Carolina shark attacks

[NYCNole]

Three shark attacks over past few days with two poor kids losing limbs yesterday. I may spend less time in the ocean than normal when our family visits Hilton Head in two weeks. My wife won't go in at all. Would you keep your kids out of the ocean?

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article24407005.html

 

[ericram]

You have a greater chance of getting killed by a falling coconut than dying from a shark attack. Now it seems there are quite a few sharks in the waters of North Carolina. Feel bad for those kids.

 

[FSUFrank]

Yep....feel horrible for those kids as my kids are in the ocean every weekend.

But the odds of a bite a very remote and you have to let the kids have rum and be kids.

 

[LesClaypool]

I will continue to practice my 100% effective preventative shark avoidance technique of avoiding the ocean altogether.

Give me a pool any day.

 

[BarryB1081]

Yep....feel horrible for those kids as my kids are in the ocean every weekend.

But the odds of a bite a very remote and you have to let the kids have rum and be kids.

Yes, underage drinking of distilled spirits combined with ocean swimming are best for our youth.

 

[seminoledq]

You have a greater chance of getting killed by a falling coconut than dying from a shark attack. Now it seems there are quite a few sharks in the waters of North Carolina. Feel bad for those kids.

True but not many people lose a limb when hit with a falling coconut.

 

[ericram]

True but not many people lose a limb when hit with a falling coconut.

Approximately 185,000 amputations occur a year in the US. A very small percentage of those are by shark attack.

 

[LesClaypool]

Note to self: Coconuts are more dangerous than sharks. Got it.

 

[ericram]

Surprisingly you are also more likely to get killed by a toilet seat than a shark.

 

[tommynole3476]

http://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/i-continue-to-be-absolutely-baffled.18618/

 

[OrlandNole]

How many people do you know that have been killed or seriously injured in a car wreck?

How many people do you know that have been killed or seriously injured in a shark attack?

 

[FSUTribe76]

I don't care that Sharks are innocent kittenish Fish of Peace, one of those %*%*ers "bumped" me as a small kid taking away a football sized imprint of skin from my side with its sandpaper so I will NEVER trust the %*%*ers. I will go in the ocean about waist deep when surffishing but will always be nervous. And I was basically terrified the entire time when we had to paddle way out in great White shark infested waters at Bondi Beach for surfing lessons my wife wanted to do in Sydney.

 

[seminoledq]

I don't care that Sharks are innocent kittenish Fish of Peace, one of those %*%*ers "bumped" me as a small kid taking away a football sized imprint of skin from my side with its sandpaper so I will NEVER trust the %*%*ers. I will go in the ocean about waist deep when surffishing but will always be nervous. And I was basically terrified the entire time when we had to paddle way out in great White shark infested waters at Bondi Beach for surfing lessons my wife wanted to do in Sydney.

We were rooting for the sharks then too.

 

[Phinhead]

I grew up 30 minutes from the Gulf. I still go often, and in 40 years, I have never seen so many sharks feed between the sandbars as I have this year.

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

Three shark attacks over past few days with two poor kids losing limbs yesterday. I may spend less time in the ocean than normal when our family visits Hilton Head in two weeks. My wife won't go in at all. Would you keep your kids out of the ocean?

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article24407005.html

Note that the attacks occurred at 4:40 p.m. and 5:50 p.m., respectively. Never get in the ocean that late in the day.

 

[fsunole025]

Headed to OBX (Corolla) this weekend for vacation. I'm only getting in the ocean if required to bring a fish to shore. Our beach mansion has a private pool.

 

[BillWesJay]

Note that the attacks occurred at 4:40 p.m. and 5:50 p.m., respectively. Never get in the ocean that late in the day.

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630-7pm is bad not 445 lol

 

[jamnolfin]

Note to self: Coconuts are more dangerous than sharks. Got it.

They are. Coconuts kill more people than sharks, that's a fact. If they hit you its usually a head shot, big wood ball full of milk.

 

[jamnolfin]

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630-7pm is bad not 445 lol

Especially east coast where it gets dark at 9pm. What if it's the same shark like Jaws, wouldn't that be freaky. Killer shark on the loose

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

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630-7pm is bad not 445 lol

Undoubtedly an older shark, seeking the early-bird special.

