Hi, El Tiburon here. Since there were two Shark bites in Mexico last weekend and I am Mexican, I thought I'd weigh in. What you didn't hear that there were two awesome Shark parties in beaches close to Acapulco last weekend? Now you have.

This is what is left of 49-year-old American Bruce Grimes's hand. He was chomped on Saturday while surfing off Playa Linda Beach. The original report was that he lost his thumb, but this picture seems to reveal that his thumb is still there with the rest of his hand, held together with a hundred stitches.
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This is a picture of Friday's unlucky partier--21-year-old Osvaldo Mata Valdovinos, who was was jammed to death while surfing near Zihuatanejo. Sharky originally said that it was probably a Tiger Shark that took off Osvaldo's hand and broke through the bone on one of his legs that caused him to bleed to death, but new reports say that the Shark was only 6-feet-long. Hmmmm...that might bring the Bull Shark--the usual suspect--into the front running.
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One thing is sure. Unlike the response to the death of Adrian Ruiz in April, the Mexican authorities are taking a more moderate response to the Shark activity. There has yet to be another documented Shark holocaust. Of course American conservative bloggers that shall go unnamed because I don't want to help their google search results, are saying that it was only common sense to kill as many local Sharks as possible whenever there is a Shark incident. Less Sharks = Less Shark attacks, they argue. Under the same logic all Dogs should be slaughtered because they bite people all the time. If we turned this into a blog about Dog bites we would run out of server space in about two days. Oh well, it is easier to slaughter Sharks than it is to deal with the real problem--changing climate patterns that are fucking up the migratory patterns of the natural prey of Sharks and thus fucking up the migratory patterns of Sharks...oh, and the pesky issue of the tragic over-development of the coastline that is fucking up the breeding grounds of Bull Sharks, among other species, and forcing them into contact with people.

Murder! It is so much easier than using your brain.

--El Tiburon

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Two Shark incidents in two days off Mexico's Pacific coast--one dead Mexican, one American with a missing thumb--reprisals are likely. This makes the third Shark jam in the same area in a month.

The first jam was the first Shark related fatality in Pacific Mexico in over thirty years. The truly tragic thing about this is that given the ignorance of the local authorities off these beaches, there will probably be another Mexican Shark holocaust.

Friday's jam was the jammiest. Osvaldo Mata Valdovinos, a 21-year-old student was surfing near Zihuatanejo when a Shark chomped off one of his hands and took to nice chunks of his thigh. He bled out of his severed hand and foot-long hole in his thigh before help could arrive.

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Today's jam involved a 49-year-old American surfer. Information is a bit more sketchy on this one, but this surfer apparently got his thumb bitten off. He will recover. There is no information as to which species of Shark or Sharks were involved in these parties...still, we are going with Tiger Shark. A Tiger Shark has the kind of teeth that are good for severing things. Further proof that local Mexican authorities are chumps--they claim that the first fatal jam, the one in late April that spelled the end for Adrian Ruiz, involved a Grey Reef Shark. Grey Reef Shark my ass.

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Watch out for the /b/ Grey Reef Shark!

--Sharky

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It's true:

We don't really make it our business to spend our time reading the fluff pages of secondary market newspapers but our internet news searching of the keyword "Shark" keeps on pulling up the Orlando Sentinel. Wow! What a piece of shit it is? This crappy editorial comes on the heels of the artfully published Brenda Quiles letter.

This new insult to reason was squirted out by "outdoors writer" Mike Thomas and is entitled "Why shark attacks are increasing?"

Because there are more sharks!

According to what scientific data, genius?

Of course this is not the politically correct answer, which is that there are more people in the water.

"Politically correct" read: elitist intellectual.

But in fact, there are more sharks, a lot more blacktip sharks to be specific, which are responsible for most of the nip-and-run Volusia attacks. Commerical [sic] fishing for these sharks was banned in Florida waters in 1993 to increase their numbers. The ban worked.

Really? Most of the attacks in recent years have been from Spinner Sharks. Blacktips and Spinners are similar, but they are not the same. I could give the Latin binomials but that would be too "correct." And where is your data that says there are so many more Sharks today than there were before 1993?

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