Mexican Navy On The Hunt For Sharks
By Noel Randewich - (Reuters)
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican Navy searched for sharks in the ocean near Pacific surfing beaches on Monday, after two bathers were killed and another maimed in a rare spate of shark attacks.
Three boats and a helicopter patrolled the sea while Navy and rescue officials scanned the horizon with binoculars from popular beaches around the southwestern Mexican resort of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo. They warned surfers not to go far out.
“We’ve been monitoring the beaches; we’ve done reconnaissance flights,” Rear Adm. Arturo Bernal said, adding that no big shark had been detected yet in the area.
Surfer Bruce Grimes from Texas was bitten on the arm on Saturday off nearby Playa Linda beach, making him the third target of a shark attack in the area in a month.
Two attacks in April and May killed a Mexican and an American — the first shark deaths off Mexico’s Pacific coast in 30 years, according to official records.
Grimes, 49, said he paddled madly toward shore on his board after feeling the unmistakable sandy skin of a shark glide across the bottom of his feet as he straddled his surfboard.
“Then it bumped me really hard. I thought, ‘That’s definitely a big shark.’ I took about three more strokes and he grabbed my arm,” said Grimes, who pulled himself free and made it to the beach. He managed to drive himself to a hospital, where he received 100 stitches.
On Friday, Mexican surfer Osvaldo Mata, 21, died after a 6-foot-long (2-m-long) shark seized him, bit off one of his hands and chomped on his thigh. That followed the death in late April of a 24-year-old American who was mauled while surfing nearby.
The Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo government is consulting with experts to determine what could be causing the attacks.
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“The Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo government is consulting with experts to determine what could be causing the attacks.”
Wild guess: they’re hungry?!
May 26th, 2008 at 6:17 pm“government is consulting with experts to determine what could be causing the attacks.”
When you simply must hear someone say something stupid……
May 26th, 2008 at 6:28 pmTrust a bureaucrat.
Guys … it’s George Bush’s global warming, fueled by American greed.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:36 pmWell of course its global warming. thats the answer im going with
May 26th, 2008 at 6:46 pmWait till the final score later this week. I predict.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:50 pmSharks 3
Mexican Navy 0
I had no idea Mexico even had a Navy …
May 26th, 2008 at 6:52 pmJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
May 26th, 2008 at 6:53 pmMe too! I had no idea Mexico had a navy. Do you think the “three boats and one helicopter” is the extent of it? Maybe that’s just what they have on the Pacific side. They may another “three boats and one helicopter” on the Gulf side.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:05 pmThe Guardian is reporting that “Billions are being wasted on carbon credits by the UN.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:54 pmLeading academics and watchdog groups allege that the UN’s main offset fund is being routinely abused by chemical, wind, gas and hydro companies who are claiming emission reduction credits for projects that should not qualify. The result is that no genuine pollution cuts are being made, undermining assurances by the UK government and others that carbon markets are dramatically reducing greenhouse gases, the researchers say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/26/climatechange.greenpolitics
Want to wager that Al Gores green hedge funds are involved in these not green projects?
The Sharks were already eliminated by Dallas. Oh, wait, wrong sharks. But seriously, its a good thing the Mexican military has nothing else to worry about- you know, drug cartels, human smugglers, the fact that Mexico is a dangerous, 3rd world hell hole. Perhaps they go after sharks because they know that sharks wont put out a hit on their family?
May 26th, 2008 at 10:32 pmAll the sharks have to do is say they work for the drug cartels and they will be safe.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:35 am