>Angelo Pardinas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>Well I hope that Chuck gets as lucky as I did last weekend - I >>just saw my first shark. And J. Kelly Cunningham responded with: >I was bitten by the first shark I saw. I'm glad you weren't. :) >-- kc KC, you can't troll a bitey story without giving us all the details. Pray tell :-) Our 4 metre rogue white pointer shark turned up 1 kilometre offshore of Scarborough & Trigg beaches yesterday. Fearing it would head inland the beaches were closed to swimmers & surfers for just over an hour so our Fisheries Officers could shoo it further out into deeper water. It has been pacing up & down our coastline during the humpback whale migration season. Two weeks ago it appeared off Perth again taking off with a baby dolphin for a meal before it went back down to Dunsborough. We are pushing our Fisheries Minister to put up some $ to tag these sharks to help out with the research carried out off Southern OZ. Here is a link to a white pointer called Neale that was the second to be tagged over that side of the pond. Heather was the first. There is a link to her details on the Neale site. What is interesting to note on the graphs is how far up the coastline they do roam.. more frequent & close to shore than we would imagine. Viv http://www.marine.csiro.au/mumeez/sharks/