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Great White off Hayling Island.
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You are Mark Kermode and i claim my £5
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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I said 3 weeks ago...'soon it'll be time for the GW in Channel annual story'
Why am I not being credited?!
Anyone scared of a GW in the channel is being a bit bonkers frankly. Even more so if afraid of getting killed by one. The chances are so so minuscule it's not worth bothering to think about. I don't even think about them when I jump in the seas they are known to frequent!
Why am I not being credited?!
Anyone scared of a GW in the channel is being a bit bonkers frankly. Even more so if afraid of getting killed by one. The chances are so so minuscule it's not worth bothering to think about. I don't even think about them when I jump in the seas they are known to frequent!
But they do sometimes kill people in seas that they frequent. I cant imagine that its a nice way to go either.I said 3 weeks ago...'soon it'll be time for the GW in Channel annual story'
Why am I not being credited?!
Anyone scared of a GW in the channel is being a bit bonkers frankly. Even more so if afraid of getting killed by one. The chances are so so minuscule it's not worth bothering to think about. I don't even think about them when I jump in the seas they are known to frequent!
I get exactly the same thing. It's that quiet eerie calm when you're out there on your own that gets me. However my swimstroke of choice back to the beach is a gentle breast stroke. All that splashing about that you create doing the crawl is just asking for trouble and more likely to attract unwanted attention. The fact that I may be swimming off the coast of Hove does nothing to allay my sense of dread and panic.
Megazone
On his last warning
Great White's are massive hype jobs. Even I managed to get one in a headlock and dragged it onto the beach.
What a pussycat this so called man eater really is. I seriously reckon a Honey Badger would take a Great white down in 2 rounds, even if the bout is played out in the sharks terrain.
Easy work for the Honey badger I'm afraid.
What a pussycat this so called man eater really is. I seriously reckon a Honey Badger would take a Great white down in 2 rounds, even if the bout is played out in the sharks terrain.
Easy work for the Honey badger I'm afraid.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Only if you want an early cremation.
mickybha
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- Jan 2, 2010
- 518
Basking shark ..worst you'll get is a nasty suck
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-stuns-holidaymakers-Porthcurno-Cornwall.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-stuns-holidaymakers-Porthcurno-Cornwall.html
Perfidious Albion
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Sharks get a bad press, but they just live in their own environment doing what they are built to do. If a G white ,or any large sea creature ,was off the coast here I'd be lining up to go out in a boat and respectfuĺly observe it.
Protect them . Man kills millions of sharks for their fins .... No , I would not swim untill it had gone.
Protect them . Man kills millions of sharks for their fins .... No , I would not swim untill it had gone.
mlg57
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I was swimming off the beach in the Bahamas a few years back and noticed a huge ray beneath me, I got out quick.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Winston?
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
It's a metaphor of communism attacking the American way of life, only to find American democracy corrupt and dysfunctional, however it ultimately overcomes the communist threat through sacrifice and true American heroes.
Mr Putdown
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Apparently 'Spielberg famously said that the movie is simply "a film about a shark” and has said that his main reason for making it was his own fear of swimming.'
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-06-21/is-jaws-just-a-film-about-a-shark-or-something-else
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
And communists....
The Birdman
New member
Lots of great white things off Brighton/ Shoreham beach 
Mr Cleansheets
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- Jun 7, 2017
- 98
Growing up in Australia, sharks are never far from your consciousness...
Some years ago, the day before the Missus and I got engaged, we were swimming at Cottesloe off Perth. There was a huge buoy about 200 metres offshore and the Missus says: come on...let's swim out to it.
She was an excellent swimmer and I was barely adequate, but when you're about to propose to someone you don't wimp out of a challenge like that.
Anyway, as I swam (some distance behind her) I suddenly noted how eerily still the water was...and how murky it was in the late afternoon just before dusk. Just before I reached the buoy, where she was waiting for me, I suddenly thought: what the FARK am I doing out here?
I'm going back! I called and started swimming faster and faster. She, of course, zoomed past me and the closer I got to the shore the more I was seeing those huge pointed teeth closing on my toes.
Anyway, I made it back to shore, exhausted and totally freaked, but life continued happily.
However.
About five weeks later, a bloke was killed by a shark in exactly that spot.
For all I know that same shark checked me out but wasn't feeling peckish.
Some years ago, the day before the Missus and I got engaged, we were swimming at Cottesloe off Perth. There was a huge buoy about 200 metres offshore and the Missus says: come on...let's swim out to it.
She was an excellent swimmer and I was barely adequate, but when you're about to propose to someone you don't wimp out of a challenge like that.
Anyway, as I swam (some distance behind her) I suddenly noted how eerily still the water was...and how murky it was in the late afternoon just before dusk. Just before I reached the buoy, where she was waiting for me, I suddenly thought: what the FARK am I doing out here?
I'm going back! I called and started swimming faster and faster. She, of course, zoomed past me and the closer I got to the shore the more I was seeing those huge pointed teeth closing on my toes.
Anyway, I made it back to shore, exhausted and totally freaked, but life continued happily.
However.
About five weeks later, a bloke was killed by a shark in exactly that spot.
For all I know that same shark checked me out but wasn't feeling peckish.
SK1NT
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Speaking of basking sharks when i was a kid i use to fish off shoreham arm and worthing pier and we use to dig for our own bait on worthing beach. Now i am not sure if this actually happened or i actually dreamt it (although im swaying to the fact it did happen)
Around the summer of 89 (give or take a year either side) i remember going to dig for bait on worthing beach and seeing about 10 washed up basking sharks. I also remember that they all had a big chunk cut out of them as if they were just getting the meat (the head and spine was left). They were all cut in the same way and just left on the beach. Anyone else remember this?
Around the summer of 89 (give or take a year either side) i remember going to dig for bait on worthing beach and seeing about 10 washed up basking sharks. I also remember that they all had a big chunk cut out of them as if they were just getting the meat (the head and spine was left). They were all cut in the same way and just left on the beach. Anyone else remember this?
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
i recently discovered there is an entire sub-culture of people speculating on theories behind films and their meanings, pouring over details, plot holes/gaps as having great significance. invariably the original author/playwright/director just dismisses them out of hand.
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
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To put the risk in context, the odds of being killed by a shark are 239,998,500 greater than the odds on Brighton winning the Premier League this season.
Is that the odds for worldwide shark MURDERS? Could we please have the odds for UK-coastal-shark-deaths? I think I might chuck a tenner on. Quick way to win a few trillion.