30-Jul-2007, 09:57 PM
Great white shark sighted off Cornwall! Eek!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007340903,00.html
Or was it? This is what a shark expert had to say:
'This is tabloid journalism at its worst: factually wrong, scare-mongering and sensationalistic,' shark expert Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch told DIVE. 'There is not a shred of evidence to suppose that a white shark has been spotted off Cornwall. The Sun has been grossly irresponsible in twisting quotations and publishing such easily falsified nonsense. The general public has been misinformed, people's holidays disrupted, shark conservation damaged and the struggling Cornish tourism industry affected.'
http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=3884&v=2&sp=332308698595344874332
Looks like it's safe to go for a paddle after all!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007340903,00.html
Or was it? This is what a shark expert had to say:
'This is tabloid journalism at its worst: factually wrong, scare-mongering and sensationalistic,' shark expert Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch told DIVE. 'There is not a shred of evidence to suppose that a white shark has been spotted off Cornwall. The Sun has been grossly irresponsible in twisting quotations and publishing such easily falsified nonsense. The general public has been misinformed, people's holidays disrupted, shark conservation damaged and the struggling Cornish tourism industry affected.'
http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=3884&v=2&sp=332308698595344874332
Looks like it's safe to go for a paddle after all!