Or, tell the Georgia fans there's free food back on the beach for the one who
swims out the farthest.
Sharks really go for red and black!
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From: <ke...@baldwinnc.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:12:34
To: gatortalk googlegroups<Gatortalk@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] [SUN]: 5/26 13:33 --- "THE CHALKBOARD"
=== UF expert provides tips to avoid shark attacks [Crabbe]
They left out - send your spouse in first, tell them to jump and splash around
some before you'll come in.
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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: 5/26 13:33 --- "THE CHALKBOARD" === UF
expert provides tips to avoid shark attacks [Crabbe]
From: Shane Ford <go.ufgator...@gmail.com <mailto://go.ufgator...@gmail.com> >
Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 10:18 am
To: gatorn...@googlegroups.com <mailto://gatorn...@googlegroups.com>
May 26th, 2010 01:33pm
UF expert provides tips to avoid shark attacks
by Nathan Crabbe (Gainesville SUN)
With Memorial Day approaching, University of Florida shark expert George
Burgess is trying to prevent swimmers from becoming part of the statistics that
he tracks.
Burgess is director of UF’s International Shark Attack File, which complies
information on attacks. On a video posted on UF’s Web site, he provides a few
tips to avoid attacks for the thousands of people hitting the beaches over
Memorial Day weekend.
He said a few key spots should be avoided: “Area’s where there’s drop-offs,
where there is fishing activity, if there’s effluent entry in the water,
inlets. Those all are areas of high population density of sharks.”
And he said that night swimming is a bad idea: “The time period between dusk
and dawn, which is a time period when sharks are very active eating, and in
particular the biggest and the largest, the bull and the tiger sharks, seem to
be doing their most damage.”
Florida has seen its share of shark attacks, including a fatal attack on a
surfer earlier this year.
UPDATE: Burgess has just put out a new study that provides detail on the most
likely circumstances for a shark attack: Shark attacks are most likely to occur
on Sunday, in less than 6 feet of water, during a new moon and involve surfers
wearing black and white bathing suits.
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