Booty Shirt, or Tin Can
Will Satisfy Hungry Shark
(2
BON
appetite/^
New Haven (AP) If a shark
rankers tor a hunk of your leg,
throw him an old boot Or a shirt,
or tin cans, or whatever comes
handy. It will satisfy his appetite.
* This helpful hint is contained
n1n a recent book, "Fishes of ihe
"Western North Atlantic/' published
the Sears Foundation for Ma
' fine Research at Yale* University's
Bingham Oceanographic Labora
tory.
It adds that, contrary to popular
belief, attempts to drive a shark
away by blows or by splashing
water "are likely to be futile" if
the man in the water is bleeding.
The book, first of a series, deals
with the most primitive forms of
joshes, including sharks, lancelets,
lampreys, and hagfishes. The series
is designed to bring together all
.the results of scientific study of
the last 50 years of various fishes.
, There are 225 to 250 known spc
cies of sharks, it goes on. But most
are either too small, too lazy, to
weakly armed or live too deep to
bother man.
But there are numerous "prover- '
hiaJIy voracious" sharks that at
tack man, including the white
shark ("beyond question the most
dangerous"), the tiger shark, lem-|
on shark, and larger hammerhead
sharks. The fiercer of the larger
ones get excited by blood in the
water, and then will attack fish,
whales or man. About half of Aus
tralia's shark attacks have ended
fatally.
i
"To class sharks 'harmless' as a
group, as some authors have done,
; is contrary to all the weight of evi
dence. On the other hand, the dan
ger of attack to the ordinary bath
( er is very small indeed, except in
special localities and under special
conditions."
Covering The Waterfront
By Ay cock Brown
Bodie Island. N. C. The keeper's
house at the lighthouse here has
been abandoned which adds to the
loneliness one feels while driving
fjver the crooked sand road (mark
cd "Private Property Keep Off")
lliat leads from the new paved
"highway between Nags Head and
Oregon Inlet. The keeper's resi
dence is abandoned because Bodie
Island lighthouse like most of those
along the coast today has been
made automatic.
Upkeep of the beacon and power
plant which cuts the light in the
tower on and off at dawn and twi
light is now the job of the Coast |
Guard at Nags Head station >everal
miles up the beach. What will hap- j
pen to the well built keeper's house
is anybody's guess. Sometimes the !
government (owner of such prop !
erties) offers same for sale to be
come clubhouses, summer cottages
or permanent residences. Maybe
that has already been done with
the keeper's house at Bodie Island,
but the new owner, if there is one,
is surely not taking very good care
of the property. The doors are un
locked and inside the rooms are
vacant. The grass has grown high
in the yard and the fence which
once surrounded the house and
light house is now partially down
or hidden from view by the white
and red myrtles which form sort
of a jungle around the properties.
Bodie Island lighthouse is one of
six along the 320 miles of ocean
front on the North Carolina coast
today. Each of the lights have their
own individuality. Corolla on Cur
rituck Beach is the site of a brick
structure, dull red or natural in
color. The tower here when seen
by mariners during daylight is dis
tinguished by its white and black!
horizontal stripes. Cape Hatleras,
some 40 miles south of Bodie Is
land, is identified by its black and
white spiral stripes. Ocraeoke, j
where the tower is now having its
face lifted, is a 75 foot high solid
white tower. Cape Lookout at the
lower tip of Core Banks has black
and white diamonds and Cape Fear
is a skeleton-steel structure.
The present tower here, 163 feet
high, is not the original Bodia Is
land lighthouse. The first, a brick
structure, was built 2,800 feet south
of the present tower in 1848? the
same year a great storm opened
an inlet that was to be named Ore
gon. The original tower, like many
others along the coast was destroy
ed during the Civil War. At about
the same time the original struc
ture here was destroyed Fort Ore
gon had been established at the
inlet for the duration of the war.
The present lighthouse was erec
ted in 1872. Its beacon, 160,000
candlepower, can be seen 19 miles
seaward on a clear night. While
the present Bodie Island lighthouse
was under construction five sailing
vessels were wrecked nearby. Since
that time there have been few
shipwrecks close by Bodie Island,
which speaks well for the warning
service, the beacon has given. The
new highway passes about 1/2 mile
east of the structure and now mo
torists visiting Oregon Inlet can
get a closeup view of the 183-foot
tower.
A murrelet. ancient species of
small water bird that lives in the
far north, was recently found near
Bend, Ore. It was the first of the
species ever to be reported alive
in Oregon.
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