LOL....that is funny. Looking at the injury I could not distinguish a "bite mark"...seen worse from a good "barnacle burn" myself. But yeah, was like reading about 2 separate incidents. The surfwatch dude seems like he would be a good bollywood actor....:laugh
While this story is a good laugh, there is a grave undertone that deserves mention. Sharks are one of the most important groups of animals in our ocean ecosystem world wide (many are known as "keystone species" by biologists because if they go, the system collapses) and they are being decimated by us...some hysterical idiot blowing a minor mishap like this up into some sort of ruthless life-threatening attack by a cunning bloodthirsty great white does them terrible harm...as evidenced in this story, people are reactionary idiots and it is NOT a victimless crime.
Sharks fill a huge gap in our oceans and systematically removing them is proving to be a risky global experiment, one in which no one really knows what the implications will be. Their importance cannot be understated...just bear in mind that everything in the sea larger than your pinky finger for the last 350 million years has evolved under this veritable force of nature...to remove them (and the pressure they exert on the largest ecosystem on earth) as we are doing could be likened to jumping off a seesaw when you were a kid, leaving your buddy to come crashing down on his arse without your opposing force maintaining the balance...:O
Sharks reproduce very slowly, many give live birth to less than 10 "pups" at a time as compared to say typical spawning fish that lays thousands of eggs. And we are removing them at about 100,000,000 per year, far faster than they are able to replace themselves. This is thanks in no small part to their being demonized by said idiotic reactionary humans.:rant
And if you are wondering why a motor-head is ranting about the plight of sharks, it is because sharks can't speak up for themselves and it is unlikely anyone else will, so I feel obliged. Also, it just eeeent smart to fugg with a system that provides 77% of the O2 that both we and our bikes "breathe".
