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5m Great White

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Created by wal269 > 9 months ago, 3 Jul 2012
wal269
WA, 718 posts
3 Jul 2012 10:31AM
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Has been cruising between Scabs and Cott in the last 4 hours!

Be careful out there, only kite with a fat swimmer!!!

Martyflyer
NSW, 131 posts
3 Jul 2012 1:53PM
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Dont know why they send all these boat people to christmas island they should just take em swimming over there

tightlines
WA, 3510 posts
3 Jul 2012 11:56AM
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Just watched a youtube on FB, some guys heading out to Little Island for a surf yesterday, they spotted one they reckon was 4mtr's, 300mtrs off the dog beach at Hillarys.

I was thinking about paddling across on my SUP for a surf yesterday but changed my mind.

This is getting ridiculous, I've got the day off it's 2mtr swell and light NE'er.

Martyflyer
NSW, 131 posts
3 Jul 2012 2:05PM
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Get out and feed them so they are happy and stay over there

alverstone
WA, 533 posts
3 Jul 2012 12:40PM
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The buoy at North Cottesloe, about 600m offshore, picked up a signal twice from the wee beastie's tag about 7.10am. But .... the signal can be recieved from about 300m towards the beach and 900m offshore - that's a 1.2km-wide track, non? Signal is best within 150m either side of the buoy, apparently. It'd be nice to know how strong the signal was.

tightlines
WA, 3510 posts
3 Jul 2012 12:53PM
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Sounds like it might be the same one that was up this end of town yesterday.

www.inmycommunity.com.au/

I wonder if there is anyway joe public can access the data from the shark monitoring network buoys.

wal269
WA, 718 posts
3 Jul 2012 12:55PM
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300m or 900 metres, doesnt make any diffference to me.

I think a shark can cover the 1.2km range in under 1 minute.

That's not even enough time to say 1 Hail Mary, not to mention punch out a darkie.

wal269
WA, 718 posts
3 Jul 2012 12:58PM
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On second thoughts, it would be easy to punch out a darkie if that thing was close by.

Plummet
4862 posts
3 Jul 2012 1:30PM
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vending machines kill more people than sharks.
so... take a vending machine out with you dump it a few hundred meters further out to sea and it can take on any sharks that come by.

this message has been sponsered by coke.

wdric
NSW, 1625 posts
3 Jul 2012 3:45PM
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tightlines said...

Sounds like it might be the same one that was up this end of town yesterday.

www.inmycommunity.com.au/

I wonder if there is anyway joe public can access the data from the shark monitoring network buoys.


Are all sharks now born with transmitters

doonut
WA, 265 posts
3 Jul 2012 1:57PM
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went for a surf this morning at scabs and saw a shadow swim by wasnt anywhere near 4ms tho might have been a ray was only like 1-1.5m. still scared the **** out of me for a min.

tightlines
WA, 3510 posts
3 Jul 2012 2:14PM
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wdric said...

tightlines said...

Sounds like it might be the same one that was up this end of town yesterday.

www.inmycommunity.com.au/

I wonder if there is anyway joe public can access the data from the shark monitoring network buoys.


Are all sharks now born with transmitters



I wish
www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Spotlight-on-great-whites/7545214/

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
3 Jul 2012 2:47PM
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tightlines said...

wdric said...

tightlines said...

Sounds like it might be the same one that was up this end of town yesterday.

www.inmycommunity.com.au/

I wonder if there is anyway joe public can access the data from the shark monitoring network buoys.


Are all sharks now born with transmitters



I wish
www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Spotlight-on-great-whites/7545214/


Someone posted a site where you can see when the sharks set the buoys off, I will see if I can find it.

Beelzebub
WA, 145 posts
3 Jul 2012 3:18PM
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Plummet said...

vending machines kill more people than sharks.
so... take a vending machine out with you dump it a few hundred meters further out to sea and it can take on any sharks that come by.

this message has been sponsered by coke.


