Holy sheeeeet

Any more info on that beast?!?

Great, so they've killed an old mature white shark in a suspected mating area.
It seams to have just been an accident but it's a shame. The odds are highly stacked against white sharks to make it to that size, so it's a pity to see it 'drown' in a fisherman's net. Even more so as you cannot eat them...well, you can, but the meat is like poison.

Ohwell, someone will make buku bucks off those fins.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242926/Cape-Town-shark-attack-Tourist-killed-dinosaur-sized-great-white-South-African-beach.html

a heavy story and loss of life also

RIP

sorry, it was actually an old one from 2010, but i had the date wrong... had been looking for this one from cape town that i heard about from last week:

www.foxnews.com/world/rescue-officials-shark-kills-man-off-cape-town
shark killed a surfer off Cape Town Thursday, South African police said.

Police spokesman Andre Traut said the 20-year-old South African was in the water with his brother and a friend at the time of the attack. Police did not immediately release the man's name.

Following the attack, the government canceled a permit that had allowed a research film crew to throw fish and blood into the water to attract sharks, a practice known as chumming. Critics had said the chumming could attract sharks to popular beaches, but the government's department of environmental affairs had said the researchers were working too far from shore for it to be a threat.

Thursday, environmental affairs spokesman Zolile Nqayi said the permit was withdrawn to calm panic among the public, not because officials believed the chumming was linked to the shark attack. Nqayi said the chumming was being done far from the site of the attack.

the earlier link is about one in 2010 doggy, which was apparently a "dinosaur sized" GW...would be amazing to see, but also frickin scary as hell

^^^^
damn,...you got suba back on his high horse with this topic

wow suba, you continue to amaze me by how many haters you've raked up and how consistently they hate. but haters gonna hate... how is suba on his high horse swalkington? you're being like my gf when i talk about the dynamics of a surfboard - them eye start a rollin...

from my pov, suba is the only one here that is formally educated on the subject, so its actually nice to get an insight into the studied reality, rather than just lapping the media up as though it were bible like everyone seems to do.

I really don't give a rats about about red thumbs, green thumbs, National Geo, Suba, Swalkington or any other bloke on here.

Tell what does fkn $hit me to tears though, is wankers chumming up big fark orf animals with lots of sharp teeth to interact with humans, no matter whether those humans happen to be in a cage or not.

Bloody stupid idea.

Greenroom said...

subasurf said...

Yeah, god forbid someone bring facts to a topic, douchebag.

Maybe its not the facts people are red thumbing?

Agreed, that was very out of line

LateStarter said...

subasurf said...

Yeah, god forbid someone bring facts to a topic, douchebag.

You make a highly generalised statement which can't possibly be passed off as 'fact', and then you become abusive when somebody offers an alternate opinion.

No wonder you're the red thumb champion on here.

Douchebag.

And getting more out of line as we go along

smicko said...

I really don't give a rats about about red thumbs, green thumbs, National Geo, Suba, Swalkington or any other bloke on here.

Tell what does fkn $hit me to tears though, is wankers chumming up big fark orf animals with lots of sharp teeth to interact with humans, no matter whether those humans happen to be in a cage or not.

Bloody stupid idea.

Did anyone else see the commercial fishing boat that has been cleaning down the decks on Cowaramup bay. Apparently it leaves a oil slick right across the bay and they have been reported to local authorities but still continue to do it[}:)] That's chumming.. IMHO