Sharks

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People who call for a cull on sharks should themselves be culled, with maximum prejudice.

Sharks have already been regularly culled by ignorant savages who eat their fins, and waste the rest of the fish. Most shark species are now endangered.

I was a working scuba Divemaster in Egypt for a few years, and there is nothing like seeing and admiring a shark in its natural domain. Scuba diving is like a cheap and unregulated safari, and we need life in the oceans to survive ourselves.

The actual number of shark attacks' is tiny, more people get attacked by their pet dogs, but there is always a disproportionate media firestorm.

The fact is that we are not sharks' natural prey, most 'attacks' are when a shark is making an exploratory bite to see if we are food because we look like seals or injured prey thrashing around on the surface. If you read the reports properly, nobody has been wholly eaten by a shark (only injured, albeit sometimes fatally). Nobody would ever survive a proper shark attack if one of the Big Five really wanted to eat them. Victims usually suffer a single bite, and the shark swims off because they don't like the taste and have now ascertained that the human is not food.

Incidentally, the Big Five - Great White, Tiger Shark, Mako, Oceanic Whitetip and Bull Shark - are the 'potential man eaters'.

The Big Five on land - rhino, lion, leopard, buffalo and elephant - are nothing to do with that. It shows our atavistic fear of sea predators!,