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07-04-2005, 01:46 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member | sharks in Texas???? I know that there are a lot of people from Texas on YT. i was just looking on the news and saw that there have been shark sightings on the beaches. i believe it said that they have seen a few and someone caught a 9 ft one!!!!! I just wanted to tell all of our texan friends to be careful!!!! HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!!!
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07-04-2005, 02:31 PM | #2 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | I KNOW !! It freaks me out - I don't swim in Galveston ...I think the last time was only after MANY Berry Margueritas...I used to get on a float with my kids and one day had a HUGE fish bump me - I sent BOTH my kids flying off the float and screamed like a little girl - lol... My sons were like ...."Mom - you tried to drown us"! I told them - "hey - It was that fish or YOU" ! I got the heck out of that water and never went in again - and I'm EX-AAU Swimteam - it's not like I can't swim ! We have taken Chanel to the beach and she loved the water - but not me - I can't STAND not seeing the bottom and the ocean scares me ...give me a nice pool ! Florida just had a BAD shark attack and a girl was killed - |
07-04-2005, 02:40 PM | #3 | |
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07-04-2005, 02:40 PM | #4 |
Boppin' Bo! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Indiana
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| Sharks scare the you-know-what outta me!! Four years ago we vacationed in Virginia Beach!! We loved it and had a wonderful time. Well after we'd been home a few days I saw where a boy was attacked by a shark and his uncle had to fight off the shark to rescue the boy. It happened in knee deep water and on the exact beach where we had swam the week before. Creepy!
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07-04-2005, 02:56 PM | #5 | |
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07-04-2005, 02:59 PM | #6 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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| I can swim well...but don't like the water.. This shark thing is not changing my mind either. |
07-04-2005, 08:56 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | I'm too scared to swim in the ocean...watched Jaws one too many times. Then we move close to the Texas coast. HELLO!!!! Cabbage heads and other jelly fishes. NO THANK YOU!!!!
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07-04-2005, 09:09 PM | #8 |
Mommy to 3 Princesses Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: DFW Texas
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| Sharks really dont try to attack humans. They really only attack humans if they mistake them for prey(such as surfers are confused for seals). We just came back from sea world and we were educated on this. There are less than 100 registered shark attacks each year and most of them are bogus. There are more people killed by elephants every year than by sharks. So dont be too scared . I plan on scuba diving in November and would mind seeing one in the distance . Very far distance
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07-04-2005, 09:15 PM | #9 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | Sorry, but I'm not taking the chance on being mistaken for fish food. I'll just admire from a distance...same as the elephants!
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07-04-2005, 10:40 PM | #10 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: England
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| LOl Ever since Jaws I have not gone into the ocean deeper then mid calf... Not me nu uh no way forget it!!. I know statistically I have a better chance of getting eaten by an alligator or having a car crash but I will take the car crash. I have been bit by dogs, squirrels and parrots I am not adding shark to that list. |
07-04-2005, 10:51 PM | #11 |
Mommy to 3 Princesses Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: DFW Texas
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| My husband LOVES sharks. I like them too. I really do not want to be taken by surprise by one of theses creatures in the ocean though! BUt we love to see them at aquariums and shark week on the discovery channel. We we even collect shark teeth But they can seem pretty scary though I think thats what makes them fascinating.....
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07-05-2005, 05:43 AM | #12 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Central NY state
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| I love to swim, love pools, but hate when I can't see what's in the water! Last year in Mexico, my sister and I went on a banana boat. It was so much fun until they flipped us over intentionally. I freaked out and grabbed my sister and wrapped myself around her! I just heard that you shouldn't wear jewelery in the ocean because sharks can mistake it for fish gills. I kept thinking "I have a toe ring on and am going to die!" It gives me the creeps just thinking about it. I just read an article that if you are attacked by a shark that you should punch them in the face (is sensitive like a human's face) or, if worse comes to worse, try to gouge their eyes out if they're really attacking you. |
07-05-2005, 06:53 AM | #13 |
My Little Magwad Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas
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| Several years ago when we were vacationing in South Padre, I looked down at the beach one morning---and there was a large group of people just below our condo. As the crowd backed up, I saw MY SON, pulling a hammerhead shark back to the water. I don't even remember how I managed to get down to the water edge so fast. I asked my son, "What In The World Are You Doing?" He said if he didn't take the shark back to the water, it would have died. Some fisherman had just caught it, and My Son, had to rescue it. So there is a God, and he protected my 12 year old son that day. My son now is now 37 and still loves animals.
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07-05-2005, 07:17 AM | #14 | |
Luna_Bug's Chew Toy Donating YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Tulsa
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OK so i admit it after seeing jaws like WAY to many times as a child i wouldnt even go into the deep end of our pool for several years and still to this day havent been to the ocean and i think even if i went ummmm NOPE not going in not taking any chances i like all my limbs and would like to keep the attached.
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07-05-2005, 08:20 AM | #15 |
Boppin' Bo! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Indiana
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| My family adores going to large aquariums. That same trip when we were in Virginia Beach we visited the aquarium there. It's a really good one. We've also been to the one in Gatlinburg, TN and several others. My favorite so far is the one in Chicago, the Shedd Aquarium. WOW!! I want to go back there sometime soon.
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