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  • Selfies vs Shark Attacks: Which Are More Deadly for Travelers?

    4/28/2016 1:18:28 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment

    Written by Calder Quinnand Brad Rickman

    September 16, 2015

    This has been the summer of shark attacks, from the North Carolina coast to the waters of Australia. And sharks can be dangerous, even lethal. But not, it turns out, as lethal as that ubiquitous travel pastime, the selfie.

    We've been overrun this summer with stories of man-eating sharks. A barrage of attacks off the coast of North Carolina; a televised strike on star surfer Mick Fanning in South Africa; assaults in the waters of Australia, California, Florida, and Maui. Limbs have been lost. There've been (occasional) fatalities. The stories play to deeply seated fears, invoking, as they do, cultural touchstones like Jaws and Discovery's Shark Week that may be a symptom of those fears but, all the same, mostly just amplify our terror.

    We love to be afraid of sharks.

    Believe it or not, though, shark attacks have been far less dangerous to travelers in 2015 than one tourist activity that, for most of us, hits about as far from fearsome as gummy bears.

    We're talking about the selfie.

    Let's look at the numbers. Through August of this year, there've been eight confirmed shark-related deaths. In those same eight months, the number of selfie-related deaths reached at least ten. And those are just the ones easily tracked. According to Reuters, the Russian Interior Ministry reacted to "dozens" of selfie deaths and injuries early this year with a series of (slightly bizarre — see below) warnings. Deaths from bridge falls, hand grenade explosions, shots to the head, bison gorings — it's been enough that the European Union, in June, actually proposed the criminalization of certain types of selfies: namely, those containing landmarks like the Eiffel Tower or Rome's Trevi Fountain.

    So, yes: sharks are scary. But (as some of us have been saying) the selfie stick is your real enemy. Beware.

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