OT Shark Attack - Cheese

tinyE · Since 21 Jan 2006 2004 Posts not really an XTreme Poster

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTB2iogcmsI

Tony · Since 28 Aug 2006 940 Posts Portland Opinionated

Shark Repellent bat spray.....
A helicopter that fly's by itself....
An exploding Shark....

Rolling Eyes

Pretty Cheezzzyy...

Reaper356 · Since 10 Dec 2006 781 Posts Salem / LC Oregon Opinionated

So do all the different sprays make things explode (Whale, shark, barracuda) or does it have something to do w/ the height factor or chemical make up of the shark repellent?

tstansbury · Since 06 Jun 2006 649 Posts Rowena and P.C Addicted

The moral of the story don't wear tights around sharks.

Moto · Since 03 Sep 2006 2698 Posts Still a gojo pimp! Moto Mouth

That shark must have left his dentures at home - seeings how batman's tights never even got scratched Shocked

shastadogs2 · Since 28 Mar 2005 336 Posts Obsessed

the whole thing reminds me of the clinic manager where i work, a real cheese with a capital eese. the thing, is the guy thinks he is DA MAN.

ferkin beancounter. . .

Onad · Wed Oct 31, 07 8:57 am

It’s all joking and special effects until it happens to you.

http://www.mauinews.com/news/2007/10/30/02shark1030.html

Shark strikes swimmer in Wailea Maui
By LILA FUJIMOTO and EDWIN TANJI, Staff Writers

WAILEA – A California man out for a swim at about 3:30 p.m. Monday was struck on his left leg by a shark that left a 9?-inch gash in the calf and a nearly 2-inch long puncture wound just above the knee. The victim, reported to be a 32-year-old resident of West Hollywood, told state conservation enforcement officers he had been floating on his back about 30 feet off Wailea Beach when he felt something strike his leg. As he turned to see what had hit him, he saw what he described as a gray shark that he could not otherwise identify, Maui District enforcement chief Randy Awo said.

At Wailea Beach, officers with the state Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement posted “Shark Sighted” signs and patrolled the beach by all-terrain vehicle. Maui County lifeguards, who were called from the Kamaole beaches, warned people to stay out of the water, while two lifeguards on personal watercraft scanned the ocean for the shark.
On the beach, two visitors from Malta, Oliver Magri and David Mizzi, said they were walking down the steps to the beach when they noticed a man in the ocean at the edge of rocks at the south end of the beach fronting the Four Seasons Resort.

“I thought it was strange. He was the only head to be seen there,” Magri said.
At first, the visitors thought the man might be drowning. But then they “saw him rise out of the water.”
“He started shouting for help,” Magri said.
He said someone who appeared to be a lifeguard went into the water and brought the man to the beach and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
“It’s when everything started happening,” Magri said.
The man couldn’t have been very far offshore because the lifeguard returned to shore quickly, said beachgoers Gary and Jan Rossi of Phoenix.

They saw a towel wrapped around the man’s left leg and possibly a little blood.
The man was carried from the beach to an ambulance on a white beach lounge chair.
At Maui Memorial Medical Center, a hospital official said a shark-bite victim was taken to the emergency room for examination and treatment.
Awo said he understood that the victim would require surgery Monday night to repair the injuries.
At the beach, he said, DOCARE officers will maintain the closure through this morning, when the ocean off Wailea will be checked for signs of the shark.

“We will do an assessment to determine if the shark is still around. If it isn’t, the beach may be opened,” he said.
He said the ocean at the time of the incident was murky and choppy with windy conditions. Surf around the island was reported to be small, in the 2- to 3-foot range, but trade winds were gusting up to 33 mph Monday afternoon in Kahului and on Kahoolawe, according to the National Weather Service.

