Author Topic: Don't wanna get bit by a shark... (Read 1088 times)

gofaster · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2004, 09:46:33 AM »

Isn't "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel supposed to be starting soon? Is it this week or later?

Reschke · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2004, 10:13:28 AM »

So a total of 4 reported shark related human deaths in 2003 and who knows how many this year is cause for them to go hunting and killing an animal for doing its natural thing. I am all for hunting animals for food but doing so for revenge is completely different. I think the dead man's brother said it best in that article.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2004, 12:12:12 PM »

he sure did. It's one thing if a tiger is runing rampand from a zoo escape. we took him out of his environment, and peoples safety is paramount.

If a croc, however, gets into your swimmng pool, he can be removed and reintroduced elsewhere where there are less people.

If a shark attacks someone, it's not the shark's fault, we introduced ourselves into his envronment, and there's no malice in his attack whatsoever.

This stuff really pisses me off. Move to the outback if you're afraid of sharks.

Sox62 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2004, 12:12:49 PM »

How the Hell would they ID the shark?

Did witnesses describe it to a police sketch artist?

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 13, 2004, 01:45:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Sox62
How the Hell would they ID the shark?

They cut it open any shark they catch....

jigsaw · « **Reply #20 on:** July 13, 2004, 01:45:35 PM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
Isn't "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel supposed to be starting soon? Is it this week or later?

Starts July 25th.

Slash27 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:03:02 PM »

Starts July 25th.

Starting early this year. It usually runs during my 2 weeks at the beach in August. Kinda makes it hard to go past knee deep.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:05:02 PM »

c'mon slash...you're almost sounding like a girly-man now...LOL

BTW, most attacks occur in water depths of three feet or less, and the two most aggressive shsrks, tigers and bulls, frequent the gulf.

Happy swimming

Slash27 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:09:09 PM »

Happy swimming

oh gee thanks Gainsie:rolleyes: hehehehe

and the two most aggressive shsrks, tigers and bulls, frequent the gulf. Another upside. 2 years ago I was watching Shark Week, turned it over to the local news. A 13ft Bull shark had killed a guy about 30 minutes away in Mobile. I went to the bar:D

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:39:41 PM »

A 13 foot bull shark....damn...that's NOTHING to mess with

poor bastard didn't stand a chance...I have a dorsal fin from a bronze whaler I caught when I was a teenager, and the jaws of an 8 foot blue I caught when I was 22.

I cried like a baby when they killes the shark in jaws..I was only 6 but I thaought they should have let it live

Growing up on an island makes you favor some types of animals over most people much of the time...sharks are believed to be reincarnated ancestors to island folk

Rasker · « **Reply #25 on:** July 13, 2004, 03:19:04 PM »

A 8-10 foot bull shark is believed to have swum 12 miles up a tidal creek in Matawan, New Jersey and been behind multiple deaths in 1916. Bulls also are found 50 miles up the Zambesi and into Lake Nicaraugua and its outlet to the sea. They like to hunt in shallow, murky water, (even knee-deep or less). Discovery or some such channel did a top-ten rating on the most dangerous sharks, and the bull beat out every other species, including the tiger and the great white, just based on relative frequency of attacks, such as the Florida wave of a couple summers ago. Have a nice summer at the beach!

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 13, 2004, 03:33:42 PM »

GWs are rather picky eaters, compared to bulls and tigers. Those other two, are just plain nasty. Most will hit a swimmer and say, "oops, not a seal, too bony, no meat..." while some have in fact consumed an entire human.

Still don't deserve to be hunted down and exterminated like vermin, however...

Lizking · « **Reply #27 on:** July 13, 2004, 04:52:45 PM »

"How do they ID the shark?"

It will be the one parts stuck in it's teeth.

Around here it is Hammerheads. I remember flying with my step-grand-dad over the gulfcoast, watching the big boys (15' hammerheads), playing in the surf with the unsuspecting swimmers(no surf). Thank goodness, there are no seals, so they rarely attack. The little bulls and sand sharks DO attack, but only as babies, so usually no great damage is done.

Here is me, circa 1979 surfing the third coast:

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 13, 2004, 05:35:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Slash27
wtf is a bronze whaler shark? ( maybe i should have used yahoo while i was there:D ) My buddy had heard that the great whites may have been working together which apparently unheard of. Anyone heard something like this or was someone on the radio full of ****?

No, GWs don't school, but they will attack and feed in numbers, and they have a systematic feeding pattern, which keeps them from fighting over food. Body posture, and of course, size, keeps things nice and orderly for all of them.

4 large GWs were seen feeding off Newport, RI on a whale carcass in the mid 80's, not uncommon since they follow migrating seal/whale populations from canada to the caribbean.

For Slash:
http://www.sea-ex.com/fishphotos/bronzewhalershark.htm.

While visiting sister in manly beach in 1987. Didnt wanna take the jaws and break em in flight, so I took the fin instead. Sisstill has the jaws Down Under

-tronski- · « **Reply #29 on:** July 14, 2004, 12:05:49 AM »

As far as I know the family of the surfer are against the killing of the sharks which if fair enough I reckon....if someone went golfing near a pride of lions, and was subsequently killed by them you would hardly blame the lions would you.
You'd blame it on the golfer....after all people do surf in the sharks enviroment.

I can't think of any worse death, but I would think it's part of the risk of surfing in the WA, or SA.

Tronsky