30 Oct 96 12:34, Angus lupton wrote to Donald Keen:
 Al> Ah.  Well, I'm sure there are a lot of true stories about people and
 Al> sharks, with the latter of the two being survivors.  Anyway, the guy 
own
 Al> Under that was supervising our dive said that the ones in the Great
 Al> Barrier Reef were more afraid of us than we were of them, and not to be
 Al> worried.  I agree with you though, I don't trust sharks.  We saw some
 Al> sharks in the water on the way back though, so it was after the dive and
 Al> we didn't care.
I'm with you.....I don't trust the bastards.  Throughout my diving career, 
shark sightings have been fairly uncommon, but I will never forget a dive 
trip off the North Carolina coast where a buddy and I were spending a surface 
interval snorkeling in about 110 feet of water.  Both of us noted two sharks 
that drifted up from the depths and casually began to swim a circular pattern 
below us.  As time went by, they slid shallower and shallower, and the 
circles became smaller and smaller.  My buddy and I both lost our nerve at 
exactly the same moment, disproving the theory that two masses of matter 
cannot occupy the same space at the same time, because we both jumped onto 
the transom of the boat at exactly the same second.
I have no doubt in my mind that one of them was planning to bump us next.  I 
had no desire to see whether it would be me or my partner first.....FWIW, 
that's the only time I have ever been run out of the water by a critter.
Jay
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