Great white come to visit

[foxfish]

Lydia, a satellite-tagged 15ft, 2,000lb great white, is currently 1,000 miles from the coast of Cornwall and Ireland
She has swam 380 miles in 72 hours and is near the mid-Atlantic ridge If she swims over the mid-Atlantic range she will be the first recorded great white to cross the Atlantic

 

[Bill McIntyre]

I hope you'll give her a warm welcome.

 

[foxfish]

Bill, at one time (30 year ago) we had blue fin & albacore on our door step, there has been orcas spotted very recently too.
One spearo recounts a great story... he saw two huge tuna only 200mt from the shore & actually fired his 90 single band gun at one!
After the event (recorded in the locale paper) he estimated the fish to be in excess of 1000lb each, he said he felt the water displacing around him as they swam away.. you have to bear in mind we normally consider a 10lb fish as big!

 

[Bill McIntyre]

Well, I can give you a tuna story, although not quite so big. About 20 years ago here in San Clemente where I live, a 130 pound yellowfin jumped out onto the sand. It must have been chasing bait in the shallows. Some tourists on the beach called the lifeguards to report a dolphin in distress. The lifeguards showed up in a jeep, threw the tuna in the back, and had a big barbecue at life guard headquarters that night.

I've always wondered how a diver would have reacted if he had been cruising in the shallows with a small gun looking for halibut and saw that thing come by.

 

[grantl]

Seems the newspapers are beginning to pick up on the Lydia story and using sensationalist headlines. Not like them
I bet this will be another summer of GWS sightings and newspaper hype

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/massive-great-white-shark-been-3228192

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[foxfish]

I have already seen it mate, just outside the campsite beach, big fin cutting through the water ... it seemed to have this unusual markings on its fin... looked like a big G with a big L along side!

 

[Broseidon]

I've always wondered how a diver would have reacted if he had been cruising in the shallows with a small gun looking for halibut and saw that thing come by.

There are quite a few Italian videos of spearo's being surprised by huge tuna in water only 15 - 20 feet deep. Quite a few people shoot at them - I don't thing any are ever landed though - here's a couple of good videos of them NOT being shot:



and another...

 

[foxfish]

great vid bros...

 

[Broseidon]

There are loads of them about - go onto YouTube and search something like "pesca sub tonno".

Dario has seen a tuna in shallow water first hand - if I remember correctly, he said it was like a train - it just bombed past him without a care in the world - when you're in water with 50ft viz in all directions - it must be a mind blowing sight!

 

[Bill McIntyre]

Damn! Those videos were great!

 

[prospector]

Incredible-you are waiting for a six lb snapper and along comes a silver Cadillac --like the diver-Im awestruck.

 

[bobdonny]

awesome vids Bro!... I'd like to think I'd only shoot the second i saw... but I dont know!