Great White Sharks - Queensland

[Bent]

Just thought I'd chuck in my two cents worth.

The excepted wisdom about sharks chewing on outboards or props is that they are sensitive to slight electric currents from fish and the current from the sacrificial anodes on your running gear mimics this enough to get them interested, add burley to the mix and you could see why they think its an easy meal.

As far as the Great Whites in the tropics, I've spoken too a number of old salts who swear black and blue that they get as far as Raine Island (fnq) too feed on the turtles, haven't seen this myself but a couple of different and reliable sources have told me the story and it's such a remote area you just don't know what is swimming around up there. [smiley=stunned.gif]

[Mick]

Nothing is too say they can't cross an equator. Great whites differ in appearance from South Africa to Australia and to North California, and can be identified as such, so they dont just swim to another continent. But, according to a doc I watched a while back on sperm whales (i think it was the spermies), the Spermies normaly live around the polar regions, but breed just off Indonesia. How do they travel to warm water you may ask? Depth. Very deep! It's still cold down there. As for the great whites in rocky, thats not to say they went further because the tracking devices are only able to be picked up when the shark is on or near the surface. So if the shark stays deep it is undetectible by the tracking device.

[stack]

Goddamnit!!
Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water!!

I was surfing down the mornington peninsular in 1987 had been out for about an hour when a bloody big White broke the surface about 50metres away playing with a seal.We were only in about 6ft of water and I reckon my feet were touching the bottom as I took off to shore.We stood there for another hour watching this monster cruising back and forth looking for something else to eat,never surfed that spot again!!!

[Bozo]

Here on the North West Cape Western Australia they visit in the winter months especially with the whales calfing further north, in a straight line with the east coast we would be in line with about St Lawrence. Back in 2003 one of the local divers was in a rubber dinghy and was attacked by about a 14 footer at a place called Pebble Beach, which is about 15 klms south of Exmouth.
The most numerous sharks here are Hammerheads,Tigers and the different whaler species Oceanic and Bronze.

Cheers
Bozo

[FishFrame]

The most magnificent animal in the sea!! 8)

Such a shame its ancestor C. Megalodon is not around for us to check out!

At over 15m in length, just over 20 tonne, and with a head the size of a car, it would have been one helluva cage dive !

[FishFrame]

This site is an interesting read - http://greatwhite.org/

Cheers

Mike