Jumping the shark???

[lspencer534]

Shark returns the favor. This is a spinner shark jumping over a surfer in New Smyrna Beach, FL.:

YouTube - ‪Shark jumps over surfer‬‏

[GRN ENVY]

Not surprising for a Florida beach

[Datawiz]

Kinda like women. When they're in the 4-foot range, we usually call them spinners too.

[GRN ENVY]

I just realized somthing, I am going over to New Symrna on thursday for a beach day. I wonder if any sharks will jump over me lol

[Uncle Pervey]

Note to self... stay out of the salt water....

[78SA]

How many times is that video going to show it?

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by 78SA

How many times is that video going to show it?

Lotsa sharks....

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

I just realized somthing, I am going over to New Symrna on thursday for a beach day. I wonder if any sharks will jump over me lol

According to the article, spinner sharks are very common there. They're not dangerous; they have small teeth, not suitable for attacking people.

[GRN ENVY]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

According to the article, spinner sharks are very common there. They're not dangerous; they have small teeth, not suitable for attacking people.

Sharks don't really bother me, I have seen my fair share of sharks at the beach. Its second nature for me living in florida

[Uncle Pervey]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

According to the article, spinner sharks are very common there. They're not dangerous; they have small teeth, not suitable for attacking people.

My neighbors Chihuahua has small teeth, supposedly not suitable for attacking people, and it shredded the upper lip of a neighbor kid....

just sayin'.......

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by Uncle Pervey

My neighbors Chihuahua has small teeth, supposedly not suitable for attacking people, and it shredded the upper lip of a neighbor kid....

just sayin'.......

clearly the neighbor kid deserved it.

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by datawiz

clearly the neighbor kid deserved it.

Yeah! I mean, what could the kid have been doing to irritate a calm little dog like a Chihuahua?

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

According to the article, spinner sharks are very common there. They're not dangerous; they have small teeth, not suitable for attacking people.

Bullshit....when I moved here 14 years ago, I took the kids out west to Panama city beach....did a little Ski Doo riding, and etc....Tom has studied sharks a bit in grade school, so knew much more than Laura and I, well we are swimming in chest deep water, clear as a bell, I look down and see a school of mini sharks....maybe a foot long, swimming in a tight circle as if chasing each other.....Tom looks down when I shouted, and so one of the sharks bites him on the big toe....no blood broken, but he raced outta that water like it was.....but no bleeding....

I remember decades ago, fishing in Isle of Wite bay near Ocean City Md.....and so a bunch of us fishing drunks from the Chesapeake bay are out on this rental skiff, we all used to reeling in Bluefish like MAD, swamping Neils' boat almost running into Soloman Island....so Jerry hooks this baby shark....sucker not but ~16" long... but you know, it bent his Bay trolling rod over like he had a MONSTER on there, it swam like MAD, so here are 4 guys on a ~15' skiff, and this thing is circling the boat, pulling the damn rod outta Jerry's hands almost.....we typically used 80 lbs test...so not messing around, we be HUNGRY.....

so he finally get tired of the battle and starts reeling in, and when that little baby SHARK came up, we all laughed our asses off, he was gaffed pretty good and MEAN, PISSED!!!! we let him swim after the boat but dead by time we got to the dock.....

I can't imagine even Jules Vern can come up with a more powerful swimming machine....no freeking WAY man.....

[NCC-1701]

Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

Sharks don't really bother me, I have seen my fair share of sharks at the beach. Its second nature for me living in florida

Me too I've seen lot's while diving wrecks...

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by mrvette

Bullshit....when I moved here 14 years ago, I took the kids out west to Panama city beach....did a little Ski Doo riding, and etc....Tom has studied sharks a bit in grade school, so knew much more than Laura and I, well we are swimming in chest deep water, clear as a bell, I look down and see a school of mini sharks....maybe a foot long, swimming in a tight circle as if chasing each other.....Tom looks down when I shouted, and so one of the sharks bites him on the big toe....no blood broken, but he raced outta that water like it was.....but no bleeding....

I remember decades ago, fishing in Isle of Wite bay near Ocean City Md.....and so a bunch of us fishing drunks from the Chesapeake bay are out on this rental skiff, we all used to reeling in Bluefish like MAD, swamping Neils' boat almost running into Soloman Island....so Jerry hooks this baby shark....sucker not but ~16" long... but you know, it bent his Bay trolling rod over like he had a MONSTER on there, it swam like MAD, so here are 4 guys on a ~15' skiff, and this thing is circling the boat, pulling the damn rod outta Jerry's hands almost.....we typically used 80 lbs test...so not messing around, we be HUNGRY.....

so he finally get tired of the battle and starts reeling in, and when that little baby SHARK came up, we all laughed our asses off, he was gaffed pretty good and MEAN, PISSED!!!! we let him swim after the boat but dead by time we got to the dock.....

I can't imagine even Jules Vern can come up with a more powerful swimming machine....no freeking WAY man.....

Hey, man--I was just quoting the article! Anyway, one of our local HS football coaches was in FL when he saw a baby shark swimming at his feet. He tried to pick the little shit up and it took his calf muscle out.

[GRN ENVY]

Originally Posted by NCC-1701

Me too I've seen lot's while diving wrecks...

Right on, where have you dived?

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

Hey, man--I was just quoting the article! Anyway, one of our local HS football coaches was in FL when he saw a baby shark swimming at his feet. He tried to pick the little shit up and it took his calf muscle out.

Them suckers are NUTTIN' but fighting, hunting, swimming MACHINES.....solid muscle I dunno if they even HAVE bones....

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Uncle Pervey

Note to self... stay out of the salt water....

yes, because there are no dangers lurking in fresh water

<cough>alligators<cough>

[GRN ENVY]

Originally Posted by LarsAtTheBeach

yes, because there are no dangers lurking in fresh water

<cough>alligators<cough>

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by NCC-1701

Me too I've seen lot's while diving wrecks...

Years ago, some dive buddy's and two of us non divers went out on a 28' Chris craft with twin 305 chebby engines.....out the St. Mary's river in Ga, just north of Florida....past the sub base, about 50? miles off shore is this nav marker for the subs to come in the channel....seen them on the surface, all black and evil looking this was before 9/11 though....

so we out there tending the boat at anchor, the guys down with the fishes....Barracuda to real you could see the HEMI marks.... so these guys are messing around and Johnny runs outta air for some reason, surfaces about the time the waves kicked up but good....the boat owner was still under, and surfaced much later, it was a hell of a battle for them to get to the boat from only about 1/8 mile away me and Nick not so sure what to do as dual fixed props and dive platforms, we don't want anything stupid happening....so they manage to flip themselves on board....Mark goes to drive his boat back to shore, and damn nearly broaches us, leeward rain in the water.....~12? foot waves.....

I grab the helm and with compass and nav advice as to where the hell we WERE, I managed to get us to shore....waves off the port quarter tossing us a easy 45* off course with ever pass/correction....set engines for 2500 rpm or so, every time the port engine came out it would rev to about 3500 tough luck engine...I dunno what else to do....that was a hell of a trip....one of them trips they came up with a drill head, used for hydraulic line pumping through sea bottom until hitting bedrock, there it was laying on the sea floor and the guys brought it up, hell of a battle over some 40? lbs of brass/bronze....all corroded and shit....I still have it with the rest of my nautical antiques.....

Johnny used to guard the CONSTITUTION in Boston? harbor....he gave me his set of WATCH keys....4 of them, old ward lock style, look like skeleton keys...really old shit....one of bronze for the Captain's quarters, the others are brass....