>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/