JAWS: A true story or hoax?

[WakeUp]

Edit: Oops I looked it up and found this story to be a hoax.
See next post.

UCLUELET, B.C. (West side of Vancouver Island)

While the ocean vessel 'Dawn Raider' was commercial fishing for dogfish, this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for 15 minutes before it came up alongside the boat long enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope around it's tail.

And that's when the s**t hit the fan!!. The Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 knots. Just like
in JAWS, the boat was taking on water over the stern and the crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the water at times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned.

She weighed in at 1035 LBS. It is suspected she followed a weak El Nino current into local waters in search of food. Although mid 60 deg. water is considered ideal for these sharks, the larger ones can tolerate water in
the low 50s.

[Note from WakeUp: I received this as an email, so I have no link to this story.]



http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d147/WakeUpAmerica/Animals/recordsh1.jpg


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[Ono]

It's a shame they killed it.

[WakeUp]

Nasty pics and story make for a Great White Shark hoax

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d147/WakeUpAmerica/Animals/recordsh2.jpg

Large Shortfin Mako Taken Just Off Yarmouth Harbour, Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada Comparing the size of the sharks head & mouth to the guy standing beside it, one can quickly appreciate what would happen if one of these phanthoms of the deep grabbed you whilst in the water Carla Allen, Transcontinental Media





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The Ocean Shores' Great White Shark Hoax
**Scroll down for more shark stories Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 16 May, 2005 : - - There is a good story that has been circulated on the Internet about a large Great White Shark that towed a vessel backwards after being tail looped. The story, a hoax, is posted below. In fact the photographs (above and below) are of a large short-fin Mako shark that was captured off of Nova Scotia.

The close up of the sharks head and mouth clearly show lower dentition that is narrow and pointed, which are characteristics of the Mako shark, unlike the broad, somewhat triangularly serrated teeth of a white shark.
Ralph S. Collier, of the Shark Research Committee has kindly provided the link to the Urban Legends page outlining this particular hoax entitled Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: Urban Legend based on This Years Shark Scramble Catch (http://www.yarmouth.org/magazine/urban.htm).

More images of the real event are to be found at the Florida Museaum of Natural History Ichthyology Department (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/mako/largemako2004.html) and this provided by a Surfersvillage visitor after noticing the hoax story..... Thank you Anonymous.

So the foregoing are the facts, and the following is the HOAX;-

Ocean Shores' Great White Shark
Ocean Shores Wa. USA - While the ocean vessel 'Dawn Raider' was commercial fishing for dogfish, this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for 15 minutes before it came up alongside the boat to have a look; long enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope around it's tail !!! 'And that's when the s**t hit the fan!!.
The Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots. Just like in JAWS, the boat was taking on water over the stern and the crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the water at times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned.

[Ono]

:)

[short_circuit]

So it is a hoax,lol, I also thought the Great White Shark was placed on the protected species list!!! :moose:

[WakeUp]

So it is a hoax,lol, I also thought the Great White Shark was placed on the protected species list!!! :moose:


These photos were actually taken on Aug 28, 2004. The B.C. story of the Great White is a hoax but this huge animal was caught and the photos are real. "Large Shortfin Mako Taken Just Off Yarmouth Harbour, Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada." It was not a Great White.

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Yes WakeUp, thanks.:moose:
I had already gathered it was not a Great White in the photo, just adding a point that the Great White is on the protected species list.:mrgreen:

[rastaman]

My dad sent me these pics and story. Very very rare.

UCLUELET, B.C. (West side of Vancouver Island)
Kind of wish they never killed it but.. I have actually swam their before.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/rastaman_019/ATT00068.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/rastaman_019/ATT00071.jpg



While the ocean vessel 'Dawn Raider' was commercial fishing for
dogfish,
this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for
15 minutes before it came up alongside the boat to have a look;
long
enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope around it's tail!!!
'And that's when the shit hit the fan!!. The Shark took off towing
the42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots.?
Justlike in JAWS, the boat was taking on water over the stern and the
crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the
water at times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally
drowned.
She weighed in at 1035 LBS. It is suspected she followed a weak El
Nino current into local waters in search of food.? Although mid 60
deg.water is considered ideal for these sharks, the larger ones can tolerate
water in the low 50s.

