--- Peter Rattenbury <ratten_at_uow.edu.au> wrote: snipping>>> > 3/ The bloke's kayak was YELLOW, and it was what I > would describe as a > glass fibre river boat, not a sit on top. > > 4/ So perhaps colour is not a key safety issue. Or > perhaps it is with > certain types of shark. It is hard to imagine that > the bull shark mistook a > large yellow kayak for a fish. snipped<<< I recall reading last year that the color yellow is actually an attractor for shark. This was after one of the high-profile east-coast US shark attacks that happened along our mid-Atlantic. Can anyone confirm or corroborate this? Jennifer (who paddes a RED boat with a RED pfd, because I haven't seen a bull in the ocean yet. Hmmmm?) Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 04:20:45 PST
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