SHARK! (warning-graphic attack photos)

[Satan Herself]

I am so in love with Robert Shaw R.I.P.

[Lady Cop]

this is extremely unusual! 2 large bull sharks taken in the Potomac River in one day. bulls are very VERY aggressive, and have killed people in florida. and they can live in fresh water. my brother goes crabbing in the Potomac at Point Lookout. i told him he better buy some canned crab!

Watermen catch two 8-footers on same day
Friday, Sept. 3, 2010

A bull shark was caught on Wednesday morning in Cornfield Harbor near Point Lookout. That's rare for this area. Then another one was caught that afternoon in the Potomac River.

Waterman Willy Dean was only looking for rays Wednesday morning. What he got was an 8-foot male bull shark in his net.

The second was captured hours later farther up the Potomac River.

"I caught that shark yesterday afternoon off Tall Timbers. Two sharks in one day," said waterman Tommy Crowder on Thursday. "Two is like unheard of."

Dean and Crowder are pound-net fishermen; a pound net is a long underwater enclosure that traps fish in a large net. The net is then hauled up to the surface and the fish are brought on board.

Dean had two people from the Calvert Marine Museum with him Wednesday morning. "They needed some cownose rays for their exhibit," Dean said.

In Cornfield Harbor, on the Potomac River side of Point Lookout, they started pulling up the pound net and saw a shark swimming inside of it.

"It was an experience and he was" angry, Dean said.

Dean said he has been fishing for more than 30 years and has never caught a shark of any kind before.

To get it out of the net they threw a rope around its tail fin and eventually another around its head and hauled it aboard the 22-foot boat. The pound net was in 18 feet of water.

Once the bull shark was out of the water it began to suffocate and soon after died
At 8 feet long, Dean estimated the shark weighed between 300 and 350 pounds.

"Between the snakeheads and this, no more skinny dipping for me," he said.

Dean looked into getting the shark stuffed but because it has no scales, it can't be done.

He said Wednesday he'll either sell it to a seafood vendor or his family will eat it. It's being stored in a walk-in freezer in his home at Scotland.

Crowder's bull shark was 8 feet, 3 inches, and he estimated it weighed 500 to 600 pounds. "He was a big boy," he said.

"He ended up drowning in the net," he said, and after pictures were taken those onboard "cut his belly open and threw him overboard" so it wouldn't float.

"We had a sturgeon this spring and he was about 6 foot long. That net's had a real good year," Crowder said.

Sharks are not uncommon in area waters, but bull sharks are rare. "That doesn't happen too often," Kaumeyer said.

"I've been wandering around the bay for 40 years and that's the first one I've ever seen," he said. "They're not seen in the bay very often."

The bull shark is the most aggressive shark in the world's oceans. It has the most testosterone of any animal and can also live in fresh water. The bull shark is blamed for attacks on humans and deaths in New Jersey in July 1916, when little was known about sharks in general.

[Lady Cop]

NASSAU, Bahamas - Cops are trying to identify human remains found in a tiger shark’s stomach.

Police were conducting DNA tests on the two legs, two arms and severed torso found inside the 12-foot shark, said Assistant Police Commissioner Glenn Miller.

He said the remains appeared to be a couple of days old. It was unclear whether the person was dead or alive when eaten by the shark. The tiger shark can swim long distances. Miller said at least two people have been reported missing recently in the Bahamas. He also didn’t rule out the possibility that the remains are those of a migrant whose boat might have capsized en route to Florida. Three sport fishermen made the grim find Saturday after hooking the tiger shark. One of the fishermen, Bahamian investment banker Humphrey Simmons, said the remains were a man’s.

“He had neither clothes nor any identifying marks,” Simmons said.

A leg, foot, arm and what may be a human rib cage were all found inside a 12-foot tiger shark in the Bahamas. Two fishermen caught the aggressive shark and were stunned to discover the contents of it's belly.

Imagine the utter shock experienced by two fishermen as they were on the look out for grouper. When the men were reeling in a grouper, the tiger shark caught on. It wasn't until the shark reportedly spat up a human foot that the fisherman sought the massive creature.


