Great white in Hawaii

[lungfish]

Originally Posted by element410

In ancient hawaii, Hawaiians would catch tigers and gws to use their teeth for weapons(clubs) and their skins for drums,etc. They would lure these big sharks close to shore by bleeding animals for days until they came in very near, then managed to catch them. the Hawaiian word for shark is Mano, which describes both Tiger shark and Great Whites.

Imagine being hit by a big wooden club surrounded by a tiger shark teeth edge!

As I recall, Captain Cook was struck from behind and killed by a blow from a warclub near the site of the monument at Kealakakua. Apparently that little stretch of land is officially British Territory still......

I think that the local martial art related to these clubs and eye gougers, etc is called "Loa" -

Sure is interesting how we keep finding exceptions to the idea that native humans were more gentle and in tune with their world, less exploitive, blah de blah de blah. Archeology continues to reveal that the native peoples of the past were probably far more warlike and aggressive than people are today...

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A couple of those look like extreme brass knuckles! No fun for their enemy, ouch!

[deep thinker]

Those weapons do look kind of hardcore hey. But back to this shark, these guys are not to be underestimated, in clear water you could be ok and it might even be considered a thrill to see one, but I got chased out the water, which wasnt clear, by a 5m GWS two weeks ago. I checked to see where our boat was and saw the fin sticking out the water not very far from me and I also saw our boat speeding toward me, at that same time the shark turned and came directly at me. 5 or 10 seconds must have gone by by the time the boat got between us and I got yanked out the water, according to the skipper its head must have been less than half a meter from me. It was a very close encounter which I do not wish to experience again soon but I guess its unavoidable for spearos to get these encounters from time to time. What Im saying is this is an amazing creature but we know to little about them to accurately predict their behaviour and they are unbeleivably fast in the water. So be aware when you spot one.

[Hypersquid1]

doea anybody on here know who caught the biggest great white shark and what the weight was? some trivia for you.

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Unofficially the largest white shark ever caught on rod and line weighed 3,427 lbs and was caught by Donnie Braddick fishing out of Montauk, New York. The IGFA wouldn't recognise the catch because the boat had tied off on a floating whale carcass and the wrong line weight was reported. I think the official record is held by Alf Dean of Australia-- it weighed 2,664 lbs.
Bigger ones have been caught by other means--snagging in fishing nets and longlines etc. In June 1981 a 3,938 lb 16.5 foot white was caught on a longline off Okinawa.
It's probably safe to say that there are some huge ones out there!!

[Hypersquid1]

yup Donnie Braddick caught the fish, but he was on Frank Mundus' boat, the Cricket II. Frank actually harpooned a shark that was bigger than the one he caught on rod and reel, which weighed a little over 4,000 lbs. last summer Frank came back to montauk, and i was lucky enough to meet him. hes quite a character....