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Fact: You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than by a shark.

Chances of running into this guy in a dark alley are a lot less than a stranger in New York. Photo: AFP.

Summer is a matter of weeks away, and almost on cue, sharks are being sighted, and a media frenzy is beginning.

A frenzy not one unlike the shark one they would have us believe is approaching.

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  • Steve says:

    10:59am | 21/12/10

    Wrong. We have built machines to enable us to venture into environments that we are not NATURALLY built to survive in. If we were meant to be in the ocean then we would have gills and webbed feet. Read more »

  • Laura says:

    10:55pm | 16/12/10

    Really good article, Matt ! People have to look past those stereotypes of man eating sharks, enhanced by Jaws (seriously, I don’t think sharks roar that loudly..) and try to consider it from their point of view. Its an ethical debate and most people will probably be all destroy the… Read more »

 

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