There I was fretting about a few seals, and now I learn that Totesport is offering odds of 25-1 that a great white shark will be caught off British shores in 2007.
See www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/25521/surf-news.htm for the story, which comes just over a week after a serious attack near Melbourne, Australia. Peter Galvin, a 25-year-old Australian surfer, suffered repeated bites to his leg as he sat in the line-up, before managing to fight off the shark. For years, I've delighted in the fact that shark attacks off the British Isles are about as likely as snow in the Sahara, but Totesport's odds suggest I shouldn't take anything for granted. And this scary video offers another reminder that as surfers, we're only ever guests of the seals, sharks and whales whose waters we play in. Even, as here, when the action is taking place in a swimming pool.
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