“If you swim with a friend, your chances of getting eaten by a shark will drop by 50%.”
There are many benefits to having a good friend – emotional support, shared memories, someone to help move a sofa. But perhaps the most underrated perk is their ability to halve your odds of becoming shark food.
Today’s advice from the Wise Sage is both statistically reassuring and morally ambiguous: “If you swim with a friend, your chances of getting eaten by a shark will drop by 50%.”
Not because sharks are less likely to attack. Just… well, do the maths.
Of course, this isn’t an endorsement for using Dave from accounts as a human flotation device in Great White territory. But let’s face it, there’s a comfort in knowing that should a shark appear, you only need to swim faster than one person.
So next time you hit the water, remember: it’s not about trust, it’s about survival ratios.
And maybe bring someone slower.
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