anyone afraid of sharks

[polywideblock]

mate sent this to me   WTF   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eiUErh5uKc  

I used to spear fish regularly until I found out we have a great white nursery off our coast   , my greatest fear is being turned into shark sh*t   

[JB400]

It's extinct.  And no, I'm not scared of sharks.  Just respect them.

[Mike DC]

  
I don't think this vid is legit.  

Like a year ago Discovery channel did basically a mockumetary on Megaladons being sighted today.  It was one of those things where they spent an hour presenting it as real, after running a 20-second disclaimer at the beginning saying it's not.




Having said that, IMO there does seem to be indirect evidence of sharks larger than anything we've documented before.  Maybe not megaladons but perhaps 25-30ft whites.  

The "Jaws" mechanical shark body (Spielberg named it Bruce, after his lawyer) was 25ft long.  But the sculptor actually took a 12.5ft shark and scaled it up double sized, so Bruce's face/mouth size would still be a bit too large in proportion for a 25-footer. 

[XH29N0G]

I'm a scaredy cat with a lot of respect for them. 

(Went to WA a few years back and there was a bad time with the white pointers.  My family and I decided to go north to give them a miss and on our first trip in the water swam over a pretty big tiger shark.  It was 20-30 foot down, but looked big, maybe 9-12 foot long. That wasn't our last time in, but I still think about it.

[polywideblock]

Having said that, IMO there does seem to be indirect evidence of sharks larger than anything we've documented before.  Maybe not megaladons but perhaps 25-30ft whites.



                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0kWWyGk3A

   we breed them big down here

[twodko]

Loan, political or waterborne kind?

[fy469rtse]

All of the above twodko   
Politicians  down here make used car salesmen look honest

[Dino]

All of the above twodko   
Politicians  down here make used car salesmen look honest

That's about the same the world over unfortunately.   

[tan top]

 as for megaladons  still excist  ,     doubt it ,  extinct   but  you never know  ,  .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlfvVK44WA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0kWWyGk3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XFLh-pY6nA

[Mike DC]

as for megaladons  still excist  ,   shruggy   doubt it ,  extinct  yesnod scratchchin but  you never know  ,  ..... popcrn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlfvVK44WA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0kWWyGk3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XFLh-pY6nA

Only the 2nd link (dead shark bitten almost in half) is legit.  The bite size is big but nowhere near Meg territory.  

The other stuff is part of the Discovery channel's fake documentary.  It's pretty unlikely that Megs could be alive today.



There are some known reports of truly HUGE sharks being sighted over the centuries.  But a lot of them share one strange detail - they describe the whole body looking pale/white colored.  Typical bogus Meg imagery doesn't look that way.  Nor do existing whale sharks (a real existing 40ft non-carnivore shark).    

[tan top]

as for megaladons  still excist  ,   shruggy   doubt it ,  extinct  yesnod scratchchin but  you never know  ,  ..... popcrn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlfvVK44WA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0kWWyGk3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XFLh-pY6nA

Only the 2nd link (dead shark bitten almost in half) is legit.  The bite size is big but nowhere near Meg territory.  

The other stuff is part of the Discovery channel's fake documentary.  It's pretty unlikely that Megs could be alive today.



There are some known reports of truly HUGE sharks being sighted over the centuries.  But a lot of them share one strange detail - they describe the whole body looking pale/white colored.  Typical bogus Meg imagery doesn't look that way.  Nor do existing whale sharks (a real existing 40ft non-carnivore shark).    

yeah  fake , was thinking  this , when looking through the videos on Youtube , so much computer trickery now , ....

[polywideblock]

was just watching a doco on space exploration  and they were saying we know more about deep space than we do about our own oceans   

that's nuts 

[tan top]

was just watching a doco on space exploration  and they were saying we know more about deep space than we do about our own oceans   

that's nuts 

yeah , forgot to mention that in my above post , I try to watch any  documentary on the oceans & deep sea stuff  , saw one some time ago ,  about the Mariana trench  , &  the scientist  spoke about  , we know more about outer space , solar system  etc , than whats in our oceans

[squeakfinder]

as for megaladons  still excist  ,     doubt it ,  extinct   but  you never know  ,  .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlfvVK44WA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0kWWyGk3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XFLh-pY6nA

My first thought when looking at the second link was killer whale.

[polywideblock]

was definitely a white shark    there were several expert witnesses   and as stated earlier we do grow some whoppers down here

          look up bob dyer's records for white and tiger sharks back in the 50's 60's some of the whites were 20+ feet  

a couple of older pics  

                 

           no.1 in this list is the shark from first pic   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwfwPbns-E

[Dodge Don]

http://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-predator-attacks-great-white-shark-2014-6

[Patronus]

Im smart enough to stay out of the food chain. Kinda like Im smart enough to not fight a cop for his gun.

