cool shark pic...

[Dookus]

A shark swims in shallow water near the shore as swimmers enjoy the surf just south of the Sunglow Pier in Daytona Beach Shores on Monday. Jimmy Kamerzel, 12, spotted the shark while surfing during a day at the beach with his family.

Photo by Dianna Kamerzel


http://www.news-journalonline.com/03NewsIndex.htm

[Ediacara]

1. That looks pleasent...

I'm assuming this shark didn't hurt anyone, but still, it scares me from Montana!

[Dookus]

3. heheh

if people knew how close they are to sharks in the water, they'd never go in.

Fact is, sharks are almost always harmless. But the exceptions make the news a lot :)

[Droopy]

2. That's not cool. That's scary!

:scared:

[RetroLounge]

4. Quick, grab it's tail and give it a wedgie...

Then Run!!!!!

RL

[TlalocW]

5. There's a great Daily Show segment

With Steven Colbert from last year probably. A bunch of the networks were declaring it the summer of the sharks because some people had gotten attacked so Steven decided to investigate and went to talk to an expert who said that more people die from having a coconut fall on their head each year than from being attacked by sharks. That led him to delcare it the Year of the Coconut - with appropriate scary whizzing graphics of coconuts of course. Investigating that led him to lightning, stairs (he showed the proper way for going down stairs - with mountain climbing ropes), etc.

Pretty amusing, and it backs up what Michael Moore claimed in "Bowling for Columbine" - how the American media prefer to sensationalize instead of report actual news as compared to Canada. Look for it on the Daily Show site.

TlalocW

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. It's a friggin nurse shark

they are very docile.

[Dookus]

7. I think it's a black-tip

not the worst, but not exactly docile. 32 recorded attacks, according to:

http://danger.mongabay.com/shark_attacks.htm


But compared to the White and the Tiger, it's a pussycat.


on edit: I looked again, and I can't tell. The head seems rounder, and it's hard to tell if that's an upright tail fin, like on a black-tip, or just the regular limp tail of a nurse.

[Wilber_Stool]

8. Looks like a Republican.

Here we go again.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I'm keeping my money on nurse shark

Nurse Shark



Black Tip Shark

[ForrestGump]

11. Looks more like a blacktip, and they're not uncommon thereabouts

They also come close inshore and will sometimes hand out in or around the surf zone, not a really common behavior -- I've seen them in surfy areas.

The blacktip you show above is the reef blacktip from the Indo-Pacific, entirely different (also smaller) than the Atlantic blacktip we're talking about.

It doesn't look that much like a nurse shark. First, a nurse shark is really unlikely to be in that environment. Also, the tail pigment screams blacktip (or Caribbean reef shark, that looks alsmot identical but is perhaps less likely to be found in the surf zone and not as likely to be found in that region) rather than nurse shark. Shape of the head is consistent with blacktip or any (well, most) other of the requiem sharks.

[fishnfla]

15. The local report

states that there are bull sharks (yikes!) and black-tipped sharks thick at the inlet there (Ponce)

I have been on that very beach and have seen nurse sharks there during the day, caught and released one there as a matter of fact. They come out, it depends on the tide and especially if there are alot of crabs about, they are feasting on them.

The water temp is up, there are huge tarpon around too.

[Divernan]

13. Daytime, that close to shore - it's not a nurse shark.

The nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) is common over inshore coral reefs in tropical waters; is sluggish during the day, but active at night, when it feeds on bottom-dwelling invertebrates and fish. I usually see one or more nurse sharks on my Carribbean dives. In the daytime they have ALWAYS BEEN at rest/probably asleep - tucked under an overhang or large rock. I have some video of five of them in a pretzel like arrangement sleeping under an overhang off of Saba. They have no reason to go in a shallow area inside the surf line because they have no food supply there.

The black tip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus), on the other hand, are among the most common sharks in SHALLOW lagoons and coral reefs. Divers and snorkelers often see theswe sharks patrolling in shallow waters from about ONE FOOT deep. Waders and snorkelers will see them in lagoons, their dorsal and caudal fins above the surface. However, these sharks are found in the Pacific and Indian oceans, not off the coast of Florida.

I think the picture is of a gray reef shark such as the ones you see when the dive operations stage shark feedings in the Bahamas.

[ForrestGump]

14. Yep, but the gray reef shark

(Carcharhinus amblyrhynchus) is also Indo-Pacific...you're thinking Caribbean reef (C. perezi and it's probably more likely the blacktip (C. limbatus), distributed circumtropically. The trouble with common names...

The only habitats I've seen the Pacific reef blacktip (C. melanopterus) have been very shallow Pacific reeftops...we're talking down to about six inches depth, where you have to inflate lungs or buoyancy compensator to keep off the coral. They're pretty harmless -- toebiters, at best -- but can be territorial.

[fishnfla]

10. hey dookus, thats