Sharks! How Dangerous Are They?

If you already read my other article called, Encountering a Shark and Almost Becoming Bait (My Story),
you can realize like many others why I'm petrified and intrigued at the same time. Many of us like to feel the emotion of being scared because of the adrenalines it can produce like when we watch horror films. The most popular of the fear tactics is from the Jaws series. Jaws, produced by Steven Spielberg, introduced fear to many of the audience members. The series of movies was influenced by he Jersey Shore attacks that happened during July 1 and July 12, 1916. The four were killed and one survived. People speculate on what attacked, either the Great White Shark or the bull shark. The bull shark can live longer in fresh water than a great white. And mostly when a person is fearful of anything they want to destroy it or just stay out of the water. The bazaar danger lurking in the ocean or lakes intrigues many of us regardless, but the unnecessary fear causes a lot of people to stop putting their feet in the water and therefore they never get to enjoy riding the waves.

There are other creatures that scare others, but the old saying, "They are more afraid of you then you are of them," is very true with other creatures, but an aggressive long and strong twenty footer weighing 3,000 pounds and is known as a blood hunter may beg to differ. There is a category of sharks that are huge and harmless. They include the basking shark that is a sun worshipper like many of us working on our tan, cancer not even in our minds. Another two of these non-aggressive sharks is a whale shark and a Mega-mouth shark. Divers actually can go for a ride holding onto the whale sharks' fins. There are other sharks out there that we don't have to be afraid of.

What is the most dangerous? Sharks to man or man to sharks? People are. That's right. We are the more dangerous species ever to walk on this planet.

Do you know what man has done with their greedy and selfish ways towards the shark? Some fishermen cut the fins off to make soup and throw the remainder of the ALIVE shark back into the water. The shark suffers and dies. People kill them for their meat to eat and to make shoes, jewelry, belts and purses. Their fishing lines rip the mouths of dogfish sharks too. The shark's skin is stronger than cowhide. They use their skin for victims who have been burned, and the shark's corneas can be transplanted into our own. Other things can be used in place of the skin and eyes in our world of great technology. There is no reason for these marvelous creatures to get hurt or killed by our hands any longer.