Risk Assessment: A Surfer Was Just Killed By A Shark In Santa Cruz. A Good Friend Surfs There

Greetings,

Often, I just don't know when to "worry" people and when to alert them to potentially important information.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8305151/PICTURED-Married-surfer-26-killed-shark-attack-Northern-California-beach.html  

Realistically (and I think statistics will bear me out) I doubt another Santa Cruz surfer will be attacked by a shark in many a year... if not decades.

In the last 40 years, nine people have been killed by sharks along California's entire coastline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_California

We terrorize ourselves in those domains where we are most viscerally triggered - "facts" be damned.

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