Posted on 02/25/2008 11:02:52 AM PST by jazusamo
Edited on 02/25/2008 11:45:58 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A man bitten by a shark while diving over the weekend has died, the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami announced on Monday.
The 50-year-old man "passed away from his injuries sustained by a shark bite," said Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson.
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I’ve seen it and this guy just wasn’t all there.
While diving off Fort Pierce Florida I had a Tiger swinm nearby and it scared the pooh out of me. I clung to the underside of a ledge and it went away and I got out of the water.
Lobster diving at the time.
Have seen a few bulls and they are more frightening.
Played with nurse and a large hammerhead estuary is in the Indian river just south of here.
Have even seen a whale shark but didn’t go in the water with it as I was trolling at the time for Phelagics.
LOL! I think I’d have been right along side your wife.
That line is truly spoken aloud?
I am laughing so hard my boss is gonna want to know why.
Dammit. Now I gotta watch that movie after all.
He was a riot!! I loved how he would film himself and then talk to himself about it and do it again.
Yes!! I loved that line. I thought it was great, especially in the deadpan manner it was delivered.
Kind of funny,
I’ve known green Berets and Harley Davidson bad asses and taken them diving with me.
Near Pecks Lake there are a few very large sharks, 15 or 18 foot nurse sharks that are quite docile but when ya take these tough guys and introduce them to these very large docile sharks their pucker factor becomes enormous.
Now get me around tigers or bulls and I seem to get very nervous.
I don’t care for very large Morays either.
Exactly right. This dive operator is off his nut. I ran into a Bull down in Playa Del Carmen a couple of years back. 2 divers pursued the darned thing with their camera. They made it back, but I wouldn't have been surprised if they hadn't.
A neighbor & dive partner was on a wreck dive of Morehead City (NC) when a Great White happened by. He was back on the boat, but there were still 2 divers on the wreck and they weren't due back for 30 minutes. Skipper slid a spear gun & a slate saying "Great White at the boat... NO SH--!". Fortunately, the beast moved over to investigate another boat & that was precisely when the wide-eyed divers popped up. Frankly, I thought that the spear gun would just p*ss him off. My neighbor promptly invested in a 44 Mag "Bang Stick" after that incident.
Oh, and I used to free ascend & catch the anchor line further up if the current permitted. Not anymore. I would have missed the speargun & slate entirely.
Timmy Treadwell’s demon jumped from bears to sharks.
AHHH!! I posted before I saw this.
Great minds think alike. hehe
Taste it, if it’s salty, there’s sharks in there. ‘Course, OTOH, if it’s fresh, there might still be sharks, they can swim in fresh water too.
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Yep, they caught a 8 foot bull shark in ST LOUIS MISSOURI. It swam up the river.
“The sharks that you run into on these dives are typically caribbean reef sharks”
The key word there is...”typically.”
You’ve seen a Tiger in the water. You’re 1 up on me. My theory is that any ocean dive is by definition a shark dive — you just mostly don’t see them (but they ‘see’ you). The risk can be managed with most species. Tigers, Bulls & Whites are not among them.
Especially after the bear got a hold of him.
At the printing of the next menu.
Happens daily.
Tastes good.
I’ll tell you I was more afraid once when I was lobstering in murkey water. Vis about 10 feet and I saw two extremely large shadows go by just where I couldn’t make out what they were.
As I got to the boat two 7 or 8 foot tarpon swam by and they were at least three foot wide.
Ok, went back to getting more lobster.
Still the pucker factor was such that you couldn’t shoot a b.b. in to my rectum with a very high power rifle.
Whew! I think I would have sat out the second dive. I don’t like lobster THAT much!
I heard of a guy interviewed that had gotten attacked by a large bear (grizley I think). He said he had been told act like he was dead if attacked. He did and the bear “ate him just a little”.
Now what the hell is a little? And when do ya take a stand.\?
I think once you’re on the ground and the bear’s eating, it’s a little late to take a stand. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how people can be stoopid enough to hang around with creatures that consider them food. Heck, I’m fairly certain my cat would kill me if he were big enough.
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