Cancun shark attack?

I just had to search about this if there were any shark attacks recorded on Cancun at any time. I came across this article about a Canadian woman that eventually lost her arm which was badly damaged after the shark attack, plus her struggle to walk again. This is just a preliminary article on the ordeal. It goes through my mind whenever I go swimming in the ocean. Cancun being so blue with excellent visibility, I looked around good before going in the water, and went wherever there were plenty of swimmers. Never go far out alone and never go in in the evening or morning hours. When sharks feed. Sometimes this doesn't work. This lady was in waste deep water.

Cancun shark attack victim on the mend

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By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY


http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanag...-community.jpg Shark attacks are rare in Mexico.


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By OMAR TORRES, AFP/Getty Images

The Canadian tourist who was the victim of a shark attack in the waters off Cancun earlier this week is "in remarkably high spirits," according to a report in the Ottawa Citizen.
Contrary to early news accounts, the woman, Nicole Ross, 38, of Orangeville, Ontario, did not lose an arm in the attack. However, she did suffer severed muscles and tendons in her lower leg, forearm and hand, according to the medical facility in Cancun where she was taken.
The attack occurred after Ross went into shallow water after playing a game of beach volleyball, media reports say. A lifeguard pulled her to safety.
A doctor at the Cancun hospital called the attack "exceptional" for Cancun. Shark attacks are rare in Mexico. The News agency Notimex reported a shark attack near Cancun in 2008 that killed a local man. In 2008, two swimmers died on the Pacific coast near Zihuatanejo.

Gee, I sure don't want to be the rare exception in this type of scenario!!
"Gaze at ocean, swim in pool" is my other motto

totally agree mrs767... i hate sand

When you enter the ocean, you enter the food chain and not necessarily at the top.
--Jacques Cousteau
*wink*

Not only the ocean. This applies to safari trips. You are not the top of the food chain there either.

Yes, we take a chance anytime we go in the water. I remember snorkeling out on the islands, once on the TANAPAG CHANNEL, where recently, a Japanese diver saw a Tiger Shark tearing up a turtle. I was checking out a downed WWII Japanese Zero of WWII. Another time, I would snorkel off of Apra Harbor on Guam, to see the prop of the ship, was told that there were sharks in the harbor by the launch driver that he had seen them before. I never saw any thank God. I can tell you other times and places I have dove into the waves on the beaches, places such as Panama, Acapulco, the Pacific, the North Atlantic off of Massachusetts, the caribbean, even in Iwo Jima. Anytime I could have had a piece bitten off of me. All it would take is the sensation of pain, followed by red water, and lots of freakin out.

My friend went on safari and they camped out in tents. She went to the bathroom one night and just saw a pair of eyes looking at her... who knows what it was. No f***ing way would I be camping on safari ever.