[kidcanuck]

Mon, this is another hoax.

It was caught in Nova SCotia.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/yarmouth.asp

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We have had this hoax before rastaman, I have put your thread "Very rare occurence in these waters" in WakeUp's thread.:mrgreen:

[rastaman]

G-d how does one tell his dad he has been owned by a hoax? I'm going to do some digging on this. I guess everything is a hoax and a conspiracy. Am I actually typing this?

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G-d how does one tell his dad he has been owned by a hoax? I'm going to do some digging on this. I guess everything is a hoax and a conspiracy. Am I actually typing this?Easy, just tell him it is a hoax. No matter how you try you will not turn the hoax into a true story.
Everyone gets owned sometimes no matter what age the person is, makes things a bit more fun. lol :moose:

[rastaman]

Easy, just tell him it is a hoax. No matter how you try you will not turn the hoax into a true story.
Everyone gets owned sometimes no matter what age the person is, makes things a bit more fun. lol :moose:

Thats true. Be honest even if it hurts. Hey dad thats bullshit. Done it before. Oh and Dad I posted you're pics on a website 5 minutes after I received them and made a fool of myself lol.

[kidcanuck]

Don't believe everything you think, mon.

Question Reality.

Don't trust Bush.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5098/470bush070110pe5.jpg

[short_circuit]

Thats true. Be honest even if it hurts. Hey dad thats bullshit. Done it before. Oh and Dad I posted you're pics on a website 5 minutes after I received them and made a fool of myself lol.
:lmfao: If you don’t laugh you’re going to cry, is the saying I like to use.lol :mrgreen:

[rastaman]

Don't believe everything you think, mon.

Question Reality.

Don't trust Bush.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5098/470bush070110pe5.jpg
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"Don't believe everything you think, mon."

Bit of a twisted oxymoron dont you think?

Question reality young friend? Reality makes no distinction for individual perception. It simply is. Gravity could care less whether or not we believe it existed.

Have a good night kid and know the world is not out to get you.

[kidcanuck]

They're coming to got me, mon.

That's unpossible, you say..

Reality is not what you think.

Heaven is hotter than h3ll.

[short_circuit]

Don't believe everything you think, mon.

Question Reality.

Don't trust Bush.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5098/470bush070110pe5.jpg
Bush seems to have started to multiply.:mrgreen:
Saddam Hussein had doubles for his dictatorship, Bush has doubles for comedy…! lol
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1921276117304287501&q=bush

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2981/2bush333hw6.gif

[rastaman]

They're coming to got me, mon.

That's unpossible, you say..

Reality is not what you think.

Heaven is hotter than h3ll.


Ok my friend...u say u search for argument then lets do it, but not in I just saw the first few hairs on my nuts kinda way.

1-What is "unpossible"?

2-"Reality is not what yo think" WTF??? I live in a world of physical laws. The same one you do. If life sucks than whats the alternative?

3-What does this mystery heaven have to to with this mystery hell on the price of a slurpee?

[exitwound]

Heh.

Now we're getting to the nut of it :mrgreen:

The Kid Hath Enlightened-eth Us! Now Go Forth-eth And Tell-eth The Peoples-eth What-eth To Think-eth! :patriotic:

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Heh.

Now we're getting to the nut of it :mrgreen:

The Kid Hath Enlightened-eth Us! Now Go Forth-eth And Tell-eth The Peoples-eth What-eth To Think-eth! :patriotic:
We never did get enlightened on the Kid’s Heaven is hotter than h3ll, even though I doubt there is a h3ll anyway..!