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Sharks In The Med??????

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Marwan

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i went spearfishing in the med last weekend, normally i never take into account the shark factor when im in the med, i am always more attentive for sharks in the red sea. we caught about 6 or 7 groupers in the 3-6 KG range, the weird thing is that within 3 hours of diving we saw 4 sharks!!! 3 of them were guitar sharks (totally harmless more like stingrays), the 4th shark was a grey shark , i left the water at that point, i was too far out and my buddy wasnt close, it just felt weird, i felt that the safest thing is to exit the water, no use stringing fis with a shark around, i then signaled for my buddy to gt out as well, anyone had this same eprience in the med before ??
 
Marwan, I have yet to have had the luck but I think the season has something to do with it. April is when A LOT of sharks migrate to here so maybe your area is on the migration route/target as well.
 
i dont know michael, you might be right, i just never heard of the migrating pattern for sharks, i checked the website above from trux though, which i must say is quite concerning,
its good that i did not have any fish on the stringer at that time, otherwise i would have been really nervous.
 
Marwan said:
i went spearfishing in the med last weekend, normally i never take into account the shark factor when im in the med, i am always more attentive for sharks in the red sea. we caught about 6 or 7 groupers in the 3-6 KG range, the weird thing is that within 3 hours of diving we saw 4 sharks!!! 3 of them were guitar sharks (totally harmless more like stingrays), the 4th shark was a grey shark , i left the water at that point, i was too far out and my buddy wasnt close, it just felt weird, i felt that the safest thing is to exit the water, no use stringing fis with a shark around, i then signaled for my buddy to gt out as well, anyone had this same eprience in the med before ??

Hi Marwan!!....
Back again after my adventure in Egypt!!

Where were you fishing, Egypt?

I have had an encounter with a shark once...(Gibraltar).
The spanish guys overhere tell me they see occasionally...anyways, I was scared s*******ss!!!:)
Greets!!
 
i was fishing on the north coast about 150 km east of the libyan border, very good viz plenty of fish mainly groupers
 
how about your adventure did you enjoy the divemaster course in hurghada?
 
Last GWS fatality here in Tuscany (central-western Italy) was 15 years ago: an engineer who was checking some kind of pipeline underwater, if I remember well. One man eaten in 15years is acceptable statistics, but the trouble is that now we're into the subsequent 15years term!
:-0
--Me I'm totally ingorant about sharks, and happy to be so. Just saw one grey shark in the Jonian three years ago and...well...on that day I gave up fising for beach volley ;-)
 
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