Freakishly Large Great White Shark

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Freakishly Large Great White Shark
Topic Started: Oct 30 2009, 11:53 AM (206 Views)
Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Oct 30 2009, 11:53 AM Post #1
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,578 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	Monster great white shark caught in South Africa not yet fully grown This monster great white had already grown to a weight of around 700kg when it was caught in shark nets / Snapper Media 4.3m great white caught off South Africa Scientists say it was not fully grown Was already 700kg when caught in nets FISHERMEN are asking if this is the massive great white shark that has been stealing their catch, breaching repeatedly within metres of one terrified man's surf ski. These photographs of the 4.3m monster have been circulating on the internet, but reports from the South African fishing town of Mossel Bay confirm they are no hoax. Frighteningly, scientists who dissected the female shark say it was adolescent and not yet fully grown, The Daily Telegraph reports. Still, it had already grown to a weight of around 700kg when it was caught in shark nets off a popular swimming beach on August 31. Conservation authorities tried to save the disoriented creature by towing it out to sea but it swam back, became entangled again and died. South African newspaper The Witness quotes a local fisherman who believed it may have been the same shark that breached near his surf ski and stole a barracuda he had been reeling in. However, scientists said that was unlikely as sharks seldom stay in the same area for long. They also said it was not the biggest shark ever caught in the area. A 4.7m great white weighing 1.1 tonnes was caught off nearby Richards Bay in 2002. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26281690-401,00.html :\|



gingerwitch28	Oct 31 2009, 03:47 AM Post #2
twenty-first century ennui Posts: 1,684 Group: Members Member #589 Joined: Apr 18, 2009 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Social Democracy	Holy crap.



Sayf Udeen Ismaeel	Oct 31 2009, 02:51 PM Post #3
Icon by meagan_chelsea @ LJ Posts: 7,578 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View All over the shop.	Kayaker Rhys Gadsden tells of horror shark attack off Portland A KAYAKER is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a four-metre great white shark in the ocean off Victoria's southwest coast. Rhys Gadsden was out for a morning paddle off Portland yesterday when he says a great white shark appeared from the deep and wrapped its jaws around his sea kayak, leaving giant puncture marks. The 27-year-old was flipped off the kayak and spent a terrifying 15 minutes in the water by his kayak desperately hoping he would not be eaten alive. "I grabbed my oars, hit it in the head probably five to six times and it released it," the Portland man told the Nine Network. "As soon as it released its bite it turned and headbutted me and knocked me over and put me in the water with it. "It was freaky being in the water, yeah, I didn't know where it went, I didn't know if it was going to come back. "I didn't know what to do really, I didn't want to splash around and make it come back." Finally a nearby boat came to his rescue. "It took me a while to calm down, I was shaking for hours after," he said. "It was big, dark eyes, scary, evil, I never want to do that again." Less than 24 hours after coming face to face with the great white, Mr Gadsden was brave enough to paddle out for a few metres into the water today for TV cameras. His friends have also nicknamed him "shark-bait". Local surf life savers have conducted patrols of the harbour since the attack but have not spotted the shark. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26288901-421,00.html 4M is pretty mass, yeah?



gingerwitch28	Nov 1 2009, 11:50 PM Post #4
twenty-first century ennui Posts: 1,684 Group: Members Member #589 Joined: Apr 18, 2009 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Social Democracy	Wow that is scary. Also, I didn't know that Victoria HAD a Portland What is it with us stealing names off other places?



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