Great White?!!??

[voidware]

aquatec, I love those pics.

brandon

 

[carlislere]

I read an article on CNN or FoxNews about a Great White in the Gulf of Mexico off the Tampa area recently.

 

[Nudibranch]

I take any identifications by the news media with a grain of salt, they are frequently incorrect. I don't know how many times that the LA Times has printed pictures of marine animals, especially sharks, with the wrong species named.

 

[ben arthur]

Seems quite possible that it was a Great White...after all the author of Jaws himself saw a GW while diving in the Bahamas a few years ago

 

[MSilvia]

My great uncle Harry caught a smallish (by Great White standards) one north of Cape Cod in the mid 1950s.

One was also allegedly spotted off Chatham, Cape Cod in the summer of 2001, taking fish off a sport fisherman's line. There was speculation that it may have been a large shortfin mako, but the fishing boat captain said he knows a mako when he sees one.

mddolson once bubbled...
They've been spotted as far north as New York and Halifax on the east coast

Mike D
:blffish:

 

[AzSnake]

Check this spooky article out. They pulled in a pretty good size Great White in Sea of Cortez in very shallow water. Kind of spooky. This fish was pulled out just north of where I like to dive and my favorite spot is a seal rookery

Pic and article of Great White in Warm Mexican waters.

 

[WreckWriter]

Folks catch them on a fairly regular (every couple years) basis in the Upper Keys. They are "cosmopolitan" to the world's oceans (meaning they're everywhere) but do seem to prefer colder water.

In the area you mention, Bulls are the most common large shark. We saw 5 on one dive not too long ago in Key Largo.

WW

 

[pentiumchic]

diverkim once bubbled...
Great whites are generally cold water fish. They are more often seen in South Australia, South Africa, and a few in California.

When you say a few you obviously have never seen/heard of the seal colonys on the Farallon islands close to Cali.GW reseachers go there to watch them.

http://www.pelagic.org/news/news4.html
http://www.zoo.co.uk/~z9015043/farallons_main.html

Jen ex Cali girl. aka girl full of useless trivia.lol

 

[Mustang]

My buddies and I dove the Eagle two days after Thanksgiving and saw what I think is a 6 to 8 foot Bull. Did it look like this????

 

[Off-Gaser]

I've got an old issue of Skin Diver(I think the fall of 96) where they caught a 2000lb Great White less than 2 nautical miles from Molasses Reef. I'll look around for it and post the pic if I can find it.