Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 Over the last few years we've had a massive increase in the Great White population. Don't get me wrong I'm all for preserving our natural wildlife and all that. But it seems like every other week there is a shark sighting somewhere. I was at the beach last week with the missus, we were in the water for about 5 mins before a patrol boat came pelting along telling everyone to get the {censored} out of the water. Seriously you have no idea how fast you can move when you have a chance that you might get eaten. I caught the news report when we got home, the {censored}ing thing was 4 meters long and it was less than 50 meters from the shore at one point before the lifeguard chopper scared it off. I just wanna know if there are wild animals that give anyone else this kinda trouble. And how much conservation is too much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jackcheez Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 Where do you live/go to the beach ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MapexDrummer Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 I caught the news report when we got home, the {censored}ing thing was 4 meters long and it was less than 50 meters from the shore at one point before the lifeguard chopper scared it off what's a meter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jackcheez Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 Must be downunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 I live near Adelaide, South Australia. About 15min drive to the coast. Also this particular incident was at Henly Beach, a beach I've been going to for as long as I gan remember, right in the heart of suburbia. Not some isolated beach that no one goes to. There would have been nearly a thousand people on the same beach at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 3 feet in a meter.......roughly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jackcheez Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 If it's any consolation we have more whiteys that ever here too. Probably not as many as you, but for the first time I can remember we lost a swimmer in Southern California last year. Happened down by San Diego. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 3 feet in a meter.......roughly Ah, a 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 I just have to wonder how endangered they are, if there are that many of them that the have to expand their territories. The problem here is that the government restricts the fishing of trade fish like snapper, but now the populations of them are so large that the sharks go {censored}ing crazy and breed like sea rabbits. Around here everyone knows about the dangers of sharks. But with finacial situations as they are, the cheapest thing anyone can do is go to the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fingeringam Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 If it's any consolation we have more whiteys that ever here too. Probably not as many as you, but for the first time I can remember we lost a swimmer in Southern California last year. Happened down by San Diego. I was at the beach that morning Not the same beach, i was down at Tamarack, but I heard later that day and shat myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 Ah, a 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing. LOL, that movie is like, The Passions of the Christ to us :lol: "You know this really happens" :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hearafter Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 I hate the Sharks, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 OK this is {censored}ing stupid. It's 10am and there have been 2 sightings THIS MORNING. One down south about 1km out. The other on was at Grange beach about 20mins from here. The beach was evacuated after the shark came within 30 meters of the shore (that's less than 100ft) It was nearly 4 meters long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Goofball Jones Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 OK this is {censored}ing stupid. It's 10am and there have been 2 sightings THIS MORNING.One down south about 1km out.The other on was at Grange beach about 20mins from here. The beach was evacuated after the shark came within 30 meters of the shore (that's less than 100ft) It was nearly 4 meters long. It's just a cyclical thing probably. Like here in America a few years ago you'd swear that Pit-Bulls around the country were rising up to throw off their human oppressors! Every where you turned you'd hear of a new pit-bull attack or something. IT WAS MADNESS! But now, it's pretty much back to where it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fingeringam Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 OK this is {censored}ing stupid. It's 10am and there have been 2 sightings THIS MORNING.One down south about 1km out.The other on was at Grange beach about 20mins from here. The beach was evacuated after the shark came within 30 meters of the shore (that's less than 100ft) It was nearly 4 meters long. Chill mang! If you don't do anything stupid, they'll just keep swimming. I've seen plenty of sharks in the wild. They really mean no harm. My only encounter with a White was in Cancun and they evacuated the beach before he got close:cry:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 Oh don't misunderstand. I don't hate them. They're the coolest predator around. I'd just like to be able to swim at my local beach or go fishing without the risk of being chewed on. As for holding still in the water and letting it swim past you, I say {censored} that. These things are fins attached to teeth. With just enough inteligence to know that damn near everything is eddible when you have teeth as big as a human hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Senator Posted January 5, 2009 Members Share Posted January 5, 2009 Man the harpoons...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I'll leave that to the Japanese. Besides, there a protected species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JeffBass Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Great Whites rarely feast on humans, it's usually a case of mistaken identity for them. Unfortunately for humans the initial bite, however unappealing it is to the shark, may be enough to cause death because of the size and power of their jaws. Some 90 percent of Great White attacks result in a "spit out" which is a very good thing for humans! Other species are more sinister in their human attacks. Bull sharks tend to fight for their prey like a dog playing tug-of-war with a rag. Once they sink in to a human they consider the human to be their food. Ever seen wolves fight over a deer leg? Scary behavior. Tiger sharks are also very dangerous to humans. There's clearly something drawing the Great Whites closer to the beach, some food source. It either means their normal food source has diminished or their normal food source has migrated closer to the beaches. I'd say it's likely the former because Great Whites don't usually go for the smaller prey when fatty, meaty prey (like seal) is available. I saw a film where the camera was actually mounted on the Great White and what struck me as horrific was the speed in which the shark closed on the seal and delivered the death blow! Just amazing. Of course in Australia the Great White is only one of the sea creatures you have to worry about. No wonder you f*ckers are all so crazy. They have 20+ foot long (8 meters) salt water crocs! They have extremely toxic sea snakes! Worst of the lot is the jellyfish (the box) which causes the most excruciating painful deaths of all bites! Happy swimming!