Posted on 02/24/2017 6:24:15 AM PST by C19fan
Ain’t got no spit.
great whites need to eat too, any chance obama could give up golf and take up surfing?
Not that 6’ is something to shake your tail at, but “large”? That Shark didn’t look any bigger than the surfboard.
Gotta remember that when you step off the beach into the ocean, you have just entered the food chain.
...first off if the spot is notorious for great whites....????...WTH?
...I don’t surf.....but the fishy would have to navigate through 10
Yards of human feces and a dirty board to get to me
It’s not like going down to pond
chasin’ blue gills or tommy cots. This shark - swallow ya hole.
As a teenager I was surprised by old family friends who lived at the NC coast, telling us that we wouldn’t be in there if we knew what was swimming around our feet. They’ve lived there all their lives, have a nice Grady White fishing boat, I guess they know what they’re talking about. I’ll still go in but seldom beyond waist deep and never past the surf anymore.
Looked like about a 10 foot shark to me.
Words mean something...
Something needs to be done thin out the population of these beach creatures. Might have to do something about the sharks too.
Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
After I watched Jaws in the ‘70’s I never went out past my waist. That movie scared the crap out of a lot of people. I bet sailboard dealers lost a whole lot of money because of that movie...lol
Why do these people surf in Shark infested waters? I don’t swim in any water if cannot see bottom. Fresh or Salt.
Those shark eyes are so fake!
Another thing about a shark is it has got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
People have gotten too humane, they used to sport fish for sharks just to kill them. My extended family had a beach place, well more of a fishing shack, those were more practical times as the NC coast is pretty much just glorified sandbars, we went down frequently until it was wiped out by a hurricane. But, I remember going out on the local fishing pier at night just to see what sort of beasties they’d manage to pull out, remember a fairly large hammerhead that had drawn a crowd lying there dying on the planks, stabbed multiple times.
Going out on that same pier in the daytime could be an eye-opener too, all the sharks just yards from surfers and even kids on those inflatable deals that were ever-present then, even rented out by the lifeguards. Even in the face of all that, we went in, swam out past the surf in deeper ocean, went swimming at night, it was especially fun when the phytoplankton was around, the glow, it was like waterborne Disney pixie dust. This was all before that movie ever came out.
Later learning that sharks identify prey by that photoluminescence was especially chilling. I love the ocean, and still go in but am never at ease as I once was. Never past the breakers, not even in low light anymore and certainly nowhere near a pier.
I always liked that scene. In Jaws, Spielberg got the date of the sinking of the Indianapolis wrong. I always wondered how he screwed that up. I believe it sunk on July 30 not June 29.
Come on down to the Lake of the Ozarks.
The biggest fish we have are the spoonbill catfish...
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