I'm glad you did this, its a winner. I included an excellent graphic from NOAA in my story you might consider putting in this story, which is very cool and first hand but the NOAA list is good too. Ill send the graphic to you. I got shouted down by people saying "there are sharks in the ocean duh" There really are ways to avoid them, such as staying away from seals and a biggie right now, avoid schools of fish, which are coming ashore this spring, the smelt and such. The idiots can put their dogs into the ocean with no thought, but I will use my head and also ask if the sharks are coming in closer, a heresy to do science of any kind today.
Ive never seen any shark here. Was in Hawaii once and saw dozens of them. In Magnolia/Manchester/Mass we saw the mid sized sharks regularly off boats, caught them too. We caught dogfish, small sharks from shore all the time. Saw 10 foot hammhead, 40 foot basking shark but never a GW in any ocean and NO sharks of any kind here.
I have to disagree with him strongly about people going in the ocean, dramatically LESS people going in the ocean in abalone country in recent years. Surfers seem about the same. Also the number of incidents is misleading. We were diving once and a guy came out of the water showing off the remnants of gear torn up by a shark, no doubt. This happened all the time in the 90s, the same time your story is from and most of the time didnt get reported, so the reported numbers are low. I have been diving 20 years 1985-2010 and never saw one. Nor have I ever seen one from shore, walking thousands of miles doing tidepools, diving, beach, fishing since 1985, i would guess
I'm glad you did this, its a winner. I included an excellent graphic from NOAA in my story you might consider putting in this story, which is very cool and first hand but the NOAA list is good too. Ill send the graphic to you. I got shouted down by people saying "there are sharks in the ocean duh" There really are ways to avoid them, such as staying away from seals and a biggie right now, avoid schools of fish, which are coming ashore this spring, the smelt and such. The idiots can put their dogs into the ocean with no thought, but I will use my head and also ask if the sharks are coming in closer, a heresy to do science of any kind today.
Ive never seen any shark here. Was in Hawaii once and saw dozens of them. In Magnolia/Manchester/Mass we saw the mid sized sharks regularly off boats, caught them too. We caught dogfish, small sharks from shore all the time. Saw 10 foot hammhead, 40 foot basking shark but never a GW in any ocean and NO sharks of any kind here.
I have to disagree with him strongly about people going in the ocean, dramatically LESS people going in the ocean in abalone country in recent years. Surfers seem about the same. Also the number of incidents is misleading. We were diving once and a guy came out of the water showing off the remnants of gear torn up by a shark, no doubt. This happened all the time in the 90s, the same time your story is from and most of the time didnt get reported, so the reported numbers are low. I have been diving 20 years 1985-2010 and never saw one. Nor have I ever seen one from shore, walking thousands of miles doing tidepools, diving, beach, fishing since 1985, i would guess