Another shark attack!!!

[TTinCO]

http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2005/06/27/165508.html

Shark Attacks 2nd Teen Off Fla. Panhandle

By BILL KACZOR, Associated Press Writer

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PENSACOLA, Fla. - A teenage boy was critically injured Monday in the second shark attack in three days along the Florida Panhandle.

The boy, whose age and name were not released, was taken to Bay Medical Center in Panama City. The nature of his injuries was not immediately released.

He was attacked off Cape San Blas, a popular vacation destination about 80 miles southeast of the Destin area where 14-year-old Jamie Marie Daigle of Gonzales, La., was killed by a shark on Saturday.

Daigle had been had been swimming on a boogie board with a friend about 100 yards from shore when a shark tore away the flesh on one leg from her hip to her knee.

After Saturday's attack, a 20-mile stretch of shore was closed to swimmers, but beaches reopened Sunday with a double staff of sheriff's beach patrol officers.

Florida averaged more than 30 shark attacks a year from 2000 to 2003, but there were only 12 attacks off the state's coast last year, according to figures compiled by the American Elasmobranch Society and the Florida Museum of Natural History.

 

[ClipJoint]

:monsters-

 

[SHAWN GOTTI]

I DONT WANT TO SOUND COLD HEARTED.... BUT WHY LET YOUR KIDS SWIM THERE?hno:

 

[Fishhead]

Very hard to be attacked by a shark if you STAY OUT OF THE FREAKING WATER.........ESPECIALLY A COUPLE DAYS AFTER AN ATTACK.

 

[ClipJoint]

It was 80 miles away...are boogie boarders/surfers just not suppose to enter the water in Florida? Just curious what you are suggesting...

 

[Fishhead]

It was 80 miles away...are boogie boarders/surfers just not suppose to enter the water in Florida? Just curious what you are suggesting...

That would be my recommedation..............am I being overly protective here?

 

[ClipJoint]

That would be my recommedation..............am I being overly protective here?

No...I was just curious.

Shark attacks seem pretty rare and I personally would have felt safe going back in the water 80 miles from the last attack...but maybe not anymore! That sucks!

 

[SHAWN GOTTI]

LET YOUR KIDS SWIM SOMEWHERE WHERE THERE IS NO CHANCE OF GETTING ATTACKED?:think2:

 

[Journeyman]

Good point Clip Joint, where do you draw the line in the sand? I read where the last girl made it to shore than bled to death, awful.

 

[wmublows]

The kid was chest high in the water fishing with shrimp as bait, which I guess experts say is a no-no.

 

[ClipJoint]

LET YOUR KIDS SWIM SOMEWHERE WHERE THERE IS NO CHANCE OF GETTING ATTACKED?:think2:

Where is that? A wave pool?

 

[TONYMONTANA]

I couldn't think of a worse way to go!
They say you are more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark, but anyone in the world could be struck by lightning. You have to be swimming in the ocean/bay/coastal river to be attacked by a shark. I thnink the stats are alittle off! MAY'N!!!

 

[kyhawk]

hundred fold times chance being hurt in car accident vs bitten by shark. The media loves this sensational crap. Oh btw, lots better chance falling in your shower or whatever.

 

[ClipJoint]

hundred fold times chance being hurt in car accident vs bitten by shark. The media loves this sensational crap. Oh btw, lots better chance falling in your shower or whatever.

I always get a kick out of these type of stats...they are so off.

Certainly there are more car accidents than getting bitten by a shark. How many car trips are there in a day compared to people swimming in the ocean? A lot more people taking showers than swimming with sharks as well.