Shark Stories
https://www.dutchsharksociety.org/what-sounds-do-sharks-make/
Article says GW sharks can't make noise....what's the truth?
Maybe stretched like the stories of the surf pumping for months every day.
pretty sure she decided to swim on the outside of the netted pool.......on dusk......doh
Amy Smoothey DPI :
“Bull sharks have this really bad reputation that they are the most aggressive species and there’s actually no scientific evidence to suggest that.”
WTF Amy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/bull-shark-attack-sydney-harbour-...
And this gem from Amy...
'.....and experts are not sure why sharks bite.
"That's the $1 million question.". she said'
She's been studying sharks for 15 years and can't work out why a bull shark would bite a swimmer in a harbour after dusk.???? FMD
These so called experts are milking the system....after 15 years she still dosent know shit.......ask any spearo whose been around sharks and bullsharks are cunts of things.......that shark was being territorial it wasn't aiming to eat her just telling her to fuk off....the hard way......she should have known better at dusk in sydney harbour.....goes for any any river system or entrance .......beware!
"Expert" Erich Ritter also found out, 'the hard way' back in 2002
I guess we can chalk the lady being bitten in the harbour as the first piece of scientific evidence in their most aggressive tally then.
Anyway, baby great white, very close to brand new:
https://abc7news.com/new-born-great-white-shark-baby-video-pup-californi...
Pretty soon we will get birthing and porn on film of them.
Incredible VJ! Also not sure if that was it's first contact with the air/sea interface but it looked possible. Was a little freaked.
Yes, I reckon it just met the ceiling!
Ha!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-024-01512-7
A baby GW is MUCH bigger than I thought it would be !!
5 feet !
Only one baby ???
A bit like a human ?
people are dumb as dog sh..
https://au.news.yahoo.com/chilling-footage-emerges-after-boy-attacked-by...
Brave researcher states Great Whites thriving in California.
Aussie researchers still confused.
?feature=sharedCouple of comments of interest:
- nursery off San Diego has had a surge in population in last few years.
- lots of food - stingrays
- juveniles mainly looking for food along the bottom - surfers not in their menu - yet
- current batches are growing a foot a year
- adults more out around the islands offshore with females (oops cis females) coming in to give birth inshore.
Frog good find explains a lot of what we all sort of knew ....except for the Australian experts who cant seem to work it out yet.......dumb as ...milking the system..
Calypso Star general manager Andrew Wright said on recent trips to Neptune Islands, his team had seen eight or nine sharks with more juveniles than ever before.
Richard Cheese wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/C2tOa8_v6Ve/?igsh=azEycWFsZDBxMTV3
What tripe.
Let’s start the process of banning cage diving with GWS as a first up step.
One for the animals well being and two for humans to return to a saner way of thinking and making a buck.
Leave GWS alone, they were doing fine without us interferring in their lives.
Ambush predators belonging to oldest lineage of fishes ( cartilaginous compared to bony ) and highly intelligent, unlike many of us bipedalists. AW
frog wrote:Brave researcher states Great Whites thriving in California.
Aussie researchers still confused.
https://youtu.be/XmuI4uEbQFo?feature=shared
Couple of comments of interest:
- nursery off San Diego has had a surge in population in last few years.
- lots of food - stingrays
- juveniles mainly looking for food along the bottom - surfers not in their menu - yet
- current batches are growing a foot a year
- adults more out around the islands offshore with females (oops cis females) coming in to give birth inshore.
That's a really good point about the birthing inshore, about a decade back I was surfing a beachy with my son who was beginning to surf out the back at the time, and there was a big GWS basking around on a reef patch out the back - didn't go us, looked to be sunbathing (I thought the pectorals rising out of the water were cormorants at first). Once we worked out what it was, we went in. Have always wondered if it was a big female and birthing.
Richard Cheese wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/C2tOa8_v6Ve/?igsh=azEycWFsZDBxMTV3
I’d agree that shark attacks can happen at all times of the day, particularly Great Whites. But swimming in an inner Harbour bay at dusk is asking for trouble.
Dont mess with a mental mako- https://www.facebook.com/share/v/FDG59BzKy4rnD9aG/?mibextid=QwDbR1
Richard Cheese wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/C2tOa8_v6Ve/?igsh=azEycWFsZDBxMTV3
Yay. Sky News FTW on feelpinions, nontroversies and all the latest alternative facts.
Curious as to how you all react to smaller sharks in the water.
