Check this out!
A MONSTER predator lurking off the Queensland coast is so big it was nearly able to bite this 3m white pointer shark in half.
The massive chunks were probably taken out by a giant white pointer that could easily be more than 5m long, based on the size of the huge bites on the sides of its smaller rival, experts say.
The shark-on-shark attack occurred off North Stradbroke Island, east of Brisbane.
The monster took advantage of the smaller shark being snared on a baited drumline set off the island's popular Cylinder, Main and Deadman's beaches.
This happened last year, never really heard much about it on the news, probably too close to Tourist time!
I'd believe that Doggie. I surfed Deadmans - Cylinder often when I was younger and saw a couple of bigger noas hanging around. They also love the area a little further north near "The Bar".
It makes me sick seeing photos like that. What in the world do people think of?
We go into a spin when we see Siberian Tigers shot dead, or Elephants, but somehow this is acceptable?
Makes me want to puke.
Yeah sorry Doggie I realise that, I was referring to the Hammerhead, although the one you posted was obviously nailed by big brother when it was on the end of a fishing lien.
im not for the mass hysteria created by the media, the people that use to ocean daily in general couldn't give a damn and maintain a healthy respect... I reckon I could catch 50 sharks in a night and they are only the ones I can land but going sailing in the same spot doesnt phase me at all.
My argument is more about blind thought that dead sharks is wrong. A minority of sharks caught on drumlines is actually silent protection against mass culls when swimmers start getting eaten all over the place.
You can skew statistics any way you please- start looking at the amount of time those water users are actually in the water, then on beaches not protected by nets/drumlines. Again there has been acknowledgement that the deaths by sharks is potentially much higher than actual because many countries didnt keep accurate records and if someone goes missing (even here) they are either reported as missing or drowned.
To me the death of a shark is no different to the death of anything else- besides the food source for these 5m sharks is other protected things such as whales, dolphin, dugong, seals and turtles and occasionally people so you are crying foul for them why?
Gansbaai is where you are talking about Doggie, I think.
I did not think that hammerheads got that big. Anyone who is interested in sharks has got to watch Sharkwater. They are an integral part of the ecosystem and killing them without taking into account the potential damage will bite us all in the bum.
An estimated 15,000 a day are killed for shark fin soup. The fins do not add flavour to the dish, they give the chicken or beef a "gelatinous texture".
The pundits reckon that the jelly fish blooms that are a result of overfishing - keep it up and we may have a gelatinous texture to our favourite beaches!
