12-12-2013, 11:35
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Great White caught from shore at Camp Pendleton
Being that I live not far from Camp Pendleton I found this kind of interesting. Sharks of this size are not normally caught from shore by surf casting. Some are caught from the piers but are much smaller than this ten foot Great White.
Hey Marine, still want to go swimming? 
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/natur...by-u-s-marine/
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12-12-2013, 13:36
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I'm not sure I'd call that a LARGE Great White. Maybe it is a large shark, but it is not a large Great White!
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12-12-2013, 14:04
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Was watching
I was watching one of those animal channel shows about tagging Great Whites.
They had tagged a female, IIRC, 18 feet (?) - anyway, a really, really big one.
They were tracking it by boat but it started to come close to shore and they called in a chopper. You could see the shark swim by just outside the surf zone and swimmers. They were debating about contacting someone when it just continued on it's way.
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12-12-2013, 14:12
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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
I'm not sure I'd call that a LARGE Great White. Maybe it is a large shark, but it is not a large Great White! |
Correct, a large Great White would be about 20ft long and weigh about three tons.
Any good sized Great White though is too big if I am swimming in the water. 
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12-12-2013, 22:51
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A 10 footer is probably a year or two old. In 1978, I saw a 23 footer a half mile off Corona del Mar State Beach. I was driving a 23 foot boat, the shark's head was at the bow, its tail was at the stern. Big fish...
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12-12-2013, 23:07
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A 10 footer is probably a year or two old. In 1978, I saw a 23 footer a half mile off Corona del Mar State Beach. I was driving a 23 foot boat, the shark's head was at the bow, its tail was at the stern. Big fish...
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Sounds to me like you needed a bigger boat .... 
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12-13-2013, 10:25
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Haven't been in the water around there since...
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12-13-2013, 11:13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mark46th
A 10 footer is probably a year or two old. In 1978, I saw a 23 footer a half mile off Corona del Mar State Beach. I was driving a 23 foot boat, the shark's head was at the bow, its tail was at the stern. Big fish...
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Sdiver- There are a ton of great whites off the Farallon's. I wouldn't suggest diving with them. A friend of my friends family lost his head ab diving off the Northern California coast.
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12-13-2013, 20:47
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Sdiver- There are a ton of great whites off the Farallon's. I wouldn't suggest diving with them. A friend of my friends family lost his head ab diving off the Northern California coast.
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Interesting. 
The only thing I found in searching about any diver losing their head to a GW while ab diving, was a diver down in Australia back in 2007, getting bit by a GW about the torso. His vest apparently saved him, as well as poking the GW in the eye to release him. It was estimated that it was a juvenile GW, around 10 foot long.
Do you have a link for the incident you mentioned. I'd really like to see it.
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12-13-2013, 12:03
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I'm not sure I'd call that a LARGE Great White. Maybe it is a large shark, but it is not a large Great White! |
To a Marine, it was large.
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