Man swims 62 miles around Martha’s Vineyard to press for protections for sharks
Jaws was filmed on island in 1975, stoking fears of marine animal that swimmer Lewis Pugh is now trying to protect
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There are a lot of things people do that kill sharks or make the waters uninhabitable for sharks. When people hear that, they think "good, I don't want to get et by a shark when I go swimmin" because that's how they talk. This is supposed to draw attention to how sharks don't actually pose a threat to swimmers, and highlight their importance in the aquatic ecosystems.
Sure, but how about all the swims of all the people who never get attacked by sharks? This one is for attention.
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
Which other ones?
The ones where the shark population doesn’t fall off.
You lost me.
It's not meant to prove anything, just to draw attention to the issue.
More people die from housecats every year than sharks
And that's like 3-5 purr year
Cat scratch fever! And I mean Bartonella henselae, not the Ted Nugent song or the 2011 film by Lisa Duva.
More people are killed by their spouse than cats and sharks combined so make marriages illegal?
I’m glad he didn’t get eaten by sharks but it would have been really funny if he got eaten by sharks. It’s a conundrum.
One of the most dangerous animals in America is the cow. And that's not even counting the heart disease.