Aren't you supposed to tie a steak around their ankle to? :-)
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: gatortalk googlegroups <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 10:12:34 AM Subject: [gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] [SUN]: 5/26 13:33 --- "THE CHALKBOARD" === UF expert provides tips to avoid shark attacks [Crabbe] They left out - send your spouse in first, tell them to jump and splash around some before you'll come in. -------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: 5/26 13:33 --- "THE CHALKBOARD" === UF >expert provides tips to avoid shark attacks [Crabbe] >From: Shane Ford <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 10:18 am >To: [email protected] > > > >May 26th, 2010 01:33pm >UF expert provides tips to avoid shark attacks >by Nathan Crabbe (Gainesville SUN) > > >With Memorial Day approaching, University of Florida shark expert George >Burgess is trying to prevent swimmers from becoming part of the statistics >that he tracks. >Burgess is director of UF’s International Shark Attack File, which complies >information on attacks. On a video posted on UF’s Web site, he provides a few >tips to avoid attacks for the thousands of people hitting the beaches over >Memorial Day weekend. >He said a few key spots should be avoided: “Area’s where there’s drop-offs, >where there is fishing activity, if there’s effluent entry in the water, >inlets. Those all are areas of high population density of sharks.” >And he said that night swimming is a bad idea: “The time period between dusk >and dawn, which is a time period when sharks are very active eating, and in >particular the biggest and the largest, the bull and the tiger sharks, seem to >be doing their most damage.” >Florida has seen its share of shark attacks, including a fatal attack on a >surferearlier this year. >UPDATE: Burgess has just put out a new studythat provides detail on the most >likely circumstances for a shark attack: Shark attacks are most likely to >occur on Sunday, in less than 6 feet of water, during a new moon and involve >surfers wearing black and white bathing suits. > -- >GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >2008 National Football Champions | >Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
