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Subject: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: Vila posted Tue, Oct 27 2009, 6:36pm  'Monster shark' bites great white in half near Stradbroke Island The Daily Telegraph Monster shark bites great white in half near Stradbroke Island | National News | News.com.au October 27, 2009 01:35pm Shark bitten in two A shark was still alive when it was caught after another great white almost bit it in two. * "Monster" shark bites another in two * Great white up to 6m long * Tourists told to stay away from water A "MONSTER" great white shark measuring up to six metres long is prowling a popular beach after biting another great white almost in half. Swimmers were warned to stay out of the water off Stradbroke Island after the shark mauled another smaller great white which had been hooked on a baited drum line. The 3m great white was almost bitten in half, The Daily Telegraph reports. The fictional shark at the centre of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws was estimated to be more than 1.5 metres longer. "It certainly opened up my eyes. I mean the shark that was caught is a substantial shark in itself," says Jeff Krause of Queensland Fisheries. The great white, the most dangerous creature in the sea, was still alive when hauled onto a boat near Deadman's Beach off north Stradbroke island. News of the shocking attack on the smaller shark has sent jitters along the Queensland coast from Stradbroke Island, near Brisbane, to the Sunshine Coast further north down to the tourist mecca of Surfers Paradise, south of Brisbane. "Whatever attacked and took chunks out of this big shark must be massive," said 19-year-old surfer Ashton Smith. "I've heard about the big one that's lurking out there somewhere. "We're all being very, very cautious." Mr John Gooding, who operates a charter fishing boat, said sharks were everywhere, although there appeared to be no specific reason for an increase in the number. "Some days you struggle to get a fish on to the boat before the sharks take them," he told the Courier Mail newspaper. Many of the popular beaches in Queensland are protected by nets and what are known as drumlines - a series of baited hooks that hang from buoys placed in a line about 500 yards from beaches. Since the net and drumline programme was introduced in Queensland there has been only one fatal attack on a protected beach. The relatively recent attack occurred when 21-year-old student Sarah Whiley was killed off Stradbroke Island three years ago. The Queensland State Government has been under pressure in recent weeks to scale down the shark net and drumline programme because environmentalists say that whales and other big fish are becoming trapped in the nets. But Fisheries Minister Tim Mulherin said the capture of the badly injured 3.5m shark - and the indication of a much larger one being in the area - showed the necessity to keep the nets and drumlines in place. Darren Kindleysides, director of the Australian Marine Conservation Society, said the nets were working but at huge cost to whales, dolphins and turtles. And Vic Hislop, an internationally-recognised authority on sharks, also believes the nets should be removed and other methods explored to scare away the predators. Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: Adder posted Thu, Oct 29 2009, 10:28am  great post villa, ive never seen a great white so large if it can do that to a great white i wonder what it can do to a boat Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: TKD posted Fri, Oct 30 2009, 2:37am  It's beeing discused on another site and I think they are saying that it looks photoshoped, I tend to agree with that. Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: Vila posted Fri, Oct 30 2009, 4:33pm  can you tell by the pixels? -- hehe. So we have 1 vote cool as hell 1 hoax 1 having flashbacks to Jaws Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: DrBaz posted Tue, Nov 3 2009, 8:52am  I doubt it. Not only because it's been on quite a few news reports, but also because it looks like a perfectly normal shot of a fish tied behind a moving boat...only this fish is a 3m shark with a metre of its abdomen missing. Anyway, that bite is from a bloody huge shark if the reported size of the victim is true, the predator is a real once in a blue moon specimen. It would have to be a fantastic animal to do that, right near the upper reaches of white shark sizes. I wish I was up there... Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: lmh posted Fri, Oct 30 2009, 11:20pm  how can that be possible Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: crusty_hammer posted Fri, Nov 6 2009, 2:01pm  So has any actual video of this supposed event surfaced. I saw the Australian news report on it and there were only the 2 photos that are shown all over. Seems odd that there would be no video.... Subject: Re: Monster Shark bites great white in half - With Pic From: good buddha posted Tue, Jan 19 2010, 1:03am  This post is dead, but i'll add my two cents anyways. After watching what happens when a killer whale kills a shark, thanks to Nat. Geo., i don't see how a great white would kill another great white. The recent research is when a shark smells the scent of death from another shark it flees. This reaction was tested by scientist on sharks both in a feeding frenzy, and on their back (i forget the term for this position, but while a shark is on its back the brain floods with serotonin so the shark won't panic and it remains calm). And in both test, while in the middle of feeding, and in a "drugged" like state all the sharks fled once the smell of shark death was added to the water. In the research i witnessed, after the orca killed the GW, over 100 other great's took off leaving northern cali area for hawaii. Just an observation from a tv show, obviously, there are times when nature throws science through a loop. But thought i'd throw that in here.

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