What's their demeanour got to do with data collected from tracking research?
*Edit* Pardon the pun... but are you taking the pi55 with:
^ hahah
that's one of those spelling errors for the books - I'll just leave that one
I'M having crabs for dinner 
A shark sold them to me. How did I know he be a shark ??
Beclaws i was told to keep them outa site of the fisheries blokey
Sharks don't mean to be mean and attack and kill swimmers and surfers
and those others with kites, they just be frantically looking for the drongo
who stole the undersized crabs, just to give them a mouthful 
i love all of these movies around of people swimming with gentle giants, catching a ride, even a tap on the nose.
here is my challenge.
surface and keep the cameras rolling
Worked for 43yrs.....so far
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Sharks may be misinterpreted but big sharks like great whites, tigers and bull sharks are top predators. The way I see going out in the water where there are sharks around is a bit like going out for a walk in the jungle full of tigers. There is a chance one of them will be hungry and will eat you if it gets the chance.
However thats my choice.
Sharks are not all that cute and cudly as a kayaker in Victoria found out.
www.smh.com.au/national/kayaker-tells-of-horror-shark-attack-20091101-hqx5.html
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See if I can find it again - couple south african fisherman caught a 4.5m female GW last week pick shows it on land, looked pretty fierce. Not to mention she was a young one and not fully grown yet.
a few years ago in sth africa i`d just got out of the water after a surf at cape st francis and these two guys came down with fishing rods and huge penn reels and plastic chairs with poles fixed on the bottom of them and put the poles into these holes in the rock that they had made, they also had seatbelts fitted to the chairs,they floated out a balloon with the hind quarters of some animal on a hook under it, by the time i had gotten out of my wetsuit and half dried off, one of these blokes had hooked onto a white pointer, i watched for about half an hour, during that time i talked to the other guy and he said they often caught them there, when i asked him what he did with them he said they cut the jaws out and threw the rest away. That was the day i sided with the sharks.
I am a mega keen fisherman, second only to kiting. It ****s me to tears when people kill stuff for the sake of it. For ****s sake put it back if you are not going to eat it. Taking a trophy for the jaws is ignorant and inexcusable. Everyone has a camera, why kill it?
I was brought up in Tanzania in an era when everyone had Kudu horns or Buffalo horns hanging somewhere. The horns are long gone but photos still exist. The wild life is a distant memory in all but the parks.
The sooner we come to terms with the benefits of what we have left the better place we will pass on to our kids.
Mixed in with all the wild life I have come across in the past two weeks of enviable kiting was a killer whale, right in the middle of Stockton beach and the river break wall.
What a buzz! It helps take the edge off all of those floating plastic bags.
That'll make a much more interesting movie clip when she tries that with a 4 metre great white. The first few minutes might be the same but it will finish up a bit more like the Texas Chainsaw Masacre.
I once saw some footage of a chick doing the same swimming around in Hawaii thing with pilot whales instead of sharks. Hubby was shooting the vid and enjoying the good vibes of a great human interacting with mother nature moment. Until .... One of the pilot whales thinks 'stuff these annoying human whale killers' and grabs the woman by the leg and disappears into the depths with her! Just when hubby realizes what he has just filmed wifey comes back from the depths swimming for the surface like someone who was just pulled down to 50 to 100 meters by a 2 tonne animal. If the footage is out there ya got to see it. Really amazing.
Jack
4 days after the kayaker got 'attacked' in our waters and the wind turned up...
...couldn't help ourselves, had to go for a sail. Finished with all limbs present, and the gybes and waterstarts were FAST!
Gotta love those sharks for improving our skills!
how was that, took her straight back to the surface when she got puffed out, mmmmm.
Apparently....... mother whales need to push their young to the surface for a breather, the little ones don't have the capacity/know-how to swim up by themselves - so it's mums job to stop them drowning..... this looks pretty similar!?
