Did the Sharks Get the Memo?
Belmar Jetty Brian is one of the guys I know from surfing. Some of my friends and I were out, at the end of the jetty (pictured above) when he came paddling around it and announced, "Just so you know, the reason I'm on this side, is because there are sharks on the other side of the jetty." I wondered if the sharks got the memo that, THAT was THEIR side of the jetty. We all have rationalizations. Some of us rationalize about the calories in food, the level of danger, or our impact on our loved ones. I rationalized that, even if the sharks migrated the one minute it would take for them to get from the other side of the jetty to our side, I'd be safe. I reasoned that the sharks would attack the people on smaller boards, like Brian's board, not my 9' vessel. This is because the sharks don't see people on surfboards, neither of which they consider edible. They see the silhouette of something that looks like a seal , which they cons