It's kinda like shark bites. Millions of people visit the North Carolina beaches every year, and the enormous majority of them never even see a shark. But this year, we had 8 people that got bitten within about a month; a number that is unprecedented in all the years that records have been kept. Yeah, that's an ocean out there, and it has sharks in it; there is always some possibility that a person could have a nasty encounter with one. What are the actual odds? I don't think anyone really knows. Most years, the sharks aren't a problem; it is far more normal to have no shark bites in a year than to have even one. But if you happened to have been at Oak Island when two people got bitten within a couple of hours, it might be hard to believe that shark bites are a rare event . . . .
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