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Jacksonville Fishing Guide Captures Photos, Video of Great White Shark: ‘Incredible…’
Epoch Times ^ | December 28, 2015

Posted on 12/28/2015 7:02:56 PM PST by Lera

Captain Chard Starling has seen lots of things while on the water, but before the other day he’d only seen a great white shark once.

Starling was excited to double that total over the weekend, calling it “incredible.”

“Quite an eventful day. We caught more red snapper than we could count, had a Mola Mola follow right behind the engines for 10-15 minutes, and oh yeah, the great white deal. Incredible day,” he wrote on Facebook.

“It stands true; you never know what you will see when you’re on the sea!”

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: fishing; florida; greatwhiteshark
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To: Lera

It’s abt 70 miles to the Gulfstream out of Jax. Wonder how far out they were...


21 posted on 12/28/2015 9:39:07 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I saw one off the Connecticut coast while I was on a deep sea fishing trip. The captain said they are very rare and are a protected species. It looked like the hood of a 72 Cadillac.


22 posted on 12/28/2015 9:55:25 PM PST by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

[[It’s abt 70 miles to the Gulfstream out of Jax. Wonder how far out they were...]]

I have never fished this area but
charter boats don’t usually go that far out.
They were catching snappers so must have been near a reef .


23 posted on 12/28/2015 10:02:56 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: peeps36

Those ocean sunfish are harmless, helpless and useless, so protecting them is OK with me. Not so Great Whites and other oceanic vermin that might decide to take a test bite.


24 posted on 12/28/2015 10:04:07 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I had a barracuda bump me while snorkeling at Pennekamp .
It was bigger than me , dropped my camera .
The place is crawling with them but there are hardly ever any bites from them.

http://pennekamppark.com/


25 posted on 12/28/2015 10:08:06 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Lera
You can dive with sharks, just stay safely behind a natural rock formation like I'm doing here, & concentrate on taking the photo properly. (Taken in Moorea, summer of '97.)

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26 posted on 12/28/2015 10:44:41 PM PST by goldbux (CDO / I may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but at least I put the letters in correct sequence.)
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To: goldbux

That looks like fun but my husband would roll over dead from a heart attack if I did that .


27 posted on 12/28/2015 11:12:25 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I was skin diving off of Cozumel. In the past I have frequently seen barracudas and it did not bother me. This one was big and acted strangely. I was about two hundred yards off the beach and it followed me for a few minutes. It was a big one about 5 feet. It stayed about ten feet behind me at 45 degrees. I became uneasy and headed for shore. It followed me into about 3 feet of water. I walked up the beach instead of swimming back. That one scared me.
28 posted on 12/28/2015 11:51:33 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I've swam through schools of them. Snorkeling off the beach in Boca Raton at Red Reef Park.

They were each between 2-3 feet and these were the silver variety. I've read that those are younger ones. There was a larger one that stalked the reefs, it was a different color however. It appeared to be dark with yellow-green stripes. I dubbed it a "Turbo Barracuda" later on. It was close to 4 feet long. I didn't feel at risk at the time but I've been in situations in the Caymans where one appeared aggressive with me but didn't attack.

29 posted on 12/29/2015 6:06:20 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Redcitizen

Best monologue of all time, IMO.


30 posted on 12/29/2015 6:40:37 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Redcitizen

Show me the way to go home.
I’m tired and I want to go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And it went right to my head.
No matter where I roam,
On land or sea or foam,
You can always hear me singing my song,
Show me the way to go home.


31 posted on 12/29/2015 7:10:22 AM PST by Garvin (Scratch a liberal, get a fascist)
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To: Garvin

That’s a good drinking song.


32 posted on 12/29/2015 12:36:59 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Lera
I've gone on 45 dives. My wife has been with me on many of them. They were some of the most exhilarating moments of my life. We really miss Club Med's former villages at Moorea & Bora Bora. They were the crown jewels of the resort chain. Very sad to see them utterly abandoned.

A swarm of four-foot reef sharks swam in circles very near to us, but were not threatening. Scariest thing on that dive was the ten-meter citron (lemon) shark propelling rapidly just above the ocean floor. All the other sharks got out of its way.

We also swam near an indigenous giant Napoleon wrasse.

