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- From: kene@sequent.com (Ken Ewing)
- Subject: Re: Shark Hunt -- Sharks common in Hawaii?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.165621.15427@sequent.com>
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- References: <1992Nov18.095741.16449@news.Hawaii.Edu> <phil.722127244@seidel> <1992Nov19.141347.18450@newssun.med.miami.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:56:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.141347.18450@newssun.med.miami.edu> dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown) writes:
- >
- >There have been references to shark attacks here, but I haven't heard
- >anything about them. I was in Hawaii from 1990 - 1991 and never heard
- >of a shark attack...aren't they kind of rare there? (At least compared
- >to California.) Could somebody please tell me what happened? (I don't
- >mean to be macabre, but were there really that many and were they really
- >that bad?)
- >
-
- I have a good friend who was married to a native Hawaiian, and she
- said that there are two things in Hawaii that exist is large numbers
- and that the press is "forbidden" to talk about: huge cockroaches,
- and sharks. Exactly how the press is "forbidden" is not clear to me,
- but they are dissuaded from reporting on the prevalence of these
- things because doing so would hurt the tourist industry.
-
- My friend told me how one time she was swimming off the beach and
- her hand actually hit the back of a shark swimming under her. She
- had noticed a number of grey shapes beneath her, but had just thought
- that these were rocks on the bottom. Once she realized that these
- really were sharks, she immediately left the water. It was then that
- her Hawaiian friends told there that sharks were common, but that
- they weren't talked about because it would scare away the tourists.
-
- Now, having never been to Hawaii myself (outside of the airport),
- I might need my understanding corrected. Let me know if that's the case.
-
- Ken Ewing
- Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- Beaverton, Oregon
- kene@sequent.com
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