Sharks

[rdhopkins2]

Gota say I admire these creatures. Beautiful n majestic but wouldn't want to be swimming with one of these! I was swimming from the bay beach to the shipping channel at Blairgowerie a couple of yrs ago, only about 200m ea way or something, get out to the shipping channel and think geez this water is deep now....wonder what is swimming down here. Open up the Hun the next morning to find a 4m great white shark had been spotted off StKilda pier! LOL.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Yeah theres one above me in the corner, I dont like the looks of it.

Oops, wrong thread.

I dont think I've ever seen a real shark, apart from the ones in the aquarium.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

I've seen some when I was snorkelling at the Barrier Reef.

I'd love to SCUBA with some sharks.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Yeah sharks are cool....just not the man eating ones when you are swimming/surfing next to them. Still, we are invading their territory so fair play to them if they want to have an entree.

 

[JustLikeClockWork]

I love sharks im fascinated by them especially great whites mainly because the fear they instill in people, I swim a lot off semaphore beach and along that coast line, Its very common to have great white sightings all along there, every summer we have shark patrols by adelaide uni and local surf lifesavers. About 3 years ago a teenager was knee boarding behind a boat with his mates and was taken at west beach by 2 great whites, that is fairly rare for great whitess to work together like that.

Each time I go out in the water I know im taking a risk and Im in they're territory, Ive never seen a great white in person thank god, but Ive been snorkeling and seen reef sharks about a metre long. Even closer to shore dolphins come pretty close and seeing the fin gets the heart racing a bit until you realise its just a pod of dolphins. Its a good adrenaline rush knowing your totally vulnerable.

 

[ErlendOye]

Still, we are invading their territory so fair play to them if they want to have an entree.

The whole "kill them all!1!!1 they're dangerous!!1!one" thing really annoys me.

 

[crazyman27]

Whenever I think of sharks I think of Samuel L Jackson's dieing scene in Deep Blue Sea.

 

[triplejdude]

HAHA that scene is classic! Something like 'we've got to stick together!' CHOMP!

Anyway, spiders are the worst for me, sharks and snakes i don't mind, i actually think they're great creatures. But things like spiders and cockroaches are little shits and i never hesitate to stomp on them

 

[RU486]

I saw a 6ft White Tipper just 50m offshore at Ningaloo Reed in July. You could see all the fish swimming away from the direction it was coming from. Decieded to go in after that, but the ones at Ningaloo are fine, your bound to see atleast 1 if you go snorkelling a fair bit there.

 

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[Fender]

As somebody that is at the surf as much as possible (4-5 times a week) at the crack of dawn it is pretty scary sometimes paddling out, especially coming back from Stradie paddling across the Spit at sunset.

 

[Macca19]

Is that pic in the OP real or fake? You'd shit your pants if you were the bloke on the ladder!

Am going shark diving & swimming in Port Lincoln (home of the Great Whites) in January. Cant wait!!

 

[Macca19]

Some other photos:

I rate them along with snakes in that I never see them so im not overly scared of them, plus I hate swimming at the beach (more the sand, salt factor than any phobia). But yeah, when I go diving in Jan I think ill be a bit freaked. Despite the whole eating humans thing I find them to be incredible creatures, just the size and power of them.

 

[Roos4eva]

That last photo is incredible, the size of it's jaw is massive. What a machine, Great Whites are fascinating.

Evil looking bastards, too, especially in that second photo.

 

[triplejdude]

Is that pic in the OP real or fake? You'd shit your pants if you were the bloke on the ladder!

Am going shark diving & swimming in Port Lincoln (home of the Great Whites) in January. Cant wait!!

Definitely fake, photoshop job done really well. Originally from this image -

 

[scooterb]

In the tradition of the snakes and spiders thread, I was going to post a picture of a shark bite.
WHAT THE ****.
Type 'shark bite' into google images.
*Warning: disgusting.*

 

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

Fishing up off the queensland coast i have heard various short stories.

1) One day a few years back the shark fishermen contracted to check on the baited shark hooks deployed of beachs (baited shark hooks are often used as an alternative to shark nets in less populated areas due to the cost of shark netting) went out for a routine check to find one of the hooks missing.

A few months later this hook, bear in mind this isnt a bream or whiting hook used by Victorians down south, this is a stainless steal hook the size of your arm, this hook was found on a beach near by which had been straighted out obviously by a shark. What had happened is a massive shark had ripped this hook and buoy out of its anchorage and towed it a few miles before spitting the hook. Imagine fishing and seeing a buoy just motor past you.

2) One time i was reef fishing in the capricorn bunker group of the Great Barrier Reef complex when i was washing my hands over the side of the boat after landing a thumping coral trout. Anyway, about 20 metres away this massive black lumpy thing just motored past just below the surface of the water. It looked like a medium sized whale, but it was really motoring. Dont know whether it was a whale or a shark but it was quite large.

3) Another time underway at night in 18 foot fibreglass boat again out wide reef fishing we were crusing along at night when all of a sudden a 200 hp motor was stopped dead obviously from the prop cutting into something of substantial size. What ever it was it didnt hang around, but it must have been quite large.

Could well have been a shark working the surface.

 

[jimmyn13]

This story is a tiny bit scary me thinks.

http://www.fishingkites.co.nz/sharks/greatwhitesharkattack.html

 

[jefffff34]

Taste nice.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Many yrs ago when my Dad was camping on Fraser Island another fella there had the drum line set up on the beach. Next morning they went to have a look at it and the cable was unwound and the sand filled drum was squashed in the middle by the end of the cable!!!

His Dad yrs before was fishing off the Jetty at Kingston in SA when a large finned fellow swum up to say hello, Granddad jabbed at the thing with a metal pole he had in the boat the time to make it bugger off

Slightly ot but Dad and few other buddies were in a smallish boat with some rods hanging over the side when a fin rose from the water on each side, wasnt a shark though just a bloody big Ray!!!

 

[J-Train]

This story is a tiny bit scary me thinks.

http://www.fishingkites.co.nz/sharks/greatwhitesharkattack.html

6 metres!!! That thing would have been like a submarine carving through the water!