Another shark attack
 

33 year old female SanDiego tourist, out in front of the Embassy Suites here over in West Maui.....

chewed.

I;m not a surfer or anything, buttuh dont they have a device to scare sharks ?

hmm and I always thought it was those damn jellyfish raising hell....

we seem to have an abundance of sharks here lately...

I was scared shitless every second I was in the water when I was in Hawaii. Tiger sharks are more dangerous than great whites, they'll chomp on anything just to figure out what it is.

yeah, the tigers are some chomp happy buggers...

it doesn't help that they're 18 feet long either

Great whites are known to migrate this time of the year.
I've read stories where sharks were tagged and than months later found over in Hawaii!

This is the time of the year where this will happen alot!

Thank god I swim as good as rock....this keeps me out of the water!

Tiger sharks are scary as shit.

A great white will give you an exploratory bite and leave you alone after they get a mouthful of foam and wetsuit rubber. 95% of surfers/bodyboarders who get bit by them here (N Cali) survive.

Tiger attacks are always predatory.

I don't think she was surfing.... sounds like she was just out there swimming....

hmmmmmmm

Are these people attacked far out in the ocean or in shallow water?

bull sharks are just as nasty as the tiger shark..they have been known to frequent more than just the ocean....watching a show on the discovery channel where one swam hundreds of miles up a river (cant remember what continent is was)


they say if you have an encounter to not panic (of course this is before they bite you) but to swim beside it and brush along its body as you swim off..it is some kinda shark language for "this is my fucking space back off".

I watched some dude do this with tiger sharks while diving, it was amazing..i love the discovery channel

Easier said then done.

shallow.... beachs have shark warnings posted now.

agreed there frog, i have had my share of wildlife encounters and it never goes as you plan in your head.. but every bit of info you have is always better than no knowledge at all.

I don't remember the milage, but I know bull's have been found in fresh water many miles up both the Amazon and Mississippi rivers.

oh yeah! ill get right on that rubbing elbows with the tiger shark right b4 i swim off. maybe ill ask him how his day was maybe have a tea party. maybe he wont want to eat me cuZ of the diarhea force field ill have around me.

touch the fucker....or shit myself....im gonna opt for shit myself and hope he doesnt touch me.

If a shark comes into my home I'll slice him up and grill him on the bbq.
If I go into a sharks home.......

I cant believe people still have hysteria over shark attacks, your more likely to die in a road crash.

diarhea force field....I like that :1orglaugh

Are you sure it wasn't a SALSA SHARK?

"Man goes into cage. Cage goes into salsa. Shark is in the salsa. Our shark."

About ten years ago I was scuba diving in the Bay of Thailand, it was a wreck dive and we were at least 25 metres down. My buddy tapped me on the shoulder, turned me around towards him, then gave me the "be calm" signal. He then turned me back and there was a 8-9 foot shark all black with white tips on his fin.

My buddy signal ed to me to start blowing bubbles, which I did. I was brave and went for my diving knife, this must have scared the shark cos with a lazy flick of his body/tail he was gone.

Then I was scared:helpme

YOu guys ever see the footage of a great white breaching?

Holy shit...man one exploratory bite and you're in half.http://www.apexpredators.com/images/...BR6951_21L.jpg

Check this shit out.
http://www.wavescape.co.za/top_bar/t.../Sequence3.gif

That was one of the funniest shark encounters I have ever read. I'm sure the knife scared him .... 9ft shark vs 6 inch blade :1orglaugh did you watch him look up his janes guide to weapons to see what sort of knife you were carrying ?

having said that it reminded me of something, I took a friend for his first dive after he got his ticket. we were bumbling along the bottom looking for abalone when I spotted a 2ft wobbygong snoozing on the bottom. i got my friends attention and signalled for him to look at the shark, wobbygongs are well camoflaged, and my friend couldnt spot him, so i prodded the shark with my knife. Instantly the shark moves, my friend works out what it is, and is standing up under water ready to attack something that is as dangerous as a life jacket. I guess you had to be there to see the look in his eyes.

The only places I wont dive for a fear of sharks are known feeding areas for them, ie seal colonies and some places where they especially attract large sharks.

