Word: sharked
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...This was a day Australians would remember for the rest of their lives. Ian Thorpe, Australia's 17-year-old Water King, took his throne today. Thorpe swam like a shark followed by blubbery tunas, outpacing the field in the 400-meter freestyle by 10 feet and destroying the old Olympic record with his time of 3:40.59. The center exploded in joy - I'm not sure, but I think the roof actually did come off the building. But in typical Australian understated style, Thorpe smiled modestly and barely waved. Thorpe is the bane of a sport photographer's existence...
...HUPD's substation on Longwood Ave., the morning shift discusses the day. It's a small three-room station, dominated by a fish tank belonging to commanding officer Sergeant Arthur St. Andre. It's peaceful in the tank now, but once a tiny shark ate a couple of other fish. Patrolman James P. Sullivan explains that as soon as the shark got "belligerent," he had to be removed...
Worldwide, sharks have bitten 38 people this year, including 30 in the U.S. Ten years ago, the number of U.S. attacks was just 19. Despite the increase, shark experts say sharks should be more worried about people. Overfishing is depleting the shark population approximately 40 million a year. "The real story is not shark bites man," says Burgess. "It's man bites shark...
...shark attack is rarely fatal, but it can be terrifying. Training for a triathlon on Gulf Shores Beach, Ala., Chuck Anderson watched in horror as a shark took off his fingertips, then kept coming back. "The fourth time, my right arm went into his mouth, and we went down to the bottom," he says. Anderson fought for his life, with the shark biting up and down on his arm until he heard the bone snap and break off in the shark's mouth. Anderson made it to shore and survived. He doesn't blame the shark for taking...
Even though her leg is healing, Danielle says, the 4-ft. shark that bit her still stalks the murky depths of her sleep. On the coast, a shark washed ashore recently, but a necropsy didn't find any human bones inside. As the line from a similar scene in Jaws goes, "There's still one helluva shark out there, Martin...