HAMMERHEAD !!! HAMMERHEAD !!

[Colonialgirl]

Read the article and then watch the video at the end !!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/31/massive-hammerhead-shark-spotted-just-feet-from-beach-as-pair-of-swimmers-brush-off-warning-shouts/

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Shark - 1
Humans - 0 :D :D

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Back in the 60s & early 70s I fished a lot offshore of Galveston. I have seen quite a few 12' to 16-17' Hammerheads. How do I know because when you are in a 18' boat it is real easy to tell the length when they are right next to you :D

"Dad I think we need a bigger BOAT" "Son don't worry just swim faster than me" :roll:

 

[Wyandot Jim]

http://blogthechad.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/img00084-20111125-1313.jpg?w=150&h=111

You think that's a huge one? Take a look at this one!

- DixieBoy

Why did you let that poor little girl so close to that ferocious MONSTER :shock: :shock: :shock:

What is that phone number of Child Protection Services :wink: :wink:

 

[redhawker]

I think they were lucky that it was more interested in that stingray then it was in them.

 

[BearBio]

Growing up in SoCal, we saw a lot, especially when I graduated to fishing in Mexican waters. Fortunately, they aren't man-eaters. My uncle was clamming in the Sea of Cortez (Bahia de los Angeles) when he was "stalked" by a 15 footer. By the time he had waded the 300 yards back to shore, he had fed it all his clams.

 

[Merle1948]

Growing up in SoCal, we saw a lot, especially when I graduated to fishing in Mexican waters. Fortunately, they aren't man-eaters. My uncle was clamming in the Sea of Cortez (Bahia de los Angeles) when he was "stalked" by a 15 footer. By the time he had waded the 300 yards back to shore, he had fed it all his clams.

What makes you think that hammerheads are not man eaters? :?

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Growing up in SoCal, we saw a lot, especially when I graduated to fishing in Mexican waters. Fortunately, they aren't man-eaters. My uncle was clamming in the Sea of Cortez (Bahia de los Angeles) when he was "stalked" by a 15 footer. By the time he had waded the 300 yards back to shore, he had fed it all his clams.

What makes you think that hammerheads are not man eaters? :?

Yep, But I never wanted to find out if they like White meat :wink:
Of the 11 known species of hammerhead, three can be dangerous to humans: the scalloped, great, and smooth hammerheads. As of 2013 there have been 33 attacks, but no fatalities.

 

[737tdi]

Wow, I just lost a great post about my diving experiences. Be more afraid of a dachshund then a hammerhead, he can get just as much meat. My computer went backwards and lost a great post I had. Dammitt.

I'll recap the last because I just can't type it again. I have hundreds and hundreds of dives. PADI as a Divemaster and Master Scuba Diver. Now that doesn't mean I have seen everything because I haven't. But, sharks do not like big black critters blowing bubbles with one giant eye. You are not their food choice. Now on top of the water is a different story. If you are dumb enough to surf/boogie board where they are known to feed, God be with you. Even then the odds are pretty low???

Karl

 

[BearBio]

Growing up in SoCal, we saw a lot, especially when I graduated to fishing in Mexican waters. Fortunately, they aren't man-eaters. My uncle was clamming in the Sea of Cortez (Bahia de los Angeles) when he was "stalked" by a 15 footer. By the time he had waded the 300 yards back to shore, he had fed it all his clams.

What makes you think that hammerheads are not man eaters? :?

Yep, But I never wanted to find out if they like White meat :wink:
Of the 11 known species of hammerhead, three can be dangerous to humans: the scalloped, great, and smooth hammerheads. As of 2013 there have been 33 attacks, but no fatalities.

I've been bit by a 12" leopard shark and have a buddy (2 actually) who've been bit by dogfish (My brother was bit by a blue shark in Subic Bay and I still have a scar from a California barracuda from when I was 12-14, or so). That does not make them "maneaters". While an undergrad, I worked with Dr Nelson at the Nat Academy of Science annual meeting at CSULB (about 1971, 1972), and learned about agonistic behavior in sharks from him (the first public presentation he did on his work on threat displays by sharks).

Working with animals (marine, aquatic and terrestrial) since 1968, both as an amateur (volunteer) and professionally (over 30 years), I can still say my worst bite was from a cocker spaniel puppy. My worst wild animal bite was a chacma baboon that tried to eat a finger when I was 18.