[Dino]

I'm not afraid of sharks as long as there is plenty room between us, and preferably others to chew on so they may be full and satisfied by the time they get to me.

[polywideblock]

we now have them in the lake    
http://www.borderwatch.com.au/story/2746889/lake-shark-leap-caught-on-video/?cs=2452#ooid=F3dzg0cjrvLCKCdsYJOxlcFPHpC8FoLj

[JB400]

Bull sharks are the biggest worry over here.  They've been found at least as far as St. Louis, but I think there have been a report of two of them being spotted in the middle of Il.

[polywideblock]

  yeah we have them as well as tigers   ,just lucky I guess        makes you think twice before jumping in the water, I'll stick to the rivers up in the mountains or a swimming pool       

[polywideblock]

so now we have a big  one making a nuisance of its self   ,I swear they know their protected   

                                http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-13/great-white-continues-to-lurk-off-newcastle27s-coast/6013536

[myk]

Afraid of what a shark can do, sure.  Outside of that I have a profound admiration for a creature that has evolved into a near perfect organism.  It lives to swim, eat and be a predator of all sea creatures and it does those things flawlessly; like a Charger of the seas, if you will...

[Lord Warlock]

Have to admit that sharks bother me enough that I no longer swim in the ocean, never cared until saw jaws when it was first released, and that didn't scare me off, was living in Washington DC then, I moved to Pensacola FL the following year where they filmed scenes for Jaws II, and they had the robot shark parked outside the motel at the beach, that didn't bother me either, that summer spent hours and hours body surfing on Pcola Beach, then 2nd year there was swimming near the pier at a church outing and found out a world record Bull Shark was caught in the surf right where I was swimming two hours before.  That bothered me.  Then got to see some pics from a Helicopter taking pics of the surf and realized how many LARGE sharks feed in the waters near swimmers there, ever since I've stayed clear of water deeper than chest deep.  Several people have been mauled by Bull Sharks over the years, but its still rare even though sharks are always present with hundreds of swimmers. 
Moved to Jacksonville after my time in the military, never really enjoyed swimming at the beach here in Jacksonville, the water is a lot colder than it is in the Gulf of Mexico, the sand is dirty looking and packed hard like asphalt -people actually drive on the sand here, can't do that in Pensacola, you get stuck in sand there just running off the road with one tire.  Recently found out that Great Whites frequently swim up and down our beach area as part of the eastern US migratory path for large great whites.  (they tracked an 18 footer up and down the east coast and she was tracked repeatedly off our shores.)  Won't be going swimming anytime soon again.  After getting several biopsy tests for skin cancer I pretty much stay out of direct sunlight most of the time now. 

[polywideblock]

there's two of them now + a huge tiger shark       

http://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/two-monster-sharks-are-eating-dolphins-and-closing-australia#.bkjpGw7P9

know I won't be on the water just at the moment  ,they tried to chase one away yesterday and it came up and eyeballed the crew of a 30 foot police boat 

[gtx6970]

Afraid? yes.
Curious ? yes.

Would I swim in the ocean if I knew they were there ? no.  Somethings are better off not knowing


But I rarely go beyond waist deep anyway.

2 years ago when we were in St Augustine FL. there was a 3 footer swimming right up near the shore, in less than 2 - 3 ft of water.
I havent been in the ecean since

[polywideblock]

a 3 footer is lunch (flake )  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_(fish)

  these are 17-18  and 13 footers     respectively     the whites are as big as and weigh the same as a car  1700 kg = 3747 pounds 

[JB400]

Typical fish story.  Probably dealing with minnows

[polywideblock]

you should come over and show us how to noodle one   

[JB400]

Noodling's illegal in my area.

[polywideblock]

its downright dangerous in mine   

  http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/teenager-attacked-by-shark-on-nsw-south-coast/story-fnj3rq0y-1227187266096

[JB400]

It's not exactly safe over here either:

http://www.newson6.com/story/22756598/atoka-man-bitten-by-snake-while-noodling-in-intensive-care

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-man-dies-in-noodling-accident-near-idabel/article/3391625

[polywideblock]

swap a shark for a snake ?         

[JB400]

Cotton mouth isn't nothing compared to your guys' 2 step Charlie

[polywideblock]

that's further up in Asia, but any of the   dozen or so that are deadly  would give you a bad day   

http://listverse.com/2011/03/30/top-10-most-venomous-snakes/
   
  most of ours stop your heart/lungs as opposed to the flesh killing venom that your snakes seem to have   

[JB400]

Mamba is what I was thinking of, which is African.  After watching the croc hunter play with them so much, I confused them as to being Australian.

