14 foot great white shark attacks a 16' Achilles HD SIB
It gets interesting at about 2:00, when an unprovoked (or so they say) 14 foot great white shark goes on a tearing rampage on the buoyancy tube of what looks like an Achilles SU-16.
It gets interesting at about 2:00, when an unprovoked (or so they say) 14 foot great white shark goes on a tearing rampage on the buoyancy tube of what looks like an Achilles SU-16.
A mouse chewed a hole in my Plastimo Raid270. Completely unprovoked.
Maybe you could sell them the story. They will add a bit of history on the plague and other events that the mice have tried to destroy civilisation as we know it.
My story is better anyway since the mouse got killed and the boat got fixed. I don't want anyone to think I set it up by rubbing cheese on the side though.
My story is better anyway since the mouse got killed and the boat got fixed. I don't want anyone to think I set it up by rubbing cheese on the side though.
You killed the mouse!!!! You bas***d! One of god's creatures. Couldn't you have used some kind of naturally decomposing, organically constructed, humane and blessed mouse huggers?!
Was type of cheese was it? Mmmm might go well with my red wine!
I've been on three Isla Guadalupe cage diving trips.
I've always found the sharks are quite timid. Despite a chum slick that you can probably spot from space, it takes them quite a while (hours or more) to come in to hit the hang baits.
It seems like very strange behavior for a great white. I'm obviously no expert, but it's like something you'd see in Jaws 8-3D rather than real life. How, exactly, do you provoke a shark to bite/attack a *boat*?
Presumably the boat was finished? Is it worth repairing tears that big?
To some extent you'd have to believe that this could have been provoken, especially given the fact that there are a number of Youtube videos of Shark's attacking inflatables. Yet it never seems to happen to the people studying sharks, whales and such.
Although i did talk to a customer who had their inflatable lifted up and almost flipped by a whale's tale. I guess that is what you get for a being curious about them.
White sharks are known for biting outboards since they produce a light electronic signal.
We dive in the Red Triangle (Great White congregated area), and the last thing on my mind is a shark biting my inflatable boat. We also go whale watching outside the mouth of the Tomales Bay which is known as a Great White hotspot. There I worry more about rogue waves when re-entering the bay. Actually keep hoping to see a shark there.
A great white shark apparently took a bite out of a lifeguard's board at Bondi Beach this week. It's like a scene from Amity with everyone out of the water!
Yet it never seems to happen to the people studying sharks, whales and such.
Dr. Peter Whatever-his-name-is out of UC Santa Cruz had a 16' Zodiac holed by a white shark while studying GWS's at Ano Nuevo a few years back. I believe they were chumming then, too. As I recall, there was a video of it somewhere.
I hit a whale coming back into Monterey Harbor about 3 years ago; it surfaced about 10' in front of me just as I was rolling off the throttle for the no wake zone. Felt the impact on the hull, then the motor, and it was over. A guy going out said he followed the whale for about a half mile and reported no gashes or bleeding.
I also recall a few instances of breaching humpbacks landing on boats (one off Central California, one down in the LA/San Diego area, and a sailboat in the Caribbean.)
California State Park lifeguard holds up the surfboard of Eric Tarantino, who neck and forearm was bitten. He was lucky the shark's teeth got the board
Surely a SIB or RIB surrounded by chum and emitting electrical current and movement must scream "dying cetacean!" to any passing shark. They're not the brightest bulb on the christmas tree
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