SHARK! (warning-graphic attack photos)

[Lady Cop]

boy does that look familiar!

as a kid i used to see huge schools of hammerheads while fishing off the bridges (old 7 mile), not anymore.

[Lady Cop]

poor seal.






Cape Town in South Africa

[Paulistano]

That does not inspire me to go for a swim...not that I resemble a seal.

[Lady Cop]

agghhhhhhhh

not sharks.

A teenage swimmer has been eaten alive by piranhas after he leaped into a Bolivian river infested with the fish.

The unnamed 18-year-old boy was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in the town of Rosario del Yata, 400 miles north of the capital of La Paz.

[Paulistano]

I swan with them in the Amazon region, they are rarely dangerous.

[Lady Cop]

witnesses say bull shark this time.








A surfer has been killed by a shark at a South African beach dubbed the world's deadliest following a string of attacks.

Ngidi Msungubana, 25, died yesterday after being repeatedly bitten as he rode the waves off Second Beach in Port St Johns.Officials described how Mr Msungubana fought with the shark yesterday for around five minutes before being dragged bleeding out of the murky water by a lifeguard.

[Duchess]

You always manage to get us great pix, LC. Thanks!

I cringed but it's an awesome, gory photo.

[Lady Cop]

Sydney Morning Herald
In the 32 years he has been flying the coastline rescuing people, Graham Nickisson has never seen the water brimming with sharks like he did on Wednesday.

The long-term Hunter Westpac rescue helicopter crewman was part of the team that scoured the coast in the hours after Redhead surfer Glen "Lenny" Folkard was attacked by a shark.

A surfer dragged from his board and mauled by a two-metre shark was circled by the predator as he tried to make it back to shore.

Glen Folkard, 44, known as "Lenny", is in a stable and lucid condition in John Hunter Hospital today after being attacked while surfing off Redhead Beach, south of Newcastle, yesterday afternoon.

More than 100 people were in the water when the shark attacked. Witnesses in the surf said Mr Folkard was lying on his board about 20 metres from a large group of surfers when the shark struck about 4.40pm.

Believed to be a bull shark, it took a large chunk out of Mr Folkard's thigh as well as his board before dragging him underwater, witnesses said.

He was able to shake himself free and get to the surface. Several surfers came to his aid as he tried to paddle to safety and helped him catch a wave into shore.

[Lady Cop]

Australia. see post above ^



5 weeks after attack




A surfer has spoken of his terror as a ferocious bull shark sank its teeth into his leg.

Glen Folkard was thrown off his board and dragged beneath the surface as the 10ft animal caught him it its vice-like grip.

But as the bull shark - a species known to be highly aggressive towards humans - released him for another bite, the 44-year-old seized his chance for life.

He managed to climb back onto his board and ride the waves back to Redhead Beach, north of Sydney - all while the menacing dark shadow stalked behind in the blood stream gushing from his horrific thigh wound.

‘It was everything you'd think it would be, just sheer terror.

‘He's hit me from underneath, he's grabbed me, he's turned me, took me under and then let go cos I think he had fibreglass in his mouth... and that was my chance,’ he told AFP, five weeks after the savage attack.

The father-of-one collapsed in the sand with a ‘big mass of yuck’ where his thigh once was, but euphoric to be alive.

He added: ‘I just remember rolling off the surfboard onto my back, looking at the sky and just loving life instantly,’

‘I was laying on my back looking just at the blue sky, going "I'm alive, I made it" because it was all but over. He was metres away from having a second go.’

daily mail

[Lady Cop]

A father-of-two yesterday became the fourth person to be mauled to death by a shark off a stretch of coast in Western Australia - raising fears that a rogue Great White is responsible.

Peter Kurmann, 33, was scuba-diving with his brother Gian from a small boat when the 13ft shark attacked.

"He had a go at the shark with his knife," friend Peter MacDonald said. "They were both descending down the anchor rope to the dive site and Peter was in front of Gian and apparently it came out of nowhere and grabbed him."

Gian, who was not hurt, hauled his brother's mutilated body from the sea and called for help to fishermen on another small boat nearby.

A sea and air search has been launched off the coast on a hunt-and-kill mission for the shark.

Beaches north and south of the town of Busselton were closed as the hunt began.The state's Premier, Mr Colin Barnett, said he was concerned there had been four fatal shark attacks since February.

[Lady Cop]

A surfer died today after he was attacked by a Great White shark in South Africa.

The local man, believed to have been aged in his 20s, was body boarding in the Indian Ocean at around midday when the 16 foot beast struck.

