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Real Life Jaws ? - ash - 10-28-2009
Whoa! Very cool news. The Megladon lives! <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
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Real Life Jaws ? - Hellbilly1965 - 10-28-2009
<a href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/WN/shark-shark-attack-off-australias-coast/story?id=8925786\" target=\"_blank\">http://abcnews.go.com/WN/shark-shark-attac...tory?id=8925786</a>I did google it... some people will fall for anything. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":tongue:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" />
Real Life Jaws ? - Hellbilly1965 - 10-28-2009
I belive there are Sharks in our oceans that are huge enough to do that kind of damage. however, not in the waters that the pics claim... besidea great white is a predator!! not a scavenger...they would not go into shallow waterslooking for something like a rotting whale carcass...FAKE!!!just my opinion.DB.
Real Life Jaws ? - Deadguy71 - 10-28-2009
They can judge the size based on the shape/size of the bite. They're suggesting it was approximately a 20 foot great white that bit him, based on THE PICTURES ONLY.Personally? I've seen a lot of bites that didn't remove the entire chunk of meat, and haven't actually seen one before where the meat itself was entirely scooped away, unless it was a limb. You see surfboards with a chunk missing like that, but that's because it breaks, rather than needing to tear away like meat would.I've also seen some where the teeth drag through the skin before taking out a chunk. For the record, I don't go looking for that kinda' stuff, so it may just be the fact that I just don't run into those kinda' pics, but if they're calling this a bite, it still seems "fishy".. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" />I guess it's possible that since the shark was stuck in-place, the attacker was able to get a nice, firm chomp, but I dunno.. the whole picture seems wrong..Like why are they dragging the shark in their own wake in the picture, when supposedly they dragged it all the way up onto the boat?On a boating trip I took, some years ago, they used a shark to chum for more sharks, it's innards spilled out, rather than being neatly scooped out like biting into a popsicle.Also, when you take a big chunk like that, the rest of the body isn't normally so "intact" in terms of maintaining it's overall silhoutte, because the innards aren't held in-place anymore and they want to slide along the path of least resistance.I'm not saying this is absolutely a falsehood, I'm just saying my gut instinct is to not buy into it. The fact that there are two pics, makes me think that it's not a photoshop, but it doesn't rule it out.Should be interesting to see how this turns out. The multiple media outlet coverage is of the circulation of this picture (and one other), not hard facts though. I'm seeing nothing regarding witnesses aside from a 19 year old surfer who references hearing about a big shark, and no news on what they've done with the shark, or what institution has it, or what their findings are, etc. Two pics, and speculation. "The Sun" even labelled one of their photo links "Fake," and it predates most of the other stories by two days.<a href=\"http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2699860/Attack-sparks-killer-shark-fears.html#ixzz0V5avcbOG\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...l#ixzz0V5avcbOG</a><a href=\"http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00915/Fake-shark-pic_682_915958a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive...682_915958a.jpg</a>Dunno.. it'll be interesting to hear an update.
Real Life Jaws ? - Threat - 10-28-2009
<!--quoteo(post=336684:date=Oct 28 2009, 10:45 AM:name=knifegloves.com)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (knifegloves.com @ Oct 28 2009, 10:45 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=336684\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecI'm surprised to see people doubting even the authenticity of this image. This was in the news, guys. Google it... there are several news sources addressing it.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEnd<b>Just because it was on the news doesnt mean anything.Don't you recall "BALOON BOY" like a week or 2 ago? That turned out to be a hoax.</b>
Real Life Jaws ? - Deathwalk78 - 10-28-2009
<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbX_h3xoBS4&feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbX_h3xoBS4...feature=related</a>
Real Life Jaws ? - Deadguy71 - 10-29-2009
Shark fans:<a href=\"http://www.jawshark.com/great_white_recorded_sizes.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.jawshark.com/great_white_recorded_sizes.html</a>I didn't want to hotlink their images, but basically there's some pics of caught, and verified, sharks in the 20+ foot range.I also ran into a reference of a 36 foot gw shark beached in California in the late 1960's, sourced to the NZ Herald, but I can't find anything about it except for one comment, so I'm kinda' assuming it's crap. Though there IS mention of a beached whale that long around that time.Regarding the shark in the pics though (there's two pics in case anyone missed the second one), supposedly this happens a lot on these buoys, the reason this one made headlines was because the government is under fire for their shark net barricades used around some of the public beaches because of "safe" animals (ie- whales and suchlike) being caught up and dying in them. So this one got a lot of press to kinda' say "SEE?! we need those things to keep out the monstrous sharks!"
Real Life Jaws ? - mpetrie - 10-29-2009
<!--quoteo(post=336720:date=Oct 28 2009, 01:51 PM:name=Threat)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (Threat @ Oct 28 2009, 01:51 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=336720\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotec<b>Just because it was on the news doesnt mean anything.Don't you recall "BALOON BOY" like a week or 2 ago? That turned out to be a hoax.</b><!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndI do recall the Balloon Boy. But the mere fact that people are saying this photo appears to be photoshopped is a bit absurd, IMO when looking at the more than 1 photo of this shark. Sorry... but that's not photoshopped.<img src=\"http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Oct/Week4/15419931.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00915/Fake-shark-pic_682_915958a.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />
Real Life Jaws ? - Cryptoys.com - 10-29-2009
Ok, so according to the article listed above"Today, most experts contend that the great white's "normal" maximum size is about 6 metres (20 ft), with a maximum weight of about 1,900 kilograms (4,200 lb)."So it's even "normal" for a shark to reach 20 ft. just not common. It's entirely probable then that there could be a 20footer in the waters there. I mean if you are going to have a 20 footer it would be in AU.
Real Life Jaws ? - IbDaToNeGuY - 10-29-2009
the place where you'll see the most whites and also 20 footers or near that is Seal Island . you gotta be some nut to get in a cage out in those waters lol . mike,