'Shark Week' host Forrest Galante explains why crushing beers in the ocean is a bad idea
Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante offers safety advice for beachgoers during 'Shark Week' to minimize the risk of shark encounters. His recommendations include avoiding swimming at dawn or dusk, staying away from river mouths, and never swimming alone.
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Practical safety advice from experts helps reduce human-wildlife conflict and promotes safer recreational use of coastal waters.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: "Shark Week." That annual stretch when Americans collectively gather around their TV sets to learn everything there is to know about the ocean’s apex predators and to ask ourselves why we are dumb enough to swim in the ocean in the first place. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICK But lucky for those of us who don’t want to end up the subject of a future "Shark Week" documentary, wildlife biologist, conservationist and TV host Forrest Galante has some simple advice. Galante recently joined OutKick Outdoors to talk about shark attacks, shark behavior and his upcoming Discovery special, "Alien Sharks: Untamed America." And while he stressed that the chances of having a negative shark encounter are already extremely slim, he said beachgoers can make those odds even better by using some common sense.
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