It looks as though Sharks have declared war on Humans ...

[dogtag]

Maybe they're concerned that we're catching and eating their food supply.
Or maybe they've had enough of people invading their territory. After all,
they may think we don't invade the land so why should we permit their
invading the sea ? You can never figure how Fish think about these things,
but one thing's for sure - after seeing pictures of their teeth, I'm staying
out of the water.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/sharks-kill-2-women-hours-apart-near-resort-in-egypts-red-sea/

[Allen]

The weather is getting warm. Millions are going to the already overcrowded beaches. They are placing billions of pounds of meat on the sharks dining table.

What's a shark to do?

[Vern Humphrey]

Now you know what they mean when they say "blood in the water."

[Allen]

My facts may be a little bent but out of memory I heard that sharks can hear "meat" in the water a mile away and smell about that far as well. They can distinguish between something walking or swimming vs an animal in distress. They have no bones, only cartilage, so they can swim very fast.

One of the coaches at my kids high school got his arm bit off by a small shark while swimming in the Gulf at Alabama. He was in about 4'-5' of water.

It's a wonder that anyone who goes into the water isn't eaten or at least sampled.

Tourist, it's whats for supper.

[Vern Humphrey]

I was diving on U85, a German submarine sunk in 95 feet off the coast of Moorehead, NC. Skimming along, about a foot off the bottom, I found what looked like some metal plates half buried in the sand. I grabbed them -- and it turned out to be a shark's gills.

[Allen]

So you crapped in your wet suit huh?

I guess biden thinks about sharks a lot.

I have gone floundering a few times using a gill net. You walk in shallow water with a big stick and scare the flounders buried under the sand into the net. Sometimes I/we would step on one. You could feel it flipping-trying to get away but we couldn't reach down and grab it because often it was a stingray.

[Vern Humphrey]

So you crapped in your wet suit huh?

I guess biden thinks about sharks a lot.

I have gone floundering a few times using a gill net. You walk in shallow water with a big stick and scare the flounders buried under the sand into the net. Sometimes I/we would step on one. You could feel it flipping-trying to get away but we couldn't reach down and grab it because often it was a stingray.

That's the mistake Captain John Smith made.

[bruce]

It's not that big a deal. My wife and I routinely go to the beach down at Fernandina. Occasionally someone will see a shark or dolphins. Like sea gulls and pelicans, its just what you expect to see on the beach and in the water. Is there the possibility that somewhere some toothsome hammer head or tiger or nurse shark might be hungry? Yes. Same as when out and about in the swamp and marshes there is the possibility that one might walk up on a big mouth alligator or a python waiting for supper to come along. No one in their right mind stops going out in the woods, fields, swamps and marshes just because something might happen. No reason to not go to the beach just because Peter Benchley made a fortune off his novel by the name of Jaws. By the way ... I've discovered that you don't need a cannon to kill even a large alligator. A garden variety .308 Winchester will easily calm one down. Sincerely. bruce.

[Vern Humphrey]

It's not that big a deal. My wife and I routinely go to the beach down at Fernandina. Occasionally someone will see a shark or dolphins. Like sea gulls and pelicans, its just what you expect to see on the beach and in the water. Is there the possibility that somewhere some toothsome hammer head or tiger or nurse shark might be hungry? Yes. Same as when out and about in the swamp and marshes there is the possibility that one might walk up on a big mouth alligator or a python waiting for supper to come along. No one in their right mind stops going out in the woods, fields, swamps and marshes just because something might happen. No reason to not go to the beach just because Peter Benchley made a fortune off his novel by the name of Jaws. By the way ... I've discovered that you don't need a cannon to kill even a large alligator. A garden variety .308 Winchester will easily calm one down. Sincerely. bruce.

And a bang stick (I prefer 12-gauge) will do for any shark. And a needle lance hooked to your air tank will kill any shark that ever lived.