In shallower water around Bora we swam next to a group (a radiance?) of slow-moving Manta rays; very graceful.

On Hawaii, Big Island Divers will take you on a black-water dive at night. The boat goes out a mile offshore, beyond the edge of the Mauna Kea volcano, where the ocean floor is 7,000 feet deep. The divers jump in the water, tethered to the boat with sturdy lines. The divemasters on board shine a strobe light into the water. You just hang there weightlessly for 45 minutes, watching very strange pelagic creatures swimming close by, many of them digesting each other. Thrilling!

33 posted on 12/29/2015 12:40:19 PM PST by goldbux (CDO / I may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but at least I put the letters in correct sequence.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

First two rules of scuba diving:
0. When you enter the water, you enter the food chain.
1. Keep breathing! So your lungs don’t implode / explode when you hold your breath but change your depth, altering the water pressure on your body.


34 posted on 12/29/2015 12:48:15 PM PST by goldbux (CDO / I may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but at least I put the letters in correct sequence.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Sounds like an interesting story. What did you see?


35 posted on 12/29/2015 12:52:01 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: shibumi

You got that right.


36 posted on 12/29/2015 12:52:55 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: T-Bone Texan

I’ll be watching it this week. Good cast of characters.


37 posted on 12/29/2015 12:55:00 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

well.... my Hawaiian fishing partner and I were about 12 miles off the west coast of the Big Island one afternoon , fishing around a buoy that marked the intake end of a deep sea water pipeline and we were into some medium sized yellowfin tuna ( Ahi) Hand-line fishing . When you fish with hand-line , as opposed to rod and reel , you can really ‘feel’ the fish on the line and it’s behavior signals what can be happening down there . So he had on a fish that was too big to just horse in and he was playing it a bit to tire it out and starts telling me that the fish was behaving strangely somehow . We figured a predator was making it nervous so he started to pull it in as quick as possible . Looking down over the side of the boat in the crystal clear offshore Hawaiian water he could see the fish coming up , but also the flash of something big , much bigger moving around beneath it . “Mano!” ( shark ) he says and really starts to crank it . Hand over hand finally he get’s this good size , maybe 40-50 lb Ahi just about to break the surface and into the boat . He is braced against the gunwale , with about 2 ft. of freeboard to the water
and I was on the motors ( twin 75’s ) . As the Ahi broke the surface , all of the sudden in a great gush of water here comes this immense shark , surging out of the water and literally gulping the fish right off the line with it’s big pink mouth wide open , full of bright white teeth , gulping and chomping . The body far wider around than I could have encircled with both arms; slate grey with death white belly and ‘that eye’ . The eye seemed about as big as a coffee cup plate . Black , menacing , fathomless . Looking right at us . In a few seconds it was over , but as it was happening , time stood still . The shark got the fish , the entire thing , we were left with some shreds of fish mouth parts on the hook , that’s it . Luckily my partner had jumped back at the last second , or he could have been part of the snack . But it wasn’t over yet . Suddenly we had this ‘visitor’ easily over half as long as our boat , a 20ft. Mako , circling around underneath . Waiting for seconds ? We always carried a ‘shark gun’ a S&W .357mag , so I asked him should I get the gun ? No! he said , let’s ‘hele ‘ ! ( to get out of there ) So we cranked it up and let the area , quickly .... In fact we drove all the way back to port 25 miles + distant . That was enough for the day . ( we also caught plenty) In review , we concluded that it was either a great white , or possibly it’s close cousin the Mako . 2 kinds of Mako are fairly common in Hawaiian waters . But to me , seeing that death white underbelly , tells me we met ‘whitey ‘ Up close and personal . - true story - ( not a fishing tale )


38 posted on 12/29/2015 2:03:57 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: tumblindice

Is that photo shopped ?


39 posted on 12/29/2015 4:55:56 PM PST by katykelly
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To: LeoWindhorse

That’s a great account of your encounter with a great white. I do thank you for taking the time to write it all out. Good thing your partner survived with all limbs intact. I’m sure it was waiting for more food.

Have a good new year and I hope your fishing goes well in the future.


40 posted on 12/29/2015 6:42:28 PM PST by Redcitizen
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