6th attack today at KOA in Rodanthe - wtf??

My blood is boiling at this ****.

North Carolina = new reunion island?

Shaking my head. Really disgusting.


1)Ban chumming waters/throwing fish guts in near shore waters(PIERS!) The scent travels for miles and brings sharks in. COMMON SENSE.

2) Start increasing fishing for bull sharks and some tigers too, but mostly bull. That's who's responsible for all these attacks. THEY ARE NOT ENDANGERED. They've NEVER been endangered and their numbers are exploding.

HOLY GOD....Enough of this "it's their environment crap". It's also the tuna's environment. And your house is on the rat's environment. Only humans make rats out to be less important than sharks.

"With the recent shark attacks on the minds of beach goers, business owners said their shops and motels have not been affected."

YET.....If this keeps up, it will devastate the beach economy just like in renunion island. A few shark tourism boats with cages(which probably increase chance of attacks since it associates humans with food) won't make up for millions in visitors to the beach.

Ok I'm done posting now...this place is like crack everyime I come for the forecast.

 

it's from all the boogers on their period

 

Im actually with the hardcore boogie dude, whose hello thread i do not recall.

I don't know ****e about sharks. I respect the ocean. But sharks and spiders.... Im willing to roll the dice and see how the ecosystem plays out without them. We are already rolling the dice to see how the ecosystem will play out without humans...

Kidding aside, shark nets anyone?

 

2 here in sc this week http://www.islandpacket.com/2015/06/26/3812713/tourist-bitten-by-shark-on-hunting.html

 

Shark is attacking youth only!!
Pedophile shark??

 

Obvious shark hunter is obvious. Hey I do agree with you on the banning chumming part, but I'm not really a cull guy.

 

But it's their environment.


<grin>

 

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I don't think shark nets are a possibility here, because of nesting sea turtles that need to come ashore in the summer.

I'd love to see fishing and chumming, etc. banned but that will never happen either, I'm sure.

I was a bit nervous about paddling out since the attacks, to be honest. But there was some 4' windswell this morning, and I got over the fear fast.

The attacks haven't kept people away from the beaches here, unfortunately. It seems to be keeping most of them out of the water, but they're still here.

 

Losing spiders would probably have a bigger negative impact.

 

When you go into the water you're entering their home *grins maliciously*

 

Just out of curiosity how's the water clarity up there? I know the crystal coast can have it's days but for the most part it's pretty brown right?

 

^^The water is almost always murky here.

 

We need to start eating some sharks. Not just the fins, maybe pet food. We reduce their food supply so they are hungry. If you soak out the ammonia with milk, shark (besides mako) is supposed to be ok.

 

And if you then leave a bit of the milk in it---kitties will love it!!
Quick!! Start a business!!

 

Fishertools chumming off a pier while hundreds of bathers, swimmers & surfers are in the ocean nearby.

Round up the usual suspects.

 

not going to lie ive surfed 5 time the past 3 days and its felt really sharks at times.. this is going to be the worst summer on record. i can feel it. be xtra careful yall. i saw the shadow of either a huge school of fish today or a shark and it didnt look like fish.

 

Agree with Blasters. Sharky as hell out there. Last wknd had to endure a good-sized dorsal cruising between me & the beach at AI.

Today, I was getting back on my board after a ride & I inadvertently kicked something big & fishy in the mid-section - - da fukkk! It gave way, writhed & hit me with a tail as it swam away. But dang, that thing whatever it was, was immediately below my board, maybe 3' under my board, in 6 feet of water. What was it doing there, underneath my board?

I have no answers. It's def sketchy as hades out there & we're pulling legs & hands up as 'the feeling' passes by.

 

after surfing south carolina for a couple years (folly, iop and pawleys), I now get pretty freaked out every time I surf in muddy water...for some reason, sharks love cruising around in that sh!t. Just swimming in muddy water would be 100X worse.

 

my fins have been getting that bump if you know what i mean and its happened 3 times and only happens when there cannonball jelly fish and there as been none around lately. i dnt think its mullet either because i haven't seen any in the shallows but there are a **** tone of small bait fish in the water right now they're coming into feed. there was two attack on the island next to mine this month there will be one here...hope its not me. AI when ive surfed out there never seemed sharky but i think it has hella potential. didnt those dumb ass fishermen get attacked last year fkn with a shark happen like twice in a week.