Shark attacks on the Navy???

Question

Ok you hear of shark attacks everyday but I dont think iv ever heard of one on the navy and the navy are in shark waters. Why dont the Navy get attacked???

Answer 1

Re RekonDog: EVERY member of the Navy HAS to know how to swim. It's part of basic training! If they can't swim, they can't get in the Navy!

As for the shark question...they are on really big ships. The ships are much bigger than the sharks. When they actually get in the water, they are not in there all day.  

Answer 2

Because 95-percent Navy don't swim!  Marines and SEALs do the swimming, and it is the Marines that attack the sharks!  The Sharks hear on the media on their daily reports of Marine attacks!

NOTE FOR BELOW:  Where's your sense of humor!  Come on now Lizzie, everybody knows that the Navy only swam for qualification in Basic Training in Illinois.  But that was the only time!  I had to swim almost everyday in the Marines!  I've spent almost 3-years worth aboard ships to know that Navy  Sailors don't swim unless they are SARCs or SEALs!

Answer 3

they wear special spray called antidisseophobic....its made for fresh water but works with salt water.

Answer 4

  People in the Navy have one big advantage over the shark, they usually have a ship under their feet !

Answer 5

1st off Tyzeroni seems to have made up a word "antidissephobic" doesn't exist anywhere on the internet...and I know a helluva lot about sharks and I have never heard of anything like that.  Also, the navy has a lot of divers and SEALs as well so they are in the water frequently.  The low incidence of shark attacks is most like due to 1) extensive training for said divers 2) the presence of large groups of people diving together/of a big f-ing boat nearby and 3) the navy (military in general) always gets to test out any new shark repelling technology before anyone else generally.

Answer 6

I have served 20 years in the Navy, 14 years at sea.

So far the only time I have been in water was at boot camp in a swimming pool.

Answer 7

At 12:14 a.m. on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea and sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 men on board, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remainder, about 900 men, were left floating in shark-infested waters with no lifeboats and most with no food or water. The ship was never missed, and by the time the survivors were spotted by accident four days later only 316 men were still alive.

The ship's captain, the late Charles Butler McVay III, survived and was court-martialed and convicted of "hazarding his ship by failing to zigzag" despite overwhelming evidence that the Navy itself had placed the ship in harm's way, despite testimony from the Japanese submarine commander that zigzagging would have made no difference, and despite that fact that, although over 350 navy ships were lost in combat in WWII, McVay was the only captain to be court-martialed. Materials declassified years later adds to the evidence that McVay was a scapegoat for the mistakes of others.

Answer 8

1) Because sharks are our biggest allies in the war on terror.

2) There were shark attacks on navy men in WWII... look up the USS Indianapolis and the Minesweeper YMS-472.

Answer 9

Generally the Navy boys are on a boat, and not so much IN the water.

Have you ever heard of or looked in the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis?  This is a great, heart wrenching story of the ship the delivered "the bomb" in WWII.  It was sunk shortly after, but the mission was so secret that is wasn't reported missing for days.  Something like 1300 men went into shark infective waters and only 300 survied (I think the aniversery of that was in the last few weeks).  I'll try to find the link, but it is widely reported at the worst shark attack in history.

Yeah, check it out.  What a story.  I think the History Channel has a show on it.  Amazing.