'We tied the rope around his tail fin, and pulled him towards the boat. We were going to cut the hook out of his mouth and let him go when he regurgitated a human foot ¿ intact from the knee down,' a fisherman told the Bahamian newspaper, Tribune242.com.


Once on land, the fishermen opened the tiger shark's belly and discovered a an arm, a leg and what may be a rib cage. All the bodily parts were clearly human, but no head was found.


Authorities are not sure whether the shark killed the human or simply ate parts of a drowning victim. They have concluded that the body parts are of a heavy set, black man and may possibly be a missing boater that they have been looking for since last week.

[Maggot]

MMMMMMMMMMMM dark meat!

[Lady Cop]

happened today. waiting for more information.

A 20-year-old UCSB student was killed today when he was attacked by a shark while body boarding off Surf Beach at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The victim, an Orange County man whose identity was not released pending notification of relatives, was in the water with a friend between 9 and 9:30 a.m. when a shark bit his leg off, according to Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown.

The friend, who was surfing on a regular surf board, brought the victim to shore, but the victim's injuries were severe and he bled to death, Brown said.

Surf, Wall and Minuteman beaches have been closed for a minimum of 72 hours, according to Lt. Ann Blodzinski, the public affairs officer for the base.

Surf Beach, which is west of Lompoc on Vandenberg Air Force Base property, is the closest publicly accessible beach for Lompoc Valley residents. It is also easily accessed from a nearby Amtrak station that serves the area.

[username]

[b]...but the victim's injuries were severe and he bled to death, Brown said.

Yeah, I'd say having your leg bit off qualifies as severe.

We went to Kauai last year and we saw that surfer girl who lost her arm to a shark out pretty much every morning surfing. On the one hand, I admired her spunk and on the other hand, I thought she was STUPID! There she was, out by herself, just tempting Jaws to take another piece out of her.

[Cracker]

What are the odds of having a shark eat your other arm? I think pretty slim.

[Lady Cop]

victim ID. waiting for a photo of the poor kid.

Officials say 19 year old Lucas McKaine Ranson, of Romoland in Riverside County, died after a shark pulled him off his "boogie board" about 100 yards from shore. Ranson suffered a massive wound to his left leg. The attack happened just before 9:00 a.m.

Vandenberg - "Lucas was a nice guy, he loved life." That is how a fellow student at UCSB is remembering Lucas McKaine Ransom, who was attacked and killed by a shark while "boogie boarding" at a beach near Vandenberg Air Force Base.

[username]

What are the odds of having a shark eat your other arm? I think pretty slim.

What were her chances the first time?

[Cracker]

What are the odds of having a shark eat your other arm? I think pretty slim.

What were her chances the first time?

For arms? 1 out of 2. hahaha

[Lady Cop]

when my son was a young teen and took up surfing in florida, i sat on the beach with binoculars and never took my eyes off him. he hated that. tough.
this is terrible. the kid was was a studious chemistry major and a good kid from all reports.

LA Times:
Six-foot waves were breaking when Lucas Ransom and his longtime buddy Matthew Garcia arrived at Surf Beach west of Lompoc on Friday morning.

No wind, glassy conditions — they agreed it was going to be a great session for Garcia on his surfboard and Lucas on his beat-up red bodyboard.

Before they plunged into the chilly waters, Ransom pulled out his cellphone.

"You wouldn't believe these waves, Mom. I can't wait to get to them," he told Candace Ransom, who said have fun, call afterward.

That was the last she heard from the 19-year-old son she described as a fearless athlete with "the sweetest heart."

They'd been in the waves about 45 minutes when a shark appeared out of nowhere and pulled Ransom under, Garcia said. There was no warning. The shark appeared to be about 18 to 20 feet long. Ransom looked at his friend a couple of feet away and said "Help me, dude," before getting lost in the waves, Garcia said.

"It was very stealth," he said. "You would have never known there was a shark in the water. It was all really quick."

