TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1989
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SMELL OF CLEARLY IS MORE
HE POINTED OUT THAT SHARKS ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO THE BLOOD AND VIBRATION IN THE WATER AND A HUNGRY SHARK PRONE TO ATTACK HUMANS.
ONLY IN IS THAT
FROM SWIMMING APART "MY ADVICE FOR SWIMMERS
SHINY NOT WEAR DAY TIME. THE
THEY SHOULD BEACHES IN GAZETTED ORNAMENTS BECAUSE FLICKERING LIGHT MAY ATTRACT SHARKS AND THEY ALSO CHECK FOR WOUNDS OR BLEEDING BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER. IF IS BLEEDING. GET OUT OF THE WATER QUICKLY.
SHOULD
THERE
AND NEVER "IF YOU ENCOUNTER A SHARK IN THE WATER. NEVER PANIC
DO AND MOTIONLESS
NOT TRY TO OUTSWIM IT BECAUSE YOU CANNOT. REMAIN
TO VIBRATION AND ANYTHING TREAD WATER AS SHARKS ARE VERY SENSITIVE STRUGGLING IN THE WATER IS A POTENTIAL PREY.
A MINIMAL TARGET. SHARKS "FACE THE SHARK HEAD-ON TO PRESENT
MISS YOU. IF ARE QUITE SHORT-SIGHTED AND CHANCES ARE THAT THEY WILL YOU ARE REALLY DESPERATE. STAB THE SHARK IN ITS MOST VULNERABLE ITS EYES, DR MAK SAID.
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NEXT ON THE LIST OF
BITER SEA
PART.
ARE CREATURES
BARRACUDA
AND
MORAY EELS, BOTH OF WHICH HAVE VERY SHARP TEETH.
OF THEM, INCLUDING RELATIVELY
FORTUNATELY, MOST ARE WATER.
THAN THE
"THERE ARE 20 DIFFERENT TYPES OF BARRACUDA.
LOCAL IN FOUND SPECIES TWO THE
DANGEROUS LESS MUCH HENCE AND SMALL TWO-METRE-LONG GREAT BARRACUDA. FOUND IN THE WEST INDIES, FLORIDA, WHICH HUNT BY SIGHT AND SMELL. AND THE WATER. HE SAID.
.
ATTACK
BRAZIL AND ENTERING
ANYTHING
SO FAR. HE WENT ON, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY REPORT OF AN BY BARRACUDA ON LOCAL SWIMMERS.
ATTACK
T+
"TO PREVENT A BARRACUDA ATTACK, THE SAFETY HINTS
HE ADDED. ARE ALSO APLICABLE.
ABOUT SHARKS
TURNING TO MORAY EELS, DR MAK SAID THAT AS A
IMAGINED MORAY EELS FOR 15 YEARS, HE HAD NEVER UNTIL EARLY LAST MONTH WHEN TWO SWIMMERS WERE BAY.
MARINE BIOLOGIST SWIMMERS ATTACKING BITTEN IN DEEP WATER
COMMON MORAY EELS ARE EEL-LIKE FISH AND ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE
SHARP TEETH AND NO THEY
VERY HAVE WHITE AND YELLOW EELS IN THAT PECTORAL FINS.
PREY AS MAY COME
OUT
"MORAY EELS NORMALLY LIVE IN ROCK CREVICES. AMBUSHING THEY SWIM PAST. UNDER VERY UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES. THEY OF THEIR LAIR AND SWIM NEAR THE WATER SURFACE.
BEACHES
"DESPITE THE FACT THAT MORAY EELS ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
AND DO NOT SWIMMERS. IF PEOPLE ONLY SWIM IN GAZETTED NEAR ROCK CREVICES. THE CHANCE OF A MORAY EEL ATTACK IS VERY SLIM.
AFTER ALL.
INFINITESTIMALLY
THE NUMBER SMALL
ATTACKS OF
WITH COMPARED
BY SEA CREATURES
FORMS OTHER
TO
SWIM
IS
OF
ACCIDENTS ON LAND," DR MAK SAID.