Word: sharked
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Season of the Shark...
Thank you so much for your article on sharks [SCIENCE, July 30]. I am glad to see one of nature's most beautiful creatures finally portrayed in a scientific fashion, as opposed to the gruesome Hollywood film images. I am studying marine biology in college and, while diving in the Caribbean, have encountered several types of sharks. In every case in which I came upon a shark, it swam away. We humans are a much greater threat to sharks than they are to us. ANDREA C. LAMBERTSON Murfreesboro, Tenn...
...help thinking of attacks by sharks as their revenge for our overfishing some shark species to the point of near extinction and for entangling and slowly killing them with factory-fishing drift nets that sweep the seas. GILBERT SCHWARTZ Aventura...
...scuba diver, I have had frequent and always exhilarating encounters with several species of sharks--sometimes as many as 30. As an astronomer, I have commonly and excitedly viewed dozens of beautiful shooting stars. Being bitten by a shark or struck by a meteorite would be extremely serious and possibly fatal. Yet given the probability, it appears that the greater danger for our anxiety-prone society is not in the seas or the stars but in ourselves. If we are overcome by the imagined risk of unlikely death, we may miss the elusive chance to live fully. (THE REV.) WILLIAM...
...shark-feeding tours that you mentioned should be banned. Sharks are hardly demons of the sea, but it is dangerous for them to associate humans with the provision of food. Sharks now consider the sound of a boat engine a signal for getting food, and this is too risky to be allowed to continue. Ban shark-feeding excursions before it is too late. We don't need any more human or shark deaths. PAUL FUCITO Washington...