Shark Attacks!

I can't write the phrase "Shark Attacks!" without the exclamation point. It just doesn't look right?

These are becoming pretty popular at the moment. 3 shark attacks! on the south coast of Australia in 2 days; all involving a good size chomp on an unsuspecting beach-goer. 2 resulting in people punching the sharks

There's also 2 theories on how sharks attack. Theory A states:

A) Sharks only take a bite to get a taste of what they are chomping; but humans have too high a muscle + bone ratio to be tasty food for sharks, which is why they take a bite then usually bail (i'm assuming the "usually" is if the person isn't fat, with all the stuff (chunky bits) the sharks like); and more people will die from blood loss, then being eaten whole.

Theory B states:

B) Sharks only take a bite to get the prey weakened so there's less risk of the shark getting hurt; then when the prey starts to die they come in full bore and chomp chomp chomp; its just that humans have a better chance of escaping after being bitten (getting to shore, or being helped onto a boat) so the shark doesn't have a chance to finish you off.

My issue with these two theories is that neither is very helpful to a swimmer except for a single clear fact - "SHARKS WILL BITE YOU". Does it really matter whether it appreciates the meal or not? No. So why is that the major story at the moment? The modus operandi is as such "Sharks will see something. Sharks will bite that something".

I have to admit that when I'm away from the beach, sharks scare the heck out of me. But when I'm in the surf, its usually not as bad. I guess because I figure there are tastier people then me to eat, so I should have a bit of warning.

At the end of the day, with all the technology we have, we can send men into space; we can possibly collapse our universe (hadron collider); but we can't stop fish from chomping our limbs off.


What a world.