Huge white shark hunting a seal (pics)
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gra...16/shark06.jpg

more pictures and story :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...eashark117.xml

I wouldn't like to meet that guy while swimming :Oh crap

Owned???

i'd hit it!

Thats not a seal. That is a fake seal used behind a few of the boats near seal island off of false bay.

They tow that thing around to taunt the great whites and let the tourists see them going ariel. Latter on the will use some fish chunks and bring them right next to the boat for even more bang for the buck on your great white tour.

Now want to see crazy, try to get some video or witness some killer whale versus seal attacks. Those whales like playing with their food unlike the shark. So if you want to see a seal fly 30 feet through the air, it is the way to go.

ahh come on. Typically they are safe. Hell ya one could eat you, though more than likely they would take a nibble and spit you out. Sharks do not seem to like our tastes much. Unless of course it is a bullshark, but that is due to them just being mean agressive fucks that will attack anything and everything for fun.

amazing :)

100% wrong. Try again.

Are you kidding? Take a nibble? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

ok location may be wrong, doubtfull though.

Then look at picture again. Notice how flat the seal is, notice the thin line streatching from its head into the water? What looks like heavy duty fishing line?

Well their nibble may take off an arm or a leg but yes a nibble. Size is relative of course.

Actually he's 100% correct.

And if you would have read the article you'd know it.

"On occasion the photography team used an artificial lure to attract the sharks before snapping them in action with the seals"

After Shock if you take a look at the other pics in the first link you can see its clearly a seal. I know they do use 'dummy' seals like you said but not in this case.

Also, down here in Australia theres been plenty of stories of guys who have been killed by sharks. Admittedly considering the amount of time we spend in the water the statistics are low but trust me a great white will bite your ass in half if he feels like it.

"on occasion" being the key phrase.

I did read the article and I had a close look at the pics.

I see a real seal. If you see a fake one that's fine :)

Dude read the fucking caption for the picture. Jesus.

Unbelievable. Under what picture? There are 9 pictures. The article is talking about how a guy spent 6 months filming sharks at SEAL ISLAND for fucks sake.

You ever seen that place? I know this is going to freak you out but there are alot of ummmm seals there. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Dude I am not going to argue with you about something so obvious, if you want to look like an idiot, go for it. The captions are ABOVE the photos... it's not rocket science.

scarryyyy

If you don't see the hook and line in the flat fake ass looking seal, you need to get a new monitor.

You're telling me!!!! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

eventually it will sink in, don't worry.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gra...16/shark03.jpg

That look flat too? I'm done with this.

Fuck you're stupid. He's commenting on the pic in the first post you moron. Simple english, learn the difference between "that" and "those".

Wow. Simply amazing. Kick ass shots!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gra...16/shark08.jpg

I would not want to be in the water with that thing!

Exactly what is it that you are arguing about? You want him to admit that one picture is a fake seal and the rest are real or do you think that all the photos are of a fake seal?

The picture posted in this thread is a fake seal. The others are real, but the photo posted, which is the photo After Shock is commenting on, which is why he says "That's not a seal..."

Excellent pics - takes a lot of patience to capture images like that.

Well that makes sense than. Now I know why you said 'Oh come on' to the guy who said he wouldn't like to meet one while swimming. I mean, who wouldn't like to loose an arm or leg? Quite friendly of them if you ask me.

beautiful and wild

so is it a fake or a real seal? :P

there may be real seals in the other pics but the one shown in the first post is fake. you can see the string hanging from it and all.

You know what, you are right and so is aico. I was looking at the other pics.

I am big enough and ugly enough to admit I was wrong.

Apologies to aico and after shock.

Cool pictures. wouldn´t wanna be the seal, though...

white sharks will fuck you up big time, they eat a surfer or two every year in South Africa. As for "taking a nibble" that's what they usually do when seeing something that's unusual or strange to them - they give it a gentle bite before attacking (well, they have no hands so that's their only way to "feel" an object)


here's a pic I took in South Africa - seal island:

http://www.6dicksunder.com/hh/s.jpg

dude - look at the other pictures on the telegraph.co.uk website.

those are real seals :1orglaugh

Man thats a scary fish and if I was a seal I would stay on the land.

I don't know how many of you watched Planet Earth when it was on Discovery HD. It was pretty awesome. here's some insane slow mo footage of an attack...

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/398270...te_shark_jump/

After that nibble you would have one less arm

No problem...


Until you need to eat... None of them are going to bring any take-out back to the island...

http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...eaching-lw.jpg

I dont think National Geographic would lie ...
This pic ... (fucking great pic by the way) shows a similar "slim seal" (i.e decoy) being used to trigger an attack.
At the same time there are tons of pics and videos out there showing real attacks.

If you wanna see something realy cool try and find that video that shows about 20 great white sharks eating the floating corpse of a whale. I think that was from National Geographic and was shot in the same area as this. They ate the whole thing in a day.

FOUND IT:

http://www.filecabi.net/video/27greatsharks.html

This is a fucking great video!!!

The above featured video is one of the rarest of its kind to be caught on film. A 35 foot whale that died off the cost of South Africa was found washed up on a beach, the local police decided to tow the whale out to a near by island called Seal Island.

The whale had been dead for several days and was taken to offshore Seal Island, with in minutes there where already 15 sharks around the whale carcass. Shark after shark started to bite chunks of rotten flesh from the dead whale, the on looking researchers that had accompanied the police on this relocation of the dead whale could not believe what they where seeing.

The sharks seem to be taking 35-40 pounds of whale flesh in one single bite. With in 4 hours of the whale been relocated to Seal Island there where 27 sharks enjoying the deceased whale.

One researcher who entered a cage under water said to be shocked at seeing so many Great White Sharks lining up in one place to eat. Each shark is devouring 100's of pounds of flesh from the 12 tone carcass that was disappearing before the researches eyes

Pretty cool looking pix

amazing pictures!

I agree with ASM. If that had been a real seal, then there would be blood spray in the water. if nothing else due to the compression of the seal.

Pretty awsome photos even if some of them are fake

nice pics

Awesome shots !!

I love watching programmes on this stuff. 'Blue Planet' on DVD is brilliant !! :thumbsup

those are some awsome pics!

Man i got to take a trip to South Africa.

Would love to see this LIVE!