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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

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

:)


61 posted on 01/26/2006 8:59:01 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Mike Darancette

What the sam H$LL is that?

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


62 posted on 01/26/2006 9:01:28 PM PST by patton (I don't regret the journey, but it is time to get off the train.)
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To: shaggy eel

Don't go swimming!!


63 posted on 01/26/2006 9:01:39 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: writer33

Couple calories shy of a happy meal.


64 posted on 01/26/2006 9:02:53 PM PST by Darksheare (And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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To: DarthVader

Beyond here... there be monsters...

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


65 posted on 01/26/2006 9:03:57 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: Darksheare

No, kidding. Definitely a couple of calories shy.


66 posted on 01/26/2006 9:05:05 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Mongeaux

Game over, man, game over!


67 posted on 01/26/2006 9:05:30 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Ramius

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


68 posted on 01/26/2006 9:05:33 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: writer33

Shark would have starved due to improper unbalanced nutrient intake.


69 posted on 01/26/2006 9:09:29 PM PST by Darksheare (And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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To: Darksheare

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

:)


70 posted on 01/26/2006 9:10:28 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

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


71 posted on 01/26/2006 9:12:19 PM PST by Darksheare (And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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To: Darksheare

Yep. Most libs are dirty, pocket lint.

:) HA!


72 posted on 01/26/2006 9:13:03 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

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


73 posted on 01/26/2006 9:15:28 PM PST by Darksheare (And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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To: writer33; Darksheare

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

... we saw some really big hammerheads upclose


74 posted on 01/26/2006 9:17:47 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: patton
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.

75 posted on 01/26/2006 9:18:38 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: Dad yer funny; writer33

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


76 posted on 01/26/2006 9:18:48 PM PST by Darksheare (And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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To: Darksheare; Dad yer funny

Both PETA and Hammerheads have a lot in common.

:)


77 posted on 01/26/2006 9:53:37 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: writer33

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


78 posted on 01/26/2006 9:55:01 PM PST by Darksheare (And baby says "RAAAAR!")
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To: Dad yer funny
When I did sailboat deliveries[in my youth] up and down the east coast

You mean they had sailboats back then?

:) HA!

79 posted on 01/26/2006 9:59:31 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: potlatch; cyborg

,,, eels ashore!


80 posted on 01/27/2006 1:33:12 AM PST by shaggy eel
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