shark attack stats

[jimmysdevoted]

i found this after we were talking about me snorkeling obx again and what color gear to get......
Statistics of Shark Attacks on Divers: Clothes and Gear

[Sasha_K]

Personally, I think that report is too ambiguous and missing data: i.e.

The highest percentage of victims had no special features on their clothing, while the next highest percentage of victims had highly contrasting colors on their outfits or gear. It is possible that more of the population wears highly contrasting colors on their outfits and gear, or dive with no special features while less of the population swim with shiny features on their clothing and gear. It is possible that this is the cause of higher percentages of attacks on those divers

-- correct! Unless we are given % of divers who wear shiny vs. non shiny equipment, one can't conclude any correlation between attacks & clothes.

or:

Color of Diving Victims' Gear and Clothing
Order by Area of Color Group TABLE

These are the distributions of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors on divers' clothes when they were attacked. A very large proportion of divers who were attacked by sharks wear black gear and clothing as a primary color; however, black is probably one of the most common colors used by manufactures of dive gear. (Updated February 28, 2008)

-- correct - and unless we have exact breakdown, again there is no correlation with the number of attacks.

[DallasMarineBio]

There are also a whole litany of other variables which prevent conclusions from being drawn here with any degree of certainty, like species of shark, temperature of water, turbidity (visibility), et cetera

Also did anyone else catch that 16.4% of victims were nude!!! One in six shark attack victims is wearing nothing at all?

...also let's remember that some people just look tastier than others

[DevilDiver]

Also did anyone else catch that 16.4% of victims were nude!!! One in six shark attack victims is wearing nothing at all?

...also let's remember that some people just look tastier than others [/quote]

I will keep any further comments to myself.......