Comments on: Shark attacks woman on kayak at Catalina. Poll: Are you scared of sharks?

By: yakfish

yakfish — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:59:26 +0000

Miracles still happen today. But what a scare that must ve been.

I have a question I’m hoping someone can answer.

In selecting the color of your next kayak, is there a COLOR you can choose which REPELS SHARKS? Particularly when mounted with a peddle (ingenious but) system that mimic penguins propulsion, is there such thing as a “SHARK SAFE COLOUR”?

By: The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:58:24 +0000

Bull Sharks have nothing on a white shark, tom, when a bull shark attacks you, it comes up rather slowly and maybe takes a bite out of your leg or arm. A White Shark, however, is a blitz attacker, and hits as hard as a bus…you’ll be lucky to escape with your life if one actualy attacks you.
WE DO NOT NEED TO KILL THE SHARKS to fix the problem…we need to kill their food supply: the seals. The @#$%ing tree huggers are pver protecting them, and their population is out of control. Kill the food, and the sharks will leave.

Bluewatersniper,
Killing the sharks food would only increase the number of shark attacks. A shark has the instinct to survive, like said earlier, survival of the fittest. A shark would attack and eat a human if it could not find a sea dog. Driving a shark out of its territory is not that easy. Kill its food source and it will find another. Adaptation as some like to call it. True, they have a large population, but humans have an even larger one. Where is our population control? Killing sea lions will not make sharks leave, it willl only punish another species for something they have no control over. Killing a shark is perhaps a quick fix, but a short termed one. How much longer will it be until a new shark moves in on the territory? A territory rightly the sharks, btw.

Killing anything won’t solve the problem. What about cows and such? Are they forming plots to kill us to take revenge? When we kill, we know what we are doing. Sharks have no hands, they can’t figure out what things are without using their mouth. And mostly, who ever went to a shark, asked it if they were doing this on purpose, and got an answer? We don’t know what sharks are thinking. All we can do is assume, and everyone knows what that means.

You have a better chance of being killed by a lightening strike than by a shark. Are we going to all get together to kill those too? It would be illogical (and impossible) to hunt lightening strikes, so why do we bother with sharks? Sure they look scary, but then, who are we to judge? They were around a lot longer than us, we have no right to invade their territory. Did all the pigs get together and hunt down all the wolves just so the pigs might live a little longer? Fact is all things that are alive die at some point. And there are much worse ways to go.

By: Duarte

Duarte — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:47:44 +0000

What about Pepsi? Does it work also? Diet? (yes, i’m laughing)

By: Ralph Solano

Ralph Solano — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:07:05 +0000

I have learned in Costa Rica that Coca Cola is the best way to kill fish with just one drope of coke in the fish mouth it kills it instanly, so I always use a bottle of Coke in the kayak in case as a fish repelent. I drope all the drink of coke in the kayak and that goes to the water and keep the fish away. Try it and you will see the efects on the fish.
Regards
Ralph Solano
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Costa Rica Wild Fishing

By: gavin dickinson

gavin dickinson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:49:14 +0000

I don’t like not being at the top of the food chain…

been thinking a kayak is a safe way to play in the ocean, not trolling for great whites with my arms and legs…

this article kind of helps… and also kind of doesn’t…

have a nice day everyone!

By: dolphintunayum!

dolphintunayum! — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:07:01 +0000

buffiem2003 Says: How would you feel if a rapist got to your kid? Same thing here. Any animal that would dare threaten me would go the way of the dodo. On the other hand; lets not kill it and wait until it kills more and more people just so we can be kind to it. Sarcasam intended and implied. Animals do activally seek and destroy; without you ‘entering’ their so-called territory. The taipan snake for example; activally seeks and runs after people, regardless if paths are crossed or not.

Ever see ‘ghosts in the darkness’? That film is true to life, and shows animals DO activally seek and destroy, even if its for fun.

By: tmf

tmf — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:02 +0000

I can’t believe the poor grammar in this post - doesn’t anyone proofread these prior to publishing, particularly when they reside on OCRegister.com’s own website??

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:41:19 +0000

if a bear attacks someone in alaska the authorities hunt and destroy it. Just a thought.

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:28:25 +0000

i love sharks i am going to be a mirin biolegest i love the ocean i am going this friday to the beach. thank you for your patice to read this bye!!

By: L.G.

L.G. — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:08:14 +0000

I was driving through Nichols Canyon yesterday on my normal drive home and a big beautiful doe jumped out from someone’s driveway and across the road in front of me. Then she had to bolt straight up the side of hill, which was damn steep. All I could think was that I hoped she didn’t get hurt and she made it up the cliff. She was right on a curve and anyone else coming could have hit her. Nature.

The sharks belong in the water. Humans are overpopulated…way more than the Sea Dogs, whom I happen to love, even when they eat my bait. Humans have no natural predators left because we’ve killed them all or put them in zoos…well, we have Bush/Cheney…but I digress…we shouldn’t kill any animal because it attacks a human. With so many of us running around destroying everything in sight, it would be actually great to have something out there to control OUR population.

Survival of the fittest biotches! Sometimes you get the shark, sometimes he gets you. But intentionally hunting it down isn’t exactly a fair fight. If you go in the water, you run the risk. Do you hunt down and kill all of the Jellies that sting you too? R-tard…

Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. And yeah, getting eaten alive would totally suck and I’m glad she lived to tell about it. But I would just want the shark to be damn sure that he hit a major artery or snapped my neck or something first. I don’t care if I get eaten by a shark…I would just want to die quickly…there are worse ways to go. Fire? Plane Crash? I’ll take the shark thanks…