Odds of dying lightning vs shark attack

so the other 20 some%

wtf were they doing?

 

Shark-guy you are so off its hard to really decide what to say to you. But with the diarrhea your mouth continues to spew, i just cant hold my reply back any longer.

You speak like someone from the mid-west who has never seen the ocean before.

As a person who has taken marine bio courses, as well as a free diver (abalone in nor cal, and just divin around out here in maui) , surfer, paddler (outrigger canoe, which i happen to steer, aka the captain of the boat), and general ocean enthusiast. I have a very educated idea of what to expect in the ocean. And your theory couldnt be more wrong.

If you wonder why the seals are outta control, thank the depleted shark population. As the apex ocean predator (alongside orca of course) every decline no matter how large or small affects the rest of the ocean critters. Even the nice ones that you like. Just because it scares you and you cant get over that, doesnt mean they are a problem to the human species. Have you ever actually seen a shark? Not in an aquarium mind you, an actual swimming wild shark?

What you are doing is called scare tactics and has no actual basis of fact. You are 100% full of SH!T and need to shut your pie hole. I'm not going to get into a back and forth with you over this because it is useless and you are in fact a moron. So there is no point. You need to learn a lot more about the world before you have an opinion like you do and express it to a internet forum full of people who actually have respect for the ocean and the creatures that live in it.

 

he's (brothers, lovers, friends, etc) one of the mods

to drive post count or traffic

 

that would explain a lot. I just figure for sure 15-16yrs old. Maybe less.

 

(clap, clap, clap) Bravo, yep, the last paragraph says it all!!! Close this thread!

 

mike you are wasting your breathe, this guy is beyond reproach, let him live in his delusional world where body boarding rules, he wwf's surfers off waves and kills things he doesn't like because he has no conscious. its a shame he posts here

 

MIS i know man. Thats really why ive waited thru so many b.s posts to finally say something. I just couldnt take it anymore and had to say something.

 

you do realize thats ONLY 10 deaths in 6 years? Thats on average 1.67 people a year.

Do you believe all cars should be taken off the road? Cause way more people die in car wrecks than that per year.
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Metard, I love you buddy. Don't ever change.

 

Brah, no one on here lives in Australia. I also think your math is silly, since you can't separate surfers from swimmers. If you are looking at statistics for shark attacks, you must come up with a consistent population and control for the analysis. Since every person entering the water could technically be attacked by a shark, every person that enters the water must be considered in the statistical analysis. This is basic statistics, which you are purposely making up to justify your own selachophobia.

 

What, did we piss off MSW & they exported Hark Shuffler over here to torment us?

 

Lightning is fantastic, but it scares me way more than sharks.

 

Yikes, I will only chime in here once... Hopefully. But I believe all the statistics are skewed and depending on the application, they are all manipulated to make some random point...

But what I will tell you is this. When I lived in San Diego, I was included in these "lightening" statistics... Well, here is a random thought for you. Not only does it not rain in Southern California but maybe 6 times per year, in the 11 years I lived there, I saw lightening once and it was about 10 miles out to see during a mega storm that came close to shore...

So all this crap is nonsense. It is what it is... But as a guy who entered the water every single day, I knew that a statistic of head injuries on a reef, attacks by an ocean species or drowning increased exponentially every day that went by...... WAY more so than the guy from Arizona who vacation there and touched the water once a year and only went out waist deep. He and I are included in the same "statistical" approach to all this, which is why none of these numbers matter.

Now that I live in a place that has thunder, lightening, sharks and rarely any waves, the application of all this stuff is completely different. When I see weather coming, I stop golfing. I understand the risks of holding steel shaft clubs in the sky during a weather event....

This is all a crap shoot of statistics... I mean, if you surf EVERY DAY in New Simyra Beach in Florida, for 10 years.... I am PRETTY sure you are going to get nibbled on. It the decisions that you make and the environment you enter and the repetition....

It like people talking about airplanes... You are more likely to die in a car wreck than an airplane... Well, what if I never fly? I am still included in these stats.... If weather starts to go bad while I am driving, I can pull over and wait it out... Not in a 747.

Us as individuals have ways to decrease the risk of injury and death... I.E. seeing a dorsal fin and exiting the water, while others may stay out...

The most interesting thing that I have read in this whole thread was from LBCrew... The fact that SOCCER lead to more deaths in the United States than any other sports. I would imagine that it's head trauma from heading the ball. I knew a guy that played professionally in Europe, he came back at about age 28 and was almost brain dead from the amount of head trauma he took routinely heading the ball....

Moral of the story? Soccer is more dangerous than surfing????

 

I need this:

 

So, I think what you are saying, is we should create shields to deflect lightning, so that we are completely safe anytime there is a lightning storm.

On that note, maybe we should create bubbles that we can live in, because I know every time I walk out the door, there are thousands of things trying to kill me, from bacteria, to people driving cars and texting.