>>I know that you are more likely to get struck by lightning, but I can stay indoors when it's lightning, yet I have no real warning when a shark is in the water. There have been 19 attacks in North Carolina between 1990 and 2004, 2 of them fatal. I don't know how many since then, probably only a couple. So you are right in that it is senseless to worry. However, in this case the media was simply doing their job. Notifying the public. If it wasn't in the paper or the news then they would get hit with not notifying the public of a risk - albeit a rare but known risk (except for tourists who probably have no idea in general). Besides, I hate sharks!
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>Jaws did it for me. As did this:
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>http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/15457/story.htm
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>When I was in the carribean, sitting in the water, my uncle said he once saw a shark "over there". I proved that humans *can* walk on water in my haste to get out. :)

I've seen a few here in FL of course - the one big one I saw I wasn't excatly walking on water but lets just say I swam back to the shore fast enough to pull up a water-skier...ha