are you fucking serious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9Pkf75yX0&sns=fb

11/30/2011 12:59:25 AM

11/30/2011 1:03:56 AM

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"This great white circled our 21ft boat for 20 minutes and made contact with the boat (slapped its tail on the boat). We were about 25 miles southeast of Wrightsville Beach."

FUCK

THAT

SHIT

[Edited on November 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM. Reason : .]

11/30/2011 1:07:00 AM

So, uh, not surprising at all.

Carry on.

(YouTube comments stupid as shit.)

11/30/2011 1:11:23 AM

Sounds like they need a bigger boat.

11/30/2011 1:11:55 AM

wasn't it about 6 or 7 years ago, that some Russian chap was bit by a Great White while waist deep at Wrightsville beach in the late afternoon/early evening? i believe he died of bleeding.

11/30/2011 2:14:07 AM

nevermind, this is what i was thinking of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal,_unprovoked_shark_attacks_in_the_United_States

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"Sergei Zaloukaev, 28 September 3, 2001 Unconfirmed, experts are divided whether it was a Bull shark or a Tiger shark Killed while swimming with his girlfriend in the surf off Avon, Hatteras Island, Dare County, North Carolina; his girlfriend, Natalia Slobodskaya, was severely injured in the attack but survived.[9][25] "

11/30/2011 2:20:28 AM

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"So, uh, not surprising at all."

Yeah, especially 25 miles out. Really cool video, though.

11/30/2011 2:20:48 AM

^Yep. I've been that far out and seen great whites before. Hell, seen them a LOT closer.

I'm far more worried about bull sharks on a normal basis. I was actually diving with my uncle once gigging for flounder when we were confronted by a bull shark. At first he went for the flounder on our gigs, but he started making a move at me. My uncle just calmly swims over and shoots a harpoon in the sharks face and we get out of the water.

Later I'm like "WHAT THE FUCK MAN THAT COULD HAVE GONE OVER A LOT WORSE."

11/30/2011 2:28:56 AM

"I think it's a bull shark." Really? REALLY?

OK, there's a lot of different kinds of shark. It'd be one thing if you mistook a tiger for a bull. But we're talking about the most famous shark species on Earth, to say nothing of the largest (an 18 foot fish being a good five feet longer than even the allegedly largest bull shark ever caught). You might as well mistake a cow for a water buffalo.

11/30/2011 2:43:45 AM

Between the shape of the head and the jaggedness of the coloration, I have no idea how they thought it was a bull shark in person, considering it's totally obvious on a fucking Youtube video that it's a white shark.

11/30/2011 2:46:58 AM

I imagine the gentleman may have been drunk.

11/30/2011 2:47:35 AM

I am as drunk as a goddamn monkey (hooray for a mid-week weekend!) and I can tell you it's a white.

11/30/2011 3:01:16 AM

AHA, I wasn't aware that monkeys were known for being inebriated.

11/30/2011 3:04:03 AM

You haven't seen some of the funnier shows on Animal Planet, then. There's one devoted largely to drunk animals, including monkeys in India stealing half-consumed cocktails from tourists and subsequently falling over. (Though "drunk as a monkey" is much older than the video, and I really, really hope it isn't racist somehow)

11/30/2011 3:07:46 AM

NEWSFLASH LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE DUMB

11/30/2011 3:08:21 AM

^^I just watched a video.

Those monkeys are awesome!

11/30/2011 3:17:40 AM

That he misidentified it was not surprising to me. Dumb people everywhere--he obviously didn't know a single fuck about anything, just from what you hear him saying.

11/30/2011 3:20:39 AM

Wow, I just watched a video about drunk monkeys in St. Croix. and they definitely deserve their own thread.



[Edited on November 30, 2011 at 4:30 AM. Reason : ]

11/30/2011 4:29:35 AM

TKE guys get impressed with just about anything if they have more than 3 drops of beer on their taste buds.

Just start talking about something as though it was the strangest and most awkward thing you've ever seen. I guarantee it will be met with "Whoa dude!" kind of response, and then they'll follow through with a story that'll top yours for sure.

TKE... What a joke of a frat...

11/30/2011 4:49:53 AM

HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY. WOAH.

HEY NOW.

WOAH. EASY THERE


WOAH


HEY
































































Hey



[Edited on November 30, 2011 at 5:32 AM. Reason : .]

11/30/2011 5:19:31 AM

although, pictures and video don't do thing justice optically, i have my doubts that it's 18 feet... but by comparison, that shark looks like it's maybe a little over half as long as the boat, which might put it at 12ish

11/30/2011 6:37:50 AM

I don't think I've ever seen the ocean that flat, especially 25 miles out.

11/30/2011 7:29:36 AM

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"I'm far more worried about bull sharks on a normal basis."

This.

