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2003-08-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Shark kills woman as she swims with sea lions

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-21 3:37:41 PM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a 15'-18' (determined from the bite radius and fin sighting) Great White shark eats anything it wants to...swimming with the seals in Great White territory while wearing a black wetsuit is nearly a Darwin award in itself.

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-21 4:04:04 PM|| 2003-8-21 4:04:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hope the shark is ok

Posted by Michael 2003-8-21 4:08:43 PM|| 2003-8-21 4:08:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I feel sorry for the lifeguards who had to swim out to get her knowing there was a shark in the area and blood in the water. Hoping all that stuff about Sharks not really wanting to eat humans is true.

Apparantly being a lifeguard in North California isn't all slow motion jogs down the beach like Baywatch.

Posted by Yank 2003-8-21 4:14:05 PM|| 2003-8-21 4:14:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sharks: Why do they hate us?

Posted by Sade 2003-8-21 4:14:26 PM|| 2003-8-21 4:14:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 No wonder the sea lions let her swim along. She was providing them a valuable service. Kind of like the role that the older antelope with the athritic knee plays for the rest of the herd in lion country.

Posted by Steve D 2003-8-21 4:29:55 PM|| 2003-8-21 4:29:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Jeez, what a moron. Why not go ahead and dump a bucket of chum over yer head?

Posted by BH 2003-8-21 5:36:51 PM|| 2003-8-21 5:36:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 lol! Sade..quick call Oprah!

Posted by Becky 2003-8-21 6:15:04 PM|| 2003-8-21 6:15:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Sade - LOL

Because we got scales.

Posted by Shipman 2003-8-21 7:32:02 PM|| 2003-8-21 7:32:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, I read that all the time that sharks only attack humans when they mistake them for seals. You gotta ask, though: Do sharks possess the kind of intellect where they can discriminate between one kind of meat or another? Do they care? Are they supposed to be introspective and say to themselves "I could take a bite out of that, but it would be wrong"? No, she wasn't imitating shark food, she was shark food. Moral equivelance is bad enough between different groups of humans, but to apply the doctrine between a voracious carnivore and its prey is ludicrous.

Posted by Stephen 2003-8-21 9:11:11 PM|| 2003-8-21 9:11:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 actually Stephen, IIUC, most of the time the human's rejected after the first or second bite (which is how a GW tastes its food lol) because it wasn't the expected pinniped delicacy

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-21 9:29:00 PM|| 2003-8-21 9:29:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 she might have lived if she'd reached up her leg and grabbed the pulsing, retracted end of her femural artery and held on to stop the blood escaping.

Posted by Anon1 2003-8-22 12:06:04 AM|| 2003-8-22 12:06:04 AM|| Front Page Top

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