The ‘Global Warming Induced’ Shark Attacks Continue
Shark Rips Off Teen’s Hand in Brazil Attack
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A shark ripped off the right hand of a teenager swimming along the coast of northeastern Brazil, fire department officials said Monday.
Pernambuco state fire department spokesman Marcio Maia said 14-year-old Wellington dos Santos was attacked on Sunday after he swam beyond a coral reef that keeps sharks away from the beach of Piedade near the state capital, Recife.
Lifeguards rescued dos Santos and rushed him to a hospital, where he was reported to be in critical but stable condition, Maia said.
Besides severing dos Santos’ hand, the shark “bit off a large chunk of his buttocks,” Maia said.
“People insist on ignoring the sign posts warning of the danger of shark attacks, especially beyond the coral reefs about 490 feet from the beach,” Maia said.
The attack was the 51st since authorities started keeping count of shark attacks in the area in 1992. Maia said that sharks have killed 19 people in Pernambuco state over the past 15 years.
(AP)
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And soon sharks will be moving into fresh waters up the Mississippi and to all the small streams. Then they will morph into air breathers and replace gangbangers on street corners. Ah if only we would listen to Al Bore and open our wallets and feed his scam.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 pmPeople encroach on the shark’s natural habitat, subsequently getting bitten or killed and it’s because of global warming? Please!
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmWhen the ocean gets to warm I guess we’ll see more land shark’s.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 pmNowhere I’ve ever been is the water warmer than Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Sharks everywhere but we swam in those waters nearly every day. We saw sharks all the time but they always kept a pretty good distance from us. Curious but never threatening. Warm waters ain’t it. Lack of food, maybe.
If Global Warming is the cause of all evil, the libs might want to focus their efforts on cooling the sun since “the Sun’s radiation has increased by .05 percent per decade since the late 1970s”, according to NASA.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pmAnother Darwin Award candidate.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm