Monterey sharks..?

[Drewpy]

I have seen two angel sharks(monastery) and two Leapards (Lobos).
So I will count my blessings...

Chuck- Did you get in the water with the blues,or just observe from your boat..?

Not to scare you Goatlord... but many years ago there was a documented attack by a GW just out from Point Lobos...
Dont worry though..your chances are slim to none-thousands of divers every month and no problems.Its far more dangerous driving to Monterey!

 

[Ishie]

"but many years ago there was a documented attack by a GW just out from Point Lobos..."

Though the diver wasn't severely injured.

I'm trying to think of other attacks in Monterey/Carmel. I think the last documented death in the bay was a swimmer off Lovers in the 1950s, am I wrong?

A diver on the board saw one off Del Monte, and I believe, got some pictures of it, but it didn't hassle him. My old instructor has literally done thousands of dives off the coast and has never seen a GW. Also, I think there's some nutty Tamales Bay divers wandering around, and even they don't tend to see them.

 

[Humuhumunukunukuapua'a]

Here's the account of the one in Lobos in 1995:
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.gwsattack.html

The OP maybe shouldn't read it

Seriously, the chances of getting hit by the landlord are way less than getting run off the road on the 17 on your way to Monterey.

 

[Humuhumunukunukuapua'a]

Oh, and here's the list:
http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.com/2000.htm

 

[Ishie]

Here's the account of the one in Lobos in 1995:
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.gwsattack.html

The OP maybe shouldn't read it

Seriously, the chances of getting hit by the landlord are way less than getting run off the road on the 17 on your way to Monterey.

I love that article and think it's rather encouraging. Getting the firsthand, almost flippant account from a guy less than a week after the attack and none of the terrifying "fight for my life" stories you tend to hear when sharks grab surfers but instead you get the "patooie" story is pretty good. I love that he ends with how remote the chances of getting bit are. LOL!

I've always felt safer in the water when I'm diving. I like chicken, and I will eat a chicken without fail... but if I see a big noisy armor-plated rubber-encrusted weird looking chicken, there's no way I'm eating that. Especially since the sharks that threaten humans tend to be seal-eating ambush predators, we're safer on the bottom anyway. Even when they're around or sought out, they don't seem all that interested in us (like that crazy video of the guy freediving with the GWs with a safety system exclusively consistent of a pointy stick).

 

[Ben_ca]

The response from the shark was even funnier.... Does anyone still have it?

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Chuck- Did you get in the water with the blues,or just observe from your boat..?

We towed a chum bucket for about 45 minutes, then shut down and drifted. A couple
of blues turned up about 20 minutes later. We watched for about 15 minutes, then
Kawika and I got in, they split. We hung out about a half hour, no sharks. Linda didn't
see any from the boat eather. We got, they appeared again before we got out of our
gear. Now that I think about it Kawika saw one right as soon as he got in (he got in
a minute ahead of me.

We did another trip later, drifted for three hours, no sharks.

And it wasn't my boat, it was Kawika's (similar, but he's got a four-stroke and a kicker,
more suitable for going offshore.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

The response from the shark was even funnier.... Does anyone still have it?

The shark's rebuttal is at the bottom of http://www.korins.com/m/ds/apn3.htm

 

[Ishie]

http://www.scuba.net/scuba.net/old/htdocs/reply.html

Don't judge Bruce until you've heard his side of the story...

 

[Ben_ca]

Do you realize how embarrassing this is for me? Here I am, an apex predator, top of the food chain, and I can't distinguish the difference between a sea lion and a scuba diver. I can't even begin to tell you all the taunting I've taken from the other sharks in the area

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I love that.... every time I read this I laugh out loud :lol: ...