Experts say that with the sharks senses adapted to the marine enviroment, for every shark a diver see's another 20 sharks see the diver.

Fuck it...I'm not even going into the pool now.

:Oh crap

Whats weird, is how I was just reading something awhile back about a sharks jaws NOT being designed to eat humans, and that the reported number of shark attacks is really non existent as far as the stats goes. Basically saying that since the movie JAWS, people have this thought that 'sharks are in the water' when theyve ALWAYS been there.

Weird, I swear I cant recall the URl etc, but they were saying VERY FEW people get bitten.

hehehe maybe they were wrong, fucking statistic folks

eh

anyhow, that sucks.

oh yes, im going to run into the water and swin next to a shark just to let it know this is my territory... in fact, maybe they should broadcast that stupid show to all the people in florida who got attacked last year.. haha i'm sure you'll start seeing 1000's of people spotting a shark and jumping into the water to try and rub up against it to tell it to get outta the area. fucking idiots, i swear, you have a handful of stupid people who will actually rub up against a shark and pretend to know what it's thinking. the sharks were probably homophobic, and didnt want to be molested by the diving priest!

Shark PODS :thumbsup

DynaMite

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh I dont think anyone would come around you with that kind of forcefield.

Anyone ever catch the great footage of the killer whale taking out the great white that was trying to feed on her babies and fed the shark to them....classic

Saw another show where they showed a view from a plane of this older couple standing in the water in florida having a nice day and there were sharks all around them , the water was filled with them..right there in the waist deep water. people never knew

Deleware river too (between PA and NJ). There were a string of attacks all tied to one bull there back around the turn of the (last) century)... I saw it on the Discovery channel, so it must be true :)

Speaking of "all the people in Florida who got attacked last year," did you know that last's years shark sttack numbers were no higher than average? In fact, there was actually less attacks last year then the year before!

But before 9/11, I guess nothing exciting was going on in the world, and after that kid lost his arm, all of a sudden there was a media frenzy and it became the Summer of the Shark.

It is a FACT that your chances of being killed in a car wreck on the way to the beach are far higher than being killed by a shark once you get there.

Here, check this out: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks...lariskhome.htm

Those numbers are from 1996.
18 people were injured by sharks.
43,687 were injured by toilets.
:1orglaugh

If you want to learn some real information about shark attacks, instead of the hype the media feeds you, check out the Internation Shark Attack File:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/ISAF/ISAF.htm

well, I'm not one of those guys that is overly paranoid about sharks... I don't fear the water... I don't read shark bite stats, or try to figure out if the odds of me dying in a toilet accident are greater....

but I do know that this makes 3 shark attacks in as many months, right out in my front yard.... two up in west Maui, and one here at Kam 3 where I swim.

I agree the odds are pretty slim..... but tell that to the last 3 people that got chewed here. :winkwink:

Stats are fun, but they don't mean jack to the person attacked. :)

silly, what sane person would just jump in the water to go after sharks...this method was used by divers that have been studying the behaviors of sharks for years..and they demosntrated it over and over again.. the diver didnt go after the shark.. they would only use this to deter the shark instead of panicing and getting caught up in a feeding frenzy. doh:2 cents:

educate yourself and it could save your life in a fucked up situation some day

Hey...I'm taking nothing but showers from now on. And, even then, with a machete in the hand that's not holding the soap.

shark is quite delicious when grilled on the BBQ.... :glugglug

I'm sure that the amount of damage a shark attack is more than that of being bitten by a toilet seat. Unless it is the terrible, possessed, toilet seat of Satan. Then things could be pretty bad.

Shark good, stingray bad.

Headline should read "Woman eaten by shark, forgot she was shark food."

Yes, it sounds like John Ashhahahahaha. The great whites just shit when they hear that. :1orglaugh

Times like this make me happy to live up in Michigan where there's nothing like that to eat me while I'm swimming, ha ha ha.

haven't you seen the movie Lake Placid ?

I am not a marine biologist or anything, but when animals search for food where they usually don't, isn't it because the food supply they normally get is running out? What are people that crazy about Mahi Mahi?