How do you feel about paying for Medivac?
For not checking the app
I hope to help you see the error of your ways 
Low probability
Better to spend your time worrying about bears 
Like I do
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Very low probability for deadly encounter with shark or bear, I am sure the odd makers can attest. Funny thing is that I have run into black bears (quite common in the northeast) while hiking and bird hunting. These bears didn’t want an encounter with me (or my bird dog). I have never encounter a shark (at least to my knowledge). So, it is a case of fear, or less of, based on the “devil” I’ve ran into vs the one I have not (to my knowledge). 
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One night in Hawaii I was diving and alone on a deco stop. The visibility was poor and some gill slits went by about two feet from my face and they were a hand widths apart. My heart almost pumped out of my chest and I left the stop a little early.
I never saw the whole fish.
God bless poor Maui 
what a tragedy.
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Being in the water with sharks is not fun at all.
I had one swim under me in Florida and it approached from the rear. We were snorkeling in the open ocean south of Key West about 15 miles from shore on a reef.
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Can someone show me a clip of an attack on a sit-inside boat that was not fishing or was not close to a dead seal?
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Black paddle looks like a seal flipper or tail?
No video but some kayakers from LA area were surfing near an oil platform and a GWS grabbed a sea kayak and thrashed it, leaving holes. Sealions do swim near the platform, but the attack was a complete surprise to very experienced ocean paddlers.
Would be speculation at best. I do know my reaction would be similar to the surf kayaker - super spooked by the first swipe and full caution (controlled panic) on the second swipe. Yup, time to get out of Dodge!!!
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Fully activated amygdala!
Yup. Watch this video. His amygdala was in overdrive.
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Yikes!
My only salt water kayaking has been in Puget Sound and around a couple of the San Juan Islands. No Great Whites there; I’ve heard that the Orcas keep them away. I enjoy your kayak surfing posts from the Boston area, but I think the Western Great Lakes offer enough excitement for me!
Also, I want to eat the fish, not the other way around!
Been close, but NOT that close. At Jenness beach/NH, was sitting outside on my waveski, scanning for the next good set coming in. About 100 yards out, a whales breaches in the incoming lines of swell. My mouth dropped! First and only time I have seen a whale.
Seals… I see them, I move away. Don’t want to get confused with shark bait. 
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