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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...
...Juliet De Campos and microvascular surgeon Ian Rogers. The doctors were surprised by the neat tears in the muscles and tissues. "My God," Rogers told the others. "This is replantable!" In 16 years of reattaching arms, it was the cleanest cut Rogers had ever seen. "You never get a shark bite like that," says De Campos. Still, the doctors debated for nearly an hour before Rogers made the call to proceed...
...regain full use of his arm. And his right thigh lost half of its mass during the attack, so he will probably require a brace to walk--if he can walk. Or if he ever wakes up to tell his part of a tale of a boy and a shark on the wrong side of each other...