Oceanic White Tip in Cornish waters.

[public school boy]

This will help the local tourist industry. Two separate sighting of sightings off St Ives. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Water. Any Shark experiences anyone?

 

[withdeanwombat]

One nearly got me at Paramount Studios.

 

[Commander]

They do this ever single Summer.

Although this time it looks like they've gone for a slightly more believable option as the "Great White in English Waters" story is getting a bit obvious.

 

[daveinprague]

A tip I learned in the Navy that has stood me well through the years. Sharks only attack you if youre wet.

 

[skipper734]

We're going to need a bigger boat!

 

[Cornish seagull!]

There was a dead dolphin washed up on perranporth beach last week.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

are they free to collect?

 

[Curious Orange]

I had a face to face encounter with a White Tip Reef Shark... but that was last year... and in the Maldives... and it was decidedly disinterested in biting chunks out of me.

 

[happypig]

Almost certainly a basking shark - totally harmless (unless you are plankton)

 

[Marc]

I had shark for dinner in thailand.....it was abit bland.

 

[Commander]

I had a face to face encounter with a White Tip Reef Shark... but that was last year... and in the Maldives... and it was decidedly disinterested in biting chunks out of me.

Yeah I did that in the Galapagosd, with 3 of them. They gave me this look of "Oh here come the f***ing humans staring at us again, lets sod off to deeper water where they'll stop bothering us".

 

[Simster]

Oceanic white tips probably kill more people than any other shark, including the bull shark. They normally swim in groups and are the sharks responsible for polishing off the victims of capsized boats or plane crashes because they are quite abundant in open water, and are rarely seen anywhere near land. They were the sharks that scoffed about 1,000 American soldiers off the coast of Egypt after some famous naval battle in WW2 - when USS Indianapolis was sunk.

It must be a concern that a OWT has been spotted so close to land, as presumably this points to a lack of food in the open water?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Almost certainly a basking shark - totally harmless (unless you are plankton)

Every summer, the press report a shark off the west country and it turns out to be harmless basking sharks.

 

[Hillian1]

Oceanic white tips probably kill more people than any other shark, including the bull shark. They normally swim in groups and are the sharks responsible for polishing off the victims of capsized boats or plane crashes because they are quite abundant in open water, and are rarely seen anywhere near land. They were the sharks that scoffed about 1,000 American soldiers off the coast of Egypt after some famous naval battle in WW2 - when USS Indianapolis was sunk.

It must be a concern that a OWT has been spotted so close to land, as presumably this points to a lack of food in the open water?

I thought the Indianapolis was the ship that delivered the A Bomb to Guam, so secret that no-one knew where it was so when it didn't arrive back in port no-one bothered.

 

[Curious Orange]

Yeah I did that in the Galapagosd, with 3 of them. They gave me this look of "Oh here come the f***ing humans staring at us again, lets sod off to deeper water where they'll stop bothering us".

Ah, well I wasn't actually looking for sharks... its a bit of a shock when you look around and a shark that is pretty much the same length as you just meanders past a few feet away on whatever journey its on. I'm just glad that I'm not prone to panicking.

 

[Lush]

I had shark for dinner in thailand.....it was abit bland.

Bad Marc. Sharks are an endangered species.

 

[Elvis]

" smile! you bastard! "

 

[rocker959]

' twas only a li'l puuddie cat really

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I had shark for dinner in thailand.....it was abit bland.

I have heard it is beautiful if you can fight your way clear of other tourists and the tourist traps.

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Wasn't going to hurt anyone, just popped by for a beer