 

[noleit]

They are. Coconuts kill more people than sharks, that's a fact. If they hit you its usually a head shot, big wood ball full of milk.

Here lies Timmy, he died too early from big wood.

 

[OrlandNole]

This was the scene in St. Lucie County yesterday...

 

[KitingHigh]

Undoubtedly an older shark, seeking the early-bird special.

Dadgum snowbirds.

 

[FSUSarah]

That video was awesome! I've been swimming in the ocean my whole life. Never have had a close encounter...that I know of.

 

[KitingHigh]

If the kinda people that shut down beaches because a shark was spotted knew how many sharks are always around no one would ever be allowed in the ocean.

I see Sharks swimming right next to and in between swimmers all of the time.

 

[RTM58]

That video was awesome! Never have had a close encounter...that I know of.

If you've been in the ocean any length of time, you have. We use to watch beach goers from above at the Tiara Condo dinning room (40th-story) and would see sharks swim around individuals and groups in the water at Singer Island beach. The snowbirds never knew they were being sized up for dinner.

 

[Gonolz]

They are. Coconuts kill more people than sharks, that's a fact. If they hit you its usually a head shot, big wood ball full of milk.

...and people call me crazy for avoiding the produce section.

 

[seminoledq]

That video was awesome! I've been swimming in the ocean my whole life. Never have had a close encounter...that I know of.

I watched it on mute, did they say what kind of sharks those were?

 

[321Nole]

Tribe, standing in waist deep water while surf fishing is about as high risk as you can get. Just make sure you're not keeping spare shrimp in your pocket.

 

[OrlandNole]

I watched it on mute, did they say what kind of sharks those were?

Reef sharks.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Here lies Timmy, he died too early from big wood.

 

[BelemNole]

That's not a shark, THIS is a shark

 

[OrlandNole]

You left off the part of the video where the dude surfaces and immediately drinks a coffee...black, of course.

 

[NDallasRuss]

...you have to let the kids have rum and be kids.

I think that this is really the best advice of all.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Tribe, standing in waist deep water while surf fishing is about as high risk as you can get. Just make sure you're not keeping spare shrimp in your pocket.

Yeah I know that's why I'm never relaxed while doing it. I keep any bait in my Ribz sealed in a ziplock well above water and any catch I immediately walk into shore.

 

[FSUTribe76]

If you've been in the ocean any length of time, you have. We use to watch beach goers from above at the Tiara Condo dinning room (40th-story) and would see sharks swim around individuals and groups in the water at Singer Island beach. The snowbirds never knew they were being sized up for dinner.

Yeah. About four or five years ago I was scalloping in St Marks with my wife and friends in waist deep water on a sandbar not too far from the lighthouse. After we had all gotten our limit we got back in the boat and went fishing in a channel not more than a hundred yards or so away. Ten minutes after we were in the water (tops), up surfaces the biggest Tiger Shark I've ever seen, just a frigging monster. No clue as to actual size (my SWAG is between 14-20 ft as people forget they get almost as large as the largest great whites) but substantially bigger than the bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales we'd seen the same trip. He was just cruising near the surface fins up and exposed so not being aggressive...but still scary considering we'd been wading not that far away and not that long before.

 

[sconole]

every summer...this happens every summer and every summer people are surprised. I can't believe there was a shark in the ocean!

the smartest guy i know works with the federal government as an oceanographer and says anytime you get in the ocean, there is likely a shark within 1000 ft of you...not necessarily man-eaters, but a shark of some kind that can bite you.

 

[FSUTribe76]

every summer...this happens every summer and every summer people are surprised. I can't believe there was a shark in the ocean!

the smartest guy i know works with the federal government as an oceanographer and says anytime you get in the ocean, there is likely a shark within 1000 ft of you...not necessarily man-eaters, but a shark of some kind that can bite you.

If you're counting the little bonnets, dogfish, spinners and sharpnose its probably far less. I can't recall the last time I went beach fishing and didn't catch one of those within an hour. I use shrimp tipped spinnerbaits on a thunderrig and that seems to trigger the little beach sharks regardless of time and tide.

 

[seminoledq]

Turns out one of the kids bit is from here in CO. So this story has been on the news every day out here.

 

[75seminoles]

I've always believed in this old lesson ~ from 5 to 9 swim from 9 to 5.

In the summer months shark attacks are almost always in the morning or evening.