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"The tiger shark is a deadly predator. It is a solitary hunter that will eat anything it can get down its throat-including other sharks," (Wildlife Fact-File" Our family lives a few minutes drive from Lake Erie in north-eastern Ohio. We are seeing more and more boats on the lake and in marinas. Why? Some say it is because of their fear of sharks and on the lakes boaters can be more relaxed. As I view the world map where sharks are, we as a family have visited many of the spots and our daughter lives minutes from the Pacific in Orange County. Sharks are an interest to our family and to many others. If their not, they better get informed before going on their next vacation if they are ocean lovers.

Ignorance can be a bliss but not when it comes to shark attacks. Humans are going in areas in our times that they never went before so we are more at danger. It is exciting and adventurous to go exotic places as we see our adrenal go up but this passion can get us in a lot of trouble. Most we can avoid. Risk can be minimized. Life is risk and the more exciting your life is the more risk you face. A no risk life is being dead.

I never saw a shark until I went to an aquariam in the US. I can't believe how ignorant I was. So were the people around me during my first decade of my life in Italy as well as all the times I returned there and throughout Europe. I do not remember the word shark being in the Italian vocabulary neither when I was a child or all times I was there during the 60's or 70's. Neither was it in all the countries I traveled in Europe. Nor was it in the Canary Islands or Morocco. Yet the beaches were generally packed and you could barely swim in the water without bumping into someone. Boats were all over full of people.

Sharks are not as common in the European beaches according to the map I'm viewing from the Wildlife Fact-File but there have been attacks during the time I was there and throughout history. This of course I learned or started paying attention to after all the beaches I went to and islands I visited in Europe, Africa, or the Holy Land. Not one word about sharks anywhere in the Holy Land. Perhaps the sharks are not there.

Florida is definitely a place where sharks are but I do not recall one word about sharks in all the spring breaks from college during the 60's. The beaches were packed and we never paid attention how far we went in the Atlantic. The only conclusion I can come to is that I was just plain lucky to not be where the sharks were

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