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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    The stories are quite conflicting.
    I see that they are now saying it was an M4 being used. I wonder where they got that from so quickly?

    The Navy used to use L1A1's as shark rifles (7.62mm) locked on the bridge bulkhead of the patrol boats. I guess they only have 5.56's now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maha View Post
    That is shocking....I don't think I have ever heard of a someone being killed by a shark at any NZ beach before.
    The last death was recorded in 1976. He "was" in the tent next door to ours at a camp ground the night before the attack. I remember the police collecting his tent the next day and the mega shark hunt the next day. He was out spear fishing and had being tying the fish to his waist. Was a Tiger shark that got him as I remember.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    I wonder where they got that from so quickly?
    Henderson Police Station presumably, if not the boot of a sergeants car. They've got hundreds of 'em.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco Dan View Post
    Water is NOT compressible....
    Yes it is. Do some research and you'll find that water is slightly compressible, not enough to make any real difference, but it's not an incompressible fluid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SMOKEU View Post
    Yes it is. Do some research and you'll find that water is slightly compressible, not enough to make any real difference, but it's not an incompressible fluid.
    and it definitely is in it's gas form.

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    Poor swimmer & poor shark. Both in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    Our coastal waters are seething with sharks. I've spent a lot of time on & in the water & their is always a shark or two close by. Here in the BoI's we have resident bronzies cruising off the beach, occasionally they nudge a swimmer out of curiosity. A juvenile great white was caught in a flounder net in the Ngunguru estuary. Great frights follow seals on to the west coast at certain times of year, some will be pushing 25 ft... and at this time of year large schools of ocean going kahawai follow anchovies close to shore with kingies & sharks behind them. You can see the bronzies feeding in the waves up north, Karikari & Tokerau, in waist deep water. The Mangonui fish shop used to entertain tourists by feeding bronzies from the back of the shop until somebody put the hard word on them.
    I landed a 9kg kingfish head in Doubtless Bay, nipped off clean as a whistle behind the gills & similarly pulled up a 17kg hapuka head on a dan line over the Pandoro bank on the west coast, the bite was almost straight.

    I've been an avid spearo for years & the worst that ever happened was being dragged backwards through the water when a shark took the fish off my float line. Never saw it, though. A spearo did nail an aggressive bronzie at Cape Brett a couple of years ago, a good, solid 15 footer. The shark had been following him about happily enough but started buzzing him & went into hunting mode so he decided him or me. Fair enough, I would too.
    Bronzies are regarded as man eaters in South Africa.

    Somebody said that the ocean is the last place on the planet where man is still prey.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SMOKEU View Post
    Yes it is. Do some research and you'll find that water is slightly compressible, not enough to make any real difference, but it's not an incompressible fluid.
    source please.

    and I think the caveat we are dealing with is "For practical purposes"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Madness View Post
    Henderson Police Station presumably, if not the boot of a sergeants car.
    Hmm. Too long from HSN I feel. Going to guess that the local officer has one in his car at all times.
    Doubt Eagle landed with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Hmm. Too long from HSN I feel. Going to guess that the local officer has one in his car at all times.
    Doubt Eagle landed with it.

    thats why this country should have replaced the skyhawks with attack helicopters. Ground support and fish chasing. Let the Yanks with the proper air forces do the fast jet thing. Or use F35 for Bear Patrol (Simpsons last night)
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    Sharks are my favourite sea creature by far. Dolphins and seals and whales can kiss my ass.
    dolphins are just gay sharks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Hmm. Too long from HSN I feel. Going to guess that the local officer has one in his car at all times.
    Doubt Eagle landed with it.
    ...on occasion, pepper spray is just not the correct deterrent.

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    Are LARGE people who have a water retention problem BULLET PROOF ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post

    If it is possible to hear a shark laugh, you would have heard it today
    Only if it was more than 300-400mm below the surface when being shot at - or the shots wer not from fairly well directly above.....
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    You know .. Our ancestors had very good reason for leaving the water several million years ago .. it's dangerous out there .. why do some people now think it is a good idea to go back out there ????
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    ...the unemployable should be made to wade around in the tide being observant and poking things that move with a pointy stick...

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