Hey Uber,

Level 21, 1418385 pts, 54wpm...

Those green sharks are b*ggers!!

Uber,

Great pix on that last one - I haven't read all the posts but if you are a shark afficionado (and you seem to be), check out a book by Susan Casey called "Devil's Teeth" which is an account of research into Great Whites at the Farallon Islands which are 30 km west of San Francisco (you can even get a ferry over there).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080507581X/sr=8-1/qid=1148897594/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9170547-1881610?%5Fencoding=UTF8

For some reason the Farallones attract the really big Great Whites and the biggest are around 20 ft. What surprises people who see them is their immense girth, ie a 20 ft GW is about the same width as a Mac truck, ie 8 ft. Think about that !!

Happy reading

FNM AWESOME!!! Answers so many q's on this forum. Keep posting your fave stories or new info bout sharkees. Dont be shy...Winter sux so lets make "SHARK STORIES!!!" an intersting read on Seabreeze! Cheers To No Chompies and Fine winds~~~!!!

Here is a couple videos for you Uber.....

Note: This is very graphic so if your sensitive to the sight of blood and gore please dont dont watch it(I know most of you will now have to watch it.. Sicko's)


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2827673828856319563&q=sharks


And the one below is more light hearted humor


video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7122951525804045046&q=sharks

Sorry in advance if either have been posted already.

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Hi All,

Has anyone got some good Shark Stories? Maybe out kiting? Where,When,Size,Kind of sharkie! post pics too!

Now it is winter and im freezing my jangles off and bored.

Check out this "Jumping Seth Ifrikarn Sealeatingmumma Great White"!

Enjoy! http://www.pushby.com/friends/jesse/archives/005721.html

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Hey Col,

Good chatting to you an Dan the man. Thats a bad ass dream!
I had one the night before where I was sitting on the end of a jetty watching all the fishies swimming around and sharkies munching them.
It was really clear water and I could see all the colours and as I was dangling my feet of the jetty a 2metre reef shark jumped up and bit my right foot then let go. Then just moments after that 2 sharkies jumped up and bit my left foot and let go.

I was left there with sharkee stigmata. Weird huh!

Oh yeah after our chat about ur snake phobia, I thought you should get a DVD called "ANACONDA" and "ANACONDA2" You wont be Kitesurfing in Borneo in a hurry.


Check out this pic of one trapped between an electric fence...looks like it ate a small animal

Hey cwamit, love your vid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2827673828856319563&q=sharks

Aside from the fact that these guys are morons, there may be some scientific merit to their folly. Notice how the shark went for the guy wearing the pants....wonder why? The shark was obviously just checking (nibbling) to see what was edible because 6 legs in the water and a camera man is not natural food for the shark. That blood would have got them all going though if the idiot was not pulled out of the water quickly.

If it were not for heros like these guys, then I would never know not to wear pants kiting....the sharks ignored the bare legged guys.

Not content with his fear of this amazing animal and talking about it....young uber wants to go to SETH IFRICA to hunt and study them

Now that's just special....GO UBER!

WOOHOO!!! Got a shark story for y'all. Was kiting off the east coast of South Africa on Monday and ran into one! Did a transition a couple of hundred metres past the backline and just as I came out of it and looked at where my new tack would take me I found that about a metre away it was going to take me over the tail of a monster shark. The tip of the tail was sticking out of the water and the overall tail would have been almost a metre high. I could see the back half of the body but it was so big that the front half was out of sight, too far away in the water. And I didn't hang around long enough to look more closely.

I hit the shark with my board as I rode over it between its tail and fin. The fright I got had me edging a bit hard upwind and I lost speed and began to stall. I quickly wiggled my kite back into the middle of the window for some power and rode into the beach and up the sand like a burnt cat, only touching the water occasionally as I skipped across the surface like a skimming stone. I got there and took a couple of deep breaths before telling my mate who was just rigged up and about to go out. We were the only two there.

