Safety in Numbers ... or the Lack Thereof

Great posts! I'm reading and re-reading!

So while out surfing yesterday morning I was nudged -- well, my surfboard was, and roughly -- by what I believe to have been a sea-beast. Likely a shark, but I prefer not to dwell on it. I quickly counted the legs in the water (four, including mine), and, the odds not being in my favor, splashed my way to dry land. Now, if there had been a large network of surfers in the water, or some boogie-boarders, maybe a field trip of school kids, the likelihood that I'd be shark food would have been much lower, and I could have stayed out there and enjoyed the waves. Just another tidbit of evidence supporting the network over the lone individual.