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> Did anyone else see this? Is it the Information Age (better reporting)
> or has the frequency of shark attacks increased proportional to time in
> the water (TOW)?

> WARDOG
> http://www.surfingsports.com/

> Source: kcbs
> Publication date: 2000-09-29
> (KCBS and AP) --A close call today at the Mavericks surfing spot off
> the San Mateo County coast when a shark attacked a surfer.
> A San Mateo sheriff's Deputy says Paul Euwer was paddling on his
> surfboard when the shark attacked this morning.
> KCBS reporter Jenny Glick, at the surf spot, says Euwer told
> authorities he was about a quarter mile off the shore when a ten-foot-
> long great white shark hit his board. Then the shark bit down on the
> board below his leg.
> Euwer was unharmed and managed to paddle back to shore.
> Authorities measured a bite radius on the surfboard of about 13 inches.
> Glick says the attack doesn't appear to have stopped other surfers from
> taking to the waves. Just hours after the attack, the ocean was full of
> wetsuit clad surfers taking advantage of the high surf.

> Surfer Dies in Shark Attack in Okinawa's
> Miyakojima

>                                September 16, 2000
>                                Kyodo News

> NAHA, Japan, Sept. 16 (Kyodo) -- A 21-year-old man died Saturday after
> being attacked by a shark while surfing off Miyakojima Island in Okinawa
> Prefecture, police said. Takayuki Miura, from Hirara on Miyakojima, was
> dragged into the sea around 5 p.m. while surfing with friends about 30
> meters off a Hirara beach, according to police. When rescuers arrived at
> the scene, Miura was unconscious and his right arm was missing.
> He        died shortly after.2000 Kyodo News (C) Established 1945

> JAWS' CAUGHT; SHARK KILLED 5

> DAR ES SALAAM, September 28 (Xinhua)--A killer shark, which has taken
> five lives away from the beaches here
> has been killed, the police confirmed on Thursday.

> A police officer with the Central Police Station of the city said that
> the shark was killed by Hugo Lawick,
> director of a Dar es Salaam-based private sports fishing company.

> Since hearing loss of the lives caused by the shark's attack, Lawick, a
> renowned marine hunter, decided to use
> all his fishing experiences to kill the fish, said the officer.

> He organized a six-man team and embarked on the hunting journey aboard a
> special fishing boat on Wednesday. He
> returned on Thursday morning with the killed shark.

> However, according to the shark hunter, the number of the sharks in the
> nearby waters is likely to grow, for
> many of them, like the one he had just killed, are pregnant.

>It must the shark feeding season.

>Last week a surfer was taken by a shark in South Australia and the very next
>day another surfer a few Kms away. The first guy was on his honey moon. The
>body has not been found.

> It must the shark feeding season.

> Last week a surfer was taken by a shark in South Australia and the very
next
> day another surfer a few Kms away. The first guy was on his honey moon.
The
> body has not been found.

> --
> Kevin  NZL88

> > Did anyone else see this? Is it the Information Age (better reporting)
> > or has the frequency of shark attacks increased proportional to time in
> > the water (TOW)?

> > WARDOG
> > http://www.surfingsports.com/

> > Source: kcbs
> > Publication date: 2000-09-29
> > (KCBS and AP) --A close call today at the Mavericks surfing spot off
> > the San Mateo County coast when a shark attacked a surfer.
> > A San Mateo sheriff's Deputy says Paul Euwer was paddling on his
> > surfboard when the shark attacked this morning.
> > KCBS reporter Jenny Glick, at the surf spot, says Euwer told
> > authorities he was about a quarter mile off the shore when a ten-foot-
> > long great white shark hit his board. Then the shark bit down on the
> > board below his leg.
> > Euwer was unharmed and managed to paddle back to shore.
> > Authorities measured a bite radius on the surfboard of about 13 inches.
> > Glick says the attack doesn't appear to have stopped other surfers from
> > taking to the waves. Just hours after the attack, the ocean was full of
> > wetsuit clad surfers taking advantage of the high surf.

> > Surfer Dies in Shark Attack in Okinawa's
> > Miyakojima

> >                                September 16, 2000
> >                                Kyodo News

> > NAHA, Japan, Sept. 16 (Kyodo) -- A 21-year-old man died Saturday after
> > being attacked by a shark while surfing off Miyakojima Island in Okinawa
> > Prefecture, police said. Takayuki Miura, from Hirara on Miyakojima, was
> > dragged into the sea around 5 p.m. while surfing with friends about 30
> > meters off a Hirara beach, according to police. When rescuers arrived at
> > the scene, Miura was unconscious and his right arm was missing.
> > He        died shortly after.2000 Kyodo News (C) Established 1945

> > JAWS' CAUGHT; SHARK KILLED 5

> > DAR ES SALAAM, September 28 (Xinhua)--A killer shark, which has taken
> > five lives away from the beaches here
> > has been killed, the police confirmed on Thursday.

> > A police officer with the Central Police Station of the city said that
> > the shark was killed by Hugo Lawick,
> > director of a Dar es Salaam-based private sports fishing company.

> > Since hearing loss of the lives caused by the shark's attack, Lawick, a
> > renowned marine hunter, decided to use
> > all his fishing experiences to kill the fish, said the officer.

> > He organized a six-man team and embarked on the hunting journey aboard a
> > special fishing boat on Wednesday. He
> > returned on Thursday morning with the killed shark.

> > However, according to the shark hunter, the number of the sharks in the
> > nearby waters is likely to grow, for
> > many of them, like the one he had just killed, are pregnant.

>Good one. The theory is that too much freshwater comes into the Bay
>for sharks to venture in it. In practice, not sure. I always heard one
>couldn't survive an escape from Alcatraz partly because of the sharks.

>I remember hearing about a guy sailing at Crissy getting his new board turned
>into a no- nose design by a great white some years ago.  I can't remember the
>details, but it was written up in a mag (windtracks maybe?). The sailor was
>uninjured, but required the medicinal use of ***.

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