"I'll catch your fish"
Posted on 03/19/2005 7:45:48 PM PST by Pharmboy
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A charter boat deckhand was bitten in half by a 20-foot shark as he snorkeled with tourists off the coast of western Australia, police said Sunday. The 26-year-old man was killed Saturday afternoon off the Abrolhos Islands, about 250 miles north of where the pleasure cruise began at the Western Australia state capital, Perth, police said.
Police said the man's body was not recovered, and the species of shark was not known.
The water was about 26 feet deep where the attack occurred, some 35 miles west of the coastal town of Geraldton.
No one else was injured. Police said there would be a search for remains Sunday.
Not very long, anyway.
:-D
Well, at least the shark had the good business sense to eat the staff and not the tourists, eh?
"I'll catch your fish"
Twenty feet!!?? Are they sure it wasn't just a really mean whale? Dang. I got freaked out by a speedy little four-footer swimming around my legs.
That fishing pole is upside down.
"We're going to need a bigger boat" PING
It belongs to that liberal hooper guy with all the fancy equipment.
Ah, the Circle Of Life rolls through again...
damned undignified way to go though.
no more mean whales, bud. killer whales have been replaced by orcas.
Then there's this in Western Australia.
It's been a bad week for wild animal attacks in the news.
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/031605_AP_r2_alligator_attack.html
Florida man killed this week by a 9 foot alligator.
CAUTION: this is pretty bad.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Holy smokes!! I live part time in Hawaii and if I ever saw that I can guarantee you it would be the second time someone walked on water to get out of there!!! Great photo.
Dolphin.
Did it happen to have a frickin' laser beam attached to it's head?!
Hooper got killed in the book I think, but I think he survived the movie, which was an improvement over the book except in that particular respect.
Never saw a 15' dolphin before.
"Do you think they'll have THAT on the tour?"--Jeff Goldblum from 'Jurassic Park'
It's not a shark. The Photographer said so.
we have made other species extinct what so special about this one.. obviously do not care about the great circle of life interdependency of species and how important sharks are to something bla bla... we should take our polluted oceans back from the illegal fish
that's a dolphin
a friend in the water, and they like to surf occaisionally
I was daysailing near Oregon Inlet in NC with two others on my 16ft catamaran when a pod of dolphin approached. A couple appeared to be the length of my boat, but I can't be sure. I was hearing the theme tune from "Jaws" and considering exactly how close the trampoline, where I was sitting, was to the water. Needless to say, I also forgot the measuring tape:-)
Naw....I was hearing the theme to "Jaws". I'm absolutely, and almost positively, sure that I would have been hearing
1.)the theme to "ORCA" or,
2.)I would have experienced a warm dripping sensation in my swim trunks if it were on of those.....
I don't think I would go in the waters of Australia past my knees because of the sharks over there.When I vacation down in Nags Head NC I play it safe and stick to the fresh waters of the swimming pool if I feel like a swim.
"Humans are friends, not food."
Mr. Taxidermy Man gonna have a heart attack.
God bless this poor mans soul. One of the worst ways to go.
Or something like that.
Oh, that's right! I remember hearing the commercials for that. What timing!
And an interesting bit of trivia is the reason he survived in the movie. The underwater photographers were filming real sharks trying to get one to attack a reduced size shark cage model with a doll in it. While they weren't quite ready, a shark came up and got caught in the wires of the cage. It thrashed about, and they captured some incredible film footage of it they wanted to use. However, the doll had not been put into the cage, so they had to figure out a way to use the footage by giving Hooper a reason not to be in the cage, and had him escape and survive.
LOL...love the tag line!
It's just nature in action. How about it, green party?
A Minnow it was not.
20' Great White? Three tons.
I met the man who was the ships doctor on the USS Indianapolis when she was sunk. I don't remember how we got on the subject (maybe in casual conversation when I mentioned I was ex-Navy)
He talked only a little bit about it, and as he spoke, his face got redder and redder, and the poor guy choked up. I felt awful, and told him he didn't need to talk about it anymore, but he kept on, saying he never talked to anyone about it, ever.
He said, to this day, he cannot hear the Lords Prayer without becoming completely choked up and overcome with emotion. I seem to recall he told me he became a minister, that is really something that you could become a minister and have the Lord's Prayer have that effect on you, even after 50 years (this was back in the early-mid 90's when I met him.
I remembered his name, and when a book about the USS Indianapolis came out, I looked through the ships crew list, and sure enough, his name was there.
Fish. Out of water. 1 Ea.
LOL, did you start singing the song also?
Yep, you can dive with sharks. As long as they are the type in the picture (eg Reef shark species are pretty much safe).
Now, it is time to go if the tour guide tells you that you are diving with Tiger sharks, Great Whites, short-fin Mako, or (worst of all) Bull sharks (which kill more people than any shark, and are actually responsible for many of the kills attributed to Great Whites). The shark species people dive with a virtually harmless (they can still bite, and i've seen people knicked by them, but there is a huge difference between a 6-foot Reef Shark bite and a 15-foot Tiger shark attack ....a major difference being one has survivors and funny stories once healing has set in, and the other is a strong lesson on the intricacies of the food chain).
a virtually harmless = are virtually harmless.
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