So you think sharks are baddass? OR A true story of one mans imagination (676 hits)
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Submitted by RR? Maybe im EI? nah try HBTS (View user info) at 2007-07-18 05:45:13 EDT
We decided to try the reef as the viz was terrible inshore. It wasn't any better on the reef - about 6m, and pea soupish. More out of eternal optimism than anything else, Jason and I decided to take a drift over the shallow pinnacles. I could just make out the bottom in 6m. I had my flasher out and there I was, waiting for who knows what. After about ten minutes I realised this is a waste of time, and was about to call the boat, when I saw movement at the edge of the visibility. I stared hard to try and distinguish what I was looking at, but all I could faintly make out was a lighter and darker line of about 2m or so long, and it was moving. I then thought that I might be looking at the side of a Sailie or something - it had that type of shape but also not quite. I then saw a dark top and a whiter bottom, but still no real shape. Wondering what the heck it was, I stared intently. Then I realised - I was looking with a zoom lens, instead of a wide angle. When I looked from left to right and took in the whole 4.5m of it, it was a monster that filled my vision. I still couldn't believe it was one, as I have never seen one underwater, so I slowly panned right and there it was - the unmistakable tail of the Shat. What I have been staring at so intently in 6m of viz was the line on its side above his white belly.
Bearing in mind that I was in shallow water and 6m viz, this monster was gliding past real close to me. All of a sudden the ocean was too small for both of us. What struck me was it's awesome girth. A hippo had nothing on it. The whole picture said "I am the ruler of the ocean and don't screw with me". It just looked unbelievably powerful and majestic. I just remember feeling completely powerless, and that my speargun would be of no use whatsoever - a pin pricking an elephant. So I just prayed that it would keep on swimming past, but not quite. It was obviously attracted by my flasher still merrily sending beams all over the place. It turned towards me, angling up. By now I was shouting for the boat through my snorkel, as this beast was getting very close. With sharks in similar situations I always dive down on them, confronting them. But this was just so awesome and enormous, there was no chance in hell I was trying that stunt. I tried becoming part of the water molecules. When it was about 3m away from me, I heard the boat next to me, and I performed the from-water-onto-boat-without-touching-sides leap perfectly.
Jason, who was about 10m away from me, never saw it, but was quick to get on the boat, once he knew! I managed to get good look at it's size and length, and although it wasn't that long as far as Shats go, it was the stocky girth of it. As my boat had a beam of approx 1.6m, I had a fairly accurate idea of its size. The body between pecktoral fin and pecktoral fin was broader than the beam of my boat, and I can't even guess its girth. That was what impressed me the most. It was a monster, not aggressive at all, just came to say hello. I hope he didn't think me rude saying good-bye.
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Submitted by sweetkisses (user info) at 2007-07-19 11:02:03 EDT (#)
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Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-07-19 00:45:04 EDT (#)
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The devil made me do it.
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2007-07-18 18:46:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-18 18:27:32 EDT (#)
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that pic looks like something out of an Aphex Twin video, jesus christ thats scary.
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It's the grin that does it. That's 'His' grin.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-18 18:36:38 EDT (#)
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The word "weep" amuses me.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-18 18:27:32 EDT (#)
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that pic looks like something out of an Aphex Twin video, jesus christ thats scary.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-07-18 18:13:40 EDT (#)
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That image freaks me the fuck out.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-07-18 17:59:52 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-07-18 13:48:58 EDT (#)
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Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 16:19:02 BST (#)
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I'm going friday actually. But it's a full house
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I'm not actually joking when I say I find this a pretty interesting concept. My method of getting drunk together and fucking long into the night has never let me down, and I don't want to try anything new, but I think you should post about it.
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2007-07-18 11:34:26 EDT (#)
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"I performed the from-water-onto-boat-without-touching-sides leap perfectly."
I thought it was pretty funny. Just too many "girths".
Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 11:19:02 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-07-18 16:12:17 BST (#)
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Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 16:03:44 BST (#)
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*weep*
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Hey, I'm sorry, wanna go sarging to make up?
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I'm going friday actually. But it's a full house
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-07-18 11:12:17 EDT (#)
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Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 16:03:44 BST (#)
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*weep*
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Hey, I'm sorry, wanna go sarging to make up?
Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 11:03:44 EDT (#)
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*weep*
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-07-18 10:58:39 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-18 15:48:22 BST (#)
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Didn't read it. You can't be HurtByTheSun, he's coherent.
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Hehe, nice one! Fuck you RR.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-07-18 10:52:39 EDT (#)
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That's one weird looking fish.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-07-18 10:48:22 EDT (#)
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Didn't read it. You can't be HurtByTheSun, he's coherent.
Submitted by lover101 (user info) at 2007-07-18 10:38:51 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by storm (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:35:52 EDT (#)
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Seriously, if ratings mean that much to you, you are at the wrong website. Here's a +2 so you'll stop crying.
Submitted by storm (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:35:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:25:56 EDT (#)
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Stop -2 ing all my fucking posts with your pathetic alters
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Are you delirious, dude? I only have this alter. I don't know how all that's happening but it's not me. Sorry for that childish behavior but it's happened to me a few times already so I know how much it sucks. I bet it's apollo.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:28:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Bananana (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:20:06 EDT (#)
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This was tripe. Stick to slowly dying or become a catalyst. FIGHT FOR THE CAUSE!
Submitted by storm (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:17:27 EDT (#)
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Really, a retaliatory? You must like yourself.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:02:13 EDT (#)
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i only look at pictures...i like this picture
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2007-07-18 07:55:56 EDT (#)
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I like big shark stories, but this sucked.
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2007-07-18 07:50:22 EDT (#)
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Not bad.
Submitted by storm (user info) at 2007-07-18 07:13:25 EDT (#)
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STOP>..............j2lkmkml
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-07-18 06:27:05 EDT (#)
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Hmmmmph
Submitted by RabiedRooster (user info) at 2007-07-18 05:56:36 EDT (#)
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Thanks man. Oh by the way i got a post coming up that i think you might like or at least not quite hate
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-07-18 05:53:15 EDT (#)
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Hard to follow.
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-07-18 05:53:03 EDT (#)
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What the fuck; over.