The recent string of shark attacks at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt were believed to be over.  Two sharks were caught, and authorities said the hunt was over, the attacks would stop, and that the killer sharks were caught.  They reopened the beaches and ushered the tourists back into the waves.  However, just like the movie Jaws, the attacks aren’t over, authorities hadn’t caught the shark responsible, and no, it’s NOT safe in the waters off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh.  The shark that mauled four tourists last week has killed again.

Even the experts are describing the killings, and the killer, as eerily similar to Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller.  “In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person,” said Samuel Gruber, shark expert  at Miami’s Bimini Biological Field Station.  “Then for it to happen the next day is almost like a Jaws scenario.”

Well, that’s what happens when you’re more concerned about tourist dollars and less concerned about tourist lives.  Some poor 70-year-old German gets mauled to death by a killer shark, and nobody knows how to stop it.  I think it’s time to put up some of those anti-shark electric fences, don’t you?

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