The water turned red, he said: "Imagine a river of blood. That's what the wave looked like for a minute."

[Maggot]

Sharks are kinda cool. You can light a match off their skin.

[username]

[b]
the kid was was a studious chemistry major and a good kid from all reports.

I guess sharks don't differentiate between good and bad kids. Unfortunately.

[Lady Cop]

from Daily Mail.
all 4 are in critical condition in a Cairo hospital.


Four Russian tourists have been badly mauled by a shark in two separate attacks at an Egyptian Red Sea resort.

Two of them had their arms bitten off by the oceanic white tip shark as they swam in the Ras Nasrani area of the Sharm el-Sheikh resort.

The same shark is then thought to have been involved in an attack on another Russian couple yesterday close to the resort beach, said Mohammed Salem, director of Sinai Conservation.

The creature badly injured the woman's legs and back and she had to be resuscitated after being rescued. The man also suffered serious injuries to his legs.

Diving instructor Hassan Salem said he was on a dive at the same time of the attack and was circled by the shark before it went for the couple.

'I was able to scare the shark away by blowing bubbles in its face, but then saw it swim to a woman and bite her legs,' he said.

Mr Salem described how the water turned red with blood from the attack and he rushed to take the diver he was training out of the water.



edit to add: 2 sharks have been caught that are suspected to be the ones who attacked. one a white-tip, one a mako.
white tip:

[sally]

My son switched from skate boarding to surfing now. Just one more thing to make me a nervous fucking wreck.

[Lady Cop]

My son switched from skate boarding to surfing now. Just one more thing to make me a nervous fucking wreck.

when my son was a kid growing up where you live, and took up surfing...i sat on the beach all the time he was in the water, binoculars attached to my face. all i can say to help is that most of the many bites in those waters are small ones, not fatals. the damn kids lay out there on their boards with appendages dangling, and looking like a buffet.
and they often insist the waves are better next to a pier...where people are cleaning fish and throwing guts/chum over the side! here sharky!

[BlueTiki]

I surf. Over three decades and I'm still in the water.

Do sharks cause me concern? Yes.

Does it stop me from doing what I love? No.

To be safe, I've written "Not A Seal" on the bottom of all my boards.

In Spanish, too, for those trips south of the border.

[Lady Cop]

I surf. Over three decades and I'm still in the water.

Do sharks cause me concern? Yes.

Does it stop me from doing what I love? No.

To be safe, I've written "Not A Seal" on the bottom of all my boards.

In Spanish, too, for those trips south of the border.

i don't surf, but have SCUBA-dived all my life. never let them worry me either. in case they can't read, i had a shark totem tattooed on my shoulder to let them know i won't eat them if they don't eat me!
a lot is common sense...i used to spear-fish; never drag bloody fish around in a catch bag with you, throw it on the boat. and don't for christs sake keep it in your hand! a girl in bahamas lost her hand that way to a reef shark.

[Lady Cop]

another attack, fatal, in same area as post #34.
so it's not one of the sharks they caught.
they've got a problem.
and it's big enough to sever appendages.

(CNN) -- A German woman died Sunday after being attacked by a shark in waters off Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in an area where three snorkelers were injured and two sharks were caught last week, officials said.

Egypt's tourism ministry has decided to close the Sharm el-Sheikh beach until the shark responsible for Sunday's attack is found, according to the nation's Interior Ministry.

Jochen Van Lysebettens, general operations manager of the Red Sea Diving College in Sharm el-Sheikh, said employees at the Hyatt Regency resort told him the attack happened about noon (5 a.m. ET) in a protected swim area off the resort. Van Lysebettens has three dive-instruction operations in the area, including one at the Hyatt Regency.

The 70-year-old woman, a regular guest at the resort, was snorkeling near a reef when she was attacked, he said. She called for help, and a lifeguard brought her to shore, but she had lost too much blood and resuscitation efforts failed, Van Lysebettens said. The woman's arm and leg were severed, he said.

[Duchess]

Holy fucking fuck!