Some info' on risk levels of shark attack. When I was an avid diver (some 30 years ago) I read a book about shark attacks that was a compilation of over 1200 shark attacks on humans, from all over the world. They put all the details in a computer and did statistical analysis. 95% of the attacks were in shallow water or close to the surface, i.e. 5 feet of depth, or less. Most were swimmers or waders. Quite a few of the latter, actually. Of the 5% that were deeper than 5 feet, 95% of those involved people who spearing fish, or it was happening nearby them. (I stopped spearfishing after reading this. I never really liked cleaning them anyway, so why tempt fate?) Out of all this, some proportion for the risk of a shark attack; their analysis stated that there were deaths per year by bee attaack in the United States alone, than deaths by shark attacks in the whole world. So now when we go camping we can all carry beekeeper outfits. :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Flory, San Jose, CA. daflory_at_pacbell.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. ©2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Apr 23 2000 - 13:58:13 PDT
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