Which do you fear more, being in a commercial airline crash or being torn to pieces by a Great White Shark?
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Funny. I think being shredded by a great white could be much more painful, but the plane diving towards the ground from 40,000 feet at 400 mph is one of my biggest fears. I have to take Valium if I fly and that's only been once since a terrible experience in 1996. I cant imagine plummeting to my death like that. If I had the choice, I think I'd choose the shark. I've heard that shark attacks happen so fast that you don't even know what is happening to you and some victims of attacks claim that they didn't feel pain until coming out of the water. I figure I'd be dead before I was mutilated.
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I'm not, but it's ok. Many people get scared of the water. Overcome the fear and you'll get over it. Even if the beach had a chance of sharks, they live farrrrr into the ocean. Just make sure you have nothing shining on and no blood dripping at on your skin and you'll be ok. (I went into oceans where sharks live there. No accidents. :) )
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Mav...\n\nNone of us were there... what appears to be real is that someone was scared.  In this situation, there are no winners, only sadness and confusion.
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Man, you got to lay off the mushrooms.  They are bad for ya.\n\nDon't think I'm the one to give you the answer  I believe you are wanting.  I'll give the answer as it applies to me.\n\nThe scars in my heart are a part of me I don't want to change, they make me stronger, therefore the sharks are no more than a imagined danger, they shall not harm me.\nIf the ocean is all the tears I cried, it's one with me, for it is my compassion and sorrow, my joys and my self pity.  It is my road to greater things or ruin, it's my choice.\nPain is controlible, just lets you know you are still alive, rejection is just a fear of pain.  They separate me only if I choose to allow them.\nLastly, If I'm a boat, then my sails are my hopes and dreams and the wind is my fate.  I shall ride the winds wherever they shall take me, for no ocean is endless, beyond every island is another, nothing is forever and the only thing that holds me back is being afraid to raise my hopes to the wind to see where it takes me.
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Fear and peace at the same time.\nThey let me go into a hospital room with my two-weak-old son to say goodbye because they thought he would die during the airlift to another hospital.  I had both these feelings because I'm human and he was my baby, yet I was praying and something in me knew he'd be alright. \n\nGood news...he's healthy happy and 10 now : )
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Depends how hard i'd be tortured. No, I changed me mind. I'd so rather live. It might give me a new aspect on life - though I'd be traumatized as hell! One of my WORST fears is getting kidnapped.
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I am more of a turkey when my worst fears come home to roost. It puts me in a fowl mood. It makes me want to pick up my drum stick and just beat it.
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sharks are really not as dangerous as there reputations shows them to be.  more people are killed by flying toilet seats every year than sharks while we kill over 100 MILLION sharks every year.  Now to answer your question, there is no real set of rules but there are guidelines you should follow\n1. don't swim alone\n2. always keep your eye on the shark\n3. do not wear jewelry or anything else shiny\n4. try to avoid the colors orange or yellow\n5. don't panic
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That's hard.  One of two equally good choices:  a) flying fish cause then you get to swim and fly or b) a puffer fish cause you look all innocent and then BAM! you puff up and stick a needle in some shark's eye.
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Aside from having people close to me die and die myself, I have two biggest fears that I have not overcome yet and don't plan on it. I hope to be scared of them forever. But,\n1) Falling in front of a lot of people. At my graduation it was about 1,500 people in attendance and I had on 3.5 inch heels praying to God I didn't trip and/or fall in front of all of them.\n2) Being on a date with a guy who goes temporarily insane and tries to kill me and go somewhere deserted and dump me or tie my hands and feet tape my mouth and drop me in some large body of water.