We had a bull shark in about 4 feet of water in kitty hawk 3 or 4 years ago. It was long enough that some of the tourists there were mistaking its caudal fin for a second shark

11/30/2011 7:31:40 AM

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"Sounds like they need a bigger boat."

11/30/2011 7:53:42 AM

"Should we try to hook him?!"

Yes...please do.

11/30/2011 7:56:26 AM

WHOLE LOTTA SHARK WEEK EXPERTS IN THIS THREAD.

11/30/2011 9:43:01 AM

According to shark week this is about the time of year that they are migrating past north carolina

11/30/2011 9:46:48 AM

OH MY GAWD THERE'S A BIG DAMN SHARK IN DA OCEAN!!

11/30/2011 9:47:46 AM

WHEN YOU SEE IT, YOU'LL SHIT BRICKS

11/30/2011 9:56:21 AM

i didn't even see the laser on the first watch

11/30/2011 9:57:40 AM

11/30/2011 9:58:50 AM

This reminds me of my time spent on the Indianapolis....


... Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups.

You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark will go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper.

Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

11/30/2011 10:02:48 AM

poor Apocalypse, another 5am troll attempt wasted

11/30/2011 10:28:45 AM

This is so awesome.

11/30/2011 10:35:02 AM

I think that's a mating ritual..


i think this shark wanted to do your boat...

it's not a grady white is it? i hear sharks can't read that well.



Btw... his name is Sebastian

11/30/2011 10:42:59 AM

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"I don't think I've ever seen the ocean that flat, especially 25 miles out."

well then you haven't been out very much. not all that uncommon to have a slick day out there.

11/30/2011 10:45:37 AM

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"Sounds like they need a bigger boat."

11/30/2011 10:59:45 AM

A shark in the ocean? WELL I NEVER

11/30/2011 11:04:10 AM

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"I don't think I've ever seen the ocean that flat, especially 25 miles out."

This is the first thing I noticed as well.

11/30/2011 11:05:24 AM

JESUS CHRIST NOT EVERYONE WATCHES SHARK WEEK. IT WAS UNDERWATER. WHEN IT GOT CLOSER HE CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED IT. NO ONE CARES THAT YOU CAN CORRECTLY IDENTIFY A SHARK.

11/30/2011 1:08:59 PM

that is awesome!

I think it is funny that the guy asked if it was legal to shoot them.

11/30/2011 1:12:59 PM

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"I don't think I've ever seen the ocean that flat, especially 25 miles out."

I read about half of the page, and thought 2 things...

First, it isn't uncommon at all to have a day that calm in deep water.

Second, WHERE THE FUCK IS NeuseRvrRat

Both of my thoughts were attended to at the SAME TIME.

^^^^^^

11/30/2011 1:32:47 PM

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"WHOLE LOTTA SHARK WEEK EXPERTS IN THIS THREAD."

11/30/2011 1:37:19 PM

i just heard this story about this guy out in the ocean fishing for stripers

he caught one and as he went to land it a GW came up out of know where and started circling, then took the striper in his mouth and started swimming off

the dude played the shark until the shark bit the striper in half, as the dude reeled it in to see the damage, he got it into his hand and the shark came back and literally took it the head out of his hand, the guy said it was real gentle. he said he just went back to the shore and relaxed for a couple of hours lol. It was like a 16 footer but DAT SHIT CRAY

11/30/2011 1:40:51 PM

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"Hey! It's Ashlea Kosikowski with WECT? - I'm interested in doing a story about your sighting. Please email me at akosikowski@wect.com or call me at 910.409.7909. Many? thanks! "

11/30/2011 1:47:18 PM

NOT SURE IF ONLY 1 THANKS OR MANY

11/30/2011 1:57:18 PM

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"WHOLE LOTTA SHARK WEEK EXPERTS IN THIS THREAD."

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"poor Apocalypse, another 5am troll attempt wasted"

[Edited on November 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM. Reason : x]

11/30/2011 2:18:44 PM

One time i was reeling in a big ass grouper in the USAIR fishing tournament and i was pulling as hard as i could to get him up quick... then i felt him fight some (which is weird cause grouper barely fights) and then it got pretty easy again... but not like i lost the fish easy.


So i continue to reel the fish up... and long story short. i had the 3rd largest fish of the day on our boat... with a 75lb grouper... head.... :-( it was estimated it could have been close to a 200lb fish and if that were the case we would have won the largest fish that wasn't tag & release.

ohh what made me think of this is... a shark ate the rest but it was about ~40' deep when he did so i don't know what the hell kinda shark it was but he owes me 125lbs of grouper.



[Edited on November 30, 2011 at 3:48 PM. Reason : .]

11/30/2011 3:47:48 PM

you know Robert Shaw filmed the entire Indianapolis scene drunk of his ass...so they re-filmed it when he was sober and he gave the exact same performance. he was that epic an actor.

11/30/2011 3:48:00 PM