i just watched a12 foot tiger pulled out of the nets off Av!

Post by **cousteau** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:01 pm

... a quick surf check at south Av carpark and there's a little grey trawler type vessel sitting 100 metres off the beach with a bloke in a teeny weeny tender just beside it ... he's grabbing at the shark net every now and then a fin bobs up.
20 minutes later they manage to release it and this BEAST leaps up and is on his merry way, seriously it was huge and literally 100m off the beach.
Apparently there was a dead hammerhead too

You would not believe how tiny the tender was that he was in ,one wack from the tail and he would've been a gonner, I guess they know what they're doing tho

Post by **Shaunm** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:20 pm

12ft!!!!

Post by **tortoise** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:29 pm

was there anyone out surfing??

Post by **savesealrocks** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:29 pm

Sh#t, was a nutter gettin' it out.

Post by **bringbackmacca** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:25 pm

a dead hammerhead? they need to work on a better soloution for sharks rather then using pointless nets

Post by **vortex** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:36 pm

smnmntl wrote:Wonder if it was one of the sharks that chased vortex out of the water that time??

Oh no, that's right... they were HAMMERHEAD sharks

The horse seems dead. You're very much alive. Unfortunately.

cousteau, what was he in? A tender? like a tinny type thing? Saw Vic Hislop's museum up in Airlie, they had running videos going all day. This scene where he literally landed a 12ft shark alone in a 10ft tinny!! Nuts!

Post by **the shackle** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:57 pm

vortex wrote:
smnmntl wrote:Wonder if it was one of the sharks that chased vortex out of the water that time??

Oh no, that's right... they were HAMMERHEAD sharks

The horse seems dead. You're very much alive. Unfortunately.

cousteau, what was he in? A tender? like a tinny type thing? Saw Vic Hislop's museum up in Airlie, they had running videos going all day. This scene where he literally landed a 12ft shark alone in a 10ft tinny!! Nuts!

isnt vic hislop the guy who wants to exterminate all sharks??
i hope you didnt pay money to visit his piece of shit museum u photo stealing faker.

Post by **vortex** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:47 pm

wow, thanks heaps

Post by **Shaunm** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:43 pm

Very funny Salty, didn't think they like fatty foods.
I agree re the nets, they don't really do the job by way of keeping them out. Remember the shark last summer that came to Freshie then was seen @ DY an hour later, big Tiger. Crowd numbers in summer would drop to if the nets went

Post by **bringbackmacca** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:56 pm

I think they should loose the nets, i think this issue has been raised before and they almost considered it becuase most of the sharks getting caught where on the inside of the net

Post by **mattm** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:19 pm

ummm coool....i literally just got back from a surf at av. i did actually see a boat or 2 but didnt think anything of it.

a 2.5m hammerhead was seen in newport last weekend too.

Post by **Shaunm** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:26 pm

Do they bite?

Post by **who really cares?** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:30 pm

i think you are telling a bit of a white lie,who did you hear it was a 12ft tiger from,wrong time of year for them.. anyway i had a 2hr sesh this morning out there an yeah also saw that tender an trawler bout 300m off the beach but i guess i missed the moment when he dragged it out of the water(must of been a strong farker), they were taking an awefully long time i thought in the same spot, so you could just be right..

Was some fun little waves out there...

Post by **andycumo** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:59 pm

FUN are you HIGH!
that looks fuken sick
but then again its only a photo

Post by **who really cares?** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:09 pm

was preety decent but a couple more ft would of been nice..

Post by **dy_fo_life** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:33 pm

I can see which side of the net you lie

Post by **cousteau** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:58 pm

hey "who really cares" i'm no Jacques Cousteau haha but it was a very large shark and it was 100m off the beach, i was there for a good twenty minutes and saw it make good its escape, so tiger or not it was BIG!!!
Someone else asked about the tender yes a very small tinny, the bloke was leaning out one end and the other was out of the water, so bloody small, like one you would row out to your boat on[/quote]

Post by **Demonicus** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:52 am

just a friendly FYI - the nets' main purpose is to deter, not catch, sharks. although of course sharks are caught from time to time.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/sharknets/

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i just watched a12 foot tiger pulled out of the nets off Av!

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