Monster Shark

[Matrix166]

I dont know if anybody else has posted this, but check this.

Concerns were raised after a 3m great white shark was found dead with two huge bites taken out of its body. Experts believe the bites were made by an even larger predatory fish. "It certainly opened up my eyes. I mean the shark that was caught is a substantial shark in itself," Jeff Krause of Queensland Fisheries told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

Surfers have reacted to the news of the shark attack with shock.

"Whatever attacked and took chunks out of this big shark must be massive," said Ashton Smith, 19. "I've heard about the big one that's lurking out there somewhere.

"We're all being very, very cautious."

Australia is entering summer, a period of the year when shark attacks on humans increase because of the higher number of swimmers in the ocean.

The country's most popular beaches are protected by nets and what are known as drumlines - a series of baited hooks that hang from buoys placed in a line about 500 yards from the shore. However, neither guarantee that sharks cannot get through.

Since the net and drumline programme was introduced in Queensland there has been only one fatal attack on a protected beach.

Swimmers have been warned to stay out of the waters off Stradbroke Island, north of Brisbane.

[cpm80]

An orca!

[güttsfükk]

3meters is only about 9-10 feet.... when great white sharks grow up to 6meters (19-20feet) i dont think that these bite marks on this relatively small great white shark are anything special....

[Jere]

nice pictures

[Matrix166]

Originally Posted by guttsfukk

3meters is only about 9-10 feet.... when great white sharks grow up to 6meters (19-20feet) i dont think that these bite marks on this relatively small great white shark are anything special....

Males reach maturity at 3.5–4 metres (11–13 ft), and females at 4.5–5 metres (15–16 ft). Adults on average are 4–5.2 metres (13–17 ft) long and have a mass of 680–1,100 kilograms (1,500–2,400 lb). Females are generally larger than males. It is widely accepted that the great white shark can approach 6.1 m (20 ft) in length and 1,900 kg (4,200 lb) in weight. However, the maximum size is still subject to hot debate because such reports are often rough estimations or speculations performed under questionable circumstances.

Its not usual that shark grow bigger than the shark at the image.

[kellyhound]

Cool pix

[firedog25]

It would be one thing if that bit was 1 meter wide, that would be something to worry about but that bit looks to only be a small bit bigger than that 3 meter shark.

[amylouise]

long live the megalodon!!

[kellyhound]

Tigershark probably
Another one

This happened off of Queensland (GBR off of Port Douglas).
It's about the story and one of the crew on a dive boat I was on is friends w/ the guy in
the picture.

According to them, the guy was shark fishing off the GBR and caught a 12-14' hammerhead.

They said a Tiger shark came up behind it and took the whole damn shark except
the head.

They said the tiger was over 20'.
Having seen some 17' up close and
one over 20', they are big mofos.

Different sharks have different shaped teeth. Sharks like Makos, hammerheads and most reef sharks have pointy dagger like teeth designed
to grab and shred.

GW's have triangle shaped teeth designed to do maximum damage and slice.

Tiger sharks have asymmetric teeth designed to pierce, puncture and slice through bone/turtle shell, so tiger shark victims tend to loose limbs.

While not as "razor" as a Tiger shark, they could easily have done that bite.

It looks like it grabbed that bite and the dead shark not having any insides to keep the round shape allowed the bite to look that way.

[güttsfükk]

Originally Posted by Matrix166

Males reach maturity at 3.5–4 metres (11–13 ft), and females at 4.5–5 metres (15–16 ft). Adults on average are 4–5.2 metres (13–17 ft) long and have a mass of 680–1,100 kilograms (1,500–2,400 lb). Females are generally larger than males. It is widely accepted that the great white shark can approach 6.1 m (20 ft) in length and 1,900 kg (4,200 lb) in weight. However, the maximum size is still subject to hot debate because such reports are often rough estimations or speculations performed under questionable circumstances.

Its not usual that shark grow bigger than the shark at the image.

to say something s not usual, is still acknowldging that the concept of a 6meter shark is not unknown. it's widely acknowledged that great whites grow up to 6meters or 20feet in size and there's more than one report of such sharks

The white shark in the photo below was caught off the coast of Cuba in the mid 1940's. It weighed an incredible 7,100 lbs (3.2 metric tonnes) and measured a length of 21 feet (6.4 meters).

The fishermen who caught it called it "El Monstruo de Cojimar." It was caught in the Gulf of Mexico waters, only a few miles from the shanty fishermen town of Cojimar,Cuba, the same town where famous American writer Ernest Hemingway wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Old Man and the Sea".

