Not Dead Yet!

Its been too long since the 1Upper came around to tell tales of grandeur and lies that is not to say that our friend Rachel has stopped her imagination from running wild. The 1Upper has gotten busy and quite frankly has gotten lazy. We apologize its has been nearly a year. But the wait is over! Read on!



JAWS


So recently Rachel has made it known that in a couple of days she will be going to Hawaii on a holiday. Rachel has said that it was always her dream to snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef in Hawaii. Now I know its been a real long time since any one of us has had third grade geography so its understandable how Rachel can get confused. I mean Australia and Hawaii are both islands in the same ocean that has to make them the same thing! But just to clarify:



Now giving Rachel the benefit of a doubt (why I dont know) she could have just meant any reef. But no, she wanted to snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef before its completely destroyed. So at least Rachel does know that the GBR is being destroyed so we give her credit for that. Going on she said her biggest problem about snorkeling is being confronted by a shark. But dont worry! Rachel's bodybuilding boyfriend and her brother have given her sage advice on the situation: "Swim next to someone smaller and weaker than her so she can swim away"

Now that we think about it if she was out snorkeling with her brother and "boyfriend" would she be the weakest one out of the three? I mean no one here claims to be an olympic swimmer of any sorts but its just simple science that a larger person would have a harder time swimming away than a smaller person given that both have the same expertise in swimming. But of course we aren't just satisfied in justifying ourselves with common sense here so we contacted a friend of ours who is an expert on marine life. We gave him the scenario presented to us and after he stopped laughing he told us "that sharks will attack at any moment without warning but they more drawn to fatty blubber (found in whales, seals)" and "sharks do not hunt in packs normally or attack the weakest animal as a lot of animals do when hunting prey"

But I thought it about a bit more, why would Rachel be scared of sharks out there? They mainly do attack seals things with a decent amount of fat...oh wait.

Either way you would think the coast guard in "Hawaii" would make sure they would only allow snorkelers in the safer areas of the reef if there is ever a threat of sharks or any other predators in the water. Maybe we are just thinking too logical, what a concept.

Hey but no one will be worry if this does happen: