Posted on 06/13/2005 10:25:22 PM PDT by Mongeaux
THE man-eating shark everyone is looking for is, for once, easy to distinguish from other great whites that patrol the waters off South Africa.
Embedded in its flesh is the spear fired at it in a last, desperate attempt to fend off death seconds before it swallowed the young man whole, leaving nothing but the tattered remains of his wetsuit.
This week fishermen spotted the 6m shark that took 22-year-old student Henri Murray as he and a friend spearfished off the Cape Town coast. The news that the shark is still in the area off pristine swimming beaches is likely to cause a wild hunt for the creature as some humans seek revenge.
"If you stick a grenade down its throat you send a clear message to the sharks - this is not a safe place to hunt," says Godfrey Mocke, of the Swimsafe Project in Cape Town.
"These beaches are our holy ground and the sharks are being lured here by cage-dive operators and nature documentary-makers who 'chum' the water (place blood and offal in the water). Sharks are beginning to think humans are easy prey."
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Liberals?
Saturday, 10 days ago, a 20 foot Great White menaced two spearfishermen about 50 yards offshore. They fought it off twice before it took one man and swallowed him whole. The shark breached out of the water and was seen by several people nearby. "It was incredibly fast," Dave Estment, a yachtsman who witnessed the onslaught. "The two spear fishermen were not far from the beach. Suddenly a huge shark surged from under the water taking the one diver [from his legs upwards] to his arms in its jaws.""
Word travels pretty fast on the shark grapevine.
Henri Murray, 22 years old.
" Dave Estment, a yachtsman, was sitting on the jetty at Simon`s Town, near Cape Town, when he saw the great white breach the surface.
"It was incredibly fast. The two spear fishermen were not far from the beach. Suddenly a huge shark surged from under the water taking the one diver [from his legs upwards] to his arms in its jaws," he said.
"It must have been massive to have done that. Then the shark and the man just vanished." Other witnesses to the attack estimated the shark`s length at 20 feet."
"People often go overboard after a shark attack, but there are far more dangerous sports than water sports," his father, George Murray said. "It's safer to dive than to drive a car."
What if you have a spear in your side, does that disqualify one?
You are allowed to get into the Front Bar, but not the Bistro.
Once you put one toe in the ocean, you are part of the food chain.
What does this clown think...that the sharks all together at the next feeding frenzy and hold townhall meetings on the meaning of how a particular shark died.
If this is the intelligence of those who are doing the hunting, I have a feeling the sharks are not in any danger.
Captain Ahab,........Captain Ahab, please call your office!
I beg to differ. Generally, they tend to scramble back to the boat.
You have to sit in the spear-only section.
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