subasurf said...

jbshack said...

My understanding is that sharks don't like human as the fat content isn't high enough. Sharks once they have eaten take some time and energy to digest food and human flesh just doesn't cut it for them. How they can tell what our fat content is i don't know but maybe they can sonar some how. Not sure..

Definitely not the case. Sharks tend to not actually consume humans (although many times the injured surfer/diver/swimmer is removed from the water before the shark has a chance) but I can assure you it's not because of our lack of fat content.

Maybe it's the wettie, chunk of board, BC, weightbelt they don't like and choose not to have a second go straight away.

Dude off cott, cock jocks. Nothing found. RIP
Dude off Abrohlis. Boardies. White took the lot of him in two go's. RIP
Dude at Safety Bay. Taken whole. RIP

We will never know if sharks like the taste of humans.
One thing we do know 100% is there will be more attacks on humans.
May be mistaken identity.
May be curiousity.
May be i'm hungry and your food.

subasurf said...

felixdcat said...

Mmmmmmm better a live pussy than a dead hero!

I'm talking about their reactions to the zap, not the fact they're using a shark shield.
What is it with numpties and their lack of comprehension?

Maybe the lack of explanation!

barn said...

felixdcat said...


Why the red thumbs? They are just fkn fish.... ok big ugly ones... with no brain (almost) going around on a loop thinking Nom nom nom nom! Market the flesh into the latest delicacy that will make you dirck bigger and sell it in asia, bet they will buy it and eat it by the tonne! You guys are a bit sentimental.... do you kill herrings?? Now whales it is different story they are mammals and have a big brain!

Sorry Felix I would normally bite, but I'm supposed to be on my best behavior..

You are entitled to your Intellectual position and I have no right to question it. Your beliefs should be respected and tolerated, and apparently they should not be pressed onto others or voiced publicly or politically..

I hope this post hasn't offended anybody. And we should probably end this public discussion because discussions on the internet make Baby Jesus cry.

Shark Bless you Felixdcat!

Thank you mate! I only believe in Giant Spaghetti Monster, but it was a nice intention from you!

I think you have deeply offended





And as for the theory that the odds of being gobbled are 'unfathomable' - 3 in 3 months is pretty kn fathomable - what part aren't you cluing onto??

On this side of the dusty land - your odds of becoming fish food are up.. WAY UP!!

Paul Kelf said...

As for my project. Nothing exciting. Basically want to go out and lure in

Stop doing that & they might not associate boats & people with food.

It's like training a fkn dog

Burleying, cage diving & feeding sharks should be banned

Totally agree.

Pics of tools in boats burleying the sharks and taking photos make me face palm.

Sharky thinks:

Boats = ++food and no threat

All good.. until there is no free handout.. then sharky starts thinkin:
"Wait there goes a really long skinny lookin seal.. nom nom nom. Tastes like chicken (or long pig)."

My understanding is that sharks don't like human as the fat content isn't high enough. Sharks once they have eaten take some time and energy to digest food and human flesh just doesn't cut it for them. How they can tell what our fat content is i don't know but maybe they can sonar some how. Not sure..

The shark shield for a surfer only works whilst sitting still so that the prob can sink into the water. Once you move and the prob comes up your defenseless again..

Rod make no mistake, sharks will eat people, especially when the shark in question is a Kombi with fins and big fark off teeth. The main reason people make it back to the beach is due to intervention.
Big Whites like the ones that took Guesty at Rocko, Juicy at the Abs and Bob Bartle at Jurien make no errors when it comes to having a human snack. Even smaller 10-12ft units will be quite happy to finish the job like with the fella at Cott recently.
Conversely when their lunch is dragged away by a heap of splashing pests or explodes in a mass of bubbles from a ruptured hose or comes with a gobfull of fibreglass and fins, that meal gets put in the too hard basket.
You're fooling yourself if you think we are not food. And that's not to say that I agree with a cull, although I am getting closer to liking the idea under certain circumstances.

