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fuzz said:Rig,
I feel ya man, if it's me or the shark... not even a second thought
Poly,
If you openly admit you're a newbie, then maybe word your opinions better... and for pete's sake, don't give advice like this:
You dive in SoCal, don't you? I've dove in areas down there where I've seen a shark on just about every drop!
In any case, since this forum is supposed to be about educating rather than criticizing, here's my take on the situation:
Every shark is different & you never know how a given one will react until you encounter one. Many people have seen Great White sharks... but it's the ones that divers don't see that end up attacking. I was diving in hawaii last month & had a Tiger Shark circle me continuously. It wasn't agressive, just curious & while I wasn't gonna go up & hug it, I felt more than comfortable taking pics while it got within a couple feet of me. At one point, I had my speartip in it's mouth as it came straight on at me, but I just pulled my speartip out & pushed it's nose away from me.
By contrast, I've had some "harmless" sharks rush me. One of my diving partners got bitten(not seriously) trying to keep his catch away from a crazy whitetip reef shark, arguably one of the most docile sharks in the islands.
Here are a couple pics of the "friendly" Tiger Shark:
Chad Carney said:Sorry if I offend anyone, but if you've never held a bleeding fish, while spearfishing with a shark near by, you have nothing to contribute here!
For perspective only: my comments are based on spearing for 34 years, freediving and on scuba, with a lot of sharks, usually not by choice.
Most sizes and species, single sharks and in packs of up to 50 or more... but never a white, mako or tiger.
Chad
Shadowkiller said:Shot 3 fish today. Took 1 home.
The first was a Blue Morwong, smashed by a Whaler of some kind in midwater and ripped clean off the shaft, the second a ~10kg Silver Drummer (museum specimen) that was taken by a 3m Wobby on the bottom. Not that the greedy pig could swallow it whole, but he tried.
I spent a lovely 5 minutes cutting my shaft free while the shark was rolling with the fish...
Never again...:rcard
miles said:Hiya
Polystigma, notice the UNLOADED gun in this crazy spearo's hand!!!
miles said:Any spearo who says he isn't afraid of sharks is lie-ing!!! Regards
miles