sailquik said...yoyo said...
After A fatal attack in northern NSW today, News reported this
Shark experts say there are a number of ways swimmers can protect themselves from a shark attack. Their advice includes:
- Not swimming in known shark spots
- Not swimming in dirty water
- Not swimming with pets
- Not swimming at dusk or at night
- Not swimming near people fishing
- Leaving the water if schooling fish start to behave erratically
And my number one rule: Always surf or swim with a mate. That gives you a 50-50 chance!
Rule number 2
make sure they are a slower swimmer than you
Rule number 3
Take a knife so you can cut them if they are quicker than you
On a more serious note.
The roads to the beach are definitely more dangerous.
It's also a sad reflection on our society that road death and injuries are just classed as "accidents" and the carnage (read people) as statistics. The reality is there are very few prangs which are true "accidents".
So many of our children are lost to "mundane" things like car accidents, Asthma, bee stings, allergies, cancer, Pub fights, suicide etc that the real tragedy is that we don't realize it's going on till it affects us or someone we know.
Having children close to that age, I do truly feel sorry for the boy and his family one can only imagine what pain they must be going through.
But I just can't help thinking that if hadn't of been lost in such a Spectacular "Newsworthy" way we possibly would never have heard about this "tragedy".
