Big "Dolphin"

[gulfsurfer]

Big Eye Mako from Nova Scotia

Huge xxxxx!

[gulfsurfer]

Its a shame that they would kill that animal when hes not bothering anything, but if he was cruising the gut where me and my friends and family surf, i wouldnt have a second thought about killing him.

[saffasurfer7]

That's bit harsh considering you're invading their territory really.

[gulfsurfer]

What i was saying is that im not going to go out 30 miles to look for a shark to kill, but if theres a shark thats been aggressive towards a bunch of people at the beach then yea, kill him.

[rctkj]

We must remember we are guests in thier house. I have believed that if you kill them they will kill you. Energy revolves around the world, good and bad. What comes around goes around.

[gulfsurfer]

Yeah, i agree, karmas a bitch, but if a sharks gonna hurt someone i think people are more important then an animal so kill it before it kills you. Here in texas we have no shortage of sharks, we could stand to lose a few. But like i said, dont kill one for no reason...

[gulfsurfer]

That xxxxx better of ate every bite of that shark...

[Phil]

i allways thought makos were pretty harmless and normaly stay in deep water feeding off fish so it would never have posed a threat anyay

[gulfsurfer]

Yeah, they NORMALLY stay offshore, but we've had quite a few near shore here. During the surfrider paddle texas where these 2 people paddled the entire coast of texas, one of them had a mako attack their board right off the beach.
And we've had alot caught off the pier.

[Guest]

Um, maybe an obvious question....but for a Mako to get that physically big does it not point to an imbalance in their food chain. Apex predators & all. Too much food coming their way...certaining this fat old girl's anyway? Marine Bios out there???

[gulfsurfer]

im not sure, all i know is she is huge

[blueskies6]

alot of times yes, it is a food chain imbalance that drives sharks inland, and humans are not their natural food source anyways, most of the time when they do attack they take one bite and then swim off. At the moment there is a major decrease in staple fish (ie salmon tuna etc) populations, this would account for the number of attacks we are seeing.

[Broosta]

I saw a tv documentary a few years ago about WWII US Navy Heavy Cruiser USS Indianapolis. This ship was torpedoes off the Philipines and sank, 900 men manged to get off before she went down and after 5 days in the water only 300 survived due to constant shark attacks. The purpose of the documentary was to try to work out which type of shark was responsible and the verdict was - Mako .
This was mainly because the stories related by survivers discribed how the sharks just swam up and took a single bite each time which was able to remove an entire limb, and Makos' are the only shark that would a)attack prey this way and b)have the power in the bite to sever limbs like this .

[k mac]

ouch .......think of a funny qoute for that pic

" you should of seen the one that got away "