Shark Attack!
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Fishinfool
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True enough. Comforting to know if you are a swimmer or surfer. Maybe not so much if you are stuck on a sinking ship or on a water landing aircraft at sea...
Larry
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One of our board members had to spear a a grey reef shark off of Guam when it made a pass at him. Chamorros showed him how to cook it in a fire pit with vegetables.
Said it was about six feet, but fast and aggressive.
Said it was about six feet, but fast and aggressive.
ok.. since no one else has done it..
what is the appropriate caliber for sharks.. lol
sorry.. but you knew this was going to happen...
what is the appropriate caliber for sharks.. lol
sorry.. but you knew this was going to happen...
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Sounds like a lot of pain and suffering to go thru just to get free beer...
Larry
Have you seen the photos of the big White Shark bite on Aussie diver Rodney Fox? Amazing that he survived.
I'd read all of the shark books that Chief Brody had in, Jaws and newer ones. I think I have nine or ten shark books, now at my son's place.
BTW, the book, Jaws is better and more complex than the movie. I think both Richard Dreyfus and the chief's wife were badly miscast in the film, but can't say here why. I used to know a guy who'd have been just like i saw the ichthyologist in the book, right down to personality. But he wasn't an actor.
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Oh: the white wine in the book dinner scene where Brody struggled with the name was Le Montrachet, pronounced, Lay Mon-ra-SHAY. Brody's wife went all out to impress the ichthyologist, with whom she had an affair in the book. That's often deemed the finest white Burgundy, and is quite expensive. Such wines and Chablis Grand Cru like the vineyard Les Clos are probably the ultimate in Chardonnay, although that grape is also used in real Champagne.
Isn't it amazing what one can learn here, in a topic basically about sharks?!
Isn't it amazing what one can learn here, in a topic basically about sharks?!
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Only one bar at the University of Washington on campus, and that's at the UW Faculty Club. Drunk professors are perfectly acceptable!
Lots of bars in the surrounding area though....
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Be careful of shark tooth necklaces. I have one with a tiger shark tooth and quit wearing it after it got caught between my tee shirt and chest and was uncomfortable. I even got cut once!
Tiger shark teeth are sort of heart shaped and serrated and will even cut into sea turtles.
Tiger shark teeth are sort of heart shaped and serrated and will even cut into sea turtles.
In the early 70's was the swing shift harbormaster at Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay. Ca. We were right in the middle of what is known as the Red Triangle, the heart of the Great White Shark activity area in northern California.
Came on shift just in time to hear a frantic call come over the VHF radio in the office... "May Day May Day, this is the dive boat Moki at the Farrallon Islands, we have a severe shark attack victim, need urgent medical assistance, Repeat...."
The diver Ron had been on the bottom in 30' of water, raking sea urchins for the Japanese market, diving with a hooka so he could just stay under and work for hours....his partner Steve is up on the deck of their Radon boat feeding the hookah hose when all of a sudden the hose just starts cutting an arc through the water and than gets heavy...Steve, all 240# of him, grabs the safety line which tied off to a chest harness on Ron, pulling with all his might, feet braced against the gunnel, line whipping back and forth, Steve almost getting pulled over the side multiple times, than the line gets lighter and Steve starts pulling hand over hand...Ron surfaces, Steve hauls him over the side and lays him down...blood leaking from a massive bite around his side, hips and back...Steve makes the mayday call, and with luck, there is a Coast Guard chopper on a routine training flight just minutes away. Chopper drops the Stokes basket, Ron gets hauled up, the CG chopper has him on the roof pad at Letterman Hospital in 20 mins and he's into trauma surgery immediately.
Steve returns to port to put the Radon on the trailer and get to the hospital, he's shaken up, says he has no idea how Ron can make it he was so badly bitten. Ron had been diving with a Glock in a thigh holster, when he got taken, the shark bite was over the gun, so Ron could never get to it. He had been able to get to the short sheath knife strapped to his off hand forearm, however, and had kept stabbing the shark the entire time he was in it's jaws, and later said he believes that why it finally let him go.
Steve calls in the next day to say Ron made it, had been in surgery for hours, a dozen transfusions, he was going to live, likely be in the hospital for the next few weeks.
The following year I'm working a double shift to cover someone out, in the morning I see the Moki roll into the launch ramp area, go over, it's Ron and Steve, Ron walking with a hitch. We talk a bit, he lifts his shirt, drops his pants to his knees, looks like a chain saw had been used on him. Chunks missing. 980 stitches to close him up. Ask him what are they doing.
