franek80
Cosmopolitan
From Sea To Shining Sea
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Post by franek80 on Mar 14, 2006 11:52:43 GMT -7
AWW SHUCKS JAGA!
Sharks had nothing to do with 9/11. It was the results of a bunch of crazies.. I never get involved with you in politics.. You are a much person smarter than I am
But your debate with Jim. I have to side with Jim. Since when has America become the policeman of the world?.We should bring our troops home and let them guard our borders.. Billions spent for what? Not counting American lives.. Where are the countries that we saved in WW2.?
But I do agree with you.. We have no business in. IRAQ or any place especially the middle east and Africa.. They hate us.
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Post by jimpres on Mar 14, 2006 12:01:25 GMT -7
Franek,
My point exactly. The USA is not the world police force.
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Post by bescheid on Mar 14, 2006 13:20:04 GMT -7
Franek
Good photography! Biutifful and dangerious, the sea.. I have heard of the indianapolis sinking. All that I have read of it was not good...
Charles
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Post by pieter on Mar 14, 2006 15:59:55 GMT -7
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Post by bescheid on Mar 14, 2006 17:00:26 GMT -7
pieter
That was very impressive! Both sites...in as far as shark cage diving in and around sharks, boy oh boy, I am not sure about that. Those photos showed those people feeding sharks and my absalute attention is on that big mouth full of white, sharp, jagged big nasty teeth!
And they contend that sharks are being depleated as they do not reproduce very quickly...
Well, I do not know about that! It takes only one shark to ruin a persons day...
I have heard though, that the Cape waters are shark infested. Must be plenty of food for them there. They do like seals and what ever big birds are in or on the water.
Good url's Thanks
Charles
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Post by pieter on Mar 15, 2006 15:24:31 GMT -7
And they surely like people to since some of them ate a Surfer and years after that an
old lady that swam at Fish Hoek beach (Cape province) for decades there.
I read it in the Cape times newspaper when I was in Cape Town in november 2004.
here's the story;
Wednesday 15th March, 2006
Great White shark attack kills woman in Cape Town
AFP Monday 15th November, 2004
An elderly woman was presumed dead after she was attacked overnight by a great white shark during her daily swim in the warm ocean waters south-east of Cape Town, South Africa.
Tyna Webb, aged 77, was a regular swimmer at Fish Hoek beach, 30km south of Cape Town, said National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon.
'She swam at that beach for 17 years,' he said.
An eyewitness described how the predator attacked the woman and then left her afloat in the bloodied waters while he circled his prey and finally returned for another bite, dragging her below the surface.
'I saw this huge shark thrashing at something in the water, I thought it was a seal but then saw that it was a lady,' said Paul Bennett, a naval officer with the False Bay Yacht Club, who witnessed the attack from his house in Fish Hoek.
'It left her floating in the water, and there were massive amounts of blood. Then it ... came around and its whole mouth came out of the water and it took her down.'
Bennett is among 15 people who witnessed the attack and who are being treated for trauma, Mr Lambinon said.
'It was apparently a gruesome and graphic scene,' he said.
Another sea rescue official, Dave Roberts, said a rescue helicopter had spotted the shark believed to have carried out the attack and that it was six metres long.
The attack apparently happened after fishermen released illegally caught fish back into the bay, the chief of Fisheries False Bay, Pat Stacy, said in a statement.
'Fisheries officials were on the scene to monitor the release. The fishermen reported seeing a shark in the water near to where the release was taking place.
'It is alleged that the shark then swam parallel to Fish Hoek beach when it encountered the victim,' Mr Stacy said.
A 25km stretch of Cape coastline from Gordon's Bay to Simonstown was closed to the public following the early morning attack.
Police had called off their search for the body by late afternoon after carrying out an 'extensive underwater search,' Mr Lambinon added.
The coastline is expected to be re-opened to the public later in the evening.
Shark attacks are rare off the Cape coast.
'The sharks are always there. There are always sightings, but absolute shark attacks are few and far in between,' Mr Roberts said.
A 16-year-old South African lost a leg in an attack by a great white shark in April off Muizenberg, a holiday town in False Bay, the large half-moon shaped bay south of Cape Town where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet.
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Post by bescheid on Mar 15, 2006 18:02:19 GMT -7
pieter
See now, ok? A good excellent shark, is a good and dead shark...
Charles
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Post by pieter on Mar 16, 2006 11:00:00 GMT -7
Yes, I have to admid that I hesitated before I went swimming at Houtbay and
Cape point in the Cape region. They are sinister, evil, dark beings.
I do not love sharks and would not go on a sharp trip.
Where they are good for is the soup they make of them.
Pieter
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