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Sharks biting swimmers is a natural phenomenon
Has there ever really been a shark attack? I can't think of any setting where one would occur. Well, maybe a few. If I'm walking though Sikes Senter Mall in Wichita Falls and a shark jumps out from Books-A-Million and bites me, I would chalk that up as a shark attack. That shark had no business in that bookstore. Or how about the pool at the YMCA. No sharks on the member list there, either.
If I'm swimming in the ocean, the shark's home, then I'm shark food. I may as well have signed a Terms of Use agreement before entering the water that said I agree to being shark food and that I will hold harmless any shark that takes my leg off.
Makes sense to me. I mean, we all know that sharks swim the oceans. We all know by now that sharks bite the hell out of anything that moves in the oceans. Why do we get all bent out of shape when a shark bites the hell out of a person. Why do we call it a shark attack?
We are capable of building swimming pools in which to get our butts wet. Sharks, on the other hand, are pretty much stuck where they are. We can avoid them, if we choose. Sharks cannot avoid us if we put on our "shark food" signs and jump into the ocean.
Stop referring to natural shark feeding habits as "attacks". The only way the word "attack" should be used in these cases is the "stupid attack" suffered by the ass with the shark teeth imbedded in it!
Now, as the Wikipedia item below illustrates, there are unfortunate occasions when people enter shark-infested waters through no fault of their own. Still, sharks are sharks and they bite things that move.
From Wikipedia.org - USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class cruiser of the United States Navy. She holds a place in history due to the circumstances of her sinking, which led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy.
After delivering critical parts for the first atomic bomb to the United States air base at Tinian on 26 July 1945, she was in the Philippine Sea when attacked at 0014 on 30 July 1945 by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58. The ship sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 crew aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remaining crew of about 900 faced exposure, dehydration and shark attacks as they waited for assistance while floating in shark-infested waters with no lifeboats and almost no food or water.
The ship was not listed overdue and the survivors were spotted by accident four days later. There were only 317 survivors. Indianapolis was one of the last US Navy ships sunk by enemy action in World War II. (USS Bullhead was attacked by Japanese aircraft with depth charges and probably sunk on 6 August 1945.) - - - end of Wikipedia article.
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