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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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To: Darksheare
No. It's Ted, go and get the anchor off the back. Then you hit the gas.
:)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:40:00 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
LOL, can picture that one.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:41:34 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: DarthVader
Several news stories on this Hawaiian encounter from last month placed the fish at close to 20 foot.
"Great white sightings are extremely rare in Hawaii -- about a half dozen in the last eight years -- but this one was special. It was an estimated 20 feet long."
- KHON2 News Online
I'm not sure this fish is 20 foot either, but I do know that the guy in the photo is NUTS!
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:42:14 PM PST
by
Mongeaux
(You are a wise man and I agree with you completely. This was a cage diving operation, was the water)
To: Mike Darancette
Those are jaws of Charcharadon Megladon. Some estimated to be nearly 100 ft long with six inch teeth. It was probably like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives. The ultimate predator of the prehistoric era sort of like a T-Rex. Now we know why we have legends of sea monsters such as the Kraken.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:42:33 PM PST
by
DarthVader
(Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
To: Darksheare
That's far too much pork for a shark though.
:)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:44:00 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Mongeaux
He sure looks like he wants to be a boxed lunch. Being in the water with 4 foot sharks is dangerous.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:44:28 PM PST
by
DarthVader
(Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
To: shaggy eel
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:44:35 PM PST
by
cyborg
(I just love that man.)
To: writer33
It'd fix the shark right up.
It'd either die of cholesterol, alcohol poisoning, or gag to death.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:45:27 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: Darksheare
49
posted on
01/26/2006 8:46:28 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
PETA would protest the sharks death though.
*snort*
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:47:47 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: Darksheare
51
posted on
01/26/2006 8:49:22 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Mongeaux
Doesn't anyone use "bang sticks" anymore?
52
posted on
01/26/2006 8:49:54 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Final judgement belongs to God alone, not us.)
To: Darksheare; Lakeshark
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:51:18 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: writer33
*chuckle*
PETA can show their concern for the sharks well being by leaping into the water and splashing about to scare off boaters...
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:52:13 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: sweetliberty; Lakeshark
Uh oh.
He said he was just heading off to bed.
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:52:35 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: DarthVader
The ultimate predator of the prehistoric era sort of like a T-Rex.
Dinosaur for dinner.
To: Darksheare
That's right. PETA can jump in and keep the shark from bumping the boat. We'll let them. And we'll defend their right to do just that.
:)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:54:03 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:54:47 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
To: Darksheare
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:56:02 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
Yeah!
Of course, PETA would be just as bad for the shark as Kennedy would be.
(Yick!)
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posted on
01/26/2006 8:58:04 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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