2001: The Summer of the Sharks

The summer of 2001 has been named "The Summer of the Sharks", but nobody knows why! There were no more attacks than in other years, some even say there were less! But the news was crawling with sharks, and shark attacks in 2001.  I am only mentioning the most well known attacks.
    The first attack of the summer was on July 6th.

Jesse Arbogast was 8-years-old when swimming with his Uncle near Pensacola, Florida. Jesse's arm was grabbed by a 200 pound, 7' Bull shark. His arm was severed. Jesse's Uncle grabbed the shark, and dragged in onto the beach. Help was called.
    A park ranger came. He ended up shooting, and killing the shark. After the shark was dead, he reached in, and pulled out Jesse's arm. Jesse was brought to the hospital, where his arm was reattached.
    Today Jesse is happily living with his parents, though he suffers from brain damage, and inability to control his limbs because of the attack.

The second Shark attack was in the Bahamas, shortly after Jesse's misfortune.

Krishna Thompson and his wife AveMaria were at the Bahamas for their anniversary.  Krishna decides to go to the beach as soon as possible, but his wife remembers all the news about sharks, and decides to just go to the hotel pool instead.  Krishna goes into the water, knowing how unlikely it is that he'll get attacked.  A few minutes later he was in the jaws of a bull shark. 
    The bull shark nearly severed his leg, and Krishna knew the only way he was going to have a chance of surviving was to get to the beach.  Swimming with only his arms, Krishna reached the beach.  A few people ran up to him, and asked if he was a guest at the hotel.  On Shark Week he says he wrote his room number in the sand.
    When the hotel staff got the news they rushed to find AveMaria.  On Shark Week she says she thought it was going to be something in continuation of their nice anniversary weekend.  When she got to the beach she saw him lying in the sand, almost dead.  He survived his ordeal with the bull shark also, but he does not suffer from any brain damage, though has had to go through lots of surgery to save his leg.

Later on September 1st a boy died after being attacked on Virginia Beach..

David Peltier, 10-years-old, was attack while surfing with his Dad, and two brothers.  The Shark grabbed David by his leg, severing the femoral artery.  David's father punched the shark several times before the shark let go, and swam away.  David's father got him to the beach and called for help.  David was brought to a children's hospital, where he later died.

Just two days after David was attacked, and killed, a man, and his fiance were attacked on September 3rd.

Natalia Slobodskaya, and Sergei Zaloukaev, were swimming together in Virginia, close to where David was attacked.  Natalia felt something bump her, and at first thought it was some of her friends, trying to scare her.  It bit her a few times, and Sergei told her that it was a shark, and told her to swim fast. 
    They started to swim back to shore together, the whole time the shark was attacking.  Natalia lost a foot, but Sergei had it much, much worse.  A few days after the attack Natalia was told by her mother that Sergei had not survived the ordeal.
    Natalia, and Sergei were going to be leaving the USA within days to go back to Moscow, where they lived.

A few days after Natalia learned that Sergei had died the Summer of the Sharks was ended with a bang, with the 9/11 terrorist attack.



This is my "2001 - Summer of the Sharks" page :)

Short Storys.

Funny/odd/almost-creepy story from competition.  Meep did a Solo to the song "Mad World".  There were two other Mad worlds at the competition.  The other two were groups.  But, really people?!  Apparently it really is a mad world! XP

By the way........ Have I mentioned my AMAZING idea for a Halloween costume (I know, right on subject :P)?  VICTIM OF A FATAL SHARK ATTACK! It's going to be amazing.  I will post pictures.  I'll get a black wet suit (maybe? O.O), and put fake skin, and red syrup kind of stuff on my legs and arms so it looks like I've been chewed to bits! :D  Then I'll mess up my hair, and draw scratches on my face.  Maybe I'll have a fake hand, and I'll just drop it in somebodies candy bowl!! XD It'll be awesome, if I can do it. :)  I will also put white powered on my face, and in my hair, so I'll look like a ghost! I don't care if it's March, and I already know what I'm going to be for Halloween. -.-  I started looking for a costume on LAST Halloween! It's my favorite holiday.... I like Halloween better than Christmas, or Easter! Also, you don't get as much candy on any other holiday! As if I needed another reason for Halloween to be my favorite holiday!

Anyway... >_>

JAWS, and what it did to me :P And some other movies...

