Man risks all to prove sharks not a threat

In reply to the pictures withthe swimmers and shraks. I went to the beach a few years back there were a group of sharks. everyone could see the fins and just kept swimming. There were surfers pretty muching surfing right next to them they were surffing waves right above them in some cases. No one seemed to care and the sharks did nothing. Got home later that night was watching the news turned out it was a huge bunch of hamme heads if i rember correctly. Feeding on migrating fish or they were mirgrating i can not remember. No one was really freaking out so I guess it ws like if you leave them a... [More]

Just because people are not part of it's regular diet doesn't mean they're not a threat. Precisely. It's what the degree of threat is that matters. There are instances where sharks will actively avoid a human in the water and we all know that sharks can and have killed humans. Deciding what the degree of threat is for any particular shark under any given circumstance is certainly not easy or foolproof. While it is true that we are learning more and more about shark behavior, sharks, no matter their threat possibilities, are best left alone. Further study notwithstanding.

surely as in the human race you will get creatures that have different natures and traits.You may swin with one shark one day fine then the next day u swim with a different shark and become food.We are all not the same so you would think animals are not either.

Editing this into the top of my original post because this one does a far better job of demonstrating what the guy in the article was attempting to do. With a bite that powerful those curiosity bites can easily end a life, which is the problem. In many peoples eyes that becomes an intentional feeding attack. I compare it to my cat nipping at me, the difference being I'm not going to bleed to death from a cat bite. That doesn't make the shark some horrid monster of the sea that we should all be terrified of. If sharks wanted us on their dinner plate we wouldn't be able to swim at beaches at all... [More]

This reminds me of the shark expert Dr Erich Ritter. Most of us would have seen the footage by now, but he was trying to put forward the idea that bull sharks are not dangerous. He had just got through his spiel and then had a bull shark literally rip off his calf muscle trying to drag him into deeper water. Ironic is the word, but idiotic also comes to mind. Of course the chances of being attacked are incredibly slim, but these 'experts' should know better than get people to be complacent when we are in their domain. These sharks are predators by their nature, and although we are not their ta... [More]

This reminds me of the shark expert Dr Erich Ritter. Most of us would have seen the footage by now, but he was trying to put forward the idea that bull sharks are not dangerous. He had just got through his spiel and then had a bull shark literally rip off his calf muscle trying to drag him into deeper water. Ironic is the word, but idiotic also comes to mind. Of course the chances of being attacked are incredibly slim, but these 'experts' should know better than get people to be complacent when we are in their domain. These sharks are predators by their nature, and although we are not their ta... [More]

Basic food chain, "we eat them, they eat us".,.lol The media isn't powerful enough to scare people out of the water, Jaws was enough for me.,.I'm more scared of sharks than I am a crocodile! But if ya wanna swim In their dinner party they will expect you to be the main course.

Basic food chain, "we eat them, they eat us".,.lol The media isn't powerful enough to scare people out of the water, Jaws was enough for me.,.I'm more scared of sharks than I am a crocodile! But if ya wanna swim In their dinner party they will expect you to be the main course. Crocodiles kills thousands of people each year, sharks kill a maximum of 10. Crocodiles are predators of humans, sharks are not. Crocodiles will eat you, sharks usually do nothing more than bite once and even that is rare enough. Sadly it is a case of we kill them, we are on the verge of a major ecological disaster becau... [More]

Next headline from that area: Man Gets Eaten by Shark Timothy Treadwell already tried to do this with bears. Guess what? He got eaten. Very true but he knew the risks. May he rest in peace. The same principles apply with sharks. Only a matter of time.

Crocodiles kills thousands of people each year, sharks kill a maximum of 10. Crocodiles are predators of humans, sharks are not. Crocodiles will eat you, sharks usually do nothing more than bite once and even that is rare enough. Sadly it is a case of we kill them, we are on the verge of a major ecological disaster because of it. We leave most of them to drown when we kill them. True.,. be It up north or on the coast I still ain't going in the water! Shark fin soup is Evil!