sharks at new smyrna inlet

I would go in wtf that's crazy

 

Theres always a ton of sharks at the NSB inlet, regardless it refreshing to see it on video

 

is there anything in florida that isn't nuts?
thats nuts.

 

Time to get a boat and big ass net and clean that lineup up so it's safe for people.
Shark fin soup anyone?

 

its like that all the time and they mostly dont give a dam about the surfers, swam with my waterhousing with them all winter and didnt have any close encounters

 

The guy that filmed it said he identified one as a bull. I'm not shark expert, but don't these look more like reef sharks or spinners? The heads don't look very wide on them...

I would have my feet up out of the water quick like.

 

that takes balls to surf

 

no thanks. yall can have your warm water

 

they live there we don't

 

I mean, it was strange surfing amongst a bunch of little black tips the other day, but it was NOTHING like that... I see a bunch of grey suits, lurking like that, ill wrap the session up...

Don't know whats worse, being able to see it like down in FL, or the murkier stuff at our beach breaks up here... I guess ignorance is bliss...

 

R.I.P. Steve Irwin

 

That chick on the sup looked DOPE

 

One thing I'm half excited half not so excited about in FL. Warm water = awesome. Warm water = f***ing sharks, especially in the spring. Sister lives in Daytona. She's taken some pictures during the winter migration times...it's wild.

(These aren't hers)

 

I understand that the Bert Fish Medical center treats more shark bites than anywhere on earth. The shark attack capital if I'm not mistaken, but rarely are they serious. Easy to see why from that video. Never surfed that inlet and not seen one. Imagine getting yanked around by the leg with a violent head shake from a 6 ft. bull trying to break off a piece of tenderloin, dang that would hurt. Spinners and sandies don't bother with monkey meat? I'm not a SUP fan but that is a good argument for one.

 

the last thing that shark conservationists will ever say is that the shark population has rebounded. Only a matter of time before there is an attack off New England from the "rare" great white.... The conservationists will have blood on their hands...

 

Don't remember the exact figure, but NSB is responsible for 40+ attacks annually. It is in fact the shark attack capital of the world... Mostly just nicks and cuts, but still. I saw a video of a surfer getting bit in the lineup. He paddled in and showed the huge gash on his calf... Laughed it off. No one else even tripped in the lineup, they were just happy to have one less guy in the crowd.

 

I think any sensible conservation-minded shark person would say that not enough is known about populations to start culling or anything along those lines. Has the MMPA caused the seal population to explode up there, absolutely. Have the increased seal numbers influenced GW behavior, I would say definitely. My buddy saw a GW tear a buoy off a line at Coast Guard beach...that being said, the rate at which sharks are killed as a result of bycatch and/or intentionally caught and finned, along with evidence that populations are dwindling on the global scale indicates otherwise.

I mean they know the GW's are out at the Cape en masse from fly-overs and such...talking numbers in the hundreds, not just a couple scattered here and there.

Idk, there's a lot of things that can kill you on a daily basis. If we were that worried about it we'd ban alcohol.

 

In addition to the flyovers, the documentary released on last years shark week was insane. They tagged a bunch of whites and let little submarine drones follow them and they were rolling RIGHT along the coast in the shallows. The video showed peoples legs. Thats how close they were getting. They left without incident, but it was interesting to see at what point they would alert the lifeguards, but by the end, they basically said, we would have to clear the beaches for the whole season if we called in every GW in the area.

 

Couldn't agree more.