one time when a sixth sense helped me, my hair was cut short, buzz cut style. i was going diving in La Jolla, a dive i had done about 50 times. it's a lot of preparation, you don't back out because "it's cold" or something. anyway, Nov. 20 2002, i started swimming from La Jolla Shores. within about 5 minutes, i got this super freaked out, REALLY scared feeling that made no sense. at that part of the dive, you are often swimming through seaweed filled muck. after about 10 minutes of this wierd conversation with myself, "I'M SCARED, I WANT TO GET OUT", and "that's stupid, just keep going, stick to the dive plan", i got tired of that debate itself, and so i turned around and just swam near the shore at La Jolla Shores, instead of swimming to the kelp beds 1/4 mile West of La Jolla Cove. on the paper that weekend, Saturday Nov. 24, there was a news article about a lobster fisherman who was tending to his traps about 1/2 mile of La Jolla Cove when he saw a large great white eating a large mother seal. he was in about a 25 foot boat but it scared him and he got out of there. i didn't find out for about 6 months. about a year later i met another swimmer at the Y, guessed that he was a body-surfer, asked him if he was, he said yeah. i told him about my experience. he had the same experience at Black's on Friday November 23. Black's is the next beach north of La Jolla Shores. he had never aborted an ocean outing either. he got out because he felt really scared. hair-wise, his hair was long. so i think there might be something to the hair being part of our personal sixth sense or whatever number sense. i don't think the 'normal' five sense covers it. i wonder if having the hair being recently cut in stressful circumstances decreases situational awareness.