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Ask your wife is she is planning on moving away from Minnesota because of the all the Lyme Disease and West Nile you get from your state bird (that's the mosquito for all of you that haven't been there). You've got a better chance of being killed by that than a shark attack.
For that matter what about those tornados or straight line winds you get up there. Those probalbly kill more people every year than shark attacks.
Movies are fictional. Even though Open Water was based on a true story, no one knows what happened to those people after the time that they were left behind by the boat. So the entire movie is just fiction. For the movie, they couldn't get the sharks to bother those divers until they chummed the water and put them into a frenzy. So, unless you're planning to splash around the ocean surrounded by lots of raw meat, I wouldn't worry about it.
I think most of us are really excited about it when we have the opportunity to swim with sharks. There are a few exceptions, of course. Not to many people are looking to swim with Great Whites without a cage. Then again I don't think there are too many people who see those with any regularity (if at all) while diving.
Dive safe!
Christian
P.S. Due to the high volume of new posts in the Introductions and Greets forum, it's not always possible to keep up with all the new posts here. So, please help me out and send me a PM if you post anything you want me to read or repsond to in this forum.
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