I didn't know there were sharks??

Being the bore that I am, and with nothing better to do during the day, I normally surf the web reading newspapers from different areas of the country. One of which is the Maui News. I came across a couple of articles these past couple of days about a lady from San Diego swimming off the beach of Maui and her assessment of the sharks in the water there vs in san diego.

I can't believe the mindset of some people.

http://www.maui.net/~mauinews/framnews.htm

I hope this works, and you can read the articles from the 18th and 19th.

Yes it did (IF you scroll down on the left frame on go to Monday). But they made a mistake

They say she was swimming, but she was using fins.

(They should of talked to Walter first)

saying that she thinks she should have been warned better, and that notifying people of the sharks was inadequate. Hmmm . . . I smell a potential lawsuit naming the State as a defendant.

all sea shells ot come with a disclaimer indicating that swimming in the ocean may be hazardous to your health. This will include advisories on drowning, shark attacks, venomous stings and bites, and laughing yourself to death that someone was so naive to think that there would be no sharks 200 yards off shore and that said sharks would not retaliate if they were swum into.

Visitor runs into shark, lives to tell

I assume that's the article you're referring to...

on some people's mentality. An ocean is an ocean, therefore one can ASSUME that there will be dangerous creatures (such as sharks) lurking about.

Spectre, that is the article. There actually was a couple of days they ran stuff on the incident.

Chepar, you could be right. I was thinking the same thing when I read her comments.

Here is another article and comments made about the sharks.

Shark sighting closes beaches
Officials shut down 2-mile stretch in Kaanapali for 2 hours
By ILIMA LOOMIS

Staff Writer

KAANAPALI — A shark sighting on Tuesday closed Kaanapali beaches again, two days after a woman was attacked while swimming 100 yards offshore.

The 6-foot shark was sighted in dirty water at the river mouth and confirmed by officials at Hanakaoo Beach Park, said Ocean Safety Supervisor Archie Kalepa. Beaches were closed for two hours a mile in either direction, from the Sheraton Maui to Mala Wharf.

Randy Awo, enforcement chief for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), said a second shark was reported near the Aston Ka‘anapali Shores, but the sighting was unconfirmed.

Shark sightings are not unusual, he said, but they tend to receive more attention from the public and the media after an attack has occurred. He said the last confirmed shark sighting was two or three weeks ago, when whitetip reef sharks were seen in waters off Kaanapali.

On Sunday, San Diego resident Julie Glance was injured when a shark bit her right shoulder, arm and hand while she was swimming off the beach fronting the Embassy Vacation Resorts Kaanapali.

DLNR Director Gilbert Coloma-Agaran, who chairs the state Shark Task Force, said task-force members would interview Glance but he did not expect other action to be taken.

The interview is regular protocol, but members who speak with the attack victim will ask her to clarify her description of the shark that bit her. Coloma-Agaran said he wanted to find out if the description she gave reporters of a 6-foot-long gray shark with a white-tipped tail came from her own memory or if someone suggested it to her.

Glance’s description would suggest a whitetip reef shark, which has distinctive white markings on the tips of the dorsal fin and the tail. But the whitetip tends to be no more than 5 feet long and is considered to be a nonaggressive animal.

Coloma-Agaran said the task force did not have plans to post permanent signs or take other steps to warn beachgoers that sharks may be present.

In a Monday news conference, Glance said she hadn’t known sharks were in Hawaii waters, and she felt the state should have done more to warn her and other visitors.

“I think that’s fairly naive,” Coloma-Agaran said. “Sharks are a part of our natural environment.”

Task-force member Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell Sr. said he urged the state years ago to create a brochure that could be passed out to tourists, warning them of sharks and other ocean hazards like undertow, shore break, eels and other marine life.

He said he was amazed that Glance didn’t know Hawaii had sharks.

“This is a prime example of education,” he said.

He said people should be informed about sharks, including the fact that, at this time of year, the animals are pregnant and giving birth and so are “very irritable.” He would also warn people that urine, cuts and menstruation can attract the interest of sharks.

Maxwell said that although the task force didn’t decide to go ahead with the brochure idea, he was in the process of developing an informational placard together with the Maui Ocean Center.

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I think it would be due diligence on the part of all scuba instructing agencies to place in their material that urinating in water can attract sharks (see second last paragraph of article above).

It would also behoove wetsuit manufacturers to put a disclaimer on their wetsuits to advise the wetsuit does not prevent seepage into the ocean waters


Sorry, I am bored and have nothing better to do.

oh my!" With all the relatively recent hype about shark attacks, I don't see how anyone could have missed out on the fact that there are, indeed, sharks in the ocean.

Quote from the article:

“If there is a beast out there we’re trying to make sure it doesn’t harm anyone else.”

It's not a BEAST, it's a shark. Sharks live in the ocean, people do not. If you swim in the ocean you have a chance of being bitten by a shark among many other things... When are people going to understand that it's OUR fault, not the sharks. If you don't want to get bitten, swim somewhere else...

AHHHHHHHHH! I can't stand ignorant people who blame everyone/thing but themselves.

I feel bad for attack victims, but it's a chance you take when you swim in the ocean. Would you wander through the jungle aimlessly and then blame the lion for attacking you?

Couldn't have said it any better Chris