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Biggest Great White in the Ocean?
#22082946 - 08/12/15 07:14 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/great-white-shark-deep-blue/2015/08/12/id/669701/
Maybe, maybe not, but apparently it's the largest ever recorded.
- estimated to be 50 years old - 20 feet long - 5,000 pounds
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22083131 - 08/12/15 07:47 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was just reading about this earlier today, very cool.
So freaking big man! I like sharks.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Lucis]
#22083311 - 08/12/15 08:29 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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YEEKS, my first thought when i saw the picture was that it is photoshopped..but it's legit? Hadn't heard about it, waaay scary/cool.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
#22083326 - 08/12/15 08:31 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not sure where Guadalupe Island is (could look but too lazy). Where's the guy that killed the historic lion not too long ago, maybe he can ruin this too..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
#22083329 - 08/12/15 08:32 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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should have seen Shark week this year op. it was pretty dope
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: 404]
#22083342 - 08/12/15 08:35 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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cApTaInCrAp said: YEEKS, my first thought when i saw the picture was that it is photoshopped..but it's legit? Hadn't heard about it, waaay scary/cool.
Legit photo. In fact I think that photo is just a still of actual video.
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404 said: should have seen Shark week this year op. it was pretty dope 
Saw a little bit but would've liked to have caught more now that I think about it.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22083364 - 08/12/15 08:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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their coverage of putting tiger sharks to sleep momentarily kind of blew my mind, as well as the coverage of the world wide shark trade. i knew it was pretty disgusting, but i didn't know it was that widespread and that ugly. we need to check ourselves as a species....
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: 404]
#22083375 - 08/12/15 08:41 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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404 said: their coverage of putting tiger sharks to sleep momentarily kind of blew my mind
yeah I've seen that before, shit is wild how they can do that
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as well as the coverage of the world wide shark trade. i knew it was pretty disgusting, but i didn't know it was that widespread and that ugly. we need to check ourselves as a species....
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
#22083433 - 08/12/15 08:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Saw a short deal on how they are sinking blocks that have tubes secured on one end so they float up and around as if it was a kelp forest and they are adding some sort of magnetism to deter sharks in surfer/highly populated areas. It's in the early stages i believe and I'm giving very little detail about it but it caught my attention, pretty cool idea.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
#22083486 - 08/12/15 09:08 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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man those fins look delicious
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
#22083498 - 08/12/15 09:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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cApTaInCrAp said: Saw a short deal on how they are sinking blocks that have tubes secured on one end so they float up and around as if it was a kelp forest and they are adding some sort of magnetism to deter sharks in surfer/highly populated areas. It's in the early stages i believe and I'm giving very little detail about it but it caught my attention, pretty cool idea.
Saw that. PETA is protesting, though. Said that it's not fair to push the sharkies back since they had first dibs on the ocean.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: NWlight]
#22083500 - 08/12/15 09:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22083592 - 08/12/15 09:39 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Niffla said:
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cApTaInCrAp said: Saw a short deal on how they are sinking blocks that have tubes secured on one end so they float up and around as if it was a kelp forest and they are adding some sort of magnetism to deter sharks in surfer/highly populated areas. It's in the early stages i believe and I'm giving very little detail about it but it caught my attention, pretty cool idea.
Saw that. PETA is protesting, though. Said that it's not fair to push the sharkies back since they had first dibs on the ocean.

