Did anyone see?!?!?!

Those stats are bogus. Because for instance:

I live in a place that NEVER gets lightening. NEVER. It only rains about 5 times all years, and in a decade, there has been ZERO lightening... Yet, I am still included in that lightening statistic.... So, my chances of lighetning is like 1 in 100000000000000000000000000000

Just like the kid from OHIO, who has never put his toes in the ocean is included in the "Shark attack" statistic... Its all just a stupid numbers game....

They should make a ratio break down for us surfers, based on our location and average annual time in the water... that would be accurate....

But the current stats they show are all BS>..

 

agreed. data set is def skewed. And for recorded history....................perhaps propaganda?! i have a hard time gettin my mind around not even one report. sounds fishyy.

hahahhahhhhhahhahhhhhhh (pun intended)

 

do you think when they have these shark attack studies, they include the Jaguar shark?

 

Im pretty sure awhile ago down in LBI someone caught a 6 foot great white.

 

Getting attacked by a great white would be awesome if you live to tell about it you are the man, you beat the shark. If you die you went out getting eaten by the single most incredible predator we have left on planet earth. I think we need stickers that say "quint would go" if it was good enough for him to go out that way it is good enough for me. f going out on the toilet when I am 90. Just sayin.
farewell and adue to you fare spanish ladies
farewell and adue to you ladies of spain,
for we recieved our orders to sail back to boston
never more shall we see you again.

 

Jaws man jaws quint was the captain of the boat in jaws.

 

thats probably due to the fact anyone, living anywhere can be hit by lighting
to even encounter a shark you need to live on or by the ocean which eliminates a ton of people from even the chance to encounter let alone have the attack take place

just some food for thought on those figures

 

Seal & Whale Photos

Speaking of this the seal was like 500 feet from where i live, I originally called the OC Animal Control that morning to report it since he wasn't behaving like a normal seal would when people were near him plus people were bothering the hell out of him with there dogs and trying to snap photo shoots just normal tourists drunk for st. pat's anyway heres some good photos of the seal and the whale enjoy!

http://oceancitysurfreport.com/2010/03/15/washed-up-whale-beached-gray-seal/

 

Thanks for pics, always nice to be reminded that we share this planet.

 

I tell you what, I would rather see a shark in the lineup than a gator. Although a great white might be a different story. you know what i got scared when i saw a manatee in the gulf surfing soooo i guess im easily spooked

 

back in '96 or '97,my dad & his brother were sittin a 100 yards off shore of Sea Colony in their boat.Sea Colony is in Bethany Beach,DE. there were talkin & happened to glance over the side of the boat & there was a tiger shark just sittin there.damn thing was at least 12-13 feet long & sittin there very still. it was so close to them,you could count the stripes on it's back. this always freaked me out,cause that's my break.also,this sighting was in the dead of summer either july or august,can't remember which.it surley wasn't dead cause they touched it with their boat hook & it moved every time they touched it. weird.

 

Man, I love the movie Jaws but I have to disagree with you here. I have trouble thinking of a more terrifying way of dying than being attacked by a shark. You would be totally overpowered and helpless, being attacked from below by a much stronger animal that you couldn't see. Think lots of confusion, fear, and pain. Who wants to go out like that? Not me.

No, let me die when I'm 90, after a lifetime of tasty waves and beautiful women, preferably from something painless and quick.

 

When it comes to delmarva stats - i cant say anything for sure about shark attacks, but I do know there is very little data in the news about all the broken necks each year in the shorebreak (i was in the emergency room for stitches 2 years ago and they had brought in 3 broken necks that one day from the shorebreak - not one made the news including the one resulting in paralysis) there is also very little in the way of crime reports in the news from OCMD during the summer months. It seems they want to make sure it is viewed as a safe family destination.

 

May 2001, end of semester at Salisbury I was surfing around 80th st. and my roommate dove into the shorebreak and broke his neck. We were out it the water and i saw someone performing CPR but I thought is was training for lifeguards or something.....More and more people started gathering on the beach so we went in to check it out...one of my buddies came running down the beach saying it was our roommate...scary stuff.

 

alll depends on where you are at!

 

everywhere!!

guys sharks are really everywhere, during all parts of the year. like last year while surfing me and my buddies saw some 8 footers just at assateague, and they were close in too. Ive seen em as close as 15 ft off shore. And also last year everyone at AI had to get out of the water one day cuz there was a huuuuge shark going back and fourth.

 

I'm curious. What sharks would be around in the sub-40 degree water of the winter?

 

Im not sure if someone said this already but look at the # of surfers on the planet then look at the total human population... enough said

 

Lightning 1 in 79,746
Shark attack 1 in 3,748,067

The problem with this statistic is that the average beach goer spends, at most, a few hours in the ocean per YEAR. A good portion of the country rarely goes to the beach, let alone goes into the water. If you don't ever enter the water, your odds of being eaten by a shark are 0%. Are you (you in general, not you specifically) telling me that someone who spends 20 hours a week in the water has the same probability of being eaten as someone living in Kansas? I think not. Sorry but this stat has always bothered me. Also, in comparison, lightning obviously can happen anywhere, any time, and people don't respect lightning as much as they should.