What would you do, shark sighting

You forgot option...

3. Pull a Fitzpedo on the fvck@...dive off your board and kick that bast@rd for snakin' your wave.

Just doing my part, SS...

 

60% of the time, it works every time...

 

Hatin' on a large shark, that's a tall order carter. But since you placed your req on SI Forum, I'll see what I can do.

I'd still pay good money, and lots of it, if lil shiiite shart snuffer could be dropped into a shallow water zone that is loaded with bull sharks & then we just film it......see who is the big boss then.

 

Hahahaha we'll even give him a blade just to be fair.

 

I've seen so many Sharks- I usually just keep my feet and arms up for a bit. If I'm feeling super paranoid which happens more often when I'm alone on dawn patrol with all the fish feeding I'll head in for a "Water Break."

Nonetheless, I surf Cape Lookout a couple times a year and it is ripe with sharkies. I see enough sharks each time I make it out there to make pretty much every other location I surf seem domesticated.

 

i surfed in australia for a year.
north carolina has more sharks.

 

I'd jump off my board, call 911 and float there until they rescued me.

 

wow, i think that happened recently, but i heard the board was a kayak in the story ....

the past few days the forum's as flat as the Atlantic......

 

I went fishing the other day,wont even tell u what I caught and how many.monmouth county people,beware that is all.ps....sharks.all sharks.baby sharks.meaning poppa and momma were close by.and this is cast out from the beach maybe 30 yards.

 

sharks hang around and raise their young? interesting. i was under the impression they just kinda swim off, knock boots, and scatter....or eat them.

 

I think you caught sandsharks which are nearly as common as pinfish and absolutely nothing to worry about.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liijgHmbBzg

Lookout is crazy.

 

Wow. Incredible.

 

surprised at the number of you brahs who would just say 'fkc it' and keep surfing. respect

 

We all say F it every day we drive to and from work so why not in the ocean where the % chance of getting bit is waaaaaay lower than getting into a fatal car accident? It's a roll of the dice every day on the roads lol

 

that video is wild, they were in less than ankle deep water..if birds are feeding anywhere time to get out id say..i do like the writeup below the video "We want it to be clear that Cape Lookout and the surrounding beaches of Eastern North Carolina are extremely safe for swimming"

 

I'm not buying it. This is the net. We can all SAY whatever we want. I bet 9 out of 10 guys that voted to stay would be in the parking lot 30 seconds later cleaning the poop out of their wet suits. We have all seen little sharks here and there. That is not the deal. The OP stated a shark upwards of 8 feet in the wave right ahead of you. That is a "get out" situation. I don't care who you are. I have seen one very, VERY large shark in the water where I was about to go out. I packed the f up and surfed 5 miles down the coast. Ain't no shame in that.

I have seen a pack of shark flying up the coast in 2 feet of water just like in that youtube video. They weren't in a feeding frenzy, but it was HUNDREDS of hammerheads migrating together. They cleared every beach on the island for a couple hours for good reason. It was just fins as far as the eye can see and these puppies were almost on the sand.... Just traveling, as they do every year. But anyone on here that says they walked up to the beach, saw that and paddled out is a flat out liar.

 

If its crowded with groms, and the water is clear, and the surf is good, I say stay in the lineup and take your chances one of them will get eaten first. Just keep your feet up between sets and don't fall off your board.

 

How could one even paddle out in that not even talking about the danger? You've got dozens of physical obstructions right in front of you. That's far more of an impediment than the thickest kelp and shallowest rock reef. Those things are slapping their strong tails all over. They'd knock you off your board and slap your board in half.

 

Small world. My old roomate writes for Fishing Magazines, and I saw this vid in one of his articles yesterday.

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gone-fishin%E2%80%99/video-shark-feeding-frenzy-makes-you-want-go-surf-fishing

Living down the beach with him, I became keenly aware of the fact that I was never really alone in the water. We would surf all day then he would yank sharks and all kinds of other stuff out when the sun went down. Was a little unsettling come time for the next dawn patrol.

For you music guys out there, that's Mickey from the band Ween with him. Theya re a couple of nutjobs