Pussies. ..push em back. Give us some space (even tho im not big on water stuff), they can have the other 60%.
I have a shark in a bottle, assuming it must be in formaldehyde. Parents got it from FL and gave it to me about 16 years ago. Sitting on my dresser as we speak, kind of gross but pretty cool *shrug*.
It's about 9" long.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: cApTaInCrAp]
#22083642 - 08/12/15 09:50 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I feel like their may have been a bigger one recorded in South Africa a few decades ago, idk, I'll google it.
They're very rare to come across in the wild, for divers, there's some really controversial baiting tactics for cage dives that strike me as dangerous. BUT if you ever feel like having an encounter with a great white outside of a cage, head to Guadalupe and find these guys. http://www.nautilusexplorer.com/guadalupe_great_white_shark_diving I don't think they've had any incidents, and you have safety divers escorting you.
On another note, one time I had an almost "encounter" with one. I was diving in the Caribbean with a friend of the family - and great whites are pretty uncommon there because the waters a bit warm for their taste. Suddenly we saw this huge massive shark shaped shadow, much much muuuuch bigger than the sharks that are common in that area, slowly approaching us from afar. We kind of pissed ourselves, and both hunkered on the bottom on the sea bed cuz t the surface is by far the most dangerous place for shark encounters. It comes closer, and we realized that it was a big ass submarine with people staring at us out the windows and taking pictures.

so fucking weird.
edit: d'oh this actually was in South Africa. Shocker.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22083646 - 08/12/15 09:52 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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pirate-blues said: On another note, one time I had an almost "encounter" with one. I was diving in the Caribbean with a friend of the family - and great whites are pretty uncommon there because the waters a bit warm for their taste. Suddenly we saw this huge massive shark shaped shadow, much much muuuuch bigger than the sharks that are common in that area, slowly approaching us from afar. We kind of pissed ourselves, and both hunkered on the bottom on the sea bed cuz that's the surface is by far the most dangerous place for shark encounters. It comes closer, and we realized that it was a big ass submarine with people staring out us out the windows and taking pictures.

so fucking weird.

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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22083655 - 08/12/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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woah that is weird.. or more like surreal?..
btw is the shark in the op fist bumping with the diver?..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22083674 - 08/12/15 09:58 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, it was definitely a bit surreal. I knew they had glass bottom boats but I never knew about the submarine tours so it kind of shocked me.
And sharks investigate shit by bumping you and sometimes taking a little nibble...which depending on the species can be a big problem. Shark was just trying to figure out wtf they were. Great Whites are ambush predators, if they're swimming around you, chances are you're safe. It's always safer to be under the water with them then up on the surface. Abalone divers are the only types of divers that have a reason to be legitimately concerned with great white attacks on a regular basis.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22083678 - 08/12/15 09:59 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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interesting
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22083696 - 08/12/15 10:08 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It might be legal to take White Sharks off Guadalupe Island. you would need big gear to land a 5000 pounder, and you would have to tail wrap it and drag it to be eligible for the world record (no firearms aloud).
most people don't have the balls for that
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: ballsalsa]
#22084407 - 08/13/15 01:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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why bother with all that?
i would love to go out on a boat and chum the water. it really doesn't matter where tbh, white sharks are found not only in the pacific coast lines inlcuding the us and australia, but also the eastern coastlines of the US.
anyway. i think it'd be pretty dope to do several plunges having studied the behaviors and practiced how to deal with them before hand. then once you get a good idea of what to expect, drop a tab or two of some nice L.
maybe i do have more balls than i thought, this is something i would definietly be interested in doing. in b4 "ur crazy" "you're an idiot"
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22084420 - 08/13/15 01:43 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Niffla said: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/great-white-shark-deep-blue/2015/08/12/id/669701/
Maybe, maybe not, but apparently it's the largest ever recorded.
- estimated to be 50 years old - 20 feet long - 5,000 pounds

