Great White Sharks are killing the beaches! (Los Angeles, Redondo Beach: taxes, to live)

[caliguy92832]

It's Jaws real life.


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Shark at end of fisherman

A great white shark at the end of a pier fisherman’s line attacked a swimmer 300 yards off Manhattan Beach on Saturday morning.

The unnamed victim, a middle-aged man who was part of a group of long-distance swimmers in training, was bitten on the upper right torso, and taken to a hospital conscious and breathing on his own, Los Angeles County Fire Deparment spokesman Rick Flores told AP.

The attack during a busy July 4th holiday weekend prompted officials to temporarily close a two-mile stretch of water one mile to each side of the Manhattan Beach Pier. A sheriff’s helicopter crew eventually spotted the shark about 200 feet north of the pier.

“The deputies [in the copter] directed a lifeguard boat and a Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol boat to the shark,” L.A. Sheriff’s Department said in a statement, according to Manhattan Patch. “A paddle boarder was directed away from the shark by the boat crews. After approximately 30 minutes, the boats were able to coax the shark out to deeper water and away from the pier.”

A fisherman on the Manhattan Beach Pier had been fighting the 7-foot great white shark for about 45 minutes when the shark attacked the swimmer, prompting the fisherman to cut the line.

Witness Aram Ozen, who was surfing near the pier, told that people began screaming “White, white!,” referring to the great white shark. “It was a scary scream,” Ozen said. “It was kind of freaky. There [were] a lot of people screaming back to shore.”

A nearby surfer put the victim on his surfboard and paddled him to shore with the help of L.A. County lifeguards. Paramedics immediately began treating the man for puncture wounds described as moderate injuries.

“I was there,” Scott Valor commented on Manhattan Beach Patch. “A fisherman who regularly tries to catch sharks had it on the line for 45 minutes…and the shark was panicking. The swimmer just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

The incident, which occurred just before 9:30 a.m., comes on the heels of several shark sightings in the same area.


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[theraven24]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaSun1

I hope we don't blame sharks and start killing them just so people can go swimming in the Ocean where sharks are supposed to live.

This.

[user_id]

Not to mention such attacks are very rare despite the high number of people in the ocean during the summer.

[blktoptrvl]

Swim within in a netted area. Problem solved.


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[Beth56]

I've read that some of the people now want to ban fishing off the pier and all beaches because of this. I know many fisherman who would have something to say about that.

[Bulldogdad]

Here's to swimming with bowlegged women.

[Unsettomati]

Yep.

The total number of unique person-days (one day spent by one person) at California beaches numbers in the hundreds of millions annually. Shark attacks? A handful per year, the vast majority of them non-fatal. Reminds me of the saying that lotteries offer voluntary taxes paid by people who are bad at math - so it is for people who avoid ocean on the extremely remote odds that a shark will bite them (and who are oblivious to the fact that the odds of them being injured or killed on the roads en route to that beach are significantly higher). Currently fatalities/mile on U.S. roads is about 1-in-90,000,000 - you do the math.

[caliguy92832]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

Here's to swimming with bowlegged women.

wow.....and that really happened.....

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[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by Unsettomati

Yep.

The total number of unique person-days (one day spent by one person) at California beaches numbers in the hundreds of millions annually. Shark attacks? A handful per year, the vast majority of them non-fatal. Reminds me of the saying that lotteries offer voluntary taxes paid by people who are bad at math - so it is for people who avoid ocean on the extremely remote odds that a shark will bite them (and who are oblivious to the fact that the odds of them being injured or killed on the roads en route to that beach are significantly higher). Currently fatalities/mile on U.S. roads is about 1-in-90,000,000 - you do the math.

No one likes that dry statistical stuff. Who can make a movie or news story off of those numbers.

That and the Nanny State Government wouldn't be able to lock down your lives if people were actually edumucated(sic) to the real risks of everything in life.

[Teckeeee]

well since I just read the official story let's keep this in context. I know that's hard on CD but let's try ok. This person is an avid swimmer, part of a club swimming in a pack in deeper water. How does that apply to the avg person. Ring a bell? Similar happened in Solona Beach a few years back.