whites are allways going to do a bump test when they are curious .. its just thier nature .. you know if it really means business as you never see it coming.

Those victorian white pointers are just plain rude id say!

ahh just a playful one, kind of like playing "Marco Polo" with an edge....

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26281690-401,00.html

hot off the press.

what a monster.

Regarding the Vic one he was just about to gaff it when it turned nasty

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/30/2729178.htm

Funny photo mate..what the hell is the guy with the sound mic trying to do..it looks pretty dead to me. Bloody big shark..nice looking powerful animals, shame they bite!

Dolphins scare the shit out of me when they pop up right next to ya lol. I just see a fin go 'woosh' only a couple of meters away from the yak, only to see a couple of them playin around about a minute later.

I think it's fair to say that bloke left a nice aqua dump in the water before being hauled to safety...scary moment

If my memory is correct this female tiger was caught in a shark net off Durban south somewhere and they tried to help it but found it in the net the next day again they tend to do this when tired. I saw the local "parks board" in my home town Richardsbay just 179km north of Durban putting baited drum lines offshore for sharks back between 2001 and 2005 instead of using shark nets. Then they got a shark of 1098kg on a new drum days after a diver was taken by a shark futher up north on the coast at St Lucia where police divers only got he's one foot and flipper and a partial of the other flipper. A police diver did say in that dive while looking for the body he saw a tiger shark at over 5m above him, makes you think why we still dive ha.

Hence the reason why I bought a boat and sold the fishing ski!

Yeh Monster alrite....but not a Great White.....its a BIG Tiger.

Hey Mr Wolf, what lovely big teeth you have

It is a white pointer as stated not a tiger.Have a look at its snout,pointed not blunt like a tiger,the teeth are even shaped not off set like a tiger and last of all have a look at the tail,top and bottom halves are even,a tigers tail is approx 2/3 top and 1/3 bottom.Forget the stripes because pointers can have them as well

2nd tooth from left looks like a tiger tooth to me though, bit blury with a zoom in though

look at the black tips on the pectoral fins

but i am gonna stick with a tiger!

bloody big one at that..

http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/20c62037a77144db99b9328fa9ca9c16/29-10-2009-08-49/Shark_pics_cause_a_stir

"It isn't one of our sharks, we don't have such small sharks"

Whitey for sure, just have to look in its eye!

Its the same fish in that last link by the looks.

yeh white for me 2.... shape of the head the teeth (from a distance!) and for me the pec fins shape size and colour... can see where ppl think its a tiger but

still imo its a white everyone too there own but =)

either way its a biiiiiiig shark but now back to the story , that yakker would have had a few years taken off his life with a big shark of any kind knocking him in the water, just playing with his food then realising it was just like broccoli , discusting dont eat that stuff. ... i wouldnt like to have been in that situation myself for all the tea in china. one lucky yakker

its a white tigers have a squareish nose an the dont the little flaps jus before there tail

Could have been alot worse.

I'm still not keen to paddle around the Sound after hearing about a couple of big ones in the area. I can't remember if they were great whites or what..

However it's a risk we all take with ocean yakking, i usually stick to the river lol.

Shorty, how far out do u go when u hit the ocean?

We generally don't go past the 5 fathom bank in the kayaks, its probally the ones that cruise near the shore thats the problem (GW at Woodys boat ramp last month etc) the Sounds are chockers with sharks this time of year, i am sticking with bream fishing down Mandurah way at the moment.

I do wonder if anybody will get taken one day walking across to Penguin island in the dark with tommorows Abalone season start.

that the GW was a juvvie

Don't get
Tigers down at the south coast of Cape Province, water is too cold, they stick much further north in Kwazuluz/ Natal and into Mozambique.

Shark would have gone to the fisheries research center in Durban for analysis, as part of the Natal Sharks Board's ongoing program to protect the bathers as well as the sharks,

lots of work being done on the nets becoming more shark friendly by the RSA guys.

ps the famous pic of the MichaelScholl in the kayak with the GW following him from Cape Town is a Swiss mate of mine who has been doing shark research in False Bay, Hermanus and the East Cape Coast line for over 15 years.

here is their website for more info.
http://www.whitesharktrust.org/

unfortunately with the GFC they lost most of the last sponsorship and their program looks like it's going to die. Pity, as it was a great step forward in shark behavior and management information. In 2007 they had to cut back the program too it's bones, but now it's dead...sad

quote"White Shark Trust Epilogue or Intermission?

(Update 1st of February 2007)

Despite considerable and continuous efforts to locate and secure the required sponsorship and funding during the past few years, the White Shark Trust and Michael Scholl were unfortunately unable to secure the necessary funds to continue the field research and the general activities of the Trust.

Hence the White Shark Trust ceased its activities in South Africa for an undertermined period of time. Michael Scholl decided to relocate to his home country of Switzerland for the present time in order to work on the photographic identification database and the research accumulated over the past decade. Check out his blog: www.MichaelScholl.info

The Great White Shark photographic identification research project and its associated population structure and dynamics research project started in October 1997 and continued for nearly a decade until January 2007. It is a shame that the longest continous research project on any population of White Sharks in the world had to come to an end due to lack of funding and lack of support from the South African authorities."

Of many of you thinking Im a mean,nasty ,son of a B,that is still the sort of Great White photos I like to see,my view is when they start co existing with humans that happen to want to swim,ski,surf,dive,or whatever,even yak paddlers,I much prefer reading of shark demise and not human.all credit to those who admire these wonderful creatures but I saw what was left of Mr. R (Bob) Bartel in 1968? not nice,I do not think we should kill them all but there is a definite increase in the number being seen around populated (water activity) areas, in the past 5 years.and as I do not think,( may be proven wrong) that sharks have wives,children,husbands and a whole group of close family,like humans do,dont worry,it will never happen,after all,there are a lot more humans.jersey

Over East theres set lines on drums and nets to keep some areas safe,,

Here they are free to roam about,,expect another death soon this summer in Perth, its been Adults up to now once kids are eaten there will be more to say about it,,,

Although I sincerely hope not another human dies or is attacked by them,but it will certainly never be a  polly,,That would be cruel to the exxxtreme,any thing eat a polly would forever be doomed to liking the ars of its fellow predators just to rid of the vile,taste,in its mouth, not many creatures like parasites do they?jersey

shark will never eat a pollie,
it's called professional cutesy...lol

Is right,pollies are full of excrement, although I think Tony has some merit,the thing is,at least with a shark you know it may bite, so you are not surprised when it does.  Politician's seem ok until they get into office and join the rest of the parasites,and ravage the community for all they can.jersey