Holy Fucking Shit!

[Superstar Punani]

http://surfingthemag.com/news/surfin.../shark_060105/





"While the ocean vessel 'Dawn Raider' was commercial fishing for dogfish, this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for 15 minutes before it came up alongside the boat to have a look; long enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope around it's tail !!!

And that's when the shit hit the fan!!

The Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots. Just like in JAWS, the boat was taking on water over the stern and the crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the water at times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned.

She weighed in at 1035 LBS. It is suspected she followed a weak El Nino current into local waters in search of food. Although mid 60 deg. water is considered ideal for these sharks, the larger ones can tolerate water in the low 50s."

[bklyn]

sick!
look at those teeth

[hop]

Burl. I recall a similar thing happening off Vancouver Island recently.

Of course there's no reason they needed to kill the thing. If you're watching in horror as your boat all but sinking, you cut the line to the problem!

[bklyn]

If you're watching in horror as your boat all but sinking, you cut the line to the problem!

Agree - why endanger the boat and crew for an hour.
Amazing animal - still staring at the teeth. We are no where near the top of the food chain in the water.

[hop]

why endanger the boat and crew for an hour.

What about the shark?

I get a bit bummed when the "trophy hunter/whatever caused them to lasso the shark" mentality ends up killing a magnificent animal that we hardly understand. What were they thinking when they lassoed the thing and kept it tied up while it dragged them around for an hour?

As for the cow that's going on my grill tonight...

[revolution]

What about the shark?

I get a bit bummed when the "trophy hunter/whatever caused them to lasso the shark" mentality ends up killing a magnificent animal that we hardly understand. What were they thinking when they lassoed the thing and kept it tied up while it dragged them around for an hour?

As for the cow that's going on my grill tonight...

Agreed. It would of saved alot of trouble just by cutting the rope. We need to starting taking care of what we have like these magnificent creatures, before they are all gone

[tuffy109]

This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned.

this is from the onion, right?

[bklyn]

What about the shark?

Agree with you on that also, but we know the ending to that story.

[13]

Amazing. A 1/2 ton fish dragged a 42 ft. fishing vessel at 7 kts. for an hour. Unbelieveable!

I too would have cut the rope as soon as the boat started taking on water.

[Tap]

they didn't cut the rope for one reason and one reason only......cause it was tied to a cash cow.

[hop]

they didn't cut the rope for one reason and one reason only......cause it was tied to a cash cow.

Cash cow? I dunno about that. I know that in CA you aren't allowed to keep any part of a GW that you may or may not have accidentally caught and killed; the whole thing must be turned over to FWS or some other agency (I can't remember the exact one). You can't keep the jaws, and you can't sell Great White fillets either. That way there's no incentive to go out and kill them, even "accidentally", except for a newspaper story and some bragging rights. I doubt the WA folks are laughing all the way to the bank with this.

Again, in CA these guys would have been fined for intentionally killing a protected species.

[milkman]

Saw that a while ago. West Coast of Vancouver Island is my local break...

[Camilo]

Link
Origins: The photographs displayed above and the caption identifying them as photos of a half-ton shark taken during a "Shark Catch in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia" are indeed real.

The female mako shark pictured here was hooked in August 2004 during the Yarmouth Shark Scramble (an annual shark-fishing derby) by 28-year-old Jamie Doucette of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, who battled the monster fish for 40 minutes before landing it. According to one newspaper account of the event:
In a scene reminiscent of "Jaws," the fish tugged the boat sideways [and] surged to the surface near the bow, a mako with a broad head and rows of razor teeth, chewing through steel leader.

Doucette reeled it in and other anglers wrapped it in ropes as the shark chewed through the knots. One loop circled its torso, the other the tail; one man leaned over the boat and slit its throat as Jaws thrashed for something to bite. It died 20 minutes later.
The shark was officially measured at 10 feet, 10 inches (3.3 meters) and 1,082 lbs. (492 kg), netting $3,000 in prize money for Doucette, who said:
I felt bad that we caught her at the prime of her reproductive cycle. When they get to be this massive they call them queens of the sea. I would have let her go if I had been by myself, but it's different when you have four or five other guys on the boat. You've got to win.
As chronicled at the Magazine Yarmouth web site, other circulating versions of these photographs erroneously place the shark catch on the wrong coast of Canada, warning readers to stay away from Port Albion, Ucluelet, and Barkley Sound in British Columbia:

[basom]

so. its not a GW eh?

[hop]

damn, then that is one huge-ass mako!

[duh, now that I look at it more closely]I should have known better by the "jumping repeatedly" and the shape of the tail/head/teeth, but whatever... didn't look too far past the big waste of a superpredator...and it's fucking huge for a mako![/DNTILAIMC]

but HA! I knew I remembered that from Vancouver Island recently!

[kush1]

damn, then that is one huge-ass mako!

[duh, now that I look at it more closely]I should have known better by the "jumping repeatedly" and the shape of the tail/head/teeth, but whatever... didn't look too far past the big waste of a superpredator...and it's fucking huge for a mako![/DNTILAIMC]

but HA! I knew I remembered that from Vancouver Island recently!

And you call yourself a whale/shark geek

[hop]

And you call yourself a whale/shark geek

I never called myself a shark geek. I just like them.

Now ask me any questions about whales. I double-dog-dare you!

[Steven S. Dallas]

Now ask me any questions about whales. I double-dog-dare you!

If I could be any kind of whale, what kind would I be?

[biggins]

If I could be any kind of whale, what kind would I be?

sperm... hehehe

[Steven S. Dallas]

Damn! I forgot you worked at MBL.

[hop]

If I could be any kind of whale, what kind would I be?

nice try, but that's a question about you, not about whales.

[Steven S. Dallas]

nice try, but that's a question about you, not about whales.

If a whale could be me, which whale would it be?

[hop]

harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena

[eDub]

http://www.cetacea.org/harbour.htm

"(Harbor Porpoise) Phocoena phocoena"

Description: . . . a small robust body which tapers toward the tail. The flippers are small, dark and slightly rounded; . . . The back and dorsal cape are black or dark grey, as are the lips and chin, merging through a lighter grey on the flanks to a white belly. . . between 1.4-1.9m in length, and weigh a maximum of 65kg.

Recognition at sea: With its small dorsal fin and small body size, [it] is easy to identify.

Behaviour: . . . tend to travel in small groups of 2-5 animals, with larger units of 12 not uncommon. They move by 'rolling' slowly forward in the water, and are not as acrobatic as other small cetaceans. They also remain still, especially at night, and it is thought this is how they remain undetected by their main natural predator - the shark.

Longevity: Most die before they reach the age of 8.

[hop]

yep, that's them. They are pretty much the lowliest cetacean out there, so I would imagine one of them would love to be something else for a change.
They're so small and weak that in some parts of the world even Pinnipeds beat them up!