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lisamariewillbe:
OHH OHHH I got a greenie (our moderators are know as greenies) to agree with me...Thank you... I fell I can rest now, I should have done this hours ago instead of spending lots of time on google :D

LOL -- you're welcome....happy to help :D


PS: H2Andy is a greenie, too :)
 
ScubaTexan:
LOL -- you're welcome....happy to help :D


PS: H2Andy is a greenie, too :)


TOTAL score ... And with the sudden flow of views this thread has, my fellow skydivers know I was right..... it was bound to happen eventually:D
 
lisamariewillbe:
TOTAL score ... And with the sudden flow of views this thread has, my fellow skydivers know I was right..... it was bound to happen eventually:D

Looks like a slam dunk to me :)
 
lisamariewillbe:
Ohhh I am completley gloating over there..... :14:

LOL....you go girl!! :D
 
Hi Everyone.

The pic is real.
It is from the September 2005 issue of Africa Geographic (http://www.africageographic.com
). Unfortunately it seems you need to have a magazine subscription to see the article online (which I don't have - I have the magazine though).
In short it is an article by Michael C. Scholl (founder of the White Shark Trust) & Thomas P. Peschak who have been doing Great White shark research around Dyer Island and Shark bay off the Western Cape coast of South Africa.

The link to the actual article is http://http://www.africa-geographic.com/Archives/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=A130801

Hope this helps.


Rob
 
wow... yeah, if you scroll down, you can see this picture offered as a poster
 
....and obviously did.

Boy is my face red... :blush:
 
H2Andy:
a research project?

as in, let's take out the kayak and see if a great white follows?

Apparently they took to the kayak as they couldn't get into the shallow water with the motor boat. Also they found that the noise and vibration produced by the engine was disrupting the natural behavoiur of the sharks by repeatedly attracting or repelling the sharks from the boat.

They did test the sharks' reactions using an empty kayak before they put anyone in it.

If that were me in the photo, I think the paddles would be a blur - that's how fast I would be going to get out of there. :)
 

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