Large Shark Gives Maui Kayaker A Scare

The Hawaii Channel ^ | Feb 02, 2006 | The Hawaii Channel

[flada]

Might not be a bad idea to carry a .45 in your dry bag to send a "message" to Jaws.

[yoe]

A love sick shark that thought the kayak was another shark?

[Popman]

"I saw the dorsal fin following me and I thought, 'This is not a good thing,'" Lankheit said.

Understatement of the year award ?

[ironwoodchuck]

45/70. A shark doesn't have any brain, so you shoot for the gills. We'd only have to exterminate three or four species of sharks and there'd never be another attack on a human. There'd still be 297 species of the fricking things for "scientists" who don't give a sh** about their fellow man to study.

[Tyche]

Thats so true. Considering the fact that the kayak probably is the length of the shark.

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[Mr. Brightside]

[Cvengr]

Lucky the shark didn't mistake the kayak for its mate and become incensed and jealous of the hapless human on her back.

[Mr. Brightside]

"I saw the dorsal fin following me and I thought, 'This is not a good thing,'" Lankheit said.

"Just kidding, dude."

[SLB]

Ain't Photoshop great!

[Rocky Mountain High]

Using that logic, how many species of dogs should we eliminate?

[Malsua]

That particular photo is real.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/surfer.asp

[verity]

Plagiarism: "You need a larger kayak,"

[Snickersnee]

"We're going to need a bigger kayak!"

[norwaypinesavage]

""I saw the dorsal fin following me and I thought, 'This is not a good thing,'" Lankheit said."

This man is really a profound thinker, isn't he?

[Flavius Josephus]

Sharks don't have mates. Sharks just eat. It was trying do decide if the kayak was edible or not. No one has ever seen a shark mate, I don't think. It happens very deep underwater. They are very mysterious. Did you notice the dude in the snorkelers boat call it a very large "animal?" I've noticed them calling them "animals" lately, I suppose to try to get us thinking of them as just another animal with "rights" instead of as a killing machine.

[frithguild]

That's a porpoise

[DogBarkTree]

As an old surfer I can tell you that's the kind of dorsal fin you WANT to see. Sharks & porpoises are not friends and are rarely in the same area at the same time.

[Plymouth Sentinel]

Seen that before. Love that photo.

My wife and I lived in Honolulu for a year in the early 1990s. One day we're at Kailua Beach park, swimming around, the little shark-food turtles bobbing. We went home, and read in the afternoon that they'd caught a 16 foot tiger (stupidest, hungriest, least people skittish) off that beach.

After that, each time I'd go into the water I'd lose my ability to breathe.

That monster in the pic looks about, oh, 12. Imagine a THIRD bigger than that.

I don't know. Neurosis? Or is it acceptable that I don't want to be consumed by a prehistoric animal?

[Puppage]

18-foot shark

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