On Netflix I was reading the rating for the movie JAWS.  All, but one, of the ratings were 5-stars.  When I told my Mom I got the response: "Are you serious?  That movie sucked!" To which I said, "I love that movie! It's a great movie! It started my horror-creature feature-shark-fish(actually King started my fish phase...)-man-eating animal movie phase!!" And now, because of the movie JAWS, I want to be a Marine Biologist, and my two favorite movies are Zombieland, and Black Water.  Black Water is about a man-eating crocodile, and is based on true events!!! Zombieland is about Columbus, and Tallahassee(<3), and zombies(amazing, huh?)!  Anyway, if it weren't for JAWS I never would've found: Black Water, Croc, Blue Demon, Piranha, Shark Attack, Shark Attack in the Mediterranean, Man-eater(haven't watched... Yet), Razor tooth(That movie scared me soo bad! Though the special effects were worse than JAWS :), or any other AMAZING creature feature movie! (My favorite genre, by the way.)  It actually wasn't JAWS' fault I like Zombieland.  The blame for Zland can be given to my Dad for renting "28 Weeks Later" which was a pretty good movie.  Though it's "other half" "28 Days Later" was awful.  Both were about Zombies, in case you didn't get that.  Of coarse, I found some other Zombie movies that look good, but the day I went to watch one it wasn't a play it now on Netflix, which made me :(.  Then I was going to watch the Resident Evil movies, and those aren't play-it-nows anymore either.  :(  THEN I decided to watch Anaconda (I already love snakes ;P), and guess what.  The first one isn't a play-it-now..... Netflix lost a fan.  Actually, not really, because River Monsters Season 2 is up now! Netflix made me mad... OK, I'll stop complaining about Netflix's play-it-now choices.  Speaking of netflix..... I haven't finish River Monsters season two yet! :O
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Meg 1995

Hello readers of Disaster Spot!!!! For those of you who did not read the comments on my last post, I changed my profile picture, and my display name. I apparently, have started doing book and movie reviews on my blog!! Only Disaster themed though!!

I am reading a book, or I should says was, it is a kind of difficult book, so I took a break from it, but that was a few years a go, I don't think I was ready for it then, but anyway.

It's called "Meg: A novel of Deep Terror" By: Steve Alten. Very close in subject to "Jaws". In Meg, there is a Giant Carcharodon Megalodon, also called "Meg". In the AMAZINGLY AWESOME prologue a T.Rex gets caught in the water and is eaten by the "Meg". In this book a "Navy deep-sea submersible pilot" Named Jonas Taylor, goes on a top-secret mission to the "Mariana trench". The Megalodon in the book is a 70ft. 60,000 lb. Great-white-Shark. This species of shark is supposed to have died off with the dinosaurs, in the book, there are still some living. And the most interesting part of this book, is that it Could contain some truth, Carcharodon Megalodon could still be living today, in the deepest parts of the ocean. Like the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the entire ocean. Oceanographers, Scientists, Palaeontologists, and other shark, and prehistoric experts, believe that the Carcharodon Megalodon may still be alive today, in the deepest parts of the ocean, and most ocean trenches a round the world. The most asked question is: How has a Shark that big hidden itself for millions of years, without any humans noticing?? The best answer seems to be, no humans have gone any where near the bottom of the trench. Some scientist believe, that the Meg(s) have hidden closer to the bottoms of these trenches, so no humans have ever seen them. Megalodons eat whales and dolphins, Megalodons could go out of their trenches for a few minutes to catch a meal, then take their meal home. Or whales and dolphins might end up in the trenches somehow. Well, from what I have read in the beginning..... It sounds like a good book.

Well, Keep Reading and Researching!!!!!

Jaws 1975

FREAKY!!!!! Hello readers of Disaster Spot!! I'm just doing a short post right now, because I am watching the movie Jaws. I believe this movie is Rated PG, I don't think that's the greatest rating ever...... not for this movie, but fans a Disaster will love it!! But, be warned before you watch it..... In this movie, there is a LOT of blood, and other stuff, i'm not going to mention on my blog, it's very...... Ick...... That's(Sadly) the best word I have for this movie, anyway......

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US vs. Austalia Shark attacks of 1997

Hello! Welcome back to Disaster Spot. And for those of who are new, Welcome!! This is the first, "From the Readers of Disaster Spot" post, and I'm very excited! So the Disastrous request ;) for a post was: How many shark attacks were in Austalia vs. the US. And to keep to the Focus Year, I decided to see how many people were attacked in Austalia in 1997 vs. how any people were attacked in the US, here we go!

Every year worldwide there are about 70-100 shark attacks. And 5-15 deaths caused by sharks each year. In 1997 we know that there were 25 shark attacks just of the coast of the 50 states. In Australia in 1997, there were 8 Shark attacks. Much fewer then in the US, but then again, the US is also bigger then Australia. I hope some people think this was a good question, and will do a little extra research on it.

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Shark attacks of 1997

Hello! For those of you who have visited before, welcome back to Disaster Spot! For you newbies to Disaster Spot, welcome! Today I am posting about The shark attacks of 1997. The total Shark attacks of 1997 in the USA is 25, all of the encounters were..... Painful..... None deadly.
In Hawaii 3 different people were attacked.
1 in California. 1 on gulf of Mexico side of Florida. 1 in Texas. 17 on the Atlantic ocean side of Florida!! 2 of the Coast of South Carolina. There is a post on the Shark attack Survivors website, about 29-year-old Scott Yerby, he was attacked by a great-white shark of the coast of California. In 1997, obviously. In the post it says, by the time the Ambulance got Mr. Yerby to the hospital, he had lost almost half the blood in his body, and was close to dieing. For the whole story go to:
The S.A.S website.

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