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polarosoman
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 01:01 am |
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Hey, I just watched shark week on discovery. I thought it would be interesting to hear any of your shark encounter stories. Whether diving or fishing. What did you see, how many and where did you see them. Did you see them Scuba diving Snorkeling, or Spearfishing. Hope there is not already a post like this. I did a search but didn't find anything. Can't wait to hear some great stories. 
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bombero
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 02:00 am |
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| Unless the sharks have been baited (chummed), you will not see any, or very rarely will you see any.....
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polarosoman
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 04:06 am |
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| Thats what people are saying. But then, you here of some people who have.
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bombero
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 01:36 pm |
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| Please understand, there are sharks in the Sea of Cortez, make no doubt. My point is they do not care to be seen. You might consider yourself lucky to have an encounter. I was once told, by a master diver, should I see one, take a picture, because no one will believe me without that kind of proof.
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7th_heaven
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Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 05:06 pm |
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| We seen this small hammerhead just cruising around the surface just outside of Kino this summer. We were not diving or anything just out in the boat. He let us come right up to him though. Attachment: 100_1440.JPG (Downloaded 215 times)
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polarosoman
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 01:27 am |
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7th_heaven wrote: We seen this small hammerhead just cruising around the surface just outside of Kino this summer. We were not diving or anything just out in the boat. He let us come right up to him though.
Thats pretty cool. The bad thing is it probably got fished out the next day!
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Vince Radice
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Posted: Sat Aug 9th, 2008 04:02 pm |
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Shark populations are down by perhaps over 90% in the Gulf of California. Most of the rape and pillage occured in the late 80's and early 90's.
When I first moved here 20years ago you could still have a good chance of seaing hammerheads at the south point of the island anytime of the year. Now of course you have to consider yourself lukcy if you see them any other time other than Ocotober.
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crazywolfe
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 03:48 pm |
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It's true, you rarely see them. I've never encountered one diving. I've been fishing and diving the area for over 20 years, and have seen only a handful. Saw 3-4 hammerheads swimming along about 10 years ago while fishing. Hooked one trolling 15 years ago, about an 8' mako, which broke-off at the boat w/my dorado lure, and then the large tiger last weekend. It's really great when we do encounter one. Need to stop Asians from cutting fins off and tossing back.....
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merrilld
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Posted: Sun Aug 10th, 2008 11:11 pm |
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A few shark encounters:
June 1995, a friend and I saw a 4 foot Angel shark while diving in ~40 feet of water at the Light House, San Pedro. It was laying on the bottom under a rock out cropping. Log books sure are great for recollecting past dives.
June, 2003, same friend saw a 20 – 25 foot whale shark while boating around SC. Picture attached.
Not very many shark encounters since 1995.
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Alibi
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Posted: Sat Sep 20th, 2008 03:56 pm |
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| we tow our boat down and launch in san carlos and spend the month of june-july living on the boat, diving and fishing in the sea. In july while returning to SC we talked to a local spearfisherman who was comming in from diving the deep reefs off san pedro isle..he said he was at around 100'(alone) when a large hammerhead (he est. well over 10' ) approached him and was very agressive..it came right at him a couple times, it scared him enough (and he isn't easily worried) that when the shark finally cruised off he got out of the water and moved to another area to fish.
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supex
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Posted: Thu Sep 25th, 2008 05:29 am |
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| Now, are we talking just San Carlos or anywhere?
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Alibi
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Posted: Wed Oct 8th, 2008 04:31 pm |
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| I'd like to hear about all shark encounters in the sea of cortez...we launch the boat out of san carlos, and use it as our launch point into the sea..we spend the month (or longer) cruising down as far as La Paz...we have a compressor on board and spend a lot of time diving around all the islands on baja side..
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