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Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 2:17:03 PM

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http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/jaws-great-white-sharks-spotted-off-mass/story?id=11035424

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 2:30:27 PM

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I always thought the Jets were the More Dangerous Gang. Their dancing style was better choreographed.

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 4:23:28 PM

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Nice post for SHARK WEEK!!!! Yay! I love it! people getting ripped apart and then their legacy continues for one week a year on the Discovery channel!

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 4:39:02 PM

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Even better are the Shark Week ads patterned after the KY ads!

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 6:05:27 PM

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Hahahaha..."Hey baby! Let's watch shark week and then you can put it in my butt!"

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 6:57:52 PM

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Nice post for SHARK WEEK!!!! Yay! I love it! people getting ripped apart and then their legacy continues for one week a year on the Discovery channel!

I love shark week. For about 5 years or so we always wound up at the beach during shark week. Of course it was watched every day and every day we were back in the ocean.

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 7:50:58 PM

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Hahahaha..."Hey baby! Let's watch shark week and then you can put it in my butt!"

Oh man, that would be an amazing pickup line! I dares folks to try it!

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 8:57:42 PM

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I would fall for just about any line that ended with "and then you can put it in my butt"

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/1/2010 9:08:52 PM

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I would fall for just about any line that ended with "and then you can put it in my butt"

I don't know too many guys that wouldn't agree there, lol

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/2/2010 2:37:59 AM

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http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/jaws-great-white-sharks-spotted-off-mass/story?id=11035424

"A great white shark, the fearsome predator typically found in warm waters"

This is incorrect I think. They are sometimes found in warm waters, but more likely to be found in cool and cold waters. They are adapted to predate pinapeds- seals etc. Seals meanwhile are adapted to live in cool/cold waters, hence the thick layers of fat they have.

The sharks are where the seals are mostly. And the seals are where we like to mess in the water. The surfline. This is why great whites are so dangerous. For similar reasons Tiger and bull sharks are dangerous.

Way out in the ocean, its Oceanic white tips that are dangerous. It is this species I read, that killed many of the men aboard the stricken Indianapolis during ww2.

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/2/2010 3:04:00 AM

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Pshaw - come to the Hamptons. You can get chewed on by blue fish and stung by jelly fish at the same time

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/2/2010 3:31:23 AM

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Splorff has it correct......whites prefer the cooler waters of the oceans, however, they will follow their food supply, and they may travel to warmer waters for breeding, but since no one's ever gotten footage or seen Whites breed, that's as good a guees as any. A few months ago, a 14' white was spotted off the coast here in J'ville, it had been tagged in Woods Hole, MA, and they were tracking it. It was also seen by a boat full of fisherpeople (there were women on board!), and they got pics of it. Me, I would've thought it was great to see a White in the ocean.

Interestingly enough, the inset pic of the shark shown while the Jaws theme played is a Bull shark...one that is far more dangerous than a White....they have attacked many people here on the Florida coast, and a few have died. The Bull is an agressive shark, and when he bites, won't let go...they have been dragged ashore while still attached to their victim! Bulls can also go from fresh water to salt water without any difficulty, so they've been seen in rivers. The Matawan Creek attacks in New Jersey are now being attributed to a Bull shark instead of the original thought of it being a Great White......Whites can't shift to fresh water.

I loved the movie Jaws, but hate what it did to the shark, especially the White Shark, population. Even Peter Benchley wasn't happy...he now speaks out for the sharks.

And I LOVE Shark Week! Got to watch it at work, and I'll catch the repeats when it's on Discovery on my days off!

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/2/2010 11:43:17 AM

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I remember reading that in Australia, if someone is attacked by a shark on the southern coast, its most likely to be a great white attack. The southern coast is the coolest being closest to the antarctic. For the north coast, the offending shark is most likely to be a tiger shark.

Bulls are able to swim beyond brackish water and enter fresh water. They have attacked people in rivers hundreds of miles from sea, in places like South America and India.

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Splorff has it correct......whites prefer the cooler waters of the oceans, however, they will follow their food supply, and they may travel to warmer waters for breeding, but since no one's ever gotten footage or seen Whites breed, that's as good a guees as any. A few months ago, a 14' white was spotted off the coast here in J'ville, it had been tagged in Woods Hole, MA, and they were tracking it. It was also seen by a boat full of fisherpeople (there were women on board!), and they got pics of it. Me, I would've thought it was great to see a White in the ocean.