A friend of my father was one of six fishermen who participated in the hunt. My father tells the story and it feels that I'm reliving a scene from the movie "Jaws." As my father tells the story, it was a calm June day when six fishermen of Cojimar sailed out to sea in their 14-foot wooden skiff to fish for tuna, sharks, dorado and other species. It was their daily livelihood.

That day, although it was a typical day in June, there was an eerie feeling among the fishermen. Before sunrise, the fishermen already had sailed about three miles, just to the edge of the Gulf Stream, where the current is strong enough for large pelagic fish to abound. One of the fishermen put bait in the water, as he did every morning. Ballyhoo is the blue marlin's favorite bait. That particular day the fishermen wished for a large blue marlin, it was considered one of the best paid fish.

After a couple of hours, not a single fish had shown interest in the fresh ballyhoos that were lying motionless in the water. Other boats that were not too far away seemed to have the same luck. Old salts talk about luck all the time. Usually, one can see the splash of a fish that is being caught by another boat. Sometimes you can even hear fishermen in other boats when a fish is caught. But that day, all was calm. At exactly 9 a.m. a large shark fin appeared only a few feet way from the skiff. Although the fishermen were experienced shark fishermen, they were surprised and left speechless by the size of the fin cutting through the water. One of the fishermen exclaimed out loud "No wonder there are no fish around!" They knew it was a great white shark.

In great excitement, the fishermen tossed bait and chum in the water to keep the shark near. This shark was bigger than all other sharks that they had ever seen or caught. Immediately, they tied several lines together. For bait they used half of a tuna that was bitten by a smaller shark while fishing the day before.

The smell of bait and chum in the water brought the shark closer to the skiff, it passed parallel to the boat and the men saw that it was much bigger than their boat. They looked at each other with uncertainty and disbelief. It t was perhaps a moment of fear, however catching this shark would make the pay for many days at sea. There was no time to waste. They hooked the half tuna in a shark hook that was followed by a wire leader and by thousands of feet of old silk rope. One of the men gently tossed the bait in the deep blue water. The shark passed the boat again and swallowed the bait whole.

The shark began taking line almost immediately but the men knew that no human hands could stop such a fish. They had palangres with them, these are small wood rafts used to lay many lines in the water from one raft to the other. The palangres were used for swordfish fishing at night. The fishermen knew that the palangres would increase the resistance to the hooked shark.

After many hours of following the palangres that were being pulled by the shark, the line began to surface. They knew then that the fish was tired of pulling the extra weight. One of the fishermen recovered line while others prepared a harpoon. They knew that the most dangerous moment lay ahead, as the shark got closer to the boat.

After more than one hour of recovering line, they saw the shark 60 to 80 feet under the skiff -- even then, it looked big. The moment of truth was approaching. The fishermen could feel their own hearts beating rapidly. They were hoping that the shark was really tired or near death, but they did not imagine that their worst nightmare was approaching the boat.

When the shark was only 20 feet from the boat, it torpedoed directly to the keel and struck the boat sideways.Then it turned back and began biting the keel of the boat. One of the fishermen saw pieces of wood floating next to the boat. He described it as thousands of toothpicks floating next to the skiff. They knew that there was plenty of life left in the fish, so in a hurry they prepared the harpoon -- a hand-held wooden pole with a sharp bronze tip -- and without hesitation they harpooned the shark in its next attack to the boat.

The harpooned shark calmed down but not enough. The fish continued biting the keel of the boat and at one time it took pieces of the rudder. This fish put up a great fight before being caught, perhaps one of many fights in his long life. These fishermen respected the ocean and the creatures in it. They spoke highly about this particular shark and the fight it put on. Perhaps they were sorry that they had to kill such a great fish -- but they were fishermen by circumstances and not by choice.

A notes from the author:

The shark never made it to the International Game and Fishing Association records. Communication in 1945 was not as advanced as today. Although, many great white sharks claim records, this shark by far supersedes all statistics from all other great white sharks recorded. The estimated weight of this shark was 7,000 pounds and its length 21 feet. Its liver weighed approximately 1,500 pounds. The pictures were taken by a reporter from the French newspaper "Le' Monde." The reporter was vacationing in Havana and used his field camera. The photos were later taken out of Cuba by one of our family members. These photos will make shark experts rewrite the history of the largest great white shark ever caught.