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in reply to a message by Sarahjeanne
Hi Sarahjeanne ,
Several things you might try:
1) Vacation in Kansas instead.
2) Invite several friends along to VB and encourage them to rub their legs vigorously with bait squid before entering the water. Enter the water yourself (sans squid) no less than 50 yards away.
3) Avoid swimming near dawn or dusk. People who swim then DESERVE shark bites anyway, because all decent folks will be back in the condo sleeping off a hangover at the earlier time or nursing a sunburn at the swim-up bar at the later.
4) Collect several small children and buy them either paddleboards or seal costumes to use in the water. Place them between yourself and offshore sandbars, schools of fish, or exposed fins.
5) Remember that white-tailed deer, not sharks, are the primary animal killers of people in the US. Don't swim where you see antlers moving through the water!
My family swam in the Virginia Beach area for years without so much as SEEING a shark. The fatal attack there was tragic but very freakish.
If you want to worry about sea critters, look out instead for jellyfish and mass migrations of bluefish near the water's edge. One year my dad swam out into the path of the migrating blues to "get closer to the marine life". Eleven stitches later, he acknowledged that those critters have sharp teeth!
Have fun at the beach,
Da.
Several things you might try:
1) Vacation in Kansas instead.
2) Invite several friends along to VB and encourage them to rub their legs vigorously with bait squid before entering the water. Enter the water yourself (sans squid) no less than 50 yards away.
3) Avoid swimming near dawn or dusk. People who swim then DESERVE shark bites anyway, because all decent folks will be back in the condo sleeping off a hangover at the earlier time or nursing a sunburn at the swim-up bar at the later.
4) Collect several small children and buy them either paddleboards or seal costumes to use in the water. Place them between yourself and offshore sandbars, schools of fish, or exposed fins.
5) Remember that white-tailed deer, not sharks, are the primary animal killers of people in the US. Don't swim where you see antlers moving through the water!
My family swam in the Virginia Beach area for years without so much as SEEING a shark. The fatal attack there was tragic but very freakish.
If you want to worry about sea critters, look out instead for jellyfish and mass migrations of bluefish near the water's edge. One year my dad swam out into the path of the migrating blues to "get closer to the marine life". Eleven stitches later, he acknowledged that those critters have sharp teeth!
Have fun at the beach,
Da.
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