Great White hanging out at E/End Catalina

[albatross]

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Originally Posted by Balluga

free divers need to stay alert while diving the east end light area...a great white came up and took a seal swimming in the chum line of two gals who were fishing for wsb near the eagles nest on the east end...a day or two later, the Avalon Harbor Patrol witnessed another seal being eaten by a great white...stay alert out there, especiallly along the east end quarry dropoff where they like to cruise...

[Mark the Shark]

Originally Posted by Balluga

Just to liven it up a little more...a sport charter boat on the 425 just reported seeing a great white they estimated to be at least 25'...yes, they do get that big....a new world spearfishing record....

Record GWS is 21' feet, caught in 1948. Of course, there are tons of those
"I saw one that HAD to be 25'-long" stories out there, but the fact is there is ZERO evidence of any over that 21' mark. See this link for more info:
Largest Ocean Carnivore

[calbrewguy]

Originally Posted by WIDEOPENBITE

From my brother, a former commercial abalone diver at the Farralons. He was out a San Miguel Island the day an urchin diver was killed by Whitey.

95% of kills are at the surface; as visibility decreases - chances of human strike increase exponentially; same with breeding time (late fall, I believe).

Lesson: Don't be treading water off the swimstep, after a storm, while hunting your Christmas bugs.

I knew him, Jimmy Robinson. We went to commercial dive school together at Santa barbara CC. He had just entered the water and was waiting for his tender to give him the collection bags when the fish took his left leg completely off and half the right in one bite. Never knew what hit him. He bled out almost before he could be hauled onto deck. Needless to say, the tender was completely freaked out. He had to stay with the body 4 hours until USCG got there and then had to drive the boat back to SB.

[Balluga]

I stand corrected on the size of the 25' sighting...a call to the skipper indicated the white was definately over 20' and possibly as big as 25'...however, there are 25'ers out there...swordfish spotter plane pilots know the sizes down to a foot or two...they have reported seeing several whites in the channel between Catalina and SCI that were 25' in size..some years back a F&G biologist on scuba at Santa Barbara Island had one go by him about 20' away...he said, based on the size of surrounding rocks, kelp, etc, that the fish was close to 25' long...at any rate, stay away from seal congregations when you free diving...

[pg60]

That band rocks!

[macka17]

Originally Posted by pg60

That band rocks!

Hi.
Over here in Australia. They used to do Whaling at several points round the coast.

I've seen some of the old Sepia. late 1800, early 1900 Photo's. Taken by pro photographers .

Some of those Pointers in the Southern Ocean. Are Way Over 25 ft long.
I saw one Photo. Taken on Whale Mothership, Flensing deck.
Whale just winched up slipway. Out of shark's mouths.

One Bite. Had 4 full grown men standing in it.
Genuine too. Not Mockup. They still had tools in hands, and blood everywhere.

They reckon Pointers stay coastal till about 20ft or so. Then go Oceanic.
Don't forget. They never stop moving. AND. They never stop growing either...
Some of those sharks were near as big as the whales..

Regards
Macka17

[tailsurfer]

Originally Posted by Blank

FYI there has been a GW on the east end for quite some time.

I remember diving with him a few years back when he was only 8' long. Came right up to me off the quarry.

[getoffmyback]

Originally Posted by macka17

Hi.
Over here in Australia. They used to do Whaling at several points round the coast.

I've seen some of the old Sepia. late 1800, early 1900 Photo's. Taken by pro photographers .

Some of those Pointers in the Southern Ocean. Are Way Over 25 ft long.
I saw one Photo. Taken on Whale Mothership, Flensing deck.
Whale just winched up slipway. Out of shark's mouths.

One Bite. Had 4 full grown men standing in it.
Genuine too. Not Mockup. They still had tools in hands, and blood everywhere.

They reckon Pointers stay coastal till about 20ft or so. Then go Oceanic.
Don't forget. They never stop moving. AND. They never stop growing either...
Some of those sharks were near as big as the whales..

Regards
Macka17

Mack, I wanna hear more about this.....any chance a fella could find those pictures you referred to on the web somehow ?

[Kurt]

Data from some gps-ed GWs shows that they do indeed head out to sea and bounce up and down in the water column sometimes going really deep.

[SeaDawg]

Originally Posted by slydawg

There's also an east end nest.

Love your avatar

[bigdaddyjon]

could one of you guys in the water get us a picture of the shark ? at least one .

[Sea-n-Ski]

Here's another video of those crazy Freedivers hanging with GWS...

Video Great White Shark / Andre Hartman - white, shark, free, diving, grand - Alice Video Condividi i tuoi video