Great white shark attacks US surfer in New Jersey

Times of Oman ^ | June 9, 2005

[Mongeaux]

:) they are everywhere folks. Saturday a spearfisherman off south africa was swallowed whole by a 20 footer. 4000 pounds+. His buddy speared it and monday it was seen by a group of wreck divers still towing his bait float and the remnants of a trigger mechanism. The water went dark, they looked up to see it hovering over them "as big as a boxcar". But nobody can hunt it down because killing Great Whites is illegal in "Sarth Effrica".

[DuckFan4ever]

Freakin' scary animals. Hope I never have the opportunity to meet one of these.

On the positive side, they do eat those damn pinnipeds. That's at least one good thing they do.

[Thinkin' Gal]

In interviews with local press Thursday, Ryan Horton...

[spinestein]

["I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning," Mark Travers, 20, told the Newark Star Ledger. "You can't live your life scared."]


That's the spirit!

Maybe his new hobby could be tree climbing during thunderstorms.

:^)

[AmericanArchConservative]

Yeah

Dang seals have been scarfing salmon left and right at the locks and under the Sellwood, out neear the Clackamas river below the falls...

A.A.C.

[leadpenny]

One of the big news stories right before 9-11 was shark attacks in Florida.

BTW, Breaking News? This happened last Sunday. It's been in all the papers.

[Mongeaux]

It's new to me. All the real GWS action has been in South Africa where people are being eaten.

[leadpenny]

Whatever. You would have found your story already posted if you had searched, "shark."

[1FASTGLOCK45]

spinestein wrote:
["I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning," Mark Travers, 20, told the Newark Star Ledger. "You can't live your life scared."]


That's the spirit!

spinestein wrote:
((Maybe his new hobby could be tree climbing during thunderstorms.))

--> I was thinking this surfer may as well start playing russian roulette. To me, swimming in the ocean around sharks is like pointing a gun @yourself with faulty bullets in the barrels, eventually, one is going to go off.

[ppaul]

[DuckFan4ever]

How do you fight off a great white shark? Hit it in the snout with your fists. If that doesn't work, hit it with your stumps.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Hey you forgot to give him a nose job before you posted his pic. LOL

[xJones]

GWS attacks around the U.S. coasts don't equal South African standards. The worst single GWS episode in American history was in 1916 off the New Jersey coast and that was the series of attacks that the first "Jaws" movie (1975) was based on. And it was caused by just one rogue GWS that apparently got ambitious.

[Mongeaux]

yes you are right, my apologies

[Mongeaux]

I work nights so I am behind the curve.

[Mongeaux]

The post I found was dated Thursday, and it's 3 hours after midnight. Sorry.

[SoDak]

I think I hooked one of these fellows out at Lake Thompson. He got away.

[jsh3180]

[motormouth]

This is why I dont swim in the ocean..I do not want to be swimming with something that is higher on the food chain than me!! :o)

[Tallguy]

How do you fight off a great white shark? Hit it in the snout with your fists. If that doesn't work, hit it with your stumps.

....and for you SCUBA divers out there, you just draw you dive knife, stab your partner, and swim off...