A few weeks ago when surfing by myself on a super fun beachey, I saw a fin and tail weaving through the water coming in my direction about 50 metres away. Some mullet around. The thing looked sort of silvery but too big for a pelagic fish so later on I judged it to be a small mako or bonze whaler. It would have been about 1.5 metres long at a guess.
I caught a wave to the beach, watched and waited about a minute then paddled back out as the waves were really good.
Would you stay out? Do what I did?
My assumption is that at that size they are almost totally focussed on the bait fish.
I normally stay out if clear water and bronzie.
Lots and lots of small whalers here over summer.
Clear water. Sunny. No jewellery or watch on hands.
@frog, i saw a Bronzie before i went out, a couple of metres long, but went out anyway. The school of fish got closer and all of a sudden the thing came charging at me. I caught eye contact with it just before it got to me. It looked fuggen angry. I said out loud 'oh no' and braced for impact , but then it went straight under me. My initial instinctive thought was it was being territorial over the fish and was either warning me or was going to take a nip to ward me off but i caught eye contact with it just in time. Amazing how red they actually are in the water.
So based on that, i'd say give all sharks the space they deserve. ha.
Was pretty scary.
I was over on KI two Xmases ago, it was a stinking hot day and after having lunch at Penneshaw with the family at my sisters shack I was desperate to get wet. I finally got to the south coast and was greeted with perfect offshore glass and an A-frame bank down the beach with only a few kooks out. I raced down frothing and as I was suiting up noticed there was a really deep gutter going out to sea right next to the bank and some fisho bogans were hauling in salmon left right and centre. Just as I was about to hit it all hell broke loose with a huge eruption of whitewater in the channel and a fisho pulled in just a salmon head. The fishos and the crew on the beach were jumping up and down yelling and pointing at a shadow lurking in the shallows and the guys in the water all came rushing in. I stood there and watched as a perfect head high peak rolled in unmolested and thought fuck it and paddled out. Some bird said to my wife why is he going in and she replied because he's a selfish prick. Anyway, the water was crystal clear and I kept one eye on the gutter full of fish telling myself it was probably just well fed bronzies and had a good little session without incident. After I came in my wife pointed out that I had a big bleeding gash on my leg from when I hopped the fence in my haste to get down there.
Haha. Gold!! @olddog
Haha
I would probably do that too, but not in front of my wife.
And a midlength or bigger for protection :)
Just had a really big tiger roll under me as I paddled out to a set wave.
12-14ft job- submarine with a huge head.
It pretty much cleared the line-up.
Jeezus....No Dawny tmoro.....
My bum cheeks tightened a little reading that.
Fark!
Jeezuss. OK no more talk of sharks on SN. It's like they're listening!!
Glad you and all were unscathed FR.
Nate tells a great story of losing his foil board way out in the deep blue in Hawaii and dealing with survival and what may be watching below.
Last third of video.
?si=tpHGUpMibAOffpf1 Jeezus Fkn Hell...the Lip undoing your Leggie... :-0
Coextinction NITV, well worth a watch
Has some parts on Orca's
You swear this is a Juvenile GWS ?
Just looked it up on Dr Google, apparently both are species of mackerel sharks. Juveniles are similar in appearance, but generally lack blotches. The snout is short and cone-shaped, and the overall appearance is similar to a small great white shark.
seaslug wrote:Coextinction NITV, well worth a watch
cheers, looks good
Salmon shark looks nothing like a white if you look at its dental work. Those are teeth made for grabbing and ripping fish.
Extinction of species is extremely sad but a fact of life. It’s a part of evolution. “ Indigenous peoples” are no strangers to making species extinct. Indigenous Australians made 23 of the 24 species of megafauna extinct. They ate the koalas of Western Australia into extinction and the pet dogs they introduced into the Australian continent made the mainland Tassie devils and thylacines extinct as well as many other species.
They weren’t bad people, no worse or better than anyone else…that’s just nature.
Mainland koalas will probably become functionally extinct in the wild in our lifetimes. This pains me beyond belief as I love our koalas and know the few remaining individuals in my area by name. They wake me up with their bellowing in my backyard.
Unfortunately the political motivations to destroy the environment by importing millions more humans in the name of economics and ideology will be the death of the final eild koala.
When even the Green Party insists that millions more people are necessary to ensure we have enough cultural diversity, even if it comes at the expense of actual natural diversity ,then you know we are fucked beyond redemption.
Go take your kids koala spotting before we kill them all.
Ok, I'll go.
A few years ago I was camping down south with my wife. Not much wave action where we were camping, so opted to head home. We pulled in to Angourie for a looksie.
We were delighted to find two foot runners with not a soul in the lineup. Easy decision. I suited up but she hanged back. In I went, while she opted for a walk around the headland.