Woodo said...

Paul Kelf said...

As for my project. Nothing exciting. Basically want to go out and lure in

Stop doing that & they might not associate boats & people with food.

It's like training a fkn dog

Burleying, cage diving & feeding sharks should be banned

+1

+1 too

Paul Kelf said...

As for my project. Nothing exciting. Basically want to go out and lure in

Stop doing that & they might not associate boats & people with food.

It's like training a fkn dog

Burleying, cage diving & feeding sharks should be banned

Definitely understand what you're saying, but there isn't really any other method to deploy tags onto a white shark. At least none that I know of short of freediving with them using a speargun...even then, you can only apply the most primitive of tags using that method.

Having said all that, I've never had the intention of chumming to bring in sharks to a boat. The simplest method is to go to them which isn't hard. But at some point you do have to hook them and get them on the boat (or if it's a large shark 'restrain' them along side the boat) to deploy a tag properly. There just isn't any other way. At the end of the day, sharks approaching boats isn't a big deal. Sharks approaching swimmers in shore (the majority of attacks) is a big deal. The pros and cons of doing the research heavily trend towards the pros.

If you're actually so adamant about the whole 'luring' sharks in being such a bad thing you may as well call to ban all forms of boat fishing. Nothing brings in a noah more quickly than a struggling snapper being ripped up from the bottom.

felixdcat said...

Maybe the lack of explanation!

Maybe if you actually read the posts in this thread before making kneejerk comments then you would actually make more sense.

^^ Valid point and I don't have an answer.

I however don't agree with burleying up for days on end then having person after person jump into a cage with them whilst throwing out big chunks of fish on ropes and dragging that fish back towards the cage with people in it. Effectively they are tormenting the shark with food while swimming it towards people.

I also don't agree with towing things behind boats be it surfboards or foam cut outs in the shape of seals to get the whites to attack.

IMO this is just plain stupid getting whites to associate boats and people with an easy feed.

Thier brain may be small but i reckon they are a whole lot smarter than people think...

subasurf said...
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Couldn't agree more mate. Which is why I'm a signature on the petitions to stop cage diving with white sharks in South Australia. As a shark researcher I always wanted to get in the water with white sharks but I wont do it with a cage. I've been in the water with them before, up close and personal, without wanting to though haha.

Ha. Yeah i'll pass on the up close and personal bit.
Having one cruise around my boat while having a fish is close enough for me....

Yeah i've seen quite a bit of footage of people diving with whites with no cage or sheild. Sure would get your blood pumping and i reckon you'd start to shlt if more than 2 decided to show up.
Have to have eyes in the back of your head.

Mate...that makes absolutely no sense. There are things called "congregation sites" where they tend to hang around for things like breeding, birthing and feeding.
Just because there are places where they are easy to find doesn't mean they are not endangered.

Take the endangered Blue Whale for example. Everyone knows there endangered yet there was a bunch of them down in Geograph bay last week. Just because there was a bunch there in one spot doesn't make them any less endangered.

Another example is the Northern Blue Fin Tuna which is critically endangered. Still, if you're privy to research data and know where to look, they wont be too hard to find.

Endangered doesn't always mean there is almost none left. It can mean that the numbers are low enough and the rate at which they are being killed is high meaning there is a seriously decreased chance of their population recovering.
It's common sense mate.

thanks for sharing that.

Condescending? You asked a question that has an obvious answer so you got an obvious answer. Don't blame me.

Anyone who's spent that much time at sea would surely know that fish species are not homogeneously spread throughout the ocean.

subasurf said...

Condescending? You asked a question that has an obvious answer so you got an obvious answer. Don't blame me.

Anyone who's spent that much time at sea would surely know that fish species are not homogeneously spread throughout the ocean.

Sorry mate, but to me, not being a 'shark person' that sounded like a reasonable question. To you it has an obvious answer, but probably not to him, and probably not the rest of us.

It was a good answer, but not immediately obvious to those that haven't looked at this before.