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Topic: Freak Shark Attack Close By!

Topic Posted by: carmen
Date Posted: Sat Apr 26 1:50:41 2008
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i'm at work and hear helicopters all over the place and check the news only to hear about someone being eaten by a shark. well, not eaten, but bitten and he bled to death. solana beach is right down from the beaches we frequent. the man that died, a local retired vet is the dad of my kid's friend.

speculation based on the size of the bite says the great white shark is about 17-20 feet big. we are having a heat wave this weekend. i'm curious enough to hit the beach.

but as far as the water is concerned, maybe just the ankles will see the water!! totally freaky. and very, very sad.

Posted by: Mitch
Date posted: Sat Apr 26 18:24:21 2008
Message:
Yeah, I saw that on TV and then it was in the papers today. They say, to a shark, human swimmers look just like seals or sea lions from undeneath. They take a bite, decide they don't like us and swim away. Unfortunately for this poor guy, one bite was fatal.

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i guess it was his artery. this man was very well liked in the area. he started one of the clinics here years ago when there was hardly anything out here. everywhere you go around here someone knows him.--carm

Posted by: misspm
Date posted: Sat Apr 26 17:24:04 2008
Message:

I know, that is scary! The reports say that he came up from out of nowhere.

I didn't realize that it happened here in California at first; and you are really close to it!

With the hot Santa Ana's blowing, this would normally be a big beach weekend, but, I wonder how beach attendance will be? Or maybe I should ask, how many people will actually go into the water?

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isn't it crazy? you hear about it up north or many other places but san diego? and yes, there are surfers out there today. stupid.--carm

Ack! That's just too risky for me! ~~misspm

Posted by: Paulsmom
Date posted: Sat Apr 26 12:09:04 2008
Message:

ack! I love to get in the ocean and then I think about stuff like THIS.

Where do you live, carmen? If I may ask?

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i live south of solana beach near torrey pines state beach. i love the encinitas beaches better. --carmen

Posted by: Mickie
Date posted: Sat Apr 26 10:51:17 2008
Message:
I wondered where it was in relationship to where Jerry and I walked along the beach. Course we had no inclination to go in, we just watched the surfers. It is such a tragedy, he sounded like a really neat guy to know.

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my daughter said he was a really nice guy. it's such a tragedy.--carm

Posted by: nics
Date posted: Sat Apr 26 4:00:46 2008
Message:

I saw this on the news. They said it happened just after sunrise. Well I believe that sunrise & sunset are known as times that sharks are hunting to feed. The problem is they really don't like himans (we are too salty for them) usually its just a bite & they spit us out. Unfortuantely one bit of a shark that big is normally enough for a human to bleed out. We had a similar thing happen in northern NSW a couple of weeks back. There was a teachers strike on so a couple of 15 year old boys decided to go surfing - one got bit, his mate managed to srag him back to shore but it was too late.

Having said that I have a deathly fear / healty respect for sharks & you won;t see me in the ocean past my calves...nics

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it's so bizarre here in san diego!! even tho the beaches are ''closed'' per say, surfers are still out there. amazing. --carm

Posted by: Bonk5
Date posted: Sat Apr 26 3:04:37 2008
Message:
I read that earlier. someone on my Big Brother board lives down there and was telling us. Scary, but it is still rare!

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very scary. --carm