dude who care about where you live and what kind of shark is there. if i see a shark i get out, if you stay in all the better for you. i live in Normandy Beach, NJ and i have seen about 5 sharks and rubbed against 1. i was out jetskiing about a week ago and two days in a row someone caught a 5 foot shark. i dont care mako thresher bull or what. i see a shark, i get out and unless you are a nut case i would do the same
Yeah, no sharks for me either... and if anyone thinks they are some sort of manly, macho whatever because they say they're not afraid of sharks, your not. The fact is we are in their habitat, so they have TOTAL advantage over us. And if they want they will rip any one of us apart.
Hmmmm.... Winter, sharks don't like 30-some degree water. Sonds like a win win to me, No tourons and no shark threat...
Now your talkin my language.... don't worry we'll have it all to ourselves in no time!!! It's funny how things change, when I was a kid I loved the summer, now, I get butterflys just thinking about freezing tubes and howling winds.
Sharks in Jersey I am a fisherman and just getting back into surfing after 12 years. I have fished the bunker schools off Sandyhook to Brigantine and have seen plenty of threshers 50 yards from the beach where everyone is swimming. BIG ones too. If they only knew. Browns are in the surf a lot in July/August. My freind was fishing off Manasquan last week and had a 6' Hammerhead in their slick. ONE mile out. They would scare me but not as bad as as a Mako or school of Gorilla Bluefish. I havnt heard about a Bull Shark around but who knows. Usually that stuff is all over the fishing boards. I got a LOG!!!!!! Walden 10'6". Im a big guy. That would have to be a hell of a shark to hit me...LOL. I spearfish too. Im not sure if I like knowing whats out there and down deep. When I started surfing about 15 years ago...I didnt quite know so much about the life near the beaches...LOL. I liked it that way.
With all this talk of sharks unseen. . . I just have to say one thing, thank God I'm not a sponger! Two less pieces of bait dangling and kicking in the water. Ay tiburon algun aqui!
"we're gonna need a bigger boat" when you look at the beach on a crowded weekend, and there is not one incident involving a shark (plenty of screaming unattended kids, fat inlanders drowning in 2ft of water, headers and dislocated shoulders, etc) you must realize what an amazing and intelligent animal a shark is. they're out there, and if they wanted us, we'd be easy pick'ens. any good shark stories anyone? if not, i'll start a new thread later on, as i have a few...
from what I've heard, sharks really don't like human flesh. More than anything, shark attacks occur because we are in their way.
Well.... More like mistaken identity. Dirty, rough water, Dawn and dusk, during and after a NEaster...bait in close....all times when sharks are feeding heavier than normal and the times we have seen them close to the beaches. A kicking swimmer can easily be mistaken for a pod of fish fleeing or injured. If the shark is big enoough...mistaken for a SEAL? OUCH!
wetsuits look like a seal White sharks like cold water+surfer in wetsuit resembles a seal+ water murky=CHOMP! Actually there is a better chance to get bitten in NYC by a dog, cat or another human...or even a wild rat or squirrel http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/attacks/relariskcity.htm
see, i always here statistics like that, ie. better chance of getting struck by lightning etc. but here's what i've always wondered. is that statistic based off of the average person? if so that's kind of null and void for us surfers. in other words that average person probably wades in the ocean what...7 maybe 10 days a year whereas your average surfer paddles out 3 to 5 days a week. see what i'm saying? sorry to pop the bubble on the comfort zone there, but i've always found those stats kinda skewed.
stats... I guess the same would apply to going to Central Park every weekend or once a year...the later would have less of a chance to get bitten by a squirrel...but the avid park goer probably has a better idea how to avoid the squirrel. The same applies to sharks and surfers ... surfers are better informed about the dangers of the ocean...or should be The stats shouldn't mean.."oooh that won't happen to me"...it should be more to put things in perspective. BTW: we know a shark or a squirrel may bite you...but how do we know that a human being may bite?
"I just punched him in the jaw, and said **** you shark. But of course I was underwater so it sounded like Fubbbbcckk you shaawrk!" Haha -Dane Cook Would you rather joke.
