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What NOT to do when a Great White Shark is eating your boat!
Man falls into ocean after trying to swat shark - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A fisherman who fell out of a dinghy south of Perth this morning has reported being circled up to five times by a white pointer shark. Tony Cappellutti from Fisheries says the man had been fishing near Warnbro about three to four nautical miles offshore. He says it is believed that when a shark began to chew on the boat's outboard motor, the man tried to fend it off with an oar. Mr Cappellutti says the man dropped the oar into the water and then fell in while trying to retrieve it. "So he's now in the water, his boat's in gear and it's heading off," he said. "So of course he couldn't get back to his boat so he then states that the shark's reappeared, circled him four or five times and then disappeared." The man escaped unharmed after flagging down another boat.
Ok this might be just my opinion
But if a Great White Shark had just been eating my boat
The last thing I would Do is fall into the water trying to retrieve an oar, especially when the motor is still running
I heard this on the news tonight and I can't help thinking it sounds like some kind of macabre comedy sketch!
I mean if you lose the oar and there's a great white who's already had a bit of a nibble on the boat WHY would you even put your hand over the side to try to retrieve it????? (I mean hasn't the fool seen JAWS??? )
I'd have turned on the engine and pretty much "walked" on water to get outta there!
He would have to be the LUCKIEST bloke in the country right about now I'm thinking.
Sounds like an elderly Canadian gent who was picked up in the North Atlantic in September
(approx. mid-hurricane season) by the British Navy after his sailboat capsized, and he was sailing alone.
When asked what he was doing out there, his response was
"...I'm 70-something years old; I'm too old to sail. So I thought I'd take my boat over to England to sell it..."
*Though it is too far north to be affected by actual hurricanes,
any hurricanes that do not make landfall always curve back towards England,
making tremendous wave swells, wave heights often 55-85 feet after storm tracks like this. (18-28 metres?)
Sounds like an elderly Canadian gent who was picked up in the North Atlantic in September
(approx. mid-hurricane season) by the British Navy after his sailboat capsized, and he was sailing alone.
When asked what he was doing out there, his response was
"...I'm 70-something years old; I'm too old to sail. So I thought I'd take my boat over to England to sell it..."
*Though it is too far north to be affected by actual hurricanes,
any hurricanes that do not make landfall always curve back towards England,
making tremendous wave swells, wave heights often 55-85 feet after storm tracks like this. (18-28 metres?)
Love it!
The more I think about the other with the shark the more I see Mr Bean!
I heard this on the news tonight and I can't help thinking it sounds like some kind of macabre comedy sketch!
I mean if you lose the oar and there's a great white who's already had a bit of a nibble on the boat WHY would you even put your hand over the side to try to retrieve it????? (I mean hasn't the fool seen JAWS??? )
I'd have turned on the engine and pretty much "walked" on water to get outta there!
He would have to be the LUCKIEST bloke in the country right about now I'm thinking.
^My thoughts exactly
I mean if I lost my oar
I would maybe stretch over the side a little bit
But to stretch right over the edge and fall in when there's a 5m shark in the water is nuts
I mean if your dog fell in I'll understand (Gotto save your dog!)
But if it was the wife, well.... she would stay
[quote=HairyandScary;8726995]What NOT to do when a Great White Shark is eating your boat!
Man falls into ocean after trying to swat shark - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A fisherman who fell out of a dinghy south of Perth this morning has reported being circled up to five times by a white pointer shark. Tony Cappellutti from Fisheries says the man had been fishing near Warnbro about three to four nautical miles offshore. He says it is believed that when a shark began to chew on the boat's outboard motor, the man tried to fend it off with an oar. Mr Cappellutti says the man dropped the oar into the water and then fell in while trying to retrieve it. "So he's now in the water, his boat's in gear and it's heading off," he said. "So of course he couldn't get back to his boat so he then states that the shark's reappeared, circled him four or five times and then disappeared." The man escaped unharmed after flagging down another boat.
I mean if I lost my oar
I would maybe stretch over the side a little bit
But to stretch right over the edge and fall in when there's a 5m shark in the water is nuts
I mean if your dog fell in I'll understand (Gotto save your dog!)
But if it was the wife, well.... she would stay
Guess your wife doesn't like going fishin' with you then Hairy?
Maybe having the monster hanging off the outboard freaked him out so much it turned him into a bumbling klutz?
He should buy a lotto ticket, that's for sure!
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she would stay 
