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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 167687" data-attributes="member: 12827">Come down in my neck of the woods and you can LIVE IT all year round! Even in February, you can dive our waters, though a hood and 1/4" wetsuit is a necessity since the water drops into the upper 50's. I am absolutely fascinated by sharks, have been since I was a kid. And I can say without hesitation, having swam with them for over 3 decades, that sharks have a very ill deserved reputation, fueled in no small part by that utter fantasy movie Jaws. 95% of that movie was pure, unadulterated BS and it sparked a totally ignorant and  irrational fear and hatred of sharks that persists to this day. A shark's life consists of only 4 things; they swim, eat, poop and make baby sharks. That's it, that is their whole life. They are not the crazed man-eaters of folklore and Hollywood. We kill millions upon millions of sharks per year and there are usually less than 25 attacks by sharks per year worldwide, about only one fourth to one third of which are fatal. And most are the result of people doing dumb s**t that gets them attacked. Ok, I will get off my soapbox. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>