You're stranded in the ocean for 1 week - dehydration or shark - more likely cause of death?

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10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:04pm EDT

re: Keith Stone

Keith Stone wrote:
packmann wrote:
Purely your opinion without providing any facts/sources.
A well informed opinion, so to buttress that opinion with some facts sharks feed where there's other prey, which is mostly shallow(er) water. So if you're out there for a week, you're not close to anything, and thus not where sharks are likely to feed. Sharks also don't spend much time (or feed much) in cold water, and there's more places with cold water than warm that are also in shark likely shallow water.
Also, a shark attack assumes you're in the water as opposed to on top of or in something floating. Floating in salt water you're not going to last a week so you'll dehydrate and drown before a shark finds you, and if you're in a life-raft or similar you're unlikely to be attacked by a shark.
You have to look at the odds, sharks primarily feed on things besides humans so they hang out where those things are. Hundreds of thousands of people swim in waters with sharks in them every year but only a handful are attacked. So unless you are stranded in an area that already has a shark in it they're not likely to stumble upon you.

Well said - though far more than he deserved.

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:06pm EDT

re: blue pen

blue pen wrote:
Am I the only one thinking that dehydration isn't an option, unless you want it to be? You're floating on the f***ing ocean!

Yes.

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:09pm EDT

re: Recognizer of Brilliance

Recognizer of Brilliance wrote:
Keith Stone wrote:
This ^

A well informed opinion, so to buttress that opinion with some facts sharks feed where there's other prey, which is mostly shallow(er) water. So if you're out there for a week, you're not close to anything, and thus not where sharks are likely to feed. Sharks also don't spend much time (or feed much) in cold water, and there's more places with cold water than warm that are also in shark likely shallow water.

Also, a shark attack assumes you're in the water as opposed to on top of or in something floating. Floating in salt water you're not going to last a week so you'll dehydrate and drown before a shark finds you, and if you're in a life-raft or similar you're unlikely to be attacked by a shark.

You have to look at the odds, sharks primarily feed on things besides humans so they hang out where those things are. Hundreds of thousands of people swim in waters with sharks in them every year but only a handful are attacked. So unless you are stranded in an area that already has a shark in it they're not likely to stumble upon you.[/quote]

579 men not in shallow water were killed in this horrific attack:

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/about-this-show/worst-shark-attack.htm

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:13pm EDT

re: I love sharks

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:30pm EDT

re: Sally Vixxxxxens

Sally Vixxxxxens wrote:
Recognizer of Brilliance wrote:
A well informed opinion, so to buttress that opinion with some facts sharks feed where there's other prey, which is mostly shallow(er) water. So if you're out there for a week, you're not close to anything, and thus not where sharks are likely to feed. Sharks also don't spend much time (or feed much) in cold water, and there's more places with cold water than warm that are also in shark likely shallow water.
Also, a shark attack assumes you're in the water as opposed to on top of or in something floating. Floating in salt water you're not going to last a week so you'll dehydrate and drown before a shark finds you, and if you're in a life-raft or similar you're unlikely to be attacked by a shark.
You have to look at the odds, sharks primarily feed on things besides humans so they hang out where those things are. Hundreds of thousands of people swim in waters with sharks in them every year but only a handful are attacked. So unless you are stranded in an area that already has a shark in it they're not likely to stumble upon you.

579 men not in shallow water were killed in this horrific attack:

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/about-this-show/worst-shark-attack.htm

[/quote]

That has been proven a hoax.

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:36pm EDT

re: blue pen

blue pen wrote:
Am I the only one thinking that dehydration isn't an option, unless you want it to be? You're floating on the f***ing ocean!

well besides the fact that saltwater will kill you faster, maybe

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:39pm EDT

re: use the facts

Some people drink saltwater in ultras.

10 years ago 03/13/2014 4:59pm EDT

re: dalles

dalles wrote:
That has been proven a hoax.

The Indianapolis wasn't a hoax, but the area it was torpedoed wasn't "open sea". It was in an area not unlike the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic so there was plenty there besides humans for sharks to feed on. Sharks didn't show up because of the wreck, they were already there.

Even with the sharks being there already most of the men didn't die of shark attacks. The Indianapolis actually reinforces the idea you're more likely to die of something else. Even though quite a few died of a shark attack, most either died of dehydration or injuries suffered in the explosion.

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