Beach Alert for Monster Shark - NZ Great White Spotted Again Today!

New Zealand News ^ | 27 January 2006 | Staff

[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."

[writer33]

Most of those PETA types aren't what you'd call good cuts of meat.

:)

[patton]

What the sam H$LL is that?

I will never go in the water, again...

[potlatch]

Don't go swimming!!

[Darksheare]

Couple calories shy of a happy meal.

[Ramius]

Beyond here... there be monsters...

I used to write that on the edges of the charts... just for grins...

[writer33]

No, kidding. Definitely a couple of calories shy.

[Pyro7480]

Game over, man, game over!

[Ramius]

...but there ~are~ monsters... well and true, laddie...

[Darksheare]

Shark would have starved due to improper unbalanced nutrient intake.

[writer33]

Yep. The PETA people would've all been vegetarians and there would've been no protein for the shark. Good point, D.

:)

[Darksheare]

Yeah, for the shark it would have been like eating dirt or pocket lint.

[writer33]

Yep. Most libs are dirty, pocket lint.

:) HA!

[Darksheare]

Their natural fiber clothing would pose some trouble for the shark as well.
Considering what natural fibers they go for.

[Dad yer funny]

When I did sailboat deliveries[in my youth] up and down the east coast ,

... we saw some really big hammerheads upclose

[Mike Darancette]

What the sam H$LL is that?

Prehistoric Shark Eating a Dino. Couldn't have happened since Dinos died out about 40 million years before those sharks came on the scene.

[Darksheare]

NO, unh uh, would NOT get me close to a hammerhead anywhere.

[writer33]

Both PETA and Hammerheads have a lot in common.

:)

[Darksheare]

LOL.
Eyes too wide apart, and hit with the ugly stick too much?

[writer33]

When I did sailboat deliveries[in my youth] up and down the east coast

You mean they had sailboats back then?

:) HA!

[shaggy eel]

,,, eels ashore!