Re: [Paddlewise] Yum Yum Yellow

From: Nick Gill <nicholas.gill_at_adfa.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:10:59 +1000
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> The "study", if it exists, was definitely not based on kayaks.  Kayaks
> is a new variation on the Yum Yum Yellow legend.
>
as I said in my posting I recall they used surfboards or some such floating device

> I haven't been able to track down this legendary study, but it's not at
> all likely from what I've heard that the results apply to sharks found
> in Southern California waters, or to objects shaped like a kayak floating
> on the surface.

i can;t recall the location

> 
> Let's please stop spreading silly rumors like this until some hard
> data surfaces, ok?  Can anyone actually find this so-called study in
> the scientific literature, or other real scientific source?  If not, I
> respectfully suggest it should be treated as just another rumor/myth.

well as I said I DID stumble across it in a scientific magazine (the oceanographers here get a few of them  - of the serious scientific magazine but not fully fledged journal variety). Maybe I'll search for it again one day. 

nick

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