Just seen and video'd in Japan.
Wow. Wonder if it bites?
Type rest of the post here
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Dinosauric shark-eel thingy!
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Marin: Surfer Survives Shark Bite
Monday Dec 11: Royce Frailey, a 43-year-old from Guernville, was surfing with friends before he was attacked around 11:50 a.m. off Dillon Beach in northwest Marin County, according to Marin County fire Capt. Rick Wonneberger.
The great white shark attack was the first to happen in that vicinity in about 10 years, a fire captain said.
Before Sunday's incident, Wonneberger said he could recall only one other shark attack in the area, a nonfatal bite occurring about 10 years ago.
Frailey suffered minimal wounds, as the predator apparently sunk only one jaw's worth of teeth into the surfer's surfboard.
The board showed teeth marks from the attack, and Frailey himself was pulled 15 feet under the waves before the shark let go of his thigh and leg, the captain said.
"He is very lucky to be alive," Wonneberger said.
Frailey was paddling facedown when he felt a surge of water and then a bite, the fire captain said.
A friend who was surfing 10 feet away from Frailey said it was a great white shark measuring between 12 and 15 feet.
Backpackers save shark bite man
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 British backpackers helped a surfer after he was attacked by a shark off Australia's famous Bells Beach.
The 25-year-old surfer was out at dusk and had his left leg mauled before he managed to reach shore.
Peter Galvin was surfing a shallow reef called Winki Pop, just near the Bells surf break on Australia's south coast, when the shark attacked him from below, authorities said.
"The victim was sitting on his board with his legs dangling over the side and the shark has come up from underneath and grabbed his left leg in the calf and thigh area," senior police constable Lisa Kearney told local media.
Galvin received puncture wounds to the top of his calf and a major gash under his knee and, after being treated by fellow surfers and the unknown English banckpackers on the beach.
He was flown to hospital in Melbourne where he was in a serious but stable condition.
Just over two weeks ago another surfer had his leg bitten off by a shark off a remote beach in Western Australia.
The latest attack in the southern state of Victoria has again sparked debate on whether to kill the attacking shark.
Sharks, even Great Whites, are a protected in Australia.
Australia's peak surfing body wants the shark hunted down to stop it attacking again at the popular Bells surf break, which hosts a professional surfing contest each year.
"It is not a nice thing (to hunt down the shark), but I don't think any surfer wants it hanging around," said Steve Robertson from Surfing Australia.
But Victoria's state premier, Steve Bracks, ruled out hunting the shark. "The reality is that shark could be anywhere. There could be new sharks in the area," Bracks told reporters.
"The reality is that this is obviously a random attack and a regrettable one," he said.
Shark Chomps Bite Out Of Surfer's Board
Jan 5th, HONOLULU -- A surfer on Kauai escaped a close encounter when a shark took a bite out of his surf board on Friday morning. The man was surfing at Major's Bay on the Pacific Missile Range Facility when a shark bit his board, taking a 13x6 inch chunk out of it.
The surfer left the water immediately after the attack, missile range officials said.
"The shark did take a 13-inch-by-6-inch chunk out of his board. We know that because shortly after he left, that missing piece showed up on the beach," a missile range official said.
The surfer was shaken up but not hurt, officials said.
They said that the beach will be closed on Saturday and will open again on Sunday if officials feel it is safe.
Major's Bay gets three to four shark sightings a year, according to officials.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Python bites handler
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. -- A 14-foot python bit its handler and tried to drag her into its cage during a show at an aquarium, and wouldn't release the woman until a police officer zapped the reptile with a stun gun.
Alison Cobianchi, 18, was taking Chloe, a Burmese python, out of her cage for the daily snake presentation Saturday at the Tarpon Springs Aquarium when the snake wrapped itself around her arm and waist.
Visitors and aquarium employees kept the nonvenomous snake from pulling Cobianchi into the cage, but couldn't make it release its grip.
Police were called to help. "We either had to Taser it, oor we would have had to kill it," police Sgt. Allen MacKenzie said.
Cobianchi suffered puncture wounds on her wrist.
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