Are sharks more likely to attack surfers, scuba divers, or snorkelers?

[Wingy]

@Lucifer -

Coroners Findings

In all states of Australia - coronial reports are available for the public domain once finalised.

Motor vehicle accidents to deaths during custody. A court delivers the findings...name and former address of the deceased are included in almost all Coroners reports - I guess the last thing you are worried about when your dead is someone knowing your stomach contents, what colour jocks you had on, dirty fingernails...I've seen all of these listed in coroners reports...is your privacy.

Your dead...you have no human rights when you are a former human.

 

[CamC]

That's a good one. Except when you read Gilliam's first hand account of his buddy being eaten in front of him by a pair of OWT. See link in post 41.

Just finished that, what a nightmare of a tale. And he went diving again the next week!

 

[aquacat8]

Just finished that, what a nightmare of a tale. And he went diving again the next week!

Yeah I was kind of blown away by that too, but if he didn’t maybe he would never dive again. A friend of mine who loved swimming as a youth was bumped by what he believed was a shark swimming off San Francisco and quit ocean swimming.

 

[aquacat8]

Car wrecks kill people regularly yet people keep driving, the animal most likely to put you into the emergency room with a bite: dog. We must go on!

 

[TMHeimer]

Car wrecks kill people regularly yet people keep driving, the animal most likely to put you into the emergency room with a bite: dog. We must go on!

Yeah, but in today's world most people pretty much have to drive. And dogs are all around--no choice. You don't have to dive where sharks are common.

 

[Steelyeyes]

Yeah, but in today's world most people pretty much have to drive. And dogs are all around--no choice. You don't have to dive where sharks are common.

Kind of hard to see any sharks if you don't.

 

[TMHeimer]

Kind of hard to see any sharks if you don't.

Yeah well, we're getting off the OP's topic as usual when the shark thread appears. All the stuff about cars, dogs, getting hit by lightning or coconuts being compared to purposely seeking to be around sharks is apples to oranges. We all do what we want.
I'm not at all paranoid about seeing my first shark. I also have absolutely no fear of flying, but I won't get on a plane unless I have somewhere to go. You have no control in a plane, unlike driving a car, where unless someone jumps the divider on an interstate, you can drive defensively. You have very little control should you encounter that one in a thousand shark that may, for whatever reason, attack without provocation.

 

[Lucifer911]

No trace of the diver killed by the GWS was ever found but amazingly his scuba equipment was left intact with no bite marks. If you are pulled down by a great white during a safety stop do you detach yourself from the BCD in hopes of being able to get away?

 

[CamC]

I also have absolutely no fear of flying, but I won't get on a plane unless I have somewhere to go. You have no control in a plane, unlike driving a car...

It's ironic that we rail against doing a "trust me" dive but - by necessity - we cheerfully put our lives in the hands of the pilot that gets us to the dive resort.

 

[CuzzA]

No trace of the diver killed by the GWS was ever found but amazingly his scuba equipment was left intact with no bite marks. If you are pulled down by a great white during a safety stop do you detach yourself from the BCD in hopes of being able to get away?

No, you accept your fate and die.