Everyone is afraid of something...

[Nilsen]

Mostly im scared of me and the missus having some sort of accident so we cant raise Mia up to an age were she can take care of her self. There is always family, but still.



Im a tad nervous and jumpy around computers, and never spend much time on them. That eye/webcam freaks me abit cause i know it can see me.

[Debonair]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
The most dangerous shark is no more than a weak second to the most dangerous animal in the sea.



We have killed many more sharks than they have killed people...

I have always been amazed that some will talk of their fears of natural world while drinking at the neighborhood bar and then drive home drunk: "I can make it home, I'm not that wasted."

i know i've said it before & will probably continue to repeat myself

the most dangerous Great White:

twice as deadly as teh sharxor

funniest great white:

[Eagler]

you have a better chance at winning the lottery or being killed by lightning than you do being attacked by a shark ...
I think your fear of sharks is slightly miss placed ... best look both ways when you go through the next green light as you have a much higher probability of being t-boned by an idjit running his red

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by Eagler
you have a better chance at winning the lottery or being killed by lightning than you do being attacked by a shark ...
I think your fear of sharks is slightly miss placed ... best look both ways when you go through the next green light as you have a much higher probability of being t-boned by an idjit running his red

Well, if you are surfing of the coast of Cali in the red triangle, I would say you have a better chance of being attacked by a shark

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Nilsen

Im a tad nervous and jumpy around computers, and never spend much time on them.


:loking at your post count::  uhh huh


 That eye/webcam freaks me abit cause i know it can see me.    

yea right, C'mon Nilsen, Well all know your a regular cam potato

[storch]

I think he means statistically and he's correct.  however sharks are far and away the least thing one needs to be concerned with when entering the ocean.  keep in mind that the ocean can be as deadly as any remote place on the planet sometimes even within sight of the shore.  

look at all the people that take off in a boat for a pleasurable afternoon, go out completely unprepared (as in no radio no mobile phone no drinking water no working knowledge of the mechanical systems for their watercraft the list can go on ad nauseum) get themselves in trouble for a myriad of reasons and are helpless.  

I grew up in a marine environment and I still enjoy the ocean and what it has to offer.  I enter the ocean well prepared and with strong swimming abilities and occassionally still find myself in trouble.  

the last episode.  a friend and I went to spear fish off of hollywood beach when the yellowtail were schooling close to shore.  we have an innertube type float with a net in the donut to keep first aid stuff, mobile phones two gallons of fresh water, energy bars etc.  we have our dive flag on this. additionally we have a float and dive flag we take with us even though we seldom go beyond fifty feet from the tube.  we still get boats go zipping by between us and the tube!!!  anyway we are riding a strong northerly current, drift fishing the reef more or less laterally with the shoreline. suddenly there is an outgoing current we cannot swim against so we are pushed quite far out to sea, maybe a half mile or so. we drift with current still northernly but now fishing is out of the question as we are far from the reef and in blue water.  we drift for about an hour and are finally able to kick in around LLoyd state park in the next town up, Dania, Florida.  then I had to walk back to hollywood beach on A1A to get my truck to pick up our stuff.  Interesting day.  This occurred to two seasoned watermen right on the beach.  tricksey tricksey mother ocean can be harsh.  she was sweet to us that day.

[FiLtH]

Ya being eatin alive by anything, great heights, a crushing death, burning...all rank up there.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Sixpence
Well, if you are surfing of the coast of Cali in the red triangle, I would say you have a better chance of being attacked by a shark

unless you are standing there with your 7' surf/lightning rod and an active thunderstorm comes rollin in

[Gunthr]

you said it, Eagler.  I was a little blase' about lightening on the water untill this June coming back from Bimini to Pompano Beach we hit lightning squalls 7 miles off shore on the way in.  Two of my brothers at the helm holding onto the stainless T-top braces got shocked when we had a near miss behind us.  Their hands were numb for a few minutes and all the electronics got fried.  It was terrifying.  We made it home ok.  But it was an eye opener.   I have a sailboat with a 30' mast, I'm paying to have it grounded, but I'm finding out that a correctly grounded boat is more likely to get hit by lightening, tho damage is less likely.  Its actually a complicated subject, and not all agree as to how best to do it.   One way is safest for sure, avoid storms

[ChickenHawk]

I think the movie "Jaws" and the media frenzy since have done a great disservice to western culture by giving millions of people an irrational phobia about sharks and the ocean.  I love the water and can't get enough of it.

What scares me is a crushing death.  When I was young I was pulling siding off a two story barn that was being readied to be demolished.  A stiff wind came along and blew the barn over toward me while I was at the very base of the wall.  I dropped my tool and ran like never before.  As the barn came down behind me, I felt the wind and dust from the wall envelope me as I ran.  It could have been feet or inches, I don't know but it was close.  Thinking what would have happened if I hadn't looked up at that second or if I had stumbled is what keeps me up at night.  Give me a shark any day.

[Mustaine]

drowning has got to be my number one fear. in my youth my mother taught me about undertow in lake michigan, and showed me the pics of friends who drowned there. on the man made lake i grew up on a man drowned jumping off a diving platform and getting tangled in the weeds and held underwater. add in seeing piranah and jaws as a young impressionable child i have an irrational fear of any water i can not touch and see the bottom.

I have snorkeled in the carribean, and that is cool and fine. you can see the bottom 100 feet down, and far away side to side. put me in a murky lake where the bottom may be only 10 feet and weedy and I am panicing. same with open deep ocean. F that. talk about heart attack city. like sikboy i had the "sharks in a pool" thing for a while as a kid if i was the only one in a pool, but thats gone now.

[WilldCrd]

being buried alive like in a coffin and slowly suffocating ranks pretty high too.
just close your eyes and think about it for a second while holding your breath.
really think about it:O

[dmf]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Normal and natural fear.
And precisely why you wont fail

I'm glad sombody thinks that.

[aztec]

I swear...I fear nothing.

[Habu]

I am not at all afraid of sharks or the ocean. In fact about 3 weeks ago I did the Escape from Alcatraz swim where I had to jump into the water about 100 feet off of Alcatraz Island and swim to the mainland.

It has been reported that there are sharks in the area but not Great Whites. I did not give them a second thought. I was more afraid of the cold.

The thing that I am afraid of is being confined in a tight space. I read once where Gingas Khan killed people sometimes by rolling them up in a carpet and then having his men run over it on horseback. I can't imagine a worse way to go.