack/mapau.htm

Bart Senior wrote

I have some better ones. Shark Bite Pictures!

http://www.sharkattacks.com/bites.htm

Bobsprit wrote

DO NOT CLICK this link if you are bothered by gore.

This is the result of a powerboat accident, injuries inflicted by
propellers.

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/d...s/cj_36012.jpg

Jeff Morris wrote:

No, Florida is the clear leader. Your numbers are totaled over 200 years -
Here's the worldwide numbers for the last decade:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks...ics/statsw.htm

Interesting, what happened in SA during 1998, black folk getting some of their own back? ;-o

Cheers
Marty

Has anyone here actually seen a shark attack or the victim of one?
Raise your hands... yes, I've seen the aftermath up close.

I was walking down the beach in north county San Diego. Came
across a guy standing in the shallow surf in a deserted section of
the beach, just him and his girl friend. He was standing in a sloshing
pool of blood, she was hysterical. He was clearly in shock... just
standing there. I got him on dry land, then took a look at his foot/
ankle area. A big piece was missing/hanging on the lower back calf.
I figured he didn't have much time because of loss of blood, didn't
have anything to tie it off or compress it. His gf was not in any shape
to go and get help. So, after a lot of coaxing, I got her to help him
compress the wound with their hands. Then, I went for help.
Fortunately, I was much younger and the normal 40 minute trip
took only about half that time. I never went back after the paramedics
went for him, but I heard he was ok.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
t...
I have some better ones. Shark Bite Pictures!

http://www.sharkattacks.com/bites.htm


Bobsprit wrote in message
...

DO NOT CLICK this link if you are bothered by gore.

This is the result of a powerboat accident, injuries inflicted by
propellers.

If nothing else, this ought to instill deep respect for how dangerous a
spinning prop can be!!!

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/d...s/cj_36012.jpg

RB

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

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....
--
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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