If Perth beaches are not your domain, shut the f-up.

suniboy21
VIC, 1090 posts
3 Jul 2012 10:17PM
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Had a puffer fish wash up to shore today in melbourne!

speed brother
QLD, 126 posts
3 Jul 2012 10:38PM
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We had a shark at Yorkeys Knob yesterday. It was only 40cm long. But we have 8 crocs in the Barron River! Maybe we can freight the eight crocs to you guys, drop them in the zone and put some money down.

tightlines
WA, 3510 posts
3 Jul 2012 8:55PM
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Hey speed bro, I have lived in WA all my life and hardly ever think about sharks when in the water, but at Yorkies, Cooktown, Cape Flatery I shat myself every time I lost my board.

wishy
WA, 1501 posts
4 Jul 2012 10:37AM
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Why would they release information on sharks to the media, that's retarded. Tourism is struggling here as it is.
Tourism is what brings smoking hot tourists to Byron Bay.
Much like how high paying manual labour jobs brings thousands of toothless irish bogan lowbreeds to Perth.

sauce1
WA, 2 posts
4 Jul 2012 10:56AM
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I support CALM in how they treated that salty up at Coral bay - shoot the bugga

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
4 Jul 2012 11:03AM
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sauce1 said...

I support CALM in how they treated that salty up at Coral bay - shoot the bugga


Its funny how they will shoot a croc but not a GWS?!?

Please explain



mazdon
1199 posts
4 Jul 2012 12:48PM
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doggie - any luck with that site? another mate was asking for it too - cheers

as far as i know only fisheries and marine safety get the text / email notifications, but would love to hear if there is another one out there for the public to quietly tap into.

TurtleHunter
WA, 1675 posts
4 Jul 2012 1:01PM
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doggie the croc was sick and would not have survived as it had been without fresh water for so long. So they say anyway It couldn't be too healthy if a friend could wade out to it and take a photo within 2m with her baby in her arms. She didn't know it was a croc until they looked at the photo of it swimming away

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
4 Jul 2012 1:51PM
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mazdon said...

doggie - any luck with that site? another mate was asking for it too - cheers

as far as i know only fisheries and marine safety get the text / email notifications, but would love to hear if there is another one out there for the public to quietly tap into.


Couldnt find the thread that it was in, the site gave updates as to when a tagged shark swam past a receiver buoy. Time date etc.
I thought it was the thread in the general section.

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
4 Jul 2012 2:37PM
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TurtleHunter said...

doggie the croc was sick and would not have survived as it had been without fresh water for so long. So they say anyway It couldn't be too healthy if a friend could wade out to it and take a photo within 2m with her baby in her arms. She didn't know it was a croc until they looked at the photo of it swimming away


What did they think it was?

Still cant find the site or thread where it was posted

TurtleHunter
WA, 1675 posts
4 Jul 2012 7:29PM
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can you believe she thought it was a big cod or something but as she took the photo it was pretty obvious.

king of the point
WA, 1836 posts
4 Jul 2012 10:01PM
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tightlines said...

Just watched a youtube on FB, some guys heading out to Little Island for a surf yesterday, they spotted one they reckon was 4mtr's, 300mtrs off the dog beach at Hillarys.

I was thinking about paddling across on my SUP for a surf yesterday but changed my mind.

This is getting ridiculous, I've got the day off it's 2mtr swell and light NE'er.


Im starting to agree ridiculous.....or is technology catching up and just freeken us out to what has been out there every other year its been 2m glassy and offshore
South Australia is the Great white state im not so sure .

Pt Lincoln /// SA as the place to see them... now it seems to be a common site for boaties in WA as well ...........AND metro sexuals

Surely that shark hunter ,,,???,,,,,,HISLOP ???? ........Knows something ????? we dont ?????????????

mUST BE TIME TO LET HIM LOSS to retrieve a few rego number plates



PercyPenguin
9 posts
4 Jul 2012 11:02PM
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Hey Maz - Royal Surf Lifesaving WA puts out Twitter notifications every time a sighting is reported. Not a part of the Twittersphere, so not sure how to point you towards it...

muirs
SA, 165 posts
5 Jul 2012 6:48PM
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The shark bouy signals are on google earth - you just need to flag the right layer.



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