Great White off Cornwall?

by **surferdude_scarborough** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:07 pm

anyone believe it? personally i think it was some local surfer fed up with the crowds. filmed a basking shark or something n said it was a great white.

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by **paulS** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:22 pm

Was just on the news, some fisherman caught it & it wasn't a Great White...(not sure what shark it was tho)..its very dead now...cruel ****ers

by **surferdude_scarborough** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:38 pm

ah yes i did see that. but theres no way of telling if thats the same shark that the bloke filmed. n yes it was pretty cruel.

by **bmth.longboarder** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:04 am

well cant deny there is a shark out there because they live in the sea and the sea stretches across the world. i wouldn't say there is massive threat as they were there the whole time. I have watched surf vids from south africa showing guys surfing and great white fins poping up behind them haha.

by **Bewilderbeast** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:17 am

It's a load of old tosh! I saw the close up video footage and the dorsal fin is entirely the wrong shape.....it's a basking shark.

I don't think there is anything wrong with everyone believing that there are whites round here and lets face it, there probably is. They're in the Med and in ocean terms, that’s not a long way away. Anything to stop the summer time zoo!

Funny I was wondering last week about how many of us UK peeps (seeing as we are spread country wide.) it would take to proliferate a good shark rumour!!

I think if anyone asks your opinion on this matter none of us should deny it...."oh yeah, definitely a white shark"....."yeah surfers are seeing them more and more over here now the water is getting warmer"....ect ect.!

by **surfdaisy06** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:42 am

In the newspaper yesterday, the experts say that it was probably just a large basking shark who have white bellies which could be mistaken for a great white. Or could have been a dolphin. Loads of people mistake dolphins for sharks.

by **kitesurfer** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:47 am

Curious that it comes just after Jaws was screened on TV at the weekend!!!

KS

by **drowningbitbybit** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:00 am

Bewilderbeast wrote:I think if anyone asks your opinion on this matter none of us should deny it...."oh yeah, definitely a white shark"....."yeah surfers are seeing them more and more over here now the water is getting warmer"....ect ect.!

People at work just asked if I was scared of The Great White Shark :roll:

"No, dont be silly... ummmm" *thinks about bewilderbeast's idea* "actually, yes, its only a matter of time before it becomes a man-eater..." :wink:

by **Bewilderbeast** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:13 am

That's the spirit mate!

Now if we could only start a rumour of an attack!

by **^*^BATMAN^*^** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:55 pm

Just go buy a shark tooth, and stab your leg a whole bunch and say you got bit....

by **Phil** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:07 pm

this happens every year :roll:

by **Bewilderbeast** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:20 pm

^*^BATMAN^*^ wrote:Just go buy a shark tooth, and stab your leg a whole bunch and say you got bit....

It's an idea but I might just pass on that one!

Unless of course I can't think of a better plan, then I'm game..... :roll:

by **Milo** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:27 pm

Told all the boys at our local, said they are staying out of the water for a bit, all good news :lol:

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As for whites in our water, why not. Everything i`ve read does`nt say yes or no :!:

by **PapaW** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:12 pm

omg some people are such numptys!!!!

its a load of bollox. its a basking shark and a load of dolphins/porposes!

well it can only be a good thing if it keeps the nobbers away!

by **Surfing-Innovation** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:19 pm

I was in Cornwall a couple of years ago and saw 'something' breach about 200 yards away from me. To my mind, the tail fin was horizontal as it came out of the water (ie, not sharky), but lo and behold, that evening there was some holiday maker on the news who'd been out in a boat and had seen this 'thing' at close quarters and was SURE it was a Mako - and the next morning it was all over the newspapers!

Now, I'm no expert, and I'm xxxxx scared of anything with the potential to kill me without me having SERIOUSLY pissed it off first, but I'm pretty sure the bloke in the boat was talking fleshin', as we both saw the same thing (I saw the boat too, and it wasn't all that close to the 'shark' - maybe just a little closer than I was)

Rumour control..................

by **Dec** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:01 am

Well I've had the pleasure of surfing with heaps of sharks *shiver* and never had any serious problems with them. Most of the time people see something in the water and automatically think shark?! When it could be seaweed, dolphins, you name it.

:roll:

by **Broosta** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:38 am

Great White shark.

Basking shark.

Completely different, and the scale could be the same for both photos since Basking sharks can be up to twice the size of Great Whites. I haven't seen the close up footage but don't see how they could be seen as similar. Basking shark's top speed is 4mph so not sure it could jump out of the water as seen in the long distance video.

by **Milo** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:25 pm

[quote="Broosta"]Great White shark.

Why is he smiling, that just scares me :shock:

by **drowningbitbybit** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:31 am

Milo wrote:Why is he smiling, that just scares me

Big fish in a small pond.

by **RJD** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:49 pm

Bah was going to go find out myself, in Devon for a week before London then back to New Zealand.

Swell : 0-1ft. bummer. Saw some groms catching a few today but so not worth the hassle of finding gear, mebe Friday I may get chance of getting up tot he north coast/Boscacle area, mebe...

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