Posted on 09/30/2004 10:30:19 AM PDT by presidio9
Back and forth, back and forth: It was almost as if the great white shark was pacing, swimming the same small circle over and over.
"Territorial loops," said Matt Lundberg, a fisherman who has cashed in as an aquatic tour guide ever since the 14-foot creature showed up in shallow water here last week.
The 1,700-pound female--her gender identified by her dorsal fin--swam into an estuary off Naushon Island, about 3 miles from this Cape Cod village. Marine scientists believe she drifted too close to shore and became stuck in the 20-foot-deep lagoon.
The area is rich in striped bass, bluefish and other sea life to keep the shark well fed. But marine scientists suspect she is disoriented and unable to return to the open ocean. She appears to be healthy.
Soon after the shark was sighted, a state biologist used a pole to insert a recording device in her fin. The mechanism will measure water temperature and light levels until April, when it will detach from the fin and beam its information to marine scientists.
Dan McKiernan, deputy director of the state division of marine fisheries, said Monday that the instrument would help track the shark's travels.
High tides associated with the full moon Tuesday could allow the shark to escape from the lagoon, McKiernan said.
"In the past few years, there have been occasional sightings in the Gulf of Maine," he said, "but it is very uncommon to see a great white shark in this region."
Re: the pic of Kennedy
I was eating.....I have now officially lost my appetite for good....I will never eat again.
Ahhh, a golf ball is causing this confusion..........
Don't insult me.
No we just need to chain my jeep's trailer hitch to a telephone pole, and run out the wench with a hook with brisket on a float. He bites, I reel him in. Then we find a taxidermist that handles large jobs.;)
Naushon Island is owned by the Forbes family, as in John Forbes Kerry.
~snip~
Jerry: Cash advance...yes (he looks over) no (he looks over again)balance
inquiry...no (he looks again) receipt....no (he looks again)
processing...processing...processing.(He opens the box and gets his
money and then looks at the woman and says)I won!
(Jerry starts to walk away)
Diane: Jerry?
Jerry: Yeah
Diane: Diane, Diane DeConn, from college. I've seen you on TV you're doin'
great.
Jerry: Yeah pluggin' along.
Diane: I got the Alumni magazine. Ya know what ever happened to your friend
George? I never see him in there.
Jerry: Well he's kind of modest.
Diane: He was always such a goof-off. I mean did he ever get anywhere?
Jerry: Sure.
Diane: Yeah? What field?
Jerry: Marine biology.
Diane: George is a marine biologist?!
Jerry: A pretty damn good one, too!
Diane: I can't believe it I mean I would never had thought..
Jerry: Yeah...he specializing in whales. He's working on lowering the
cholesterol level in whales...all that blubber-- quite unhealthy.
You know its the largest mammal on earth but as George says "they
don't have to be."
~snip~
(On the beach George and Diane are standing with the crowd)
Diane: What's going on over here?
Woman at beach: ere is a beached whale, she's dieing.
Voice: Is anyone here a marine biologist?
~snip~
(At the beach everyone is yelling at George)
Crowd: Come on! Save the whale! Hurry up it's gonna die!
Diane: Save the whale George... for me.
(He turns and throws his hat down. He walks into the ocean)
(At the coffee shop Jerry and Kramer are awaiting the story)
George: So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys, I
was terrified! But I pressed on and as I made my way passed the
breakers a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was devine
intervention or the kinship of all living things but I tell you Jerry
at that moment I was a marine biologist!
(Elaine enters and sits down)
Elaine: George I was just reading this thing in the papers, it's amazing!
George: I know I was just telling them the story.
Kramer: Come on George, finish the story.
George: The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to
return soap at a deli!
(Jerry gives Kramer a "what the h-" glance)
George: I got about fifty-feet out and then suddenly the great beast
appeared before me. I tell ya he was ten stories high if he was a
foot. As if sensing my presence he gave out a big bellow. I said,
"Easy big fella!" And then as I watched him struggling I reliezed
something was obstructing his breathing. From where I was standing
I could see directly into the eye of the great fish!
Jerry: Mammal.
George: Whatever.
Kramer: Well, what did you do next?
George: Then from out of nowhere a huge title wave lifted, tossed like a
quark and I found myself on top of him face to face with the
blow-hole. I could barely see from all of the waves crashing down on
top of me but I knew something was there so I reached my hand and
pulled out the obstruction!
(George pulls out of the inside pocket a golfball)
(Jerry and George just stare at Kramer)
Kramer: What is that a Titleist? A hole in one eh.
Jerry: Well the crowd most have gone wild!
George: Oh yes they did Jerry they were all over me. It was like Rocky 1.
Diane came up to me, threw her arms around me, and kissed me. We
both had tears streaming down our faces. I never saw anyone so
beautiful. It was at that moment I decided to tell her I was not a
marine biologist!
Now that's a shark Manwich.....
Believe the correct term is "marine" tour guide.
"her gender identified by her dorsal fin"
As far as I know the gender of sharks is identified by their anal fins, there are claspers on those of the male, but not the female.
Harpooning it seems like a good idea to me, then there would be one less of the things in the world, not to mention that they are probably good to eat.
Naushon Island has been a Forbes family retreat for some time, where the opium trader John Murray Forbes and his family summered for more than a century. Sen. John Forbes Kerry and his first cousin Brice Lalonde summered there, and at another Forbes family estate in France, at Saint-Briac when he was growing up. The family owns the island through the J.M. Forbes Naushon Island Trust. Naushon island is seven miles long, just off (SW of) Cape Cod in the Elizabeth Islands, and four miles NW of Martha's Vineyard. The island is owned by the family and is included in the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts.
IIRC, the Great White is also referred to as a "maneater" - if so, then keep it cooped up - of better yet, catch it, and have the thing mounted so it can't hurt ANYONE.
"We'll need a bigger boat" is (at least approximately) a line from Jaws.
Wow. I would call this is a very bad omen for Mssr. K.
Soon after the shark was sighted, a state biologist used a pole to insert a recording device in her fin.
Get a grip on yourself, man. Think! Think for one minute, who goes swimming in those waters? I think we need to find her a mate, and keep her hungry.
In the book, I think that it was Brody's wife. But in the movie, it was Mary Something??
You forgot the most important thing to do with the shark: COOK IT AND EAT IT!
"Slow ahead. I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this sh*t!"
-Chief Brody
Lots more from this classic film can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/quotes
Mary Ellen Moffit? Was that Brody's wife?
Now THOSE are weapons of mass destruction!
It's a vast right-wing conspiracy, I tell ya!
Those sharkies were especially hired for that slightly liberal location - and there was no trip to the UN for approval, no permission from the French, no secret talks with Kofi Anan, no CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL, for Pete's sake.
Chomp away, boys!!
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