with so much ocean unexplored I bet that's a small one
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i doubt that. given the current relationship between us and the ocean, i'm not surprised we haven't found a lot of sharks that size. it's not common for them to get to that size. there's been some reports of finding them just over 20ft in the past, but you hear about those in old shark hunting stories.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: 404]
#22084429 - 08/13/15 01:45 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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plus, white sharks aren't known to be in areas of the ocean at depths we haven't had a lot of experience exploring. iirc
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: 404]
#22084447 - 08/13/15 01:51 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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chumming is gonna bring out every damned shark though. its better to go to where you think the shark likes to be, and offer him what you know he wants (a good sized bonito or whitefish, or maybe a small shark of some kind)
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: ballsalsa]
#22084543 - 08/13/15 02:27 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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go where their food source is. ie- seal populations and deep water
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: 404]
#22084558 - 08/13/15 02:35 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Pretty sure they actually have a seal cutout tied to a rope, and they drag it behind boats in south africa.
http://www.barcroft.tv/great-white-shark-false-bay-south-africa
God, swimming across that bay is literal suicide if all it takes is a dragging a foam seal across the surface by boat.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22084563 - 08/13/15 02:36 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i think that was last year's shark week.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: 404]
#22088127 - 08/13/15 04:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i had a dream about sharks last night cuz of this thread..
i was swimming in the ocean or some shit and suddenly this huge shark shows up, i immediately shit my pants(in the dream.. thank gawd), but anyway what was interesting was that as soon as i spotted it i swam deep down into the ocean floor, and it couldn't get me there.. then i swam back up when it disappeared and i got the fuck out of the water pronto
i've had numerous dreams of swimming with sharks, sometimes it's alligators, or crocs, wutever, but as scared as i am i never seem to panic, and am usually able to make it out of the water unscathed..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22088141 - 08/13/15 04:50 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I had a dream last night I was a quarterback. I would have a receiver wide open 40 yards downfield...and I would cock back to launch the ball as far as I could -- and it would only go like 2 yards.
I played like an entire game in my dream. And each time I would try to throw it as hard as I could, so hard that I would damn near throw my arm out of socket...yet it would still only go like a fucking yard or two.
I bet my teammates in the dream wanted to beat my ass.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22088191 - 08/13/15 05:00 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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gravity is so interesting in the dream realm
it's like when u dream about fighting someone, u can never hit them no matter how hard u try, always feels like ur arms way a ton, or when u're walking on the side walk or sum shit, u feel as if ur feet are made of stone and every step takes every fiber of ur being..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22088198 - 08/13/15 05:01 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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That is an alpha ass shark
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22088212 - 08/13/15 05:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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zZZz said: gravity is so interesting in the dream realm
it's like when u dream about fighting someone, u can never hit them no matter how hard u try, always feels like ur arms way a ton, or when u're walking on the side walk or sum shit, u feel as if ur feet are made of stone and every step takes every fiber of ur being..

Yep. Had lots of dreams where I was running from something, running as hard as I possibly fucking could -- but going like 0.2 MPH
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The Doobie Dude said: That is an alpha ass shark
A human would be a fucking snack for that monster. Like a damn hot pocket. Or a lean pocket for that matter.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22088219 - 08/13/15 05:05 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i really hate when that happens, it's pure torture..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22088225 - 08/13/15 05:06 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Niffla said:
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The Doobie Dude said: That is an alpha ass shark
A human would be a fucking snack for that monster. Like a damn hot pocket. Or a lean pocket for that matter.
or maybe like a burrito?..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22088227 - 08/13/15 05:07 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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speaking of burritos..
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: zZZz]
#22088230 - 08/13/15 05:09 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Niffla said:
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The Doobie Dude said: That is an alpha ass shark
A human would be a fucking snack for that monster. Like a damn hot pocket. Or a lean pocket for that matter.
or maybe like a burrito?..
a taquito at best
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22088277 - 08/13/15 05:23 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm sure there are larger great whites out there
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: highasfuk]
#22088296 - 08/13/15 05:29 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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highasfuk said: I'm sure there are larger great whites out there
Yeah I'm sure there are too.
71% of the world is water, with most of that being the ocean. And we study such a small fraction of it that we don't even scratch the surface.
That's a big ass great white -- but there's bigger out there.
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Re: Biggest Great White in the Ocean? [Re: Niffla]
#22088320 - 08/13/15 05:34 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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ever been to universal studios?
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