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    As well as the White Pointer, Mako and a Bronze Whalers have killed humans off NZ beaches over the years...one every thirteen years or so.
    We had shark warnings off the Mt Maunganui beach two Summers ago.
    Also saw one in the waves around 1999 off Coopers Beach, probably 2m in length... Just big enough to keep most from the water.

    When cops shoot drunk drivers who kill humans I will support the killing of man killing animals...until then accept we are playing in their sand pit, not ours...
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    Stupid prats trying to shoot the shark/s...

    Bullets do NOT work in water... despite what Hollywood has most believe..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSTuLIjRm8

    Besides, the sharks where just doing what they do.... over fished enough as it is without some prat trying to shoot it....
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    I've had to leave the water twice for real shark presence not unquantified scares.

    1 Fishermen cleaning fish 100m from us surfing at Karekare, shark surfaces we leave the water
    2 Awana Gt Barrier, just cruising by

    Both mid summer warm water

    Muriwai has a [growing] seal colony on a near offshore Island. The swimmer was swimming around a headland with probably a lot of fishermen with bated hooks and maybe berley pods.

    It a bit like riding with bad tyre's in the wet.

    As a surfer I hope they get the shark.

    When I lived in Margaret River West Oz I surfed south point and lefthanders all the time.
    2 surfers deaths there last year right where I used to sit on my board...

    3 weeks ago I got heat stroke from surfing 5-7 hours day, and have been out of the water/sunlight since. Surfs been great lately, normally I would have been out @ Piha every day this week...

    Dont swim around headlands esp when bait is in the water

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post

    Dolphins and seals and whales can kiss my ass.

    ...what about seahorses...

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    Stuff has it a lot more concisely. The shark's dead and so is the so is the swimmer!
    Well, the cop discharged his firearm at the shark that then swam off, according to Te News. Being a 9mm the shark was probably laughing all the way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Well, the cop discharged his firearm at the shark that then swam off, according to Te News. Being a 9mm the shark was probably laughing all the way.

    R.I.P. Swimmer.
    The stories are quite conflicting. The video show what happens to a bullet in water was quite amazing AND also enlightening.

    If it is possible to hear a shark laugh, you would have heard it today

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    ... some enlightening stuff...

    Sharks are my favourite sea creature by far. Dolphins and seals and whales can kiss my ass.

    Wait, aren't you a lawyer?
    No surprises there then. That's like Smokeu pointing out his favourite crop is cotton
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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco Dan View Post
    Stupid prats trying to shoot the shark/s...

    Bullets do NOT work in water... despite what Hollywood has most believe..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSTuLIjRm8

    Besides, the sharks where just doing what they do.... over fished enough as it is without some prat trying to shoot it....
    True and not true. If you watch the whole episode, you'll see that slower, lighter bullets, and especially subsonic bullets, manage significant penetration into water. So a handgun has a much better chance than a large rifle.

    Interesting article on the whole hunting sharks to extinction thing, which is real problem: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121100223.html
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    was out at the 50m mark sunday off port waikato and a bronzy swims past
    at least 3m long, then a tug on the anchour line as the bugger nicked my
    big bag of burley...

    as for the dumb ass cop... stupid...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milts View Post
    True and not true. If you watch the whole episode, you'll see that slower, lighter bullets, and especially subsonic bullets, manage significant penetration into water. So a handgun has a much better chance than a large rifle.

    Interesting article on the whole hunting sharks to extinction thing, which is real problem: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121100223.html
    Go read a science book FFS. Water is NOT compressible....
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    Sucks for the guy and his family, but shark attacks are rare and we do them a HELL of a lot more damage than they do us. Imagine if a shark could come and hunt a human for everyone of them that we kill for their fins, or just killed for sport fishing fun (ignoring our destruction of their environment). People should get more wound up about drunk drivers or falling from a height than by a fear of sharks, it would be a little more appropriate.
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    From the news it seems the cop had a Bushmaster and may have hit the shark four times but despite that they still had to beat it off with a paddle. It would have been on or very near the surface so no issues for the rifle.

    Amazed at the number of wild assumptions that come along on here... But of course I shouldn't be by now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco Dan View Post
    .....Water is NOT compressible!
    True dat!...learnt that lesson years ago, with an old dirt bike and a river crossing gone wrong ( hydrostatic lock....I think its called that?...dunno...but it sure does fuck conrods!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by willytheekid View Post
    True dat!...learnt that lesson years ago, with an old dirt bike and a river crossing gone wrong ( hydrostatic lock....I think its called that?...dunno...but it sure does fuck conrods!)
    Water injection raises compression but you can have too much of a good thing...
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