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This. Exactly this. I SCUBA dive as well, and have been doing it since I was 17. As have countless other folks. Sea creatures generally aren't out to get you. I'm more wary of land creatures, if anything, which include bears, coyotes, alligators, and snakes, here.
I have never once been in fear for my life while diving.
I have been a bit scared while camping, and ESPECIALLY while driving.
What an unfortunate encounter with the great white for the swimmer.
It is amazing that so many people were able to witness the attack and even record a part of it.
Scary to watch, but morbid curiosity (guilty!, sorry) takes over.
The movements of the shark are fast and menacingly graceful - fascinating
They say it was quick, mercifully. RIP.
Glad nobody said ”he died doing what he loved”
RIP, no one and nothing can hurt you again. Condolences to friends, family and fiancé
It's very tragic that this happened, but I don't think it should deter people from swimming in the ocean. Getting attacked by a shark is extremely rare, especially if you swim close to shore. I might worry a bit more if I were in the middle of the ocean snorkeling, but I never hear people getting attacked by sharks that way either.
Doesn't the act of people fishing from shore attract sharks? Make sense to me...
It's not that fishermen attract sharks, but that fishermen fish in places that have a lot of fish, and those attract sharks I guess. Like fishermen in boats will go out and fish where they see a school of dolphins, because there are probably a lot of fish there.
This. Exactly this. I SCUBA dive as well, and have been doing it since I was 17. As have countless other folks. Sea creatures generally aren't out to get you. I'm more wary of land creatures, if anything, which include bears, coyotes, alligators, and snakes, here.
I have never once been in fear for my life while diving.
I have been a bit scared while camping, and ESPECIALLY while driving.
Too funny, driving in Florida is a greater risk.
Unless you're on the east coast, New Smyrna beach to be exact.
If I'm not mistaken, that particular area south of Daytona is the number 1 beach area on the planet; for shark attacks.
Never dove off the west coast, too murky; but bumped into a huge ray off the east coast once out near the channel markers.
Also, it is much riskier statistically to drive to work than it is to get in the ocean.
Is it? Or is it just that radically far more people go to work every day than get in the ocean every day? So, of course the numbers are much lower.
I work in an organization of 90,000 people. I was a pedestrian run over by a truck. That is a 1 in 100,000 probability.
Low probability stuff still does happen.
Also, consider those dang statistics... ...heart disease and cancer has usually been in the realm of Aged people... ...it's not the 35 year old that is sitting there dealing with heart disease and cancer. It usually is the younger people dying from accidents.
In NSW last year we had 270 deaths caused by road accidents and 99 from drowning. So water is certainly a hazard, with proportionally more males and people not born in Australia coming to grief in water.
I certainly would not be frightened of sharks but I only swim in patrolled areas.
Doesn't the act of people fishing from shore attract sharks? Make sense to me...
Nope.
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