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Rich, On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Richard Pyle wrote: > out his snail mail address. He figures that if it's not worth the time > for someone to sit down, write a letter, and put a stamp on it, then he > doesn't want to be bothered. I guess since you didn't give me his u-snail address, you nipped that bud. > O.K., how 'bout this: "Some people have had some experiences that suggest > sharks might display more aggressive behavior when in the presence of an > operational scooter." Our only recommendation would be "ya roll the dice > and ya takes your chances". Yeah. Like "People sometimes get in car accidents and get hurt. We think that if you get on the highway you're diceing with death". All true, but not very helpful. Better is "There have been x reports of sharks attacking y divers on x-z scooters. In a retrospective study of survivors, attacks were more likely to occur when the DPV had a big picture of a fish on it; when the diver was wearing black; when the viz was less than 4' and when the diver went Nyaaaah at the shark" If you want to reduce your risk consider eliminating those risk factors that are convenient. The International Shark Attack File might give us those numbers. We'll see. pH
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