This happened last year, never really heard much about it on the news, probably too close to Tourist time!

I'd believe that Doggie. I surfed Deadmans - Cylinder often when I was younger and saw a couple of bigger noas hanging around. They also love the area a little further north near "The Bar".

doggie said...

Check this out!





A MONSTER predator lurking off the Queensland coast is so big it was nearly able to bite this 3m white pointer shark in half.

The massive chunks were probably taken out by a giant white pointer that could easily be more than 5m long, based on the size of the huge bites on the sides of its smaller rival, experts say.

The shark-on-shark attack occurred off North Stradbroke Island, east of Brisbane.

The monster took advantage of the smaller shark being snared on a baited drumline set off the island's popular Cylinder, Main and Deadman's beaches.

I am glad we don't have these monsters on the West Coast.....LOL

doggie said...

GypsyDrifter said...

doggie said...

Check this out!

A MONSTER predator lurking off the Queensland coast is so big it was nearly able to b

I am glad we don't have these monsters on the West Coast.....LOL

Um we do

Shhhhh!....."she put's her head in the water..or was that sand"

Scully said...
someone hasnt gone shark fishing before :P

Every night ive spent at the brolos islands, ive caught something big, or lost a ****load of line!

I lived and worked on a large pontoon in Kuri Bay...
and went fishing every day...nothing you caught there did not have
half of it missing...the only way to avoid it was...
catch one fish and move...cause the second fish would have
BIG jabber jaws after it....BUT...not as big as the jabber jaws I am seeing
pulled out of the water in QLD NSW..."that gives me a false sense of security"

I do need this false sense of security as I dive most weekends..

japie said...

It makes me sick seeing photos like that. What in the world do people think of?

We go into a spin when we see Siberian Tigers shot dead, or Elephants, but somehow this is acceptable?

Makes me want to puke.

It wasnt shot tho, it was killed by the same species but bigger.

japie said...

It makes me sick seeing photos like that. What in the world do people think of?

We go into a spin when we see Siberian Tigers shot dead, or Elephants, but somehow this is acceptable?

Makes me want to puke.

3/4 of the earth is ocean, the land mass that you are talking about containing animals you pointed out is about 5% of the earth. Elephants, tigers etc are easily monitored. They have no idea how many sharks there are in the world, scientists/govt has even admitted that they may need to revise the number of great white's, that there are many more than first thought but taking them off the protected list is out of the question because they do not know enough about them. A single shark has a range from africa to australia and at 4 times the weight of the biggest land predator (excluding crocs) and a high metabolism needs a fair amount of food.

I don't know why people naturally feel safe in queensland thinking we dont get big sharks here- tangalooma was a whaling station up until 1963. Great whites live up to 100 years- so moreton bay, straddie, moreton, gold coast would all be established feeding grounds. One of the biggest great whites ever caught was captured off tangalooma. Big white's have been caught off tangalooma- approaching record sizes.

Japie i'm in no way saying it's right for people to kill anything, several thousand years of evolution in humanity should take us beyond that. But the way of the world is things eat things, a certain amount of control has to be done- sharks wont show you the same humanity when you become their lunch.

im not for the mass hysteria created by the media, the people that use to ocean daily in general couldn't give a damn and maintain a healthy respect... I reckon I could catch 50 sharks in a night and they are only the ones I can land but going sailing in the same spot doesnt phase me at all.

My argument is more about blind thought that dead sharks is wrong. A minority of sharks caught on drumlines is actually silent protection against mass culls when swimmers start getting eaten all over the place.

You can skew statistics any way you please- start looking at the amount of time those water users are actually in the water, then on beaches not protected by nets/drumlines. Again there has been acknowledgement that the deaths by sharks is potentially much higher than actual because many countries didnt keep accurate records and if someone goes missing (even here) they are either reported as missing or drowned.

To me the death of a shark is no different to the death of anything else- besides the food source for these 5m sharks is other protected things such as whales, dolphin, dugong, seals and turtles and occasionally people so you are crying foul for them why?

japie said...

Yeah sorry Doggie I realise that, I was referring to the Hammerhead, although the one you posted was obviously nailed by big brother when it was on the end of a fishing lien.

Netting and long line is what gets me, sorta takes the sport out of it! If they are catching big ones like that all the time my question is how and why they are doing it! Hammerheads are not viscous and mostly eat fish. I must admit tho I have never seen one as big as that!!!

Japie, they getem bigger than that where you come from, whats that bay where they leap outta the water?