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Loneski

Since 18 Dec 2010
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Washington
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PostSat Sep 17, 16 6:00 pm    Anyone else seen the landlord lately Reply with quote

https://youtu.be/U1NIaD8VDNc

About a month ago on a downwinder to Ft. Stevens this same thing happened to me. He was about 8 to 10 feet and jumped about 30 feet away from me. Instantly I fell in and was sure that I was about to be lunch.
It happened about half way between lot c and the ship wreck near the floating bouy maybe a 100 yards from shore. Later that day a girl from North Carolina said she had seen something similar. Anyone else have a close encounter?

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Johnb

Since 02 Aug 2010
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PostSat Sep 17, 16 6:06 pm     Reply with quote

A surfer girl I work with said surfers have had a number of recent sightings. More than usual.

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Occupied Columbia

Since 12 Nov 2011
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Columbia City
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PostSat Sep 17, 16 7:06 pm     Reply with quote

Two of us went from sunset to shipwreck today. No sighting but my buddy was nervous swimming back in after snapping two lines.

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Ho-Toe

Since 30 Apr 2014
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PostSat Sep 17, 16 7:36 pm    Duh-duh duh-duh... Reply with quote

It's autumn, and us central OR coast denizens don't call the month that starts in a few days "Sharktober" for nuthin'.

Sounds like that was a harmless little salmon shark you saw up north. We hardly even notice those.

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scottnorby

Since 23 Sep 2005
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PostWed Sep 21, 16 7:20 am     Reply with quote

Likely a salmon shark.
I was a commercial salmon fisherman for a few years....and one year I saw 'a white' and reported it ---but I do believe now that it was likely a salmon shark. They follow the fall salmon runs that push into the mouth of the Columbia.
I saw a couple more in the following years and figure they also were salmon sharks because these sightings all seem to coincide with the beginning of the Coho salmon runs--combined with the fall chinook runs. And each time I spotted them it was near the shipwreck or north toward the river.

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Ho-Toe

Since 30 Apr 2014
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pissed-off science guy like Bill Nye
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PostWed Sep 21, 16 9:44 am    a little bedtime reading Reply with quote

Sweet dreams:

http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.com/pacific_coast_shark_news.htm

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Justsmile

Since 20 Jul 2009
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PostWed Sep 21, 16 11:39 am     Reply with quote

an acquaintance I know was surfing last Friday at the south jetty in Florence. His board was bitten on the tail and his right leg of the wet suit has about 6 punctures in it from the teeth of the shark that bit him. So lucky that it did not puncture the skin and leave a trail of taste. Shark was estimated to be 15' long. did not sound like a salmon shark. They are there!!!! Boost over them!!
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Moonbase

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PostThu Sep 22, 16 5:39 am     Reply with quote

Wait, wait, wait...let me get this straight: you see a breaching white and that's where you fall in? Darwin has entered the building. The only thing that should fall in after that is the poop in your wetsuit.

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