About half an hour later I get waved in. I lazily catch one into the cove to see what all the fuss is about.
My wife proceeds to tell me there's an enormous GW ripping into a whale carcass off the back of the point. I think I might sit the rest of the session out.
On our way up the track an older bloke comes running down ready for a session. "Ah, I was hoping you might stay out and keep me company."
"No thanks." I say, but offer to stay on the lookout and offer my assistance if anything goes awry.
We watch him from the beach for the next halfa, getting some beautiful little runners by himself.
We must have been on the same wavelength - my fear of witnessing a shark attack and his fear of being eaten by a shark probably hit fever pitch at about the same time. He caught one last wave in all the way to the rocks, jumped out and thanked me for my patrolling services.
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Would I have jumped in to save him? Probably today. Probably five years ago, back when this occurred. Definitely not ten years ago. I was way too much of a pussy (or had too much self-importance) at 25.
Ps. I believe Laurie Towner posted a video of this GW munching on the carcass. You can probably dig it up on Instagram if you look hard enough.
Oh, and I should mention that of course we warned the old bloke that there was a GWS / whale carcass out there!!
The Orca’s off Cape Town have really hooked into the local Great White population. Carrying 30% liver by body mass must make them a tasty target but the Orca’s in Oz don’t seem to have picked up on that to date.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/01/africa/orca-kills-great-white-shark-s...
Denyer wrote:Oh, and I should mention that of course we warned the old bloke that there was a GWS / whale carcass out there!!
This would have been the one Denyer?
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2018/07/17/surfers-tow-d...
Hey Distracted
Glad U distracted me .
How can we teach our Orca's how tasty GW Liver is ?
We can't cook any up in garlic and butter and get them started , no way , they are endangered .
Can we catch 2 Old Orca's who love eating Liver in SA and set them up in WA and SA , all expenses paid , First Class ?
Spend their last year or two here , having a easy retirement in the Land of Oz .
I would go for it , if an Old Orca , 4 fn sure !
I am in VIC ( we seem ok ) and NSW and QLD GW's juvenile Livers are 2 small for an Orca , 4 sure .
Then let Nature , take it's course .
We need to Make GW Liver LIKE Stuff , perhaps , as burly !
A few interesting stories on shark attacks and near misses on the Shark Shield report so I thought I would start this thread. Don't want to trivialize the subject as people have had their lives taken or changed forever by what can happen. I thought it might serve as an educational purpose by hearing others experiences so we may all learn from them and hopefully avoid it happening to us.
One of them was a mate of mine named Hazey.
He had been surfing at Castles, a notoriously sharky wave in the bay at Cactus.
Several hundred metres offshore the wave breaks before reforming into Inside Castles making a long left with several sections. The wave has been the scene of several attacks and near misses over the years including the local known as "Sharkbait" who had been attacked more than once.
Gerry Lopez is another who came very close to being attacked out there and vowed to never surf Cactus again after his near miss.
Well Hazey was surfing out the back with another bloke named Steve when out of the blue he was launched into the air still on his board by a huge force from below.
A shark had rammed him with a direct hit straight up into the air! In a moment it was gone but soon returned to the stunned Hazey and started biting him and his board. Hazey instinctively put his arms out to protect himself but both his arms ended up in its mouth. As the jaws closed down his arms could have easily been severed, but several teeth on the sharks lower jaw had become dislodged and imbedded in the board leaving his upper arms with massive injuries, but the vital inner arms where major arteries run were not majorly damaged. This probably saved his life.
By this time Steve had reacted and in a rush of adrenalin and pure ballsy courage he threw himself onto the sharks back and started gouging at the sharks eyeballs, eventually feeling one pop and the shark departed.
Steve got the two surfboards together and got himself and Hazey on and started the long paddle to shore.
Then they were both thrown into the air as the shark rammed them a third time before disappearing again. They continued to make their way closer to shore and the shark nudged them again. Steve told me he thought he really must of pissed it off when he popped its eye.
Finally they we're just a metre from shore when the shark made its fifth and final appearance. It beelined towards them and the shore while they stood in waist deep water with their boards. The sharks mouth was just rapidly opening and closing like one of those wind up sets of false teeth. The boys separated and put their hands on either side of it's body and held it on a 90 degree angle to the beach as they made the final steps to the safety of the sand.
Hazey was rushed to Ceduna hospital and then flown to Adelaide for micro surgery on his shredded arms.
Steve ended up receiving a bravery award and they both sold their story to 60 minutes and made $50,000 each out of it!
It was quite a story!