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Postby roach » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:46 pm

I don't much want to be a tester for the device.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1811

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Postby katie » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:55 am

eek. that's the last time i use my shark shield!
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Postby ifihadahifi » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:46 am

They've only had one disastisfied customer.

I would think that's a good thing.

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Postby Dogatron » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:41 am

The university was worried that the devices attracted sharks before deterring them, and posed a health risk, especially to pregnant women or anyone with heart problems.

uuuuuh, if you're surfing when you're pregnant you deserve to be shark food.
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Postby Irock » Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:27 pm

I think they maybe mean preggos swimming in the same general vicinity as the surfers with the devices.
But after one Great White bit right through such a device, and in a separate incident a student died in a horrifying shark attack, scientists began to wonder if the devices do not repel sharks so much as they attract them.
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Postby Dogatron » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:16 pm

I think they maybe mean preggos swimming in the same general vicinity as the surfers with the devices.
they're still swimming in great white infested waters though...deserve to be chum
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Postby mere1975 » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:47 pm

Ooh, but imagine living right next to the ocean and not being able to swim because of sharks. Bummer!

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Postby Tracy » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:57 pm

The university was worried that the devices attracted sharks before deterring them, and posed a health risk, especially to pregnant women or anyone with heart problems.

uuuuuh, if you're surfing when you're pregnant you deserve to be shark food.
Since only a couple of us here have actually birthed babies-you don't actually need to sit in a chair and veg for 9 months. I'm sure that a healthy pregnant woman in her first trimester (or maybe two) is perfectly able to surf if she desires. At 12 weeks gestation the fetus weighs about an ounce. I don't surf or I could tell you definitively. What is put into a pregnant woman's body should be of more concern.

As for the Shark Shield device, it might be like an invisible fence for my whippet. Whippets can breeze right through the fence before they would be bothered by being zapped by it. Because of that AND that they don't keep other dogs out (and whippets are wimpy, thin-skinned dogs) invisible fences are not recommended for whippets.

I don't think I'd want to test the Shark Shield, either.
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Postby Irock » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:23 pm

OMK Tracy, You have a whippet? I love whippets! Like mini greyhounds, so cute!
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Postby Tracy » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:29 pm

OMK Tracy, You have a whippet? I love whippets! Like mini greyhounds, so cute!
I do. She's 12 1/2. Her name is Bianca. She's the dog on my myspace.
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Postby zenmomma » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:59 am

It was only a matter of time!

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