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Seals
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Never had any problem with seals myself even the big bull seals, as long as you arnt near any pups you should be fine,
Heres a little encounter I had recently, was great fun
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-sc74d8mzE]YouTube - My new friend[/ame]
Heres a little encounter I had recently, was great fun
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-sc74d8mzE]YouTube - My new friend
[/ame]Nice videos.
Dived this am and was working a shoal of 3-4 lb pollock when they all disappeared effortlessly. Thought I must have spooked them until a seal popped up nearby. It was curious and came close and turned upside down etc with no aggression at all.
I kept my back to a rock and the fish on my stringer against the rock!
Near the same spot one week ago I was rod fishing and we surprised a big bull seal which was doing the backstroke at the end of a rock about 4 feet away. It dived immediately and then came up and snorted and slapped its fins on the water. It would have been fairly scary if it got on like that in the water!
Dived this am and was working a shoal of 3-4 lb pollock when they all disappeared effortlessly. Thought I must have spooked them until a seal popped up nearby. It was curious and came close and turned upside down etc with no aggression at all.
I kept my back to a rock and the fish on my stringer against the rock!
Near the same spot one week ago I was rod fishing and we surprised a big bull seal which was doing the backstroke at the end of a rock about 4 feet away. It dived immediately and then came up and snorted and slapped its fins on the water. It would have been fairly scary if it got on like that in the water!
talk about seals, after reading this thread i was out last week holding onto some rock for a rest, just as i stuck my head in the water a seal swam directly under me giving me the one eye, now did i cling onto the rock like a limpet, ohh yes. It was just the shock of seeing it there. It swam past a a great knots of speed anyway
I've experienced seals close-up quite regularly when surfing, I've never experienced aggression from them, just loads of curiosity. My mate had his Churchill fin taken by a seal when he was bodyboarding. the seal came up behind him and grabbed it in his mouth then pulled it off! We thought it was hillarious at the time. My mate then had to try and sell the other fin to a single-legged bodyboarder on e-bay (I don't think he had any buyers)!
i was out about a month ago and as i decided to go back in and stuck my head in the water a large seal swam right below me and shot off. 1 week ago whilst out i came around a corner a a pup seal in like a shiney gray colour coat stopped in front of me a just looked very inquisitive moving around me then shot off god i wish i had a camera fitted
BTW Heard an interesting (maybe) fact today: there is 6x more water (as clouds, vapour, etc.) in the atmosphere as on the surface of the earth. [And isn't there supposed to be something like 4x or 5x as much water on the surface of the earth as land?]