Nice story Dug ... I was at Moreton about 15 years ago when a surfer got taken by Great White at Moreton. The guy got dragged up and down the beach for about 15 minutes before he and the shark disappeared forever.
This was a giant shark. Moreton Island must have some of the biggest whites in the world. Wasn't Vic Hislop's white pointer world record off Moreton?
Originally Posted by BRabbit
Many a record shark was taken off the Tangalooma whaling station in the old days.
Vic Hislop Bob Dwyer for us old guys who remember BP Pick a Box
We used to dive the Tangalooma wrecks in the 1970's and you would occasionally see a big shadow cruise past. on the open water side.
There are some BIG things out there
I have actually been attacked by a shark while diving!
We did a night dive in Jervis bay and my buddy and I were playing with a big Port Jackson gummy shark sleeping under a ledge. It must have enjoyed the game because it followed us for a while before sticking it's head fair up between my legs !
I was not a happy chappy I had 1,500 psi of air in my tank before and 500psi after so that is 1,000 psi of air in one gulp !
It nearly killed my mate as well as is is difficult to laugh hysterically underwater and keep your regulator in your mouth.
Needless to say we cut the dive short and went and had a few drinks to calm my nerves.
I was spearfishing off Tommaree at Port Stephens about 20 years ago and wasn't doing much when a shool of Kingy's swam right into me. Pow, I got one I'm guessing was aroung 6-8 kg and it was fighting to get off my pronger. I knew the pronger wouldn't hold so I was about to grab hold of the Kingy when whamo... a shark came from nowhere and grabbed it. The shark looked a monster because it was so close but it probably was about 6-8 feet long. I have no idea what brand it was.
The funny thing is, I wan't even thinking ' scared', I was more resentful of this bastard fish trying to steal my Kingy. We had a tug-o-war for a few seconds before he won and swam off with said fish in gob. Mongrel thing!
I did get out of the water immediately I came to my senses.
Good day all,
10m+ walls of death Gale force south westerly off Tasman Island in a 50 foot Charter boat in the late 80s.Only the skipper knew what the ---- we were doing there.Motored around 5km south to find a gap in the swell to turn her for home.
Have you ever seen pushers bubbling from 10+ meters up. interesting
Cheers
Reidy
Ummm a scary but funny story, I was in my mates little tinny there were three of us night fishing in the brisbane river, it is a small boat and relatively close to the water with 3 guys in it, we were cruising along the river near the pinkenbah boat ramp towards the silo's, my mate was abit sleepy and was lyign acrosshte boat with his head just near the water.... as we putted along, a dolphin surfaced right near the boat and all he saw was this big fin come out of the water, he was the only one watching at the time, he jumped and was scared and in turn made us 2 jump... was rather amusing after we check our undies....
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My old mate Bretto who is 6 foot 2 and covered in red hair walking into Tangalooma resort after a swim in just his old white undies with the elastic mostly gone. Seen more than a man should of a mate that day. Probably still Japanese tourists seeking therapy as well...........
Giving evidence at a double murder trail when i was 17. I worked with him and my brother and i we're the last ones to see him and his girlfriend alive.
Thing is he was found not guilty and said to the barmaid who had seen him with them said he was going to get her. Few weeks later she was found strangled and burn't in her bed. To say i was concerned for my safety was an understatement.
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Mine was doing the solo night shift steaming a research vessel down the Fly River in Papua New Guinea (~2.00am) going several 100 ks between work sites, using the radar to see where we are in the river (its a bloody big place with a channel up to a k or more across in places with a couple of spotlights on the front peering into the evening) and using the auto pilot to lock the boat onto a straight fixed heading each time we went around a river bend - its dodgy enough steaming at night with whole rainforest trees floating along as semi submerged logs and shallow sand bars and the like - but there is also ocean going copper ore carring ships steaming up and down the river 24 / 7 which you have to keep in communication with and keep out of the way of - so talking to a copper ship coming up stream on the VHF (empty and fast) and we're discussing where to pass each other which bend, port to port etc and we say go to the UHF radio when in sight - so as I see the lights of what looks like a Gold Coast high rise coming around the river bend in front of me - I transmit on the UHF that I can see him and as I transmit the UHF interfers with the auto pilot I still have locked on and locks the boat into a violent full port turn (on full power and going downstream) - I cut power and look at the radar and see the world spinning around, as the copper ship bares down on us - I give reverse and forward thrust to opposing engines (its a large 40' steel hull cat) to stop the spinning and soon as the image on the radar slows down enough for me to work out the inner and outer bend of the river I turn the boat full power for the inner side of the bend (shallow side where the copper ship 'won't go) and drive it straight up into the cane grass floodplain as the copper ship slices past behind us on its way upstream - would have been certain death for me and the crew if we had collided! Had a smoke and a cuppa and explained to all who had woken up what we'd just missed, got the boat off the mud bar and continued steaming downriver!
'Stick to fishing instead of fighting' - JC
Mnay years back..fishing down the Pin i nthe Telegraph Shield. The fishing club had about 25 12' rowbaits..we got towed to where we wanted to fish. The rule was that if you were fishing Kalinga Bank, you pulled the boat onto the bank and stayed there all night. As the fishing was quiet, a couple of the blokes decided they wanted to go elsewhere. They launched the boat without anyone else knowing..tide was running out...they left Kalinga Bank and despite many searches neither they nor any part of the boat have ever been seen since. Sure taught me a lesson about tidal run in certain areas.
Yep had one of those monents last sunday was heading out to sea from the gold coast seaway full throttle got to aroung the 24`s and a humpback whale fully breached right in my path only 30 meters in front of me it was so close i got water on my windscreen as it landed back in the water.
To say i s@#t my self is a understatement so i grabbed my camera and took a couple of snapps as it swam past after i stopped one of the photo`s is in my thread in offshore reports
I backed off the throttle after that and kept a good eye out all around for signs of them so as not to let that happen again
Very close indeed.
quote of the day ( guns don`t kill people fathers with pretty daughters do ) !!:wink:
My bro and I were in a 10ft tinny off the bottom of Bribie Island.
Nice day, pretty quiet had been in the boat for a while.
Both of us went for a stretch a the same time.
I stood up, bro stretched across, boat flipped!
Both of us and all our gear in the drink.
My shirt was caught on one of the oar rollicks, got caught under the boat for a minute.
Not a nice feeling at all. Managed to get free, but we lost 90% of our gear.
Another guy was out checking his crab pots and noticed our boat wrong way up.
Came over, saved us, towed our boat back to the ramp.
Not a nice feeling at all, being in 10m of water where you had seen noahs before.
Even worse knowing how much cash was sinking towards the bottom!
That is the strange way we think.
We now have a much larger boat...
Cheers and thanks.
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That's scary, my friend and I ventured out for a snorkel many a time from our camping ground at the tangalooma wrecks... By far the scariest thing is the swim across the deep channel.Many a record shark was taken off the Tangalooma whaling station in the old days.
Vic Hislop Bob Dwyer for us old guys who remember BP Pick a Box
We used to dive the Tangalooma wrecks in the 1970's and you would occasionally see a big shadow cruise past. on the open water side.
There are some BIG things out there
But jeez, sharks are around...
I don't think i'll be doing that anymore.
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