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MEGALODON LIVES! Great White Shark found half eaten

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NotWii

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A 'MONSTER' great white shark measuring up to 6 metres long is prowling a popular beach after biting another great white almost in half.

Swimmers were warned to stay out of the water off Stradbroke Island after the shark mauled another smaller great white which had been hooked on a baited drum line.

The 3m great white was almost bitten in half.

The fictional shark at the centre of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws was estimated to be more than 1.5 metres longer.

'It certainly opened up my eyes. I mean the shark that was caught is a substantial shark in itself,' says Jeff Krause of Queensland Fisheries.


The great white, the most dangerous creature in the sea, was still alive when hauled onto a boat near Deadman's Beach off north Stradbroke island.

News of the shocking attack on the smaller shark has sent jitters along the Queensland coast from Stradbroke Island, near Brisbane, to the Sunshine Coast further north down to the tourist mecca of Surfers Paradise, south of Brisbane.

'Whatever attacked and took chunks out of this big shark must be massive,' said 19-year-old surfer Ashton Smith. 'I've heard about the big one that's lurking out there somewhere.

'We're all being very, very cautious.'

Mr John Gooding, who operates a charter fishing boat, said sharks were everywhere, although there appeared to be no specific reason for an increase in the number.

'Some days you struggle to get a fish on to the boat before the sharks take them,' he told the Courier Mail newspaper.

Many of the popular beaches in Queensland are protected by nets and what are known as drumlines - a series of baited hooks that hang from buoys placed in a line about 500 yards from beaches.

Since the net and drumline programme was introduced in Queensland there has been only one fatal attack on a protected beach.

The relatively recent attack occurred when 21-year-old student Sarah Whiley was killed off Stradbroke Island three years ago.

The Queensland State Government has been under pressure in recent weeks to scale down the shark net and drumline programme because environmentalists say that whales and other big fish are becoming trapped in the nets.

But Fisheries Minister Tim Mulherin said the capture of the badly injured 3.5m shark - and the indication of a much larger one being in the area - showed the necessity to keep the nets and drumlines in place.

Darren Kindleysides, director of the Australian Marine Conservation Society, said the nets were working but at huge cost to whales, dolphins and turtles.

And Vic Hislop, an internationally-recognised authority on sharks, also believes the nets should be removed and other methods explored to scare away the predators.

Picture in the link, has blood

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...at-white-in-half/story-e6freuy9-1225791557651
 

YYZ

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someone's gonna do it


jaws_l.jpg
 
I don't know which is more incredible, that a 6m shark is out there preying on its own kind or that the smaller shark is still alive (for a short while anyway) after having been bitten in half. Nature is scary!
 

Anth0ny

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That great white got fucked up!

The other fish must have been fucking massive. The great white from Jaws is nothing compared to this shit :lol
 

siddx

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sweet monkey jesus as if i needed more reasons to be afraid of sharks.
 

NotWii

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MadraptorMan said:
I'm pretty sure that even bigger great whites have been documented before, if this one is just around 19 feet long.

From Wikipedia

Great_white_shark_caught_in_Seven_Star_Lake_in_1997.jpg


Great white shark caught in a set-net in Seven Star Lake, Hualien County, Taiwan, on May 14, 1997. Gross weight of this animal was 2500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) and total length is estimated(?) at 6.7 to 7.0 metres (~22 feet). Source of information is Victor Lin. Possibly the largest great white shark ever recorded.
 
Wii said:
From Wikipedia

Great_white_shark_caught_in_Seven_Star_Lake_in_1997.jpg


Great white shark caught in a set-net in Seven Star Lake, Hualien County, Taiwan, on May 14, 1997. Gross weight of this animal was 2500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) and total length is estimated(?) at 6.7 to 7.0 metres (~22 feet). Source of information is Victor Lin. Possibly the largest great white shark ever recorded.

And there you have it! That shark is only one foot smaller than JAWS, too.
 
Wii said:
From Wikipedia

Great_white_shark_caught_in_Seven_Star_Lake_in_1997.jpg


Great white shark caught in a set-net in Seven Star Lake, Hualien County, Taiwan, on May 14, 1997. Gross weight of this animal was 2500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) and total length is estimated(?) at 6.7 to 7.0 metres (~22 feet). Source of information is Victor Lin. Possibly the largest great white shark ever recorded.


Then why the fuck does the picture look like it was taken in 1897?
 

speedpop

Has problems recognising girls
Saw this in the papers 2 days ago. Pretty nuts, but eh, certain parts of the Australian coast are known for Great Whites. One of the reasons why I was never a huge fan of the surf back when I was growing up on one of the islands where this shark was found.
 

industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
Forget the lock ness monster, this is what everyone should be searching for!

Nane ae yer pish, Nessie wuid fuck this wee shark up nae danger.
 

Particle Physicist

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MadraptorMan said:
I'm pretty sure that even bigger great whites have been documented before, if this one is just around 19 feet long.


they are estimating the size from the bite, but it could very well be larger (or smaller)
 

speedpop

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It's a shame the picture is so small. In the newspaper it took up half a page.. it made the massacre that much more terrifying.
 

hitsugi

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not quite megalodon :(

however, that's an impressive bite.. you gotta pity the shark that had to survive for however long it did.
 
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