SerreChe 2 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Originally Posted By: spook when a massive white pointer surfaced about 60m from me. it's back was seriously the size of a small hatchback. i somehow snaffled a wave in and crawled up the sharp rocks with no regard for my board or my feet. i didn't stop shaking for about an hour afterwards. plus, it's reassuring to think that if it had wanted to nail me, i wouldn't even have seen it. That's some really scary stuff right there. I've had a shark pop-up next to me when boogey boarding in Hawaii many years ago but not a great white ! You're lucky he did not go after you especially towards the end of the day is the time when they are most active (dusk & dawn). Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Great Whites migrate down from Sth Africa, down the west coast of Oz and into the australian bight, they do this to breed. Thats why there have been so many attacks off of Adelaide's coast, **** sharks getting all hot n horny, need a post-coital snack, ah there is a nice tanned person just waiting on a plate for me...mmmm mmmmm They've tagged some with satellite beepers that linger around the coast of california, swim south towards Baja and then make a bee-line though deep open ocean waters for Hawaii just in time for the humpback whale season. Great whites actually get all horny after their meal. They usually munch on a whale carcass until they can take no more and then they get all horny and do their thing... Food before Sex. Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 what do you do serrche? you seem to know some interesting stuff.... or at least you're waaaay to into the sexual lives of sharks! thanks for the wedding wishes fellas. each to their own for everyone i guess, as long as everyoine ends up happy. Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Any of you guys use a shark POD? http://www.sharkshield.co.za/ It looks to me like a surf BC beacon. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 Originally Posted By: Indo Phenomenon? I only know people that surf all year round, sure there's a small surge in "summer surfers" but recent phenomenon?? Most evidence points to the fact that sharks don't have a taste for us! Most attacks are bites out of curiosity, but due to the size most whitey bites end up being fatal. Nah mate, I'm talking in the overall scheme of thousands of years of evolutionary instinct tuning. What you said is exactly my point. People are now in the water year round for the surf (that is a relatively recent phenomenon in the scale of evolution time), so I was just thinking aloud as to how long before sharks as a whole pick this up and deliberately migrate to places with lots of people as well as the seal colonies. Get my drift? Anyway, it was just a passing thought. Not worth all this effort Yeah Serreche! How Do you know all this shit? Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Damn, that is the Michael Jordon of sharks.... Yes, Tiger sharks are a problem in Hawaii - farking scarry and strike without warning... Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Ok I might get ya! I thought you were saying that surfing all year was a recent thing, so obviously you can understand why I was scratching my head! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 Yeah, nah that wasn't my point. (How's that for an aussie-ism "yeah, nah...") Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 i've seen those shark pods sir jib. they are suppossed to be good. once they get smaller and cheaper i may consider one especially if i went to somewhere like south africa again. i was really spooked at a lot of spots there, so much so that it wasn't particularly fun at times. that shark sheild site has a hilrious warning : SHARKS ARE DANGEROUS. i dunno why, but it makes me laugh. how freaking gnarly is this pic? Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 Damn, those big buggers are scary eh! Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 They say to punch the shark in the nose, but anyone who has been underwater can understand how hard it is to throw a punch down there...I think the shark can open his mouth faster than I can throw a punch so it would probably land square in his mouth... Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 A few of my mates are hardcore spearfisherman. They have encounters with sharks all the time, sometimes with large ones too. I've had a few myself but nothing I'd call threatening. You just jab them in the snout with your gun and they usually piss off. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 This photo is of my mate, taken last year in Boat Harbour after a spearfishing trip to the outer islands. He won the tug of war with the shark in the end but check out the damage to the fish. Sorry bushy for turning your lovely snorkelling thread into some sort of macho-shark-encounter type story. Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 i don't think i've ever seen a photo of a man holding a fish without a beer in his other hand! Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Originally Posted By: spook i don't think i've ever seen a photo of a man holding a fish without a beer in his other hand! Yes that would be just plain wrong !! Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Quote: what do you do serrche? I am a salary man! I love scuba-diving and used to do a lot of it though, but have not been for a while since we've had a kid. I've always been interested by sharks and know a lot of useless info about them. I am not really a specialist about the sexuality of sharks, but just happened to be one of those bits of useless info... ;-) A dive with a lot of sharks around you is always a first class adrenaline rush (especially night dives)! Link to post Share on other sites
SerreChe 2 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Nice pic. What kind of shark was it? That's a pretty big fish for spear fishing. Do you commonly catch open-ocean species when spearfishing? Really impressive stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 It's a Yellow tail kingfish. Quite common around here. they can grow to 35+kg( in New Zealand). The one in the photo is more like 18kg. The biggest one I've speared is 26kg. pound for pound they are said to be the hardest fighting fish in the ocean. The ones I've speared have given me hell. Some guys have been drowned by Kingfish. The shark was a Grey Nurse. Supposedly harmless to humans, protected by law, in fact they have created a massive marine park around here and part of the reason was to protect them. I can tell you a few stories about some spearfisherman being attacked by the old 'harmless' Grey Nurse Shark Link to post Share on other sites
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