We had a quick chat and decided that it must have been a whaleshark, partly because all the evidence pointed that way, partly because I didn't want to scare myself out of getting the rest of the afternoon on the water. Based on what I saw I'd figure the whole body would have been longer than my ute, and it was almost motionless (sounds like a whaleshark). There's a lot of diving on the reefs near there (Sodwana Bay, for anyone who knows Seth Efrika at all) and dive boats pass through regularly. Another mate skippers one of them and he had told me previously that there was a whaleshark in the area around that time.

So after a bit my mate and I went back out and had a look around the same area for it. Didn't see it again, but I kept imagining fleshy feeling things clipping the underneath of my board for the rest of the time we spent in that spot.

Whether it was a whaleshark or a Great White I don't know, but I tell you that between recognising that it was some sort of shark and not a dolphin because of the tail, and running into said tail, I won't forget that afternoon's session in a hurry.

Icing on the cake, as we finished off the day in the now deserted boat launch area we managed to catch the full moon rising on our port tack at the same time as the sun set to starboard. Just the three of us, myself, the mate who came looking for it earlier and the skipper who had now finished for the day. What a day hey, kiting a prime location in magic conditions, mixing it with the wildlife, and having it exclusively to ourselves. Definitely one for the long term memory banks.

SHARK CAUGHT IN TUGGERAH LAKE.

Hi Guys.

Yes and I know the fisherman that caught it to. He wishes to remain anonomous at this stage.

3.4 Metre Great White.Must have got through entrance inlet as a baby probably as a member of a group. The Great Whites swim in groups with kids foregers just like the mother is.

Personally, I am a residant, have a holidayer on the water at Tuggerah lake. I have caught 15 Gumby sharks in my time no bigger than 70cm and one tigers shark, another baby.

Imagine If Wyong Council ever opened the inlet, kiss Good bye to tourism in the area.

Something to think about guys.

I would like to drop a shark-shield into the aquarium ... just to see if it really works.
Graeme

I don't recon you've got any worries in Qld. There are some big chompers over in W.A. A few years ago when I lived over here in the late ninties, and working at the Cott hotel. A 6m white pointer chomped a surf ski in half just past the break. lucky the dude jumped onto his mates surf ski and the shark only got a gut full of glass and not ass. I've had a few tangles in the lines and been floating for half hour in the same spot and it's a good feeling when the wind gets in the kite and takes me the fxxk ouda there.

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Hey cwamit, love your vid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2827673828856319563&q=sharks

Aside from the fact that these guys are morons, there may be some scientific merit to their folly. Notice how the shark went for the guy wearing the pants....wonder why? The shark was obviously just checking (nibbling) to see what was edible because 6 legs in the water and a camera man is not natural food for the shark. That blood would have got them all going though if the idiot was not pulled out of the water quickly.

If it were not for heros like these guys, then I would never know not to wear pants kiting....the sharks ignored the bare legged guys.

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thats sickening

Yeah I read that before I bought mine. It's worth reading the whole thing. They didn't blame it on the gear not working, just the diver not using it correctly.

I'm much happier wearing mine but I would still really like to see it actually repel a shark.
Graeme

Hi qfmike
I wrote a review 12 months ago in the Gear section: www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9764&SearchTerms=shark+shield

In a nutshell, yes I like it and feel more confident with it than without so I get more kiting in. I wear it off my ankle. Yes it zapps me from time to time, but it doesn't hurt much. It's more assuring to know that it's working.

The one issue I have found with it is the on/off switch which seems to jam easily when fine sand gets in there. With soft water logged nails it's sometimes impossible to turn off and I have to use my boards fin. A bit of a nuisance.

I've no regrets buying one. I wouldn't bother using it in the river, just use it in the ocean.

BTW, I went to Broome on a deep sea fishing trip over the weekend. Saw some wonderful sealife including a 3m shark glide silently past the boat. They're definitely out there.

Graeme