re: There is a BAD shark off of the NC coast

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My bad. Was going by a poster on another board that lives near there and said they were roughly 500 yds apart.

But being within an hour of each other, and third attack within a week speaks volumes towards it being a single shark IMHO.

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and what credentials do you have that leads you to this hypothesis that this is one shark? Do you know behavior of sharks? swim patterns?

And i want more than, "I have watched Jaws and Shark week"

In my experience, where there is one shark.... there are more.

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AUTimbo

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I'd be absolutely shocked if it were the same shark. Sharks don't behave in a "jaws-like" mentality, and there are literally thousands of them. Some days, surfing at jetty east in Destin, it's nothing to see 20-30 bulls cruising the channel.

I've also surfed in the outer banks (NC), and seen several in one morning.

I'm no shark expert, but I've shared the water with the damn things for years and never had any issues with them whatsoever...and I've been feet away from some really good sized sharks. Chances are much higher that the water was just really dirty and the tide was moving good.

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In my experience, where there is one shark.... there are more.

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Very accurate, and truthfully an understatement...on the gulf especially. Where there is one, there are many.

eta: hope those kids make it out okay.