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re: Ever know anyone killed by a shark?
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:33 pm to TDsngumbo
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:33 pm to TDsngumbo
Close I guess. My neighbor atleast 10 years was fishing in a large yacht type boat and one late night he fell overboard. The family woke up the next morning and he was nowhere to be found.
He was a VP or president of a locally owned bank.
He was a VP or president of a locally owned bank.
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Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:36 pm to soccerfüt
Was working on a platform out of Venice around 79-80, H&P 90. Some of the rig crew would drop lines and catch shark and cut the teeth out of them. One guy claimed to be making money making shark tooth necklaces which I remember being popular at the time. They would catch one, gut it, cut the teeth out and use it for bait for the next.
One evening they gut a shark and out pops an Aggie class ring. Freaked everyone out.
There were some other small hand bones.
It was found to be a guy who fell off of a rig somewhere around Texas
One evening they gut a shark and out pops an Aggie class ring. Freaked everyone out.
There were some other small hand bones.
It was found to be a guy who fell off of a rig somewhere around Texas
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:44 pm to TDsngumbo
Are we including loan sharks?
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:52 pm to TDsngumbo
Never happened
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:53 pm to rowbear1922
Best friend got bitten by a shark in Florida. Had a scar on his leg, would tell the story to pick up chicks.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 9:57 pm to rowbear1922
I played baseball with Nick when we were young
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:15 pm to TDsngumbo
1955...Leon Burford of Iowa, LA was almost cut in half off Pensacola...lived to be a badass
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:25 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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i believe the daytona/new smyrna beach area is the shark bite capital of the US
I think they are spinner sharks and most attacks only require some stitches. Places like Perth, Australia, South Africa, Northern California the attacks are usually great whites. But the shark that is the biggest threat to people is the bull shark. They live in tropical waters and have been found in fresh water 1000 miles from the ocean. The bad attacks on the gulf coast, teen from Gonzales and a guy in gulf shores were bull shark attacks. Point is attavks in New Smyrna beach are small sharks usually mistaken the bottom of someone's foot for prey...when a white or bull shark make mistakes it's rare to just get a few stitches.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 7:19 am to chuckie
quote:If you're a shark, that's about as bad as it gets.
One evening they gut a shark and out pops an Aggie class ring.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:33 am to TDsngumbo
No, I'm amazed no one has been bitten in the surf off the LA coast. Elmers Island, Holly Beach, etc. I always see people wading out in the stained saltwater we have.
I'll do it if that's the best way to catch them, but the trout better be biting.
I'll do it if that's the best way to catch them, but the trout better be biting.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:38 am to TDsngumbo
I call bullshite.
I did laugh though...
I did laugh though...
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:02 am to AFtigerFan
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Not according to this list of fatal shark attacks in the United States.
Fatal unprovoked shark attacks in the United States by decade
The trend is, Hawaii...Tiger Shark. Florida and gulf coast...Bull Shark. California...Great White. Caribbean...white tip or various other reef sharks.
I'm surprised there are no reports from the Bahamas.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:05 am to dmjones
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Probably. Sharks, generally, only attack humans because they confuse them for food. That's why most shark attacks happen in murky water where they confuse other things for their food sources.
It's the very reason why you shouldn't swim near a dune lake or another water source emptying out into the ocean. Makes the water more muddy.
Most all of the shark attacks listed here are in clear water.
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