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."
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This is the reason why I, since I was a little guy, swore that I would never touch foot in the ocean. After seeing clips of jaws, that ruined the whole beach thing with me.
The only spots I would put on a shark would be from a high powered rifle.
Maybe it'll get a hairball and choke...
Be a great time to ditch any unwanted bodies laying around...(so long, chum....)
*Sigh*
I'm innocent I tell ya......
We figured you used your contacts as you were in forum while the shark in question was bumping boats.
(Shark organized crime method of dealing with da snitches: Send the fish to "sleep with da humans" by putting a helium balloon on his fins.)
Oooooohhhh... Can you imagine shark munchies after chawing down on a hemp shirt? Yeesh!
LOL, yes!
Mike, that picture you posted shows the scale which is about correct. When we see lithographs from the 1400 thru 1600 we see large fish like sea monsters which were probably whales or possibly even Charcaradon Megladon. It is quite possible that maybe some still swam the oceans. We still have the Coelacanth around which was thought to be extinct millions of years ago.
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