I was taking my life into my own hands driving over to Brunswick to do some shoping this afternoon when I heard on the radio that…
OH…NO…not ANOTHER shark attack.
Yes, it has happened…
AGAIN…
In MY old favorite part of Florida…AGAIN.
This is at best a sad coincidence, but at worst it is going to continue to fuel the media “feeding frenzy” because on this very day that the medical goons were doing the autopsy on little 14 year old Jamie Diagle that died last Saturday as a result of wounds she received in a attack by some dubiously identified size of Bull shark, we have another shark attack to analyze and explain--ENDLESSLY.
Let me explain the story’s “media induced” problems to date…
Was the shark that killed Jamie 6’ long or 8’ long, and in the end, does the type of shark or size of shark really matter?
This news story says:
"Experts Monday were trying to determine why an 8-foot bull shark attacked and killed a 14-year-old girl off the coast of northern Florida during the weekend.
An autopsy was scheduled for Jamie Daigle of Gonzales, La., who, along with a friend, was about 250 yards offshore Saturday when the shark clamped onto her leg. A 54-year-old man nearby rushed to her and told the Miami Herald he punched the shark and tried to distract it away from her.
It made several more rushes at the badly bleeding girl before swimmers were able to tow her to shore on a surfboard. She died of blood loss before reaching the hospital.
George Burgess, a University of Florida shark researcher who was at the beach near Destin said the attack was not normal for Florida waters.
"Usually a shark will make a mistake, thinking it's a fish," Burgess said. "In this instance, the shark apparently very knowingly went after a large prey item and persistently tried to follow through on its normal feeding behavior, which would be to come back and attack again and again." "
So Jamie was killed by an 8 foot Bull Shark, 250 yards off shore, right? She died “of blood loss before reaching the hospital” as I predicted earlier.
For some reason this story in Bloomberg says that the shark was a 6 footer and the attack occurred 100 yards off shore.
“A six-foot bull shark probably was responsible for killing a 14-year-old girl in Florida while she was swimming with a friend last weekend, said Erich Ritter of the Shark Research Institute.
The girl, Jamie Marie Daigle of Gonzales, Louisiana, was vacationing with friends on Florida's Gulf Coast. She was attacked by the shark in an area not protected by sandbars or lifeguards, Tim Dicus, a surfer who brought the girl to shore, told the Associated Press said yesterday. Daigle was swimming more than 100 yards (91 meters) from shore June 25, AP said.”
Let me summarize what we’ve learned so far, and I'll write it as if I were a professional NEWS REPORTER:
Destin (Virgil Rogers)--“Jamie Marie Daigle of Gonzales, LA died on Saturday as a result of massive blood loss resulting from injuries received during at least one attack by what is believed to be a 6’ to 8’ Bull Shark.
Miss Daigle and a friend were reportedly swimming between 100 and 250 yards offshore of Destin, Florida at the time of the attack."
Case Closed…what is so hard about that?
Today’s shark bite story is about a 16 year old boy “reportedly” being bitten by a shark near Cape San Blass, Florida.
"Authorities in the area say Monday's attack could have occurred because the boys fishing were using live bait, and were fairly far out from shore, standing on a sandbar.
A 16-year-old boy is in stable condition after being bitten by a shark in the Gulf Coast waters of northern Florida on Monday. It was the second shark attack in the area in three days. Experts say last year's Florida hurricanes could be the reason why sharks are now closer to popular beaches in some parts of Florida.
Beaches along Florida's northern Gulf Coast were closed on Monday after the second shark attack in three days. One of three boys fishing on a sand bar at Cape San Blas was severely bitten by a shark on Monday.
At a Florida news conference on Monday, Eric Ritter, a shark expert from the New Jersey-based Shark Research Institute, said last year's Florida hurricanes could have altered sand bars in the shallow Gulf waters, allowing sharks to move closer to shore than they might previously have done.
"A changed weather system always does affect the super top predators, but it also affects the entire food chain," he said. "So, yes if you change a sand bar it directly affects the current that will bring in other sharks. We have some indication that the hurricanes from last year created some of the accidents." "
So am I good, or what? I ALREADY TOLD YOU ALL OF THIS, AND I’M JUST AN IGNORANT AMATEUR WRITER AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER…
As I already wrote yesterday in More About Gulf Vacations--the sandbars are affected by the prevailing weather and, by the way--the sharks will swim where they want to AND BITE WHO AND WHAT THEY WANT TO BITE, WHEN THEY WANT TO BITE IT.
Finally, TODAY"S LESSON, learned by some of my friends that have many years of expericence Spear Fishing while scuba diving in oceans all over the world is this:
Don't stand around in water full of sharks with a bucket or mesh bag full of dead (or live) fish attached to your bathing suit.
If you want to drag a bucket of dead (or live) fish into the ocean with you, put it on a long rope or anchor it far away from any of your body parts that you consider to be essential in conducting the balance of your life on this planet.
It's just that simple.
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