It's 50 years since the movie Jaws was released. In the movie, a misunderstood shark is chased and harassed by Quinn and friends, resulting in the death of a beautiful creature. These days mishandling sharks is frowned upon and most anglers and skippers will handle them with care as not to injure them.
But things do go wrong, and people get bitten. I had a smooth hound clamp down on my finger once due to carelessness and a few bull huss have chewed by boots and tried to bite my face off.
So have you been bitten by a shark?
This is how I got this here wooden leg
I've got the scars to prove it
My boat was attacked by a shark
I've been bitten by a little shark, no real harm done
Only in a game I played with my kids when they were young.
The game went something like this. It was a board game where you moved around the board according to dice you threw. Every so often, there was a Tempt The Shark square where you pushed a button next to the plastic shark with its mouth open in the center of the board. After a random number of pushes the shark would close its mouth, bite you (you were supposed to tempt the shark by putting your finger in its mouth), and you had to go back to the start square. The winner was the one who got to teh finish quare first.
Nah, spent time in the gulf waters off the coast of Texas and Florida *different things entirely* The cobalt blue Atlantic waters off the coast of North Carolina, seen plenty plenty of rays, the occasional dolphin, plenty of small fish, but only ever seen the odd small (2 to 4 ft) hammerhead so far as sharks go. Did live in the SF Bay area but never ventured into thr sea there... lots of seals, sea lions and vast fields of jellyfish in places. Also that area is a part of what's referred ro as the "blood triangle" which is a very sharky area. Stinson Beach had a sign at the entry, one of those stick figure type warning signs... depicted a shark, mouth open, big triangles for teeth, and a human standing in it's jaws with it's arms up in apparent surprise. White sharks live there. Never went into the water of the bay or Pacific, mostly because I'm a warm water guy. Most that did go in had full body suits and many were in to wind sail... very cool sights to be seen though
Dear Poppy, I've never been bitten by a shark, and don't plan to any shark biting me. This nevertheless reminds me of Hannibal, the bull who jumped over a fence to join his beloved Mirabelle. "Hello Hannibal my love" said Mirabelle, "well" answered Hannibal "it's Hanni, because the bal (s) stayed behind on the fence"... :0D
I hooked into a Bull shark a month ago. I was 25 miles out and alone. He overpowered my gear. I even burned my fingers on the line trying to stop him. He took over 300 yards of braid all the way to the end and then snapped the last of it off my reel.
Nope. No chunks missing. So far. I've snorkeled and scuba'd around sharks and barracuda. Been in the surf for hours at a time. Water skied on the ocean. Never knew it if a shark came close. I'd be surprised if they weren't cruising the surf.
No not bitten by a shark but the Great white shark was trying to kiss me and kept playing with my butt bumping into it meanwhile we were wrestling I kept holding her mouth shut
@bddddd Yikes! Aren't Brown snakes like one of the most venomous in the world? In fact, doesn't Australia have the ten most venomous snakes in the world? I think I heard that or read it. You guys have all the cool animals! 😂
There are anti venom treatments if you can get to a hospital reasonably speedily. But yes they are deadly if untreated. The snake ran off. We live near a nature reserve, so I guess that is a normal hazard. They are very fast moving, though.
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