Shark attacks hit record high in 2015, global tally shows... Florida with the most..

[Newfiehunter]

I had a 15 foot White within 10 feet of me...
My girl swears it was not that far away.
She says 5-6 feet.
Of course she is not as good with measurement ...
Anyway...
at first I thought it was a Bull shark... which is bad enough...
She sufaced behind me while I was climbing the dive ladder into the boat...

Never even knew she was there.
I was not diving...
I was swimming with my dog... Which I had just pushed up on deck.
And this happened off the face of Shell Key which is the barrier off the face of Mullet Key.

When I saw my girls face as I was climbing up I knew something was wrong...
So I turned and look and she is surfacing ...
Her eyes met mine...
We locked eyes...
And she just rolled over right and slowly slinked under... real quiet.
It was eerie...
I was in shock...stunned... because it caught me totally off guard.

Then I realized... the eyes...
Black as coal...
The nose...
I was like no F'n way that was a White I thought... that had to be a bull... I could not believe it...
Got home and compared hundreds of pics.
White.
Period.
Only people I tell that story to who KNOW me... believe it.

Do you ever think of what could have happened? I would have taken a heart attack after seeing that! You must have thanked your lucky stars for that narrow escape!

 

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[ARC]

Heh...

Man I got some stories for ya...

 

[ARC]

My girl... has been freaked ever since then...
She has seen lots of sharks with me...
Mostly Hammers...
And they stay back... haul arse etc.

Never a creep...
It really screwed her up... she does not even like it when I tell the story.

She also does not like the time a shark... probably a bull knocked and pinned and thrashed me in hip deep once.
She does not dive SINCE.
No joke.

ERRR clarify... she will not dive in low vis waters.

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

It was on our Channel 7 or 6 news yesterday, about all the black tips, off the Palm Beach cty beaches. The news story said they are usually off Ft Lauderdale, but for some reason this yr, they are in Palm Cty and north to Vero/Jupiter or so.
Must be all that tourists poop, we pump 3 miles out, keeping them away from Laud and Miami.

This isn't the news story I saw, but the new video I found, recently uploaded just a day or so ago......

 

[ARC]

I say "probably" a bull... because I never saw it...
We have deduced... or think I really narrowly escaped a bite.

Was walking and took a step...
All of a sudden against the back of my knees a HUGE arse sucker rubbed / ran me over from behind....
Across the backs of my legs then over my right back and side...
As this thing rolled me...
I went slamming face first down... straight face first into the water and pounded into the muck...
I friggin jumped up and I swear I was tearing water... running in water is a REAL *****... man o man....
Got onto sand and I have like road rash all over my side... head... I was f--d up man.
Mentally...

I think it was coming in for a "test bite"... and as it came in... I moved my leg and it missed... or something.
At first...
I thought it was a manatee.
I have had them rub me... not like that at all though.
Scared the crap outta ya... but not freak like that.

Heh... I got ran the hell over.

 

[DigIron2]

They got some teeth on them don't they.Look like something from the prehistoric age.Probably wouldn't kill some one,but those are some pretty nasty bites.Now a school of them might be a different story,YIKES!

 

[can]

I dont live in the mountians. I am separated from the ocean by the sound.
The report you quote is wrong about temp. I live here. They were quoting 2014 not 2015.
8 attacks are very high for NC.
The report that started this tread was not hype. Just a study done with facts. Not doom and gloom. Which is really where our differences started.
Its not blah blah blah but a simple statement of facts. Not hype
Now if you want hype let someone get mauled by a bear while cooking bacon in grizz country. THey make movies about that stuff

 

[ARC]

Temperature has NOTHING to do with the sharks "coming in".
For example...
Whites prefer cold... yet they are being seen in areas that they have never been seen before.

Several things are contributing to this...
BUT... IMO...
2 main reasons...
#1. We are not fishing them...
#2. We are fishing everything else.

 

[Newfiehunter]

Temperature has NOTHING to do with the sharks "coming in".
For example...
Whites prefer cold... yet they are being seen in areas that they have never been seen before.

Several things are contributing to this...
BUT... IMO...
2 main reasons...
#1. We are not fishing them...
#2. We are fishing everything else.[/

I agree with AARC on Great Whites preferring colder waters....Last summer a tagged Great White was here off the waters of Newfoundland...They are rarely found this far north but it was here...Seals are common in these waters and it was probably looking for a meal....After some time it returned and headed back down south to warmer waters....AARC, you should have your own TV show on the man who survived two near shark attacks!.....You are lucky and I understand why your daughter would still have nightmares....I was in Florida in the Tampa Bay area a few years ago and was swimming in those warm waters and never once thought about a shark attack...Didn't think there were many sharks there..Guess I was mistaken!....

 

[ARC]

When I say "my girl"... I am referring to my better half... AKA wife. :P

Heh on the T.V. show... Not the first time I heard that.
Anyway...
I grew up in a van down by the river...
J/k...
I have spent a GREAT deal of my life ... On... Around... or in water.

 

[ARC]

 

[ARC]

Oh btw...
We were talking about Baracudas...
I posted this pic this morn on The Random Picture Thread...

it also belongs here.

 

[can]

Oh btw...
We were talking about Baracudas...
I posted this pic this morn on The Random Picture Thread...

it also belongs here.

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nice smile. aarc did you take this pic?

 

[DigIron2]

Oh btw...
We were talking about Baracudas...
I posted this pic this morn on The Random Picture Thread...

it also belongs here.

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YIKES ,yep that's what I saw,lol.cool pic!