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluedogaudio Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Video: Great white shark circles kayakers and fishermen in Sydney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Great Whites rarely feast on humans, it's usually a case of mistaken identity for them. Unfortunately for humans the initial bite, however unappealing it is to the shark, may be enough to cause death because of the size and power of their jaws. Some 90 percent of Great White attacks result in a "spit out" which is a very good thing for humans! Other species are more sinister in their human attacks. Bull sharks tend to fight for their prey like a dog playing tug-of-war with a rag. Once they sink in to a human they consider the human to be their food. Ever seen wolves fight over a deer leg? Scary behavior. Tiger sharks are also very dangerous to humans. There's clearly something drawing the Great Whites closer to the beach, some food source. It either means their normal food source has diminished or their normal food source has migrated closer to the beaches. I'd say it's likely the former because Great Whites don't usually go for the smaller prey when fatty, meaty prey (like seal) is available. I saw a film where the camera was actually mounted on the Great White and what struck me as horrific was the speed in which the shark closed on the seal and delivered the death blow! Just amazing. Of course in Australia the Great White is only one of the sea creatures you have to worry about. No wonder you f*ckers are all so crazy. They have 20+ foot long (8 meters) salt water crocs! They have extremely toxic sea snakes! Worst of the lot is the jellyfish (the box) which causes the most excruciating painful deaths of all bites! Happy swimming!! I've been hit by a blue bottle jellyfish, they're every bit as bad as a boxer. I managed to get to the lifeguard station before i passed out. They pored vinegar on it and the pain dissapeared. I've never been hurt so bad. {censored}ing thing wrapped right around my leg. If you ever get stung by a jelly fish, or anything from the sea for that matter, either get some vinegar on it or piss on it. Only way to stop the pain. Pretty much if it's a reptile/insect or marine creature, around here it's gonna try and kill you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catphish Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Shark is delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 Shark is delicious. Yeah it is. Very strong flavour. Good for soup. I caught a schoolie shark on a fishing trip once (about 4ft long). Cooked up a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Obsidious Posted January 6, 2009 Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 I've been hit by a blue bottle jellyfish, they're every bit as bad as a boxer. I managed to get to the lifeguard station before i passed out. They pored vinegar on it and the pain dissapeared. I've never been hurt so bad. {censored}ing thing wrapped right around my leg. Is that meant to be a joke? Blue bottles are nothing like a box jellyfish, the box jellyfish posesses the deadliest venom in all the animal kingdom. Bluebottles just hurt is all. I remember when I was four years old at a rock pool in Sydney, some blue string was floating in the water near me so I picked it and it got wrapped around my hand and arm, in between my fingers, everything. {censored}ing hurt I'll grant you that, but had it been a boxer I would not be alive right now...Bluebottles are a given if you go swimming on an Australian beach, I've been stung all over by them more times than I care to remember. Time for you to harden the {censored} up son, If I may be so bold The sharks in SA are a different matter, I remember the first thing I saw when I went to Brighton was a plaque commemorating the death of a young school teacher back in 1926. Her students were menaced by a white just off the jetty so she jumped in to try and save them and was swallowed whole, no trace was found.... Suffice it to say I don't swim down here too much, really missing Sydneys beaches. I have mates who surf all over Adelaide, down towards Victor, up near Port Lincoln...They think it's cool to see seals {censored}ing around in the water near them, I slap them and tell them that is precisely when you get the {censored} out of dodge. One problem is the shark tourism, cage diving, chumming and the like, teaches sharks to associate humans with food. Same problem in Sth Africa, and they are pretty much the same sharks anyway migrating back and forth seasonally. Personally I just think the ocean is their domain, you go in there you run the risk of being dinner, it's that simple. I did not evolve with flippers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nAmzrTakin Posted January 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2009 [quote=Obsidious;32058137...They think it's cool to see seals {censored}ing around in the water near them, I slap them and tell them that is precisely when you get the {censored} out of dodge. One problem is the shark tourism, cage diving, chumming and the like, teaches sharks to associate humans with food. Same problem in Sth Africa, and they are pretty much the same sharks anyway migrating back and forth seasonally. Personally I just think the ocean is their domain, you go in there you run the risk of being dinner, it's that simple. I did not evolve with flippers... I took a boat out with my uncle a few years back off of Ardrossan (spelling/do you know it?). We had burley blocks that we froze in a big freezer before hand. They were about the size of a 2x10 bass cab to give you an Idea, That we dragged in a net behind the boat. About an hour out, I saw the shadow of a big {censored}ing shark. It was snapper water so I wasn't too surprised, still this was a big mother{censored}er. Any way we stop the boat about half an hour later, dunk a rod and see what's what. Pulled in a nice size red snapper too . About 20mins after that the entire boat pulls down at the back and we all go flying around, droppin beers and {censored}. I was as close as I've ever been to pissing my pants. My cousin pulled in the burley line and the entire block, the net and a fair whack of rope were just gone. You could see where the bastard had shawn through the rope. We packed up and moved about 2ks toward shore. Set another burley block and got into fishing again. I {censored} you not about 15mins in the boat goes again and the {censored}in thing took another block. I don't think I've been that scared since, I've seen Jaws man, that {censored} wasn't funny. We cut our trip right there and went home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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