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Posted: 6/15/2015 8:36:08 AM EDT
Two teens were attacked yesterday at the NC coast and had to undergo amputations.

Story and video:
http://www.wral.com/two-teens-injured-in-separate-shark-attacks-on-oak-island/14711125/
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:40:49 AM EDT
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I heard it is because global warming















Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:42:03 AM EDT
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I hope Hillary and her whole, shitty family, go swimming!
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:42:22 AM EDT
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I'm happy to be back in the mountains
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:42:27 AM EDT
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Yup. It's called summer. (At least in the northern hemisphere)
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Yup. It's called summer. (At least in the northern hemisphere)
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Yup. It's called summer. (At least in the northern hemisphere)

You mean more people in the water means more chances for attack?
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:44:20 AM EDT
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First Post ALMOST Nails It........


CLIMATE CHANGE


Actually, probably better described as DATA CHANGE these days.  
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:44:28 AM EDT
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dont get out of the boat
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:45:11 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:46:33 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:48:29 AM EDT
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Won't keep me out of the water
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:49:45 AM EDT
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Be there with the family in a few weeks.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:51:26 AM EDT
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Don't panic. These were cases of mistaken identity according to the media. Sharks don't want to hurt humans.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:53:31 AM EDT
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Yup. It's called summer. (At least in the northern hemisphere)

You mean more people in the water means more chances for attack?


More people are in the water every summer. This is abnormal and authorities are looking into it.

We need to start a shark killing err harvesting program like they have in Australia.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:53:37 AM EDT
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#finsupdontbite
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:53:41 AM EDT
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No, no.  It's CLIMATE CHANGE!  Since it's getting colder during the winters, it can't be WARMING anymore.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:58:07 AM EDT
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More people are in the water every summer. This is abnormal and authorities are looking into it.

We need to start a shark killing err harvesting program like they have in Australia.
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Yup. It's called summer. (At least in the northern hemisphere)

You mean more people in the water means more chances for attack?


More people are in the water every summer. This is abnormal and authorities are looking into it.

We need to start a shark killing err harvesting program like they have in Australia.

We shark fish here in FL.  Still doesn't stop us from being the #1 state for attacks.  The only shark that terrifies me is the Bull shark.  They make a point to eat you.  Generally the other sharks that come close enough are just looking for smaller animals.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:58:08 AM EDT
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There's a reason I won't swim in the ocean: I've yet to encounter a shark in a pool.



Link Posted: 6/15/2015 8:59:47 AM EDT
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The reason is the increase in shark numbers.  Populations have skyrocketed and will get worse.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:03:05 AM EDT
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Always stay in the boat, till the shark is in the boat.

Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:03:39 AM EDT
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The coast? You've really gotta worry when they start happening in places like Arizona...
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:07:07 AM EDT
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Really, you guys are slipping...








It's Bush's fault.


Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:07:12 AM EDT
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The swimmers were dressed like lawyers?

Where do teenage girls find suits that maintain the wrinkles while in the water?

Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:08:09 AM EDT
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Need more of this

Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:22:37 AM EDT
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I read about this every summer... I wonder what the correlation is???


Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:23:48 AM EDT
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the end is nigh
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:34:52 AM EDT
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I believe the increase in shark attacks is due to an increase in sharks (duh!).  

When I was growing up in FL, the fish and game policies were not the same and weren't as tight/restrictive. It was just not a common thing to fish off the beach in FL, but theses days its common and people do well at catching fish right on the beach. So, fish and game does their job too well (restricting the humans), increases the fish population around the coast, then big gnashy fish (sharks) numbers increase too. There may be some commercial fishing reasons too, but I'm just passing along my own experiences.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:35:25 AM EDT
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Sharks are racist.
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Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:41:34 AM EDT
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Climate change

If only you guys paid more taxes we could have prevented this

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Why would you wish that on sharks?
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:42:14 AM EDT
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Youre in the water, sharks in the water......


Actually, it is quiet easy.  
Summer is here, people go to the beach.  People at the beach go swimming......
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:43:53 AM EDT
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At the coast?






Get back to me when they start happening in Iowa.






Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:44:27 AM EDT
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FPNI

Global warming + Bush = shark attacks.
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Must be a female shark. It has the crazy eyes.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:49:41 AM EDT
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What if it's to get in a bigger boat?
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:55:23 AM EDT
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Get back to me when they start happening in Iowa.




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actually bull sharks have been found pretty far up stream in the Mississippi river...

Sharks in Illinois
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:58:54 AM EDT
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Headed to OBX on Saturday. I will be risking life and limb hitting the water.

Good chance to try out my new underwater holster.



...and yes 10mm is the round for shark. (and everything else.)
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 9:59:27 AM EDT
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Damn, even the sharks hate us.....ISIS radicalized sharks?
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:00:41 AM EDT
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Don't want to get bit by a shark?



Don't play in their pantry.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:02:16 AM EDT
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It's when they start increasing inland that you have to worry.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:04:29 AM EDT
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Probably tuna that have been calling themselves sharks for years...
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:05:05 AM EDT
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Obviously global warming

Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:05:36 AM EDT
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The results are in: Shark attacks are strongly correlated with people being in the water.  r=0.98

It's interesting to note that, when people are not in the water, shark attacks seem to diminish.  Weird.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:06:47 AM EDT
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The results are in: Shark attacks are strongly correlated with people being in the water.  r=0.98

It's interesting to note that, when people are not in the water, shark attacks seem to diminish.  Weird.
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I read about this every summer... I wonder what the correlation is???



The results are in: Shark attacks are strongly correlated with people being in the water.  r=0.98

It's interesting to note that, when people are not in the water, shark attacks seem to diminish.  Weird.


We should really conduct a study on that,
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:07:45 AM EDT
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Ditto...doesn't take getting very far into the ocean to drop to the bottom of the food chain.



No thanks.



 
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:10:26 AM EDT
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Profiling by the shark community

Hands up don't bite
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:13:02 AM EDT
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In before Sharknado.

The sharks have always been there. In almost every "Attack" situation it is a case of mistaken identity cloudy surf, feeding ground, blood in the water from a cut or menstrual cycle..
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:17:21 AM EDT
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Shot two Cobia Sunday spearfishing. Lost nary an appendage. Barracudas did swarm the second one, but fear overcame their curiosity.
Link Posted: 6/15/2015 10:23:32 AM EDT
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There were shark attacks in a creek in 1916.

Matawan's location made it an unlikely site for shark attacks. When Thomas Cottrell, a sea captain and Matawan resident, spotted an 8 ft (2.40m) long shark in the creek, the town dismissed him.[5] Around 2:00 p.m. local boys, including epileptic[6] Lester Stillwell, 11, were playing in the creek at an area called the Wyckoff dock when they saw what appeared to be an "old black weather-beaten board or a weathered log." A dorsal fin appeared in the water and the boys realized it was a shark. Before Stillwell could climb from the creek, the shark attacked him and pulled him underwater.[7]

The boys ran to town for help, and several men, including local businessman Watson Stanley Fisher, 24, came to investigate. Fisher and others dived into the creek to find Stillwell's body, believing him to have suffered a seizure; Fisher was also attacked by the shark in front of the townspeople. He was pulled from the creek without recovering Stillwell's body. His right thigh was severely injured and he bled to death at Monmouth Memorial Hospital in Long Branch at 5:30 p.m. Stillwell's body was recovered 150 feet (46 m) upstream from the Wyckoff dock on July 14.[9]

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