Saying ‘shark attack’ makes sharks feel bad

Or something.

“…Christopher Neff of the University of Sydney, Australia, and Dr. Robert Hueter, leader of Mote Marine Laboratory's Center for Shark Research in Sarasota, Fla. — the only Congressionally designated national research center in the U.S. focused on sharks — propose a new system of classification to support more accurate scientific reporting about shark interactions, along with more accurate public discussion about shark risk to swimmers and divers.”

(That is a whole bunch of words to say “We need to have a story for people to read so we can show all that tax money we get, we actually do something.”

(The researchers say unplanned human/shark interaction should be designated shark encounter, shark bite or fatal shark bite.

(Whatever.)

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