Where's Daniel? I wait all year for Shark Week

Considering that the water was about a foot deep, and there were places downstream where it spread out and was a few inches deep, with waterfalls here and there, and hundreds of miles from salt water, I was far more afraid of bunnies than of sharks.

 

Yeah, those mountain bunnies can be vicious.
Welcome back, Daniel.

 

I was originally going to make a snarky a comment about Danial only having to worry about man-eating snakeheads, but...


"Initially, scientists thought the sharks in [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nicaragua"]Lake Nicaragua[/ame] belonged to an [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemism"]endemic[/ame] species, the Lake Nicaragua shark (Carcharhinus nicaraguensis). In 1961, following comparisons of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specimen"]specimens[/ame], the Lake Nicaragua shark was synonymized with the bull shark.[12] It had been presumed that the sharks were trapped within the lake, but this was found to be incorrect in the late 1960s, when it was discovered that they were able to jump along the rapids of the San Juan River (which connects Lake Nicaragua and the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Sea"]Caribbean Sea[/ame]), almost like [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon"]salmon[/ame].[13] As evidence of these movements, bull sharks tagged inside the lake have later been caught in the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ocean"]open ocean[/ame] (and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases:_V"]vice versa[/ame]), with some taking as little as 7-11 days to complete the journey.[12]
Bull sharks have been caught approximately 900 miles up the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River"]Mississippi River[/ame], and have been observed approximately 2,500 miles up the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River"]Amazon River[/ame].[14]"


[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark"]Bull shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Since Dave mentioned bull shark attack on camera, and I just came across it.
"Recently, Ritter concluded that the attack was provoked by a piece of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chum"]chum[/ame] that had been thrown away from him, but was taken by a [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remora"]remora[/ame] and brought back in his direction. The remora caused the bull sharks to get excited and swirl up the sand. In the resulting cloud of sand, one of the sharks bit him."

 

But not Nebraska.

 

That is how you can avoid them. :madgrin:

 

Hey, guys, the stream I fell down in was too shallow to reach a shark's gills. I landed on my stomach and my face was not even in the water. The shark would have needed legs and would have had to walk at least a hundred miles to get there. And it was so narrow that if there had been a well-placed stone, I'd have only had to step on one instead of two, to get across.