George Breen, the pilot of a Piper Super Cub, was helping researchers spot Great White sharks off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts when he saw one shark headed for a diver who had just jumped off a research ship in the water. He was able to radio the boat and they pulled the diver out just in time, according to a story in the Boston Globe.
Shortly afterward, Breen said, he watched another shark dart toward a man surfing in the waters off Orleans. . . . He said the surfer, who probably never saw the submerged fish, walked ashore as the shark got within about 100 yards of him. . . . “All I can say is I think he’s just one lucky dude,’’ Breen said. “He was pointed right at the surfer.’’
Seems like the sharks are getting hungry lately.
[Link: Boston Globe]
Typical media fearmongering… You are more likely to get struck by lighting – twice! – than you are of being attacked by a shark.
To put it another way, more people die each year in this country from vending machines than from sharks.
By contrast, many shark species are being hunted to the brink of extinction to simply for their fins.
Check out sharkwater.com
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