 

[BearBio]

Wow, I just lost a great post about my diving experiences. Be more afraid of a dachshund then a hammerhead, he can get just as much meat. My computer went backwards and lost a great post I had. Dammitt.

I'll recap the last because I just can't type it again. I have hundreds and hundreds of dives. PADI as a Divemaster and Master Scuba Diver. Now that doesn't mean I have seen everything because I haven't. But, sharks do not like big black critters blowing bubbles with one giant eye. You are not their food choice. Now on top of the water is a different story. If you are dumb enough to surf/boogie board where they are known to feed, God be with you. Even then the odds are pretty low???

Karl

I prepared a news report on the great whites off of the Farallons, while on a detail to SF NWR. A large, black object on the surface could be easily mistaken for something else out there. Somebody was griping that the researchers were bothering the sharks. It was clear the shark swam into the boat while it was idling.

 

[Jeepnik]

Hmm, seems to me the only thing in danger was the fish the shark was trying to eat. Most folks have no idea that sharks, even larger ones spend a fair amount of time in the surf zone.

Heck out here we regularly get new bits about great whites in the Santa Monica bay. You'd think growing up in a beach community folks would know that the bay is one of the great whites pupping grounds. When small, they live in the surf zone. They venture further out as the grow. And, when adults return to pup.

Yep, folks get bit by sharks. Some get killed. Then again, folks get bit and killed by bears yet folks don't loose control of their bowels when one of those incidents is reported the way they do when "anything" (and this qualifies as a non event) shark related gets press.

 

[BearBio]

Hmm, seems to me the only thing in danger was the fish the shark was trying to eat. Most folks have no idea that sharks, even larger ones spend a fair amount of time in the surf zone.

Heck out here we regularly get new bits about great whites in the Santa Monica bay. You'd think growing up in a beach community folks would know that the bay is one of the great whites pupping grounds. When small, they live in the surf zone. They venture further out as the grow. And, when adults return to pup.

Yep, folks get bit by sharks. Some get killed. Then again, folks get bit and killed by bears yet folks don't loose control of their bowels when one of those incidents is reported the way they do when "anything" (and this qualifies as a non event) shark related gets press.

My dad used to tell me stories of catching yellowtail and albacore off Redondo Pier. When a kid, I saw an 18 foot giant squid that washed up on Redondo and a 35 foot basking shark harpooned in the Bay and displayed at Pierpoint Landing.

ps: I remember seeing my first underwater shark while snorkeling off La Jolla==just a 8 foot blue but sure seemed larger==I musta swallowed 1/2 of the water in the Pacific!

 

[Rumrunner]

I used to catch a lot of sharks working on offshore oil boats on the west coast. My 2 biggest hammerheads were right at 10', but the girth between the two was very different. From those two and other species it seems they start getting bigger around as they grow more so than longer.

 

[Richbaker]

Is his 1st name Mike?


:twisted:

While an undergrad, I worked with Dr Nelson at the Nat Academy of Science annual meeting at CSULB (about 1971, 1972), and learned about agonistic behavior in sharks from him (the first public presentation he did on his work on threat displays by sharks).

Working with animals (marine, aquatic and terrestrial) since 1968, both as an amateur (volunteer) and professionally (over 30 years), I can still say my worst bite was from a cocker spaniel puppy. My worst wild animal bite was a chacma baboon that tried to eat a finger when I was 18.

 

[Colonialgirl]

AAAHHH me; There was nothing in the world like standing out on the end of the Bow Sprit of your sailboat out in the middle of the Catalina Channel looking back at her and then glancing down and seeing a couple of BIG sharks circling around below below you. Glad I ALWAYS practiced, "One hand for the Boat and One hand for ME !!"

 

[BearBio]

Once walked out on deck for a smoke late at night off the Coronados (in Mexico, off of Baja) and saw 16 hammerheads all 12' or bigger. Didn't count all the blues and smaller sharks attracted by the lights. Was bombarded by flying fish that I startled.

Never let go of the boat!

 

[Jimbo357mag]

A little bit of sensationalism, but Sharks and especially Hammerheads do migrate in large schools along Florida's coast. Several times a year we get 'news chopper' reports and video of shark schools. Yikes!! :shock: :shock:

btw, Don't swim with baitfish in the water. :shock: :shock:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289294/Thousands-sharks-seen-migrating-Florida-coast.html