Great White

gsmloop2003 · Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

I sail ocean city, md. and a friend of mine who fished the white marlin tournament last month told me that the talk amongst the fisherman was a big great white that had been seen offshore. and that everyone was sort of keeping it hush hush so as not to frighten the tourists.

windward1 · Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 1400

If you wish to read a true story of a Great White Shark marauding the Jersey Shore back in the early 1900s, read Close to Shore. That shark even entered creeks to get victims.

pacspeed · Joined: 14 Sep 2000 Posts: 627

Thats a good sign, dudes, a big ol fish like that cant survive without a whole mess o cod, salmon, seals, an stuff to nosh on. Could New Englands fisheries be slowly healing? Only time will tell.
Till then, Id keep windsurfing, and not do a whole lot of bodysurfing. Remember: You dont have to be faster than the shark, you just need to be faster than the next guy in the water!!!

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Pretty lame ass sharknsailor, I know.

cdsail28 · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 27

check out: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/woodshole2004.html

At least one 15 footer (white shark) was tagged by scientists yesterday near woods hole. A little scary.

JRuffus · Joined: 17 Apr 2001 Posts: 293

Ahh, I will be wearing a chuming basket to attract the big dolphin. I cant jibe, nor can bush, but john kerry gybes, so i will vote for him

dennisrodger · Joined: 17 Jul 2001 Posts: 52

I recall an article several years ago that said there has been only one known shark attack on a moving windsurfer. I think it was in the SF bay area maybe around Santa Cruz. Guy was thrown off his moving board and the board sustained some damage. Apparently he was able to waterstart and sail in once the shark lost interest. Thatd turn a few hairs gray.

jse · Joined: 17 Apr 1995 Posts: 1460 Location: Maui

A few years back, a windsurfer was bitten in Maui off of Kanaha by a tiger shark when he stopped outside Spartans Reef to adjust his gear. He made it in, but it was a serious bite. I also heard of a similar instance in Margarita, if Im not mistaken. The common theme is sailors adjusting their gear outside in deep shark infested water. Its recommended to make your rigging adjustments at the beach when sailing where sharks are. Something about thrashing around that attracts them. Like what you might do if you were adjusting your downhaul in deep water.

Steve

cdsail28 · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 27

Definately a high pucker factor on that session! Hey- if you guys think that little lake you sail on vaca w/ the fam every year is safe check this out:

http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/cryptoworld/index237a.html

Know the risks Wink

ray123 · Joined: 09 Jul 2000 Posts: 63

http://www.worldzone.net/sports/stay99/sharks.htm

melpel · Joined: 10 May 1998 Posts: 234

I heard this one as well from the local windsurf crowd - as this is word of word of mouth, probably somewhere between fact and fiction...

Supposedly the guy was sailing the coast around SF (thought it was near Halfmoon Bay). He went into a jibe and the board was flopping around funny. Looked down to see a shark latched on to the tail of his board. From there he paniced and jumped in to swim away... only to realize he was now in the water with that shark and too far from shore to make it in. He then swam back to his board and felt the shark brush by as he got to his gear to sailed it in.

They had a great story on the beach, then as the winds picked back up most people went back to sailing...!

... ok, thats the way I heard it anyway...