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re: Enormous Great White filmed off Guadalupe Island Mexico
Posted on 6/12/15 at 3:56 pm to Sparkplug#1
Posted on 6/12/15 at 3:56 pm to Sparkplug#1
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Its sad to say, but white sharks are pussies if you defend yourself.*
So they're just like a bully on the playground, pop em good in the nose and they leave you alone? They prefer to blindside their prey to minimize losing teeth or other injury, correct?
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Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:01 pm to jchamil
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So they're just like a bully on the playground, pop em good in the nose and they leave you alone? They prefer to blindside their prey to minimize losing teeth or other injury, correct?
Correct on all accounts.
This post was edited on 6/12/15 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:01 pm to jchamil
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So they're just like a bully on the playground, pop em good in the nose and they leave you alone? They prefer to blindside their prey to minimize losing teeth or other injury, correct?
I've watched the nat geo shows in that same area where they catch them and get them up on a platform along side the boat to test and tag them, they seem real docile and don't fight or thrash around like almost every game fish I've had on a line, even on the platform they just kind of lay there and take their medicine
This post was edited on 6/12/15 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:05 pm to Sparkplug#1
quote:I would have horrific nightmares about that pretty much forever.
I had a small 9 footer get in the cage with me. Thats the only one that was pretty brave.
I'd do the cage dive, but I ain't free diving with any of them. Sorry. Nope.
It's always the juveniles, in every species. Snakes. Humans. Everything.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:06 pm to 777Tiger
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I've watched the nat geo shows in that same area where they catch them and get them up on platform along side the boat to test and tag them, they seem real docile and don't fight or thrash around like almost every game fish I've had on a line, even on the platform they just kind of lay there and take their medicine
Most Ive seen have tags or we tagged them. We also took DNA samples, to determine the size of the gene pool. This was back in the 90's so I don't know if they ever linked the gene pools from the south pacific, pacific, and atlantic stocks. Im sure they have it figured out by now, though.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:08 pm to Sparkplug#1
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Most Ive seen have tags or we tagged them. We also took DNA samples,
I'd love to go on a trip like that, just to be a deck hand or something, that sounds awesome.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:08 pm to Gorilla Fingers
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No matter how awesome an animal you think she is some dude shark out there is sick of her shite.
...slow fap
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:10 pm to 777Tiger
I've been on numerous expeditions tracking and studying Great White behaviour. It's quite fascinating to see such raw power and grace in a surreal underwater abyss.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:11 pm to blueboy
Looks like the hog football coach 
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:16 pm to SabiDojo
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It's quite fascinating to see such raw power and grace in a surreal underwater abyss.
that would be cool, can you get on some of those trips as a volunteer, or do they take people along to subsidize their research?
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:21 pm to 777Tiger
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that would be cool, can you get on some of those trips as a volunteer, or do they take people along to subsidize their research
Well, it's a team effort, so everyone works and has a role. Because we tale our research seriously, we only allow qualified doctors and other grads to go on our expeditions.
However, I'm sure there are charters out there who can give you a great experience.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:22 pm to 777Tiger
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I'd love to go on a trip like that, just to be a deck hand or something, that sounds awesome.
Those are experiences I never took for granted.
Someone had a thread in the OB and i posted this pic of some shots I took. Might as well post it here, too.
[/URL]This post was edited on 6/12/15 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:25 pm to SabiDojo
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only allow qualified doctors and other grads to go on our expeditions.
I got this!
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:25 pm to Sparkplug#1
that would be awesome
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:26 pm to SabiDojo
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Well, it's a team effort, so everyone works and has a role. Because we tale our research seriously, we only allow qualified doctors and other grads to go on our expeditions.
Do you work for NOAA?
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:27 pm to 777Tiger
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that would be awesome
I can hook you up as a paying customer, if you ever have the 777 in Australia.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:27 pm to blueboy
reason number 765,527,933 not to go to mexico
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:38 pm to blueboy
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:43 pm to blueboy
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25
3 tons of him.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:54 pm to blueboy
Damn. That's an awesome creature. If dude keeps trying to get chummy with sharks he may be obliged one day.
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