Interestingly enough, the inset pic of the shark shown while the Jaws theme played is a Bull shark...one that is far more dangerous than a White....they have attacked many people here on the Florida coast, and a few have died. The Bull is an agressive shark, and when he bites, won't let go...they have been dragged ashore while still attached to their victim! Bulls can also go from fresh water to salt water without any difficulty, so they've been seen in rivers. The Matawan Creek attacks in New Jersey are now being attributed to a Bull shark instead of the original thought of it being a Great White......Whites can't shift to fresh water.

I loved the movie Jaws, but hate what it did to the shark, especially the White Shark, population. Even Peter Benchley wasn't happy...he now speaks out for the sharks.

And I LOVE Shark Week! Got to watch it at work, and I'll catch the repeats when it's on Discovery on my days off!

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/2/2010 11:49:52 AM

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Scroll down to see the distribution of the great white. Its very coastal. Its found where its cool/cold- Alaska, North America, South Africa, Southern Australia.

Also a few warm places- the Mediteranean.

What intrigues me is that UK waters are cold, and we do have seals. So why no Great Whites. We do have their close relatives= Porbeagles and Mako's of the Cornish coast.

Ask yourself - are there any seals, walruses etc around these parts. If so, try the golfing instead !

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Whiteshark/whiteshark.html

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/2/2010 6:02:33 PM

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After watching the movie; Open Water recently I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing cool about sharks, they are the predators of their enviroment and we best for our own good be very wary of these creatures, just like we are of land based carnivores. The next programme I watched, was people assing around with sharks and part of me was thinking, why tease these creatures, why wind them up, just what has the person got to prove in front of a camera, sharks are understandable, they are not as bad as people think, fuck that, it is better for us to know to keep clear of the bloody things, fear is knowledge.

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/3/2010 4:17:33 AM

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apparently - fishermen have seen great whites off the cornish coast (lots of seals there) - and if anyone has swum off the cornish coast they will be able to tell you just how bloody cold it is!!

i stick to the paranoid premis that if anyone is going to be the first person to get eaten by a shark off the british coast its just bound to be me - so i keep to the shallows and look on with envy at the people who swim way out.

Jaws ruined my life!!

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/3/2010 4:32:21 AM

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At Looe once, I saw sharks in the fish market, aparently caught off the Cornish coast, I remember looking into their maw and the rows of sharp teeth. But with the weather down here, all sorts of odd things have been caught in our waters, including an Atlantic sturgeon, which got the fisherman in a whole heap of trouble before it was positively identified. , At one time a Bluefin tuna was even caught by rod and line in Plymouth Sound at the entrance to the dockyards, but sharks have been seen things quite different from the usual basker.

But British waters, too cold for me,I might with a wet suit perhaps, but generally, the water is nice to look at or fish in.

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/3/2010 4:40:33 AM

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A couple of fisherman hooked a n 8-10" 400 lb great white yesterday right off the coast here in Jacksonville. They weren't even out very far.....the saddest part of the story is tht they cut the line to free the white ONLY because he was too big for them to get on the boat with the fishing gear that they had. These two yutzes were going to destroy a juvenile shark, a white yet, just to be able to say "OOOOOOOHHHHHH, look at me, I'm a man!" Actually, this is the link to the story....it does have some cool pics of the shark.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=161817

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/3/2010 4:49:43 AM

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Just imagine not noticing that two divers had not returned to the boat, and then steaming back to port ? How hard can it be to count to maybe 20 ?

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After watching the movie; Open Water recently I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing cool about sharks, they are the predators of their enviroment and we best for our own good be very wary of these creatures, just like we are of land based carnivores. The next programme I watched, was people assing around with sharks and part of me was thinking, why tease these creatures, why wind them up, just what has the person got to prove in front of a camera, sharks are understandable, they are not as bad as people think, fuck that, it is better for us to know to keep clear of the bloody things, fear is knowledge.

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RE: Sharks!! - 8/3/2010 4:59:13 AM

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I caught a Blue Shark there when I was about 20. It was aboard a charter boat. I was admiring the creature as it slid about the deck, blinking at us . I thought the skipper was going to carefully get the hook out and return her to the sea.

I was wrong.

From out of nowhere he produced a seven foot iron bar with a big iron sphere at one end. He began beating her over the head. It took ages for her to die. it was awful. I have never been since.

There are Mako's and Porbeagles out there, both related to the GW. I shall believe GW's are out there when I see the proof. They should be there, and in many other coastal areas about Britain, for we have no shortage of seals.

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apparently - fishermen have seen great whites off the cornish coast (lots of seals there) - and if anyone has swum off the cornish coast they will be able to tell you just how bloody cold it is!!

i stick to the paranoid premis that if anyone is going to be the first person to get eaten by a shark off the british coast its just bound to be me - so i keep to the shallows and look on with envy at the people who swim way out.

Jaws ruined my life!!

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