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...Shark attacks off the Pacific coast show a disturbing rise
Suddenly, Rehm saw that Conger, only 20 ft. away, was in trouble. Something was shaking him violently. A moment later, Conger disappeared beneath the surface, then re-emerged in the gaping mouth of a 12-ft. shark. Says Rehm: "I don't know whether I saw the blood first or the shark." The monstrous fish swam toward Rehm, spat out Conger and then vanished. Recalls Rehm: "Omar said, 'Help me.' " It was too late: by the time Rehm had floated him to shore on a raft, Conger was dead...
...tragedy was the worst of a rash of shark attacks along the upper west coast of the U.S. since Labor Day. Paul Parsons, 33, another abalone diver, suffered puncture wounds and lost much of his left buttock when a shark mauled him in the waters north of San Francisco. Surfer Bob Rice, 25, watched in horror as a 12-ft. carnivore clamped down on the front of his surfboard before swimming away in the waves off Cape Kiwanda, Ore. Says he: "It missed my hips by about four inches...
According to records of the California department of fish and game, over the past 30-odd years there have never been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium...
...cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis (and not, as legend would have it, to a South Pacific shark), he considered himself "not handicapped, merely inconvenienced," and worked tirelessly for 40 years to spread that message to U.S. amputee veterans...