Witnesses watched in horror from the beach as the man was dragged underwater by the deadly predator in the sea at Koeel Bay east of Cape Town.

And soon after the fatal attack, the spotlight fell on a National Geographic documentary crew who were accused of risking public safety by luring sharks in close to the shore for filming.

The tragedy happened at the Koeel Bay beach, a popular surfing spot which lies close to the town of Gordon's Bay around 30 miles east of Cape Town.

Today's attack comes after a TV documentary crew was accused of risking public safety by attracting sharks into shallow waters around Cape Town.

Experts this week expressed concern after a team from the National Geographic Channel's 'Shark Men' series starting filming along the region's False Bay coastline.

The popular show aims to debunk myths about Great Whites by allowing viewers close-up access to the beasts.

A team of scientists working for the series in South Africa had aimed to reveal details of the species by attaching trackers to several sharks and following their movements on screen.

However the project raised concern among conservationists after it emerged the film crew were using chum and bait to lure sharks to their boats.

the shark is seen in center of this photo

[Lady Cop]

re: post 111 ^

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A man in his 20s was killed by a great white shark about 5 metres (16 feet) long that bit off his leg when he was body-boarding off the coast of Cape Town on Thursday, South Africa’s National Sea Rescue Institute said.

“There are no other bite marks or lacerations on the deceased man’s body – only the complete amputation of the right leg and the leg has not been recovered.

David Lilienfeld





his boarding page

http://www.sixty40.co.za/profile/1183/david-lilienfeld

[Donovan]

What has two thumbs and is now shaped like shark poop?

This guy!

[Lady Cop]

Two fishermen in Mexico shocked their entire town Sunday after returning to shore with a 2,000-pound great white shark.

The 20ft-long fish was caught in a net left overnight by the men in the Sea of Cortez but to their perhaps relief, found already dead.

The skiff belonging to Guadalupe and Baltazar, the second fisherman identified, was just barely large enough to hold the creature at 22ft but unable to power itself back to shore with the extra weight.

Radioing for help, they were towed in.

After photos and a weighing, it was said to have fed the entire town.

'We have seen a lot of sharks, in fact this is an area known for sharks, but we have never seen anything like his,' one of the two men said.

[Lady Cop]

re: posts 111 & 112




A father and son bade farewell to a beloved son, brother and ocean-lover on Thursday – huddled in grief on the rocks above the waves where David Lilienfeld was killed by a shark.
Dirk Lilienfeld leads his son Gustav to a waiting car after seeing his eldest son, David's body. Gustav had been wih David when the shark attacked him.

[Lady Cop]

[Lady Cop]

June 2012
they're back. like bloody tourists! i guess i'll stay in my big lake.

CHATHAM (AP) – Great white sharks have returned off the coast of Cape Cod. And with temperatures back in the 90s today, beachgoers should keep their eyes peeled.

State fisheries officials say two great white sharks tagged last summer off the Cape Cod coast have been detected via transmitter signals picked up earlier this month off Chatham.

Great white sharks have been spotted off Chatham often in recent years and last summer shark sightings closed several beaches. They are drawn to the area by an abundance of seals, which sharks feed on.

State shark expert Greg Skomal says the tags can provide data on when the sharks leave the Cape and their movement over long distances.

VIDEO

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/1883691...Id=7422268

[Lady Cop]

HA!

[Lady Cop]

OH NO! AMITY WILL HAVE TO CLOSE THE BEACHES ON THE 4^TH OF JULY WEEK! QUIIIIIINT!

BOSTON HERALD
Now that the Cape Cod Bear has moved on, Cape Cod can prepare for its latest animal visitor — great whites.

Cape Cod Shark Hunters spotter pilot George Breen saw two sharks during a routine survey flight yesterday. One shark was seen about a half mile offshore, while the other was just 50 yards from land.

“He was a big one and he was chasing seals,” Breen said of the 16-foot great white.

Breen has taken about a half dozen survey flights in the past two weeks to determine whether the great white sharks are back in the area.

Last week, the Chatham harbormaster told the Herald that sharks tagged last year had returned to the area, about a half mile offshore.

yesterday shark patrol pics. we haven't had a tourist eaten.yet.

[Lady Cop]

too bad it was killed.

Hauled in about 15 miles off Marina del Rey in Southern California, the massive carnivore was too big for its boat and had to be dragged to the dock through the water after breaking some on-board equipment. Once it got to land, however, the fishermen found it was also too big for the marina's scale as well, which consequently broke too.
900 lbs.
short fin mako.