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Welly reckon you got it!

Seaspark didn't say he was a smuggler . . . . but with those engines he'd be daft not too

 

you know those moments when you are walking along and somone in front of you who is walking towards you turns to your right as you do, and then turns left as you do, and then right again, and then before you know it, you are face to face with a stranger?

Whats this guys excuse?

 

Turn #3...................laughs at you.

 

Well, it says Temporary Insanity on the side of the boat.
Robert Gainer

 

Temporary Insanity II.......................what happened to I?

Oh well, guess he will be making a downpayment on Temporary Insanity III soon.

 

NOAA MOBILIZES RESOURCES TO AID IN RECOVERY FROM HURRICANE KATRINA
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2494.htm

 

Many boat pictures here:

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/See/Transport/Watertransport/

Sample:

 

At 15 of this month, a strange thing happened (again) in the Ciutadella port in Menorca; they call it the "rissaga" . The water suddenly goes completely away at low tide and then it comes again, really fast....not good for boats

This is really odd, because the Med has almost no tides (not more than 0.5m).

(Pictures taken by Francisco Olives.)

 

Vega you should open a boat repair bussness down there looks like plenty of work to go around

 

Video, not a picture...........but you get the idea.

http://www.imagecabin.com/index.php?view=1147120002baf24e05c50a942a591f6c40efca8c94

 

F$#k Kach,
I have surfed most of my life (until of course I moved down to this cold climate) and have always had a deep seated (and at times well founded) fear of sharks.
That don't help.

Plenty of great whites down here, and plenty of seals.
Plenty of murky water, and AAGHHRRM....

In my home town (byron bay), when I was out surfing, about a Km or two away a diver got taken by something like a six plus meter great white.
Honeymoon couple, out with a scuba diving company, swimming together out at Juline Rocks, picture perfect, then, monster great white comes straight at them, he pushes her out of the way, shark swallows him whole.
All the local big-fisherman and shark hunters set out after it, managed to net it, dragged a couple of their boats out miles and miles to sea- at the same time as they emptied round after round of shotgun into it- at the same time as it reguritated bits of his body-
and then escaped the net, and dived down (most probably to its death by shotgun pellets.)

Also have seen many big sharks out there myself.
Tigers and bronze whalers.
Don't get me wrong,
I am pro-shark conservation,
but they still scare the _ out of me.
Hans.

 

KILLER WHALE DIVE BOMBING A SEA KAYAK.


Hey Kach,
check this one out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4MwRqs9ySYM&search=kayak

 

I'm tring to get a sense of scale on this. Lets just say that's a baby dolphin about a half-meter long.



Great White baby shark.



4 meter long example in the video? 7 meters is the record.

 

The guy in the kayak survived the Killer Whale splashing on top of him like that?

I want to know who makes that kayak, it's killer whale proof.

Note to self: Stay away from Killer Whales when feeding, and or mating.

 

I kid you not.

My sister was working for the dive company that lost the 'customer'.

I was surfing at the very beach where the boat that took them there lauched from when it happened (the Pass).
When I got home and watched TV, the first news reporst of it got it wrong and said that he was eaten at the Pass instead of Julien Rocks. Then I really s%$t myself.

The 6 meter number I gave you was guesstimate- as I couldnot remember the exact amount, knowing as I did that it was very near the largest ever recorded, and as you posted that 7 meters is the record, then I will stand by six.


The sharks dorsal fin is reported to have stood around five feet clear out of the water.
Its overall bulk was refered to as that of a combi van.

his name was something Ford.
An american I think.
Ford being rather a unlucky name in Byron Bay as the last person to be eaten by a shark was also named Ford.

Byron Bay, being the most easterly point of Australia, just so happens to get both tropical and arctic currents. This caters for the massive diversity of marine life (one of the attractions of Julien Rocks), and also allows that great whites regularly cruise in with the cold currents. This also means that sometimes in summer, the water is FREEZING, and in winter, oh so WARM...