How bad was your shark bite?

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Jan 28, '10 · 10:32 AM1,569

University of Florida News - UF surgeons, research biologists create scale to grade shark bite severity

Hope you didn't get a level V.

...compiling the total score using the SIT assessment indicates the level of bite severity as outlined in the newly created five-level grading system. ?If it?s just an extremity and it?s an abrasion, it?s just a Level I injury,? Lentz said. ?If a shark comes up and takes a big bite out of a thigh and takes out the femoral artery, then that?s a life-ending bite ? pretty quickly ? and you are talking about a Level V injury.?...

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Beach Fanatic

Jan 28, '10 · 11:04 AM#2

Ah, come on... It was just a little nip! :lol:

Beach Fanatic

Jan 28, '10 · 1:01 PM#3

Ah, come on... It was just a little nip!

He was just testing you to see if you were medium or well done :floor:

Beach Fanatic

Jan 28, '10 · 1:57 PM#4

My brother got bit when we were younger. It was probably a 1, but we told the story like it was at least a 3.

SWGB

Jan 29, '10 · 8:26 PM#5

I successfully wore beef underwear into the Gulf without getting even a nibble.

AdminAuthor

Jan 30, '10 · 7:47 AM#6

I successfully wore beef underwear into the Gulf without getting even a nibble.

Congrats! You are level 0. :lol:

SoWal.com Featured Blogger

Jan 30, '10 · 8:11 AM#7

"Somedays you eat the Shark, Somedays the Shark eats you"

Old fishhead proverb

I would think that any interaction that draws blood would be called at least a 3 by the one doing the bleeding

AdminAuthor

Jan 30, '10 · 8:21 AM#8

I know someone who had a shark pass by them about 30 feet away in the gulf and several years later it is still related as a level 3.

In case you were wondering where the term "jump the shark" comes from.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE"]YouTube- Fonzie jumps the shark[/ame]