Moana Beach, Adelaide, has been cleared due to a Great White shark sighting 50 metres off shore. Early "reports" claimed the shark could be as large as 16 metres! Clearly absurd when one considers that the largest Great Whites are expected to reach about 9 metres. This is somewhat presumptuous, too, because the largest captured Great White on record was about 7 metres, though an accurate measurement couldn't be taken as the fisherman who caught it kept only the head and pectoral fins.
Oh yeah, a few weeks ago a friend send me pictures (see above) of a Great White that had washed up on shores near where her brother lives. It appeared at Mermaid Beach,the Gold Coast, November 11. Measuring 2.3 metres, it was dragging a buoy from the shark nets around shore when a life guard spotted it.
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so i was flipping channels and i saw some people cage diving with great whites this morning and it got me thinking... if they're chumming the water to bring the sharks in, don't the sharks then start to associate boats and humans with food? so what happens when someone falls out of a boat in the middle of the ocean... sharks see boats, sharks see humans, sharks get dinner, no?
well, i do think there is that association: humans AND food. however, this shouldn't be confused with humans AS food. from what i've read sharks don't particularly care for the taste of humans and most encounters equate to one bite, as the shark realizes that it has mistaken the person for regular food.
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