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Shark Appreciation Thread

LSeca

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Good call on the last pic TS.
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim
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This is my next planned dive. Coco's Island, aka Jurassic Park, is said to have LOADS of hammerheads. Hopefully I'll get over there before the end of the year.
 

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Originally Posted by whodini
This is my next planned dive. Coco's Island, aka Jurassic Park, is said to have LOADS of hammerheads. Hopefully I'll get over there before the end of the year.
Watch out for velociraptors dude. They know how to open doors, I bet they can SCUBA dive too!
 

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Originally Posted by whodini
Velociraptors? I'm far more worried about the spitters. Those bitches can swim!

Can they spit underwater? That would be quite talented.

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At an estimated length between 40-60 feet in length, weighing 52 tons, with teeth sometimes measuring around seven inches wide by six and a half inches tall:

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I once punched a shark in the face. It died instantly.
 

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Originally Posted by Tyto
Did anyone see the Shark Week special last night on the USS Indianapolis? According to that show, the current thinking is that silkies and oceanic white tips were the primary culprits, with blues possibly mixed in. Also, based on interviews of survivors, the vast majority of deaths appears to have been due to drinking saltwater (hallucinations and aggression), with only a (relatively) small number of attacks on healthy survivors--the number of corpses found with bites on them probably skewed perceptions of what actually happened. Many were likely severely injured or dead to begin with.

I saw the special. I thought it was reasonably well done, though I found some of the visuals a little confusing, and I also thought it was a bit repetitive (probably didn't need to be 2 hours long). I found the testimony of the actual survivors the most riveting, but I thought the actor who played the doctor was very good. I liked how they cut in the actual rescue footage near the end.

I believe they also mentioned mako sharks as potential culprits. I remember reading previously that most of the deaths related more to exposure and drinking saltwater than the sharks. The shark expert in the program stated that there wasn't a mass feeding frenzy like many people thought, but that the sharks acted as sharks normally do in the wild. They circled and, for the most part, attacked the dying and already dead. There was one scene where the doctor was swimming from one group of men to another, and a shark surfaced next to him and swam around him a bit before moving on. Perhaps the shark decided he was too healthy and wasn't worth the effort or risk to attack when there were other, easier pickings in the area.

I also found it interesting that some groups of survivors were constantly surrounded by sharks and had to fight them off, while other groups saw no sharks or only a few.
 

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I thought the Indianapolis crew was attacked by tiger sharks? Though, admittedly, my source for this may well be Captain Quint.
 

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From what I've read, the Indianapolis was attacked by a variety of Pacific sharks. One of my father's friends, survived the incident.
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Sorry, but that is not the South African Coast. It is the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Unless SA built a replica. Whites are known to cruise Drake's Bay and the Farallons, but I've never heard of one coming through the Gate.
 

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I just got a pair of loafers in shark.
 

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Manton, that photo is likely to be a fake. I know that. But, I thought it was fun.
 

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Originally Posted by Ivan Kipling
Manton, that photo is likely to be a fake. I know that. But, I thought it was fun.

What gets is me is, if someone is going lie in the caption, why use such a recognizable landmark? It's like faking a picture of an ape on the Empire State Building and saying, "This was shot in Kuala Lampur."
 

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