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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.