Conditions made a difficult day more difficult for Magri and Mizzi, who were part of a group of 21 Malta visitors who had gotten off the Radiance of the Seas cruise ship Monday at Lahaina Harbor.
The cruise ship passengers had been delayed for more than four hours in getting to shore because of inadequate arrangements for security coverage required by the Department of Homeland Security.
They arrived at Wailea Beach hoping to swim in the ocean, only to find the beach being closed.

“It’s put a big question mark on the safety of swimming over here,” Magri said. “We thought with all of these resorts, there would have been some protection. We thought we could go in, enjoy ourselves. “Had we been here 15 minutes earlier, it could have been us.”

Lila Fujimoto can be reached at lfujimoto@mauinews.com. Edwin Tanji can be reached at citydesk@mauinews.com

Gman · Since 11 Feb 2006 4911 Posts Portland Unstrapped

More light reading....

http://www.cdnn.info/news/safety/s070124.html

Great White Shark attack survivor tells tale of horror
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SYDNEY, Australia (23 Jan 2007) -- A DIVER who escaped from a white pointer's jaws by gouging it in the eye was terrified the shark would bite off his legs as it stalked him to safety.

Eric Nerhus, 41, spoke from his hospital bed to tell of how the shark circled below him, staring at him out of one cold eye, after he escaped its maw.

Mr Nerhus said he spent two minutes inside the shark's mouth, without his air supply and with his head being crushed, after it half-swallowed him head first.

The great white's teeth rasped across his lead vest and he knew that poking its eye was his only hope of surviving.

As it started a frightening, threshing motion, he took his chance.

"I thought, `Oh, no.' I know what happens when they shake you – that's when they cut off the biggest piece of meat they can get," Mr Nerhus said.

"I put my left hand down, all the way down the throat – half my body was down its throat – and I felt down to the eye socket and I poked my fingers into the eye socket, and the shark reacted.

"And it opened its mouth a bit, and I wriggled out."

Regaining his air regulator, Mr Nerhus "ascended very slowly and tried to be calm".

"I was very lucky once I got out of its mouth," he said. "I thought it would fly straight into me again.

"Even though I didn't have my goggles, I could see it quite clearly because it was that close to me," he told Channel 9.

"It was just circling around my flippers, round and round in tight circles.

"The big round black eye, five inches wide, was staring straight into my face with just not one hint of fear, of any boat, or any human, or any other animal in the sea.

"They have just got no fear, those sharks.

"Just before I got out of the water it was just coming up under my legs again, so I'm sure it would've probably bitten my legs off on the next one," he said.

As soon as he rose to the surface, a pool of blood spreading around him, he called to his son, Mark, 16, who pulled him aboard the boat.

Mr Nerhus said he had been determined not to die. "I couldn't think of a worse way to go than to end up as fish food.

"That's why I fought back, because I didn't want to go that way – it's a very undignified way to go," he said. "I have a very nice family and I didn't want to lose my life that way."

"I'm just very blessed that it worked out for me in the way it did. It just wasn't my time to go."

He said he had dived for abalone at the exact spot of the attack, off Cape Howe on the NSW south coast, about 100 times without incident.

"I was a bit shocked, because I wasn't sure what happened to me.

"You can imagine concentrating on these abalone, and the next minute in a dark cave, squashing me like a vice.

"It knocked the regulator out of my mouth and I didn't have any oxygen.

"I've never felt fear in my life like what I felt in the jaws of that white pointer. And that's the first time I've really felt fear," he said.

"I've never felt fear like it until I felt those jaws."

But Mr Nerhus said he felt no animosity towards the 3m-4m shark, which probably mistook him for a seal.

He spent yesterday surrounded by family at Wollongong Hospital after surgery on Tuesday night for puncture wounds running from his right shoulder to beneath his left armpit.

Mark Nerhus told friends that his father would remain in hospital for at least a week as he recovered from the physical and mental trauma of his ordeal.

SOURCE - Sunday Time

Gman · Since 11 Feb 2006 4911 Posts Portland Unstrapped

Nature at its wildest... an explosion of white foam and blood six feet high!

gotta love this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahsvA1TpIvk