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hello yahoo pal,\n\n    \n  The fear of sharks has been fueled by a few rare instances of unprovoked attack, such as the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916, and by sensationalized fiction and film, such as the Jaws series. The creater of the Jaws phenomenon, Peter Benchley, has himself in recent years attempted to dispel the myth of sharks being maneating monsters. In 2005 there were worldwide a total of 58 unprovoked attacks of which 4 were fatal [2]. Several hundred people die annually from lightning strikes and 1.3 million people die from diseases transmitted via mosquito bites.\n\n \nSnorkeler with Blacktip Reef Shark.Contrary to popular belief, only a few sharks are dangerous to humans. Out of more than 360 species, only 4 have been confirmed to have killed appreciable numbers of humans in unprovoked attacks: the Great White, Tiger, Bull, and Oceanic Whitetip sharks. These sharks, being large, powerful predators perfectly capable of eating humans, may sometimes attack and kill people, but all of the above sharks, even the Great White, have been filmed in open water, with no cage [3], time and time again, without incident.\n\nThere are many theories about why sharks sometimes attack people. Some claim that the shark is confusing a human for a seal or other prey animal; this would be typical in the case of an attack against a surfer. This is because the shape of a surfer lying on a board closely resembles a seal from beneath the surface. Also, sharks have sensory organs on their nose to pick up electrical signals, such as movement. Often the shark that attacks a human will make only one bite and then go away. This behaviour has many possible explanations, one being that humans don't taste good (or at least, as good), or are lacking the necessary fat, and another being that sharks normally make one swift attack, and then retreat and wait for the victim to die, or exhaust itself, before it comes back to feed. This protects the shark from retribution from a wounded and aggressive target, but also allows humans the time to get out of the water and survive. Another theory is that the electrical receptors, which pick up movement, do not pick up the same signals from a wounded human as they would a wounded seal, and so they are more cautious. In fact, it has recently been shown that surfers do not give off the same electrical signals as seals, or it is thought there would be far more attacks.\n\n \nContrary to popular belief the Great White Shark does not target humans as prey.A number of other species (perhaps 10 - 15) have threatened, attacked, and/or bitten, but not killed large numbers of humans without being obviously provoked. This group contains the Mako, Hammerhead, Gray Reef, Black Tip Reef, Lemon, Silky and Blue sharks. These sharks are also large, powerful predators which can be provoked simply by being in the water at the wrong time and place, but they are normally considered less dangerous to divers and swimmers than the previous group. In most cases, if a person moves away calmly, or remains still, they will be ignored. Many shark species are known to "display" when feeling threatened, and it is ill-advised to remain in the vicinity at such a time as this would generally be considered enough provocation to warrant an attack.\n\nA few other shark species do attack people every year, producing wounds that can potentially kill, but this occurs either specifically because they have been provoked, or through mistaken identity due to water conditions or the like.\n\n[edit]\nSpeed\nIn general, sharks swim ("cruise") at an average speed of 8 kilometers (5 miles) per hour, but when feeding or attacking, the average shark reaches speeds upwards of 19 kilometers (12 miles) per hour. One exception to this generality is the Mako shark, whose speed may range upwards of 48 kilometers (30 miles) per hour. The Mako shark is considered to be the fastest shark and one of the fastest fish. Also the Great White Sh
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Physical stress.\n\nThe first commercial jet airliner (the British-made Comet) had some accidents that were traced to the larger square/rectangular windows that were used...this forced a redesign - which other manufacturers copied for safety reasons.
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YES!!!! I am sooooo scared. I live about a mile from the ocean and I'm freaked out. My family and i went to fly kites at the beach over Easter and i was horrified cause the waves were so big (I've been scared ever since that huge tsunami) I had to be reassured the whole time.lol
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Iam afraid  for my children , like you said spiders, snakes , bugs , fish (gross me out  being slimmie ) , guns   ,  knives  certain  guys , dying ,  people  that drive  crazy that cause's a wreck !  i don't know why !!
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I don't know, it all depends on the type of person you are. I personally would say fighting. Fighting has the build up of anger, triggering the adrenaline, then the flying fists to satisfy the burning anger inside you.\n\n Skydiving, the build up, the fear of taking a jump about to die, and plummetting towards the earth with things flying past you at a million miles an hour, then the eagerness to open the parachute, and finding out that your parachute won't open, then the panicking that it won't open... then finally getting it to open, and the jolt as you slow down and float down to the ground.\n\n((Okay, so maybe skydiving. ^_~ hehe~ Mah! who knows man?))
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Surviving an experience that almost killed you.  You were "near death".
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It's kind of a moot question since neither can fight each other in reality.  The tiger would definitely be out of his element in the ocean and would either be outclassed or drown.  On land, the shark would just flop around while it was being eaten alive maybe snapping at the tiger now and again.  If both animals were able to live in both environments, I would have to pick the shark.  On land, the shark's skin and body fat would protect him from the tiger's claws and superficial bites.  I say superficial because the tiger wouldn't be able to get his small mouth around anything on a shark but the fins.  In the ocean, the shark's superior swimming ability would simply leave the tiger in the dust or should I say a cloud of blood.  What do you think?