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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Red Tail 444 on July 12, 2004, 04:36:19 PM
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then don't go in the water...:aok
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_re_au_an/australia_sharks_1
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I think I prefer being at the top of my food chain, thankyouverymuch.
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"...Authorities Monday continued to hunt for the killer shark and said they would likely shoot it if they can conclusively prove they have found the animal responsible for Smith's death. "
The range of human stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
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They should leave the damn shark alone.
You enter the ocean you are food, if you do not like that do not swim in their water.
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better chance at being struck by lightning
that is of course if you are outside playing in a thunderstorm
when its your time, its your time - enjoy it while it lasts ..
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who's stupid enough to go swimming with sharks deserve to be food......
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Originally posted by SLO
who's stupid enough to go swimming with sharks deserve to be food......
so everyone at the beach "deserves" to be eaten by a shark?
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Originally posted by SLO
who's stupid enough to go swimming with sharks deserve to be food......
french canukian pffft. I eat shark when I can get em. not the other way round.
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Pisses me off, sharks are opportunists, and we're not part of their normal diet. If beachgoers actually knew how many sharks there are swimming relatively close to them, they'd never go in the water.
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Originally posted by Eagler
so everyone at the beach "deserves" to be eaten by a shark?
Yes, but only after they get skin cancer, damn them!
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sharks are cute and fund (''''\(o.O)/'''')
there is no need to kill it!!!!!
gto is right.
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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 ****?
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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 )
I had the same question and am also too lazy to look it up. :)
Surfing is a hazardous sport. Shark attack is just one of the dangers - drowning is the principle cause of death. Paralysis is right up there as a danger, so is being cut by a skeg or speared, burst eardrums, and melanoma.
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Used to surf at lefties alot when I stayed in Margeret River, West oz, I used to camp in the car park and go out about 5am to beat the crowds and midday onshores.
Picture it the scene:
perfectly calm smooth water reflecting the rising sun, the boom of the powerful west Oz surf breaking onto a shallow lefthand reef point break.
You sit there waiting for your first wave so very consious of your little toes waggling provocativley in the water.
Then you see the fin......
and you cheese yourself!!!
then another and another and you realise its just dolphins.
this time.....
Always gets my adrenalin pumping :D
Why I like surfing :)
Anyway everyone I met there knows its sharky and knows the risks, down a,round Margeret river there aren't any shark nets, its just you, loads of dolphins and big fish with teeth.
Bronze Whaler was my favourite at the fish and chip shop in town always felt better knowing I got them first :D
They grow to 3m and are very common around the south of oz manly feeding on fish but commonly implicated in attacks.
Theres also white sharks around as well so who gonna be botherd by a little bronzie ;)
the surfer who died
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Considering that a human on a surf board looks alot like a seal from below, I'm surprised that more surfers aren't attacked.
For those who surf, "ya pays yer dollar, ya takes yer chance."
Sharks are notorious for not checking ID before bellying up to the buffet.
RTR
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Isn't "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel supposed to be starting soon? Is it this week or later?
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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.
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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. :lol
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How the Hell would they ID the shark?
Did witnesses describe it to a police sketch artist?
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Originally posted by Sox62
How the Hell would they ID the shark?
They cut it open any shark they catch....
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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.
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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.:D
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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 :)
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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
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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 :)
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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!
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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...
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"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:
(http://www.lizking.com/tom1979.jpg)
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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
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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
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Originally posted by Lizking
Here is me, circa 1979 surfing the third coast:
(http://www.lizking.com/tom1979.jpg)
Nice board shorts ;)
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Originally posted by SLO
who's stupid enough to go swimming with sharks deserve to be food......
He chose to go surfing - and was very unlucky.
Humpback whales are migrating up the E and W coasts of Australia at the moment. GW 's can be out looking for calves.
I assume that was just a poor attempt at being funny, no-one could really be that ignorant.
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Originally posted by -tronski-
....if someone went golfing near a pride of lions, and was subsequently killed by them you would hardly blame the lions would you.
Tronsky
LOL...I'm sure there's a very funny monty python skit buried deep in the BBC archives that had the world laughing with this image...
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I have to agree, it's not like the shark climbed through old mate's window with a balaclava and a sawn off shotgun shouting "Stand and delliver!! Your money or your wife!!" or anything.
He went swimming/surfing in the shark's habitat, he no doubt knew the risks involved.
salamander of a way to die, but it isnt the shark's fault, and killing every GW they find for the next few weeks in the area isnt going to prevent attacks happening in the future.
PS Lizking....thems some BIG waves in the background there mate, musta been awesome riding them eh?;)
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Only time we can surf on the thrid coast is when a Hurricane blows in. the rest od the time, we just look cool.
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:)
To really look cool though, you need a bevy of bikini clad beauties draping themselves about your person....you know, like those Boris Valerjo (?) paintings with the warrior dudes.
For the benefit of dumb foreigners.....where is this 'third coast'?
Gulf of Mexico?
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A 13 foot bull shark....damn...that's NOTHING to mess with
I understood this to be frickn huge for a bull.
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Gulf Coast..
Gulf of Mexico that is.
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lizking
why did you surf in your sisters daisy dukes?
I had cut-offs but those are way past the gay line :)