Shark attack

fooj · Post by **fooj** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:27 pm

Rumsfeld, er Jerry, you mean you don't get enough press talking about the war in Iraq?

DrStrange · Post by **DrStrange** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:31 pm

Jerry, you got the hot's for Katie Couric? or is she the Today show

my bad I never watch TV; except for Buffie!

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:34 pm

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 8:49 pm

hmmm, which half would we choose to keep

Mike Fernandez · Post by **Mike Fernandez** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:02 am

Jerry, your post is one of the funniest I have read here! Thanks for making my day, I give you a 10 ma man

Actually what it is is bad karma coming back to the surfers of that surf spot. I read about it in the Surfers Guide, supposedly it has the worst localism in the whole USA.
Perhaps the landlord is treating the surfers like the surfers treat visitors.

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:45 pm

Steeno · Post by **Steeno** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:37 am

what a terrible thing

I have good friend who has been up there on a xmas + break doing some surfing, he was there, he is a little shaken from the experience..."so to speak"

but he did say

"they forgot to mention that she was swimming on the edge of a boating channel, with dark clouds of bait fish being hearded by salmon, being hearded by guess what? in close proximity to where she was swimming"

heavy way to go

peace to her family

lowrider · Post by **lowrider** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:13 pm

Just heard about this:
http://www.fangshooey.com.au/index.htm
(love the name!)
It's an exaggerated shark graphic that is stuck to the bottom of the surfboard to repell curious sharks.
Apparently tested in the waters off Port Lincoln with 100% success;
the only way that a shark would nudge the test boards was if fish oil was tipped over it. Damn, I'll have to stop using that fish oil moisturiser

KAVA · Post by **KAVA** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:36 pm

let me know if it actually works? with a live person on it?

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:35 pm

kneecaps · Post by **kneecaps** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:38 pm

Better hope there's not a horny GW close by

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:57 pm

skansand · Post by **skansand** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:32 pm

that graphic sites videos prove a whole lot...get in the water on the board and ill be convinced...phh

K-man · Post by **K-man** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:41 am

Hmmmmmmm..false sense of security may not be the best of ideas.On the other hand,there may be a bit of sense to the graphics.
whiteys[around here] are territorial and will avoid each other to avoid conflict,and will maintain a discreet distance from each other.

KED · Post by **KED** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:17 pm

At the risk of being laughed off the site... here goes:
Sharks are known to fear and avoid the Yellow Bellied Sea Snake. That particular sea snake is common to tropical waters. The venom of this snake is deadly, period. My guess is that sharks are somehow "hard wired" to sense this. That said, perhaps applying a curvy yellow line along the axis of the bottom of one's board would act as a deterrent. Problem is... there is no way of knowing 'cuz the sharkies are not about to surface to let us know they do not appreciate the graphics

Are you laughing? Maybe. But hey... the truth is: we just don't know if it would be a deterrent or not.

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