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Yeah! They crap in the water if they see one. That really adds burley to the bait!

Sharks hate soap, eh?... Hmm... Makes one want to strap a cake of Ivory Soap to one's leg when diving or swimming in such waters!

Sharks have been clustering in the Anapolis area this year...apparently after the Navy Seals...

Or a bottle - remember, it's the foam that bothers them.

kmclemore wrote:Sharks hate soap, eh?... Hmm... Makes one want to strap a cake of Ivory Soap to one's leg when diving or swimming in such waters!

Never drop the soap in front of the shark!

So, I'm at the Lahaina Beach Resort, several years ago. It's down there at the south end of old Lahaina on the Island of Maui. It's just a short walk to the center of town (and the marina ). It's a beautiful place We had a sea side room on the second floor, with a balcony. I took a hundred pictures, just sitting there on the balcony....... but I digress.

There is a reef a few hundred feet off shore that makes the beach area almost lagoon like. So one morning the wife and I decide to go snorkeling out to the reef, from the beach, just to see what we could see. It was great I've always said since that if I ever win the lottery, I would buy the little, indoor/outdoor pub next door to the hotel and stay there until I die.

So, we get home after a wonderful week on Maui........ I turn on the TV and there's the hotel on the screen. Turning up the volume I call the wife....
"Sweetie! our hotel is right here on the TV........... Hey! that's where we were snorkeling".

As I started listening, it turned out that they were holding a memorial for a woman who had been devoured by a 20 foot Great White, almost a year to the day, prior to the day we were in the exact same spot.......... snorkeling
Yep, that's what her and her friend were doing........snorkeling

The water, from the beach, out to the reef never gets more than about 8 feet deep and one can touch the bottom almost anywhere.

At the time.......... who knew Not us, of course. I was wondering why there were few swimmers in this area though. It was very inviting.

If I'm not mistaken, most shark attacks on humans do take place in shallow water.

When I was a kid, I spent my share of time on the beaches of SoCal. Many surfers always carried a transistor radio on a lanyard around their necks. I just thought they really liked the Beach Boys, but they seemed to think that tossing the radio in the water, if one saw a shark, would drive it away........... Donno, but that's what they said.

For those who are very young, a transistor radio was a little battery powered radio....... around the size of a cell phone (little thicker).

Best Breezes,
Steve K.

tkanzler wrote:

dlandersson wrote:We have soap on Soggy Paws - and we've NEVER seen a shark.

I've been known to wash, with soap sometimes, and I've never been attacked, so it must work.

Yea........... that's probably much better than washing with..... say........ a dead Tuna

BB,
SK

Well, fish directly excrete ammonia rather than metabolizing it into urea. But urea smells just like ammonia (and Uric acid, which is what birds, insects, and reptiles excrete). I know nothing about sharks, but if they are hunting for ammonia and you smell like a second grader whose mother has been out of town for a week, they're going to find you.

Second graders taste like chicken...

We admire them from a distance.

Days of my youth. Used to sail in a mirror dingy. One day sailing and there were huge green waves coming into the bay. (Port Fairy for the Aussies). Waves not breaking just real big green rollers. Sailing along the waves with waves coming at us starboard to port and when in the trough the next wave top to starboard was way above our heads. Waves not breaking and wind ok so real kooel until we noticed the shark longer than the mirror in the wave above our heads we were sailing up. Needless to say we were a bit careful after that.

Eighteen years ago now, we went back to Australia to see my sick mother out, and introduce her for the second time to her almost grown grandchildren. We stopped in Queensland, on our way over the 'top end' and decided to go on a scuba excursion on the Great Barrier reef. Just my older daughter and I tanked due to age regulations, and before the first dive the crewman training us mentioned nonchalantly "OH, and if we're lucky we might spot some reef dolphins."
In we went, and when the little white tipped sharks (aka - Dolphins) came up for the food he was holding - which I might add, were only 3 to 4 feet long - my daughter death gripped my shoulder clavicles from behind. Must have been her first flashback of 'Jaws'. She didn't flee, but she did increase her 'security hold' on me when the little blighters swam behind, and between our legs. I was black and blue afterwards in what eventually turned out to be a great adventure.
To this day, whenever I see any sharkie stuff, on tv or the newspaper, I get an icy feeling in my shoulder blades!

Ross

I went tuna fishing in San Diego (well, Mexico offshore) a few years back on one of those "cattle car" fishing boats with a friend. Basically commercial fishermen take idiots like us out to throw hooks in the water on weekends, we do their work for them and they give us a few pounds of the fish we catch (and charge $300 for the experience). Bud light is free.

Anyway, I caught two yellow tails, a blue-fin, a dorado, and a 3 foot white shark. Man, when I pulled that thing up the fishermen got way back and told everyone else to get back as well. One of the guys had me lower it back down below the gunnels before they'd get close enough to cut the line.

I guess amateurs loose fingers to cutting white sharks off the line all the time. I asked one of the guys what the difference between a white shark and a great white was and he said "About 15 years".

Matt

Maybe the Aussies have better ways to deal with their larger sharks...

Don't give 'em a second thought more likely to die from some yobbo running you down on the way to the boat ramp, though I did refuse to get in the water with about 20 swimming around in the water when doing my dive certificate when a lot younger, dive instructor assured they were harmless, my logic back then was they have teeth they are not harmless

gross man! you mean people pee when their swimming in the ocean......

I would certainly feel the urge to pee if I saw sharks in the water while I (or loved ones) were in the same water.

raycarlson wrote:gross man! you mean people pee when their swimming in the ocean......