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Related: About this forumDrone spots enormous great white shark in Esperance, Western Australia
avebury
(10,952 posts)utopian
(1,093 posts)Couldn't help myself
utopian
(1,093 posts)Ligyron
(7,633 posts)That's pretty big all right.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)That suckers got to be at least 20 feet, there's bigger out there but damn!.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)denbot
(9,900 posts)My guess is that beast is 16-18, if so would weigh in at around 3,000lbs+. There would be no way Id mess with that beast, in that little skiff.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)denbot
(9,900 posts)That beast could be as large as 20, with a weight topping 4,000lbs.. Yikes!
cab67
(2,993 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)So, 27 feet of boat, and the shark looks to be about 16 feet long. That seems to be average for great white sharks...which doesn't change that this is a huge fish that is basically the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with fins.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Yikes!
Motley13
(3,867 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)denbot
(9,900 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Thanks a lot, yuiyoshida!
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Motley13
(3,867 posts)I love all creatures great & small, in this case I would hope he would reciprocate.
cab67
(2,993 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)i hate water that murky
cab67
(2,993 posts)the bubbles would have been brown and a bit more viscous, and they would have come from rather a different part of my suit.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)It looks to be almost as long as the boat! 20+ feet.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)with the family in March of next year. Hoping to see a big shark or two when we're there, from the safety of a boat of course. What magnificent creatures!
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Told me he's seen more than a couple of huge sharks during those years, a couple over twenty feet and one day they saw one estimated at nearly thirty feet.
They took a stainless steel meat hook from the galley and put a good sized roast on it, hooked a chain to it and warped the chain into a mooring bit.
The shark took it and swam off, they pulled the chain back to find the shark had straitened out the hook, needless to say nobody went swimming after that, they were on the hook (anchor) and always got to go for a swim each day with armed men watching but after that there were no takers.
Dad had some interesting story's about wild animals, took out the garbage on the north slope and found a huge wolverine between him and the mess hall, he got into a bulldozer ( they left them running 24-7 due to the cold ) and it walked back and forth on the track smiling at him for over an hour.
Or the time on a tugboat near Nome they were in the ice early in the winter picking up a tow, was going to go out on deck with the garbage that they dumped once back at sea, opened the hatch to find a Polar Bear about ten feet away on the deck eating garbage, nobody went out on deck for a few hours.
But he loved all the worlds critters, never hunted in his life but he got closer to wildlife than most.