Back in November, some friends convinced us to come along this time on vacation. We booked for this spring, destination "Sharm El Sheik" Egypt. A few weeks later, the shark attacks begin. GF is getting nervous, but I assure her this means more space on the beach, etc. by the time we get there.

Various sites are now reporting the shark has been killed by a guy accidentally, while he was drunk. If this is true I should have no problems when I drink too much while I am there:

http://www.newser.com/story/107820/drunk-kills-shark-saves-egyptian-beach-resort.html 

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These shark attacks happen so rarely. That is why you are hearing about an attack in the Red Sea, all the way in America. It feeds on our JAWS paranoia and sells copy. It is rare to happen. It was rare for this deep water species of shark to end up in the shallows of the Red Sea.

I wouldn't sweat it. I missed out on a trip to Sharm El Sheik several years ago and have regretted it since. Hear the diving is great. If you have the time, spend some coin and take a Nile cruise too. I hear they are worth it. Look up the engineering marvel it took to move the temple at Abu Simbel. When the Egyptians built it, they aligned it so the sun shone through the narrow tunnel entrance and lit the face of a Ramses statue only on one day of the year. When they removed the whole thing during the building of the Aswan Dam, they rebuilt and aligned it higher up the river such that it still shone on his face that same day.

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That sounds cool, but can they do this?
From the article:
Dragan climbed on the jumping board, told me to hold his beer, and simply ran to jump. There was no time for me to react or to try to stop him, he just went for it," a friend who was there explained. As luck would have it, Stevic landed right on the shark's headit had likely been lurking in the shallow waters waiting for a new victimkilling it instantly.

He had apparently drank so much he's now hospitalized for alcohol poisoning.

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