[polywideblock]

please don't take it the wrong way as it is wrong to speak ill of the dead, but he was a bit of a dick. all the animals he showed people were stressed to the max and in defence mode if you know what I mean 

[JB400]

No offense taken.  I understand what you mean.  While his purpose was educational, it did put a lot of stress on the animals that he dealt with.  A look, don't touch policy would have been better for everyone though.

[Mike DC]

A look, don't touch policy would have been better for everyone though.

Including him.

[polywideblock]

bet the stingray was just minding its own business 

[greenpigs]

I am scared to death of being in the water with one but also couldn't get enough info on them in my childhood.

[polywideblock]

one of the three we have causing trouble is getting bolder by the day     

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2914681/Shark-search-continues-NSW-beaches-closed.html

                   they have named him "bruce"   

[greenpigs]

The one that was recorded isn't even the BIG one!

[XH29N0G]

Bruce as in finding Nemo, now it makes sense .  There was a shark called Bruce on the west coast a few years ago.  Is that the connection? 

[Dino]

Bruce was the shark in Jaws, named after Spielberg's lawyer.  I'm pretty sure Nemo's Bruce was named after him.

[XH29N0G]

Bruce was the shark in Jaws, named after Spielberg's lawyer.  I'm pretty sure Nemo's Bruce was named after him.

And I thought I was so clever googling bruce and shark together to see the smiling creature on finding nemo.

[greenpigs]

Bruce was the shark in Jaws, named after Spielberg's lawyer.  I'm pretty sure Nemo's Bruce was named after him.

And I thought I was so clever googling bruce and shark together to see the smiling creature on finding nemo.

No one has original idea these days.

[XH29N0G]

Yep,  Or do you not mean Disney, but me?     google is too easy.  My modern day substitute for remembering things. 

[Mike DC]

No one has original idea these days.

The original ideas are out there.


But the studios don't want to take creative risks on unproven stuff . . .

. . . because there is so much at stake if they guess wrong . . . because movies cost so much to make now . . . because the SFX & production quality & marketing costs have gotten so high . . . because modern audiences expect so much . . . because ticket prices are so high . . . because movies cost so much to make now . . .

[polywideblock]

more attacks      one dead   , when do we put ourselves back at the top of the food chain        freaking greenies 
   

              http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/fatal-shark-attack-at-ballina-aired-on-live-streaming-website/story-fni0fiyv-1227213955557
                                 

[Steve P.]

A few years ago a friend of my fathers was chomped on by a shark. This guy was in his 80's and had been swimming across a channel behind his house nearly every day for 30 + years. The channel is shallow. Only about 10 foot deep in the center and only a little over 100 foot across. No one saw the shark, but when they got to him he had been chomped on pretty hard through his torso and one arm. So NO... I love to swim in salt water, but these days I keep to my salt water pool..

[Ponch ®]

terrified!

[Dino]

terrified!

What the hell is that?!?

[Steve P.]

^^^^  Hahahahahahaaa...... Ponch. 

[Ponch ®]

[Mike DC]

That's Katy Perry, flanked by a couple of Land Sharks. 

[polywideblock]

well another day  another large  shark        beaches closed again

         http://www.smh.com.au/environment/newcastle-divers-video-shark-under-boat-as-they-prepare-to-enter-water-20150210-13b723.html


                  going to have to declare 2015 as "the summer of the shark" sooner or later   

[JB400]

You guys should have picked goldfish instead of sharks.

[wingcar]

I'm not afraid of sharks, but I wouldn't swim with them.  I figure that I don't eat sharks so they shouldn't eat me.  Same with snakes...I don't bite them, so they shouldn't bite me. 
*Now back to reality....

[polywideblock]

you forgot  spiders   http://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/australias-dangerous-spiders

and octopus's   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus

                                    over here it is reality 

[Ponch ®]

you forgot  spiders   http://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/australias-dangerous-spiders

Australia Banned A TV Episode Because It Said Spiders Weren't Scary

[polywideblock]

try finding one of these f*ckers in your boot and you'd be scared too   

                         

[greenpigs]

well another day  another large  shark        beaches closed again

         http://www.smh.com.au/environment/newcastle-divers-video-shark-under-boat-as-they-prepare-to-enter-water-20150210-13b723.html


                  going to have to declare 2015 as "the summer of the shark" sooner or later   

I guess, but that was an odd color for a shark....sorta looked like a HUGE turtle flipper.