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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:47:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Heseltine <heseltin@hs*.us*.ed*>
To: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*>
cc: Kevin <heyydude@pi*.co*>, John McKenney <jmpi@ix*.ne*.co*>,
techdiver@terra.net
Subject: Scooters & Sharks & Fishermen

Rich,

On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Richard Pyle wrote:

> I guess what I've been trying to say is that the numbers are so friggin'
> small, they probably won't tell us anything (especially, as you pointed
> out in your letter to ISAF, if we don't have the denominators).  I think
> this is one of those situations where the fishermen's wisdom exceeds the
> scientists' knowledge.

Substitute shaman for fisherman and I'll believe you. If there have been
even five attacks on divers on scooters - ever - I'll buy you dinner. If
there have been more than five but less than ten, and I am willing to
include jet-skis too, then we can describe the incidents and people can
make up ther own mind. There may well be a pattern (shark, scooter,
stroke). If there are less than five, it seems to me that you're in
greater danger of being entangled and drowned by the scooter itself, than
falling down the throat of some innocent shark bystander. I tell you, I
wish I'd had a scooter in the Red Sea this summer. Not a single one
sighted in 10 days of offshore reef and open sea diving.

pH

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