Ron says he's been attacked by that shark every night in his dreams, figures the only way to end it was to go back to the exact spot he got hit, and put in some work.
That afternoon the Moki was back safely with a load of urchins, Ron and Steve came into the office to say good-by. They were hauling the boat to their home town of Santa Barbra, and said they would never dive in this area again.
Good choice.
Came on shift just in time to hear a frantic call come over the VHF radio in the office... "May Day May Day, this is the dive boat Moki at the Farrallon Islands, we have a severe shark attack victim, need urgent medical assistance, Repeat...."
The diver Ron had been on the bottom in 30' of water, raking sea urchins for the Japanese market, diving with a hooka so he could just stay under and work for hours....his partner Steve is up on the deck of their Radon boat feeding the hookah hose when all of a sudden the hose just starts cutting an arc through the water and than gets heavy...Steve, all 240# of him, grabs the safety line which tied off to a chest harness on Ron, pulling with all his might, feet braced against the gunnel, line whipping back and forth, Steve almost getting pulled over the side multiple times, than the line gets lighter and Steve starts pulling hand over hand...Ron surfaces, Steve hauls him over the side and lays him down...blood leaking from a massive bite around his side, hips and back...Steve makes the mayday call, and with luck, there is a Coast Guard chopper on a routine training flight just minutes away. Chopper drops the Stokes basket, Ron gets hauled up, the CG chopper has him on the roof pad at Letterman Hospital in 20 mins and he's into trauma surgery immediately.
Steve returns to port to put the Radon on the trailer and get to the hospital, he's shaken up, says he has no idea how Ron can make it he was so badly bitten. Ron had been diving with a Glock in a thigh holster, when he got taken, the shark bite was over the gun, so Ron could never get to it. He had been able to get to the short sheath knife strapped to his off hand forearm, however, and had kept stabbing the shark the entire time he was in it's jaws, and later said he believes that why it finally let him go.
Steve calls in the next day to say Ron made it, had been in surgery for hours, a dozen transfusions, he was going to live, likely be in the hospital for the next few weeks.
The following year I'm working a double shift to cover someone out, in the morning I see the Moki roll into the launch ramp area, go over, it's Ron and Steve, Ron walking with a hitch. We talk a bit, he lifts his shirt, drops his pants to his knees, looks like a chain saw had been used on him. Chunks missing. 980 stitches to close him up. Ask him what are they doing.
Ron says he's been attacked by that shark every night in his dreams, figures the only way to end it was to go back to the exact spot he got hit, and put in some work.
That afternoon the Moki was back safely with a load of urchins, Ron and Steve came into the office to say good-by. They were hauling the boat to their home town of Santa Barbra, and said they would never dive in this area again.
Good choice.
Fishinfool
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When it comes to swimming in salt water - no thanks. I have done enough ocean fishing to know what is out there. Attached is a pic I took from the tuna tower of a friends boat while tuna fishing off Montauk, about 10 years ago. We ended up catching Mako's and Blue shark. Its a big Blue Shark. Also attached a pic of one of the Mako's jumping.
Larry
Larry
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Is the fossil tooth from a White or a Megalodon?
Nice HS derringer. I knew a guy whose parents owned a gun store. He had high grade English double shotguns, but his only pistols were a derringer like that and a GI .45 auto.
Is the fossil tooth from a White or a Megalodon?
Nice HS derringer. I knew a guy whose parents owned a gun store. He had high grade English double shotguns, but his only pistols were a derringer like that and a GI .45 auto.
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Fishslayer
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When you enter the ocean you are no longer the top of the food chain!
I've read that we don't really taste very good to sharks which is why they usually take a bite & spit us out.
I've heard some stories about La Jolla Cove here in Sandawg. The La Jolla Trench comes right to 1/4 mile from the beach and is home to Great Whites & Makos. I've seen some pretty jaw dropping video showcasing the speed of the Makos.They are pretty awesome animals.
Guys who fish the cove a lot say that sometimes the place just goes quiet.
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I think that is because there are so many people in the ocean in that area through the long summer. I can't remember the last time I heard of a fatal attack in Florida. The ones that happen are Bull sharks most times and many of those happen on the Gulf side.
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Is New Smyrna Beach in FL or SC? I disremember. Or unrecollect.
TS,
It's in Florida, just a couple of miles south of Daytona, mostly used by locals.
Saw on the local news today that the guy died from his injuries.
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RobertJ.
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Very sad news.
I went to the cove today, where the attack in the OP happened, and there were surfers out there. And actually, the probability that you'll get bit is pretty tiny, but if I surfed, it would be enough to keep me out of the water.
