This just in, from CNBC:
Despite Shark Attacks, Egypt Tourism Will Grow: Minister
Egypt is on track to meet its tourism growth targets despite a scare following a rare series of shark attacks that affected bookings, the country’s Minister of Tourism, Zoheir Garranah, told CNBC.
Half of the beaches at the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh are now open again after shark attacks that killed one and injured four had alarmed even the scientific community.
I'm very happy for the motherland and all, but is this really a smart move? The last thing we need is to be accused of Aquatic Terrorism. And personally, any nice feelings I ever had towards sharks were erased after watching people being torn limb from limb on Shark Week. But regardless of my own fears of Jaws and his many toothed cousins, did the Minister not learn anything from Finding Nemo? There are some important educational messages in there about what happens when you underestimate a shark.
Remember Bruce? The Australian shark with good intentions?
He tried and tried to believe that fish are friends, not food. Dory and Nemo were convinced that he was a changed man. And I think you know how that turned out.
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