Hi Bryan, They unfortunately happen sometimes, but the consensus of marine biologists is that they are rogue sharks. Most shark attacks involve young sharks who are patrolling the coasts and young sharks are apparently more likely to attack an unknown prey than older more experienced sharks. I'm no expert on this subject, and am mainly going on what I have heard on National Geographic, Animal Planet, and elsewhere, but the bottom line is the Jaws movies have been way overblown and have given the great white a bad rep for eating people. Fact of the matter is while shark attacks do happen they are far less frequent and less consistent than the media would have us believe.
For example, I had a friend who went swimming in the Golf of Mexico before the huge oil spill a few years ago and while he was snorkeling he swam right past a great big shark. He was scared to death of it, but it didn't look his way. It just swam on by and paid him no attention. Point being that we are not generally prey for sharks, and don't regularly come into contact with them. In a lot of cases when we do come into direct contact with a shark it ignores us. There are of course cases where we can unwittingly get their attention such as getting a small cut which puts blood in the water and will attract their attention by engaging their hunting instincts. Also sharks apparently can't see well and if they happen to see a human or something swimming above them their instinct is to attack it and are attracted by the motion rather than any need to eat it. Most people who get attacked do so by accidently getting the sharks attention in some way which is unfortunate for both of them. Cheers! On 5/15/14, Bryan Peterson <bpeterson2...@cableone.net> wrote: > What about all the stories of shark attacks? > > > > Oh freddled gruntbuggly, > thy micturations are to me > as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. > GroupI implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, > And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, > or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I > don't! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
