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Beach Alert for Monster Shark - NZ Great White Spotted Again Today!
New Zealand News ^
| 27 January 2006
| Staff
Posted on 01/26/2006 8:06:21 PM PST by Mongeaux
Fresh sightings of a monster great white shark close to North Taranaki's shoreline have prompted a warning to swimmers.
The Conservation Department warning comes after two more close encounters with the shark, estimated to be six metres long.
Fishermen on a charter boat got the fright of their lives when the great white swam directly under them last Friday. And two competitors in a yacht race off Port Taranaki watched in horror as the shark its fin clearly out of the water swam between their much smaller craft.
These sightings follow numerous incidents involving a very big shark earlier this summer.
DOC programme manager Bryan Williams said yesterday the latest sightings confirmed there was at least one very large great white patrolling off North Taranaki. "It's obviously on the move up and down the coast. This makes sense, because our fur seal population has just finishing pupping, and no doubt the great white has scoffed quite a few of them.
"We strongly recommend that swimmers at such places as Fitzroy Beach remain aware that there is a very large shark off the shore."
(Excerpt) Read more at stuff.co.nz ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: greatwhite; greatwhiteshark; jaws; northtaranaki; shark
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The Fishermen caught this photo of the Great White.
They said they left after the shark began nudging their boat too hard.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:06:23 PM PST
by
Mongeaux
To: Mongeaux
They should have talked to it and asked what they did wrong...
2
posted on
01/26/2006 8:08:12 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
To: Mongeaux
"We're going to need a bigger boat."
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:08:41 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: Mongeaux
Huh????
I thought Sen. Kennedy was in Washington DC today!
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:08:54 PM PST
by
llevrok
(I don't know the difference between latter and former - and I don'r care !)
To: Mongeaux
"We strongly recommend that swimmers at such places as Fitzroy Beach remain aware that there is a very large shark off the shore."
And try to avoid looking like a seal pup.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:09:00 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
To: Darksheare
Not "the bigger boat" line.
:) Good one!
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:09:50 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Mongeaux
Great White Spotted Again Today I thought Ted Kennedy was in Washington!
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:09:51 PM PST
by
neodad
(Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
To: llevrok
I gotta get a faster connection.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:10:27 PM PST
by
neodad
(Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
To: Darkwolf377
They should have talked to it and asked what they did wrong...That's right. That greedy, invasive man is invading their space again. Man sucks!!!!!!!!!
:)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:10:31 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Mongeaux
I just think it is unethical and racist to keep calling it a "Great White."
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:10:58 PM PST
by
msnimje
(http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/index.html . FREEP THIS HOURLY!)
To: CWOJackson
And try to avoid looking like a seal pup.Good one, Chief. :)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:11:22 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Mongeaux
Sharks used to be bigger.
To: msnimje
I just think it is unethical and racist to keep calling it a "Great White."That's right. We only see shades of gray. :)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:12:26 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Mongeaux
If I lived down there, I'd become a land lubber real quick.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:12:51 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
To: writer33
Heh heh.
It's what came to mind the second I saw the pic.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:13:33 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: Darksheare
"We're headin' in, Brody."
"Thank, Christ."
:)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:14:43 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
The guys in the racing sailboats HAD to be near the point of changing skivvies after seeing the shark.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:15:43 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: writer33
A mean one. Three of us were fishing in a cove near Juneau once. One of our group was from New Orleans and new to Alaska; he worked his way out on a log raft/jam and was fishing from there.
Some Orca's came into the cove and he got nervous. I yelled at him to lay down real quick before they saw him; he did. Then I yelled at him that he looked like a seal and to get back up real quick; he did. Then I told him to wave his arms and yell so they knew he was a human; he did.
When I told him to start singing a particular song (I can't remember what) he figured it out.
Boy was he ticked when he got back on the beach.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:16:30 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
To: Darksheare
I bet those guys were. I would've said, "time to go."
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:16:57 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: CWOJackson
I bet that was priceless. Yell at them so they know he was human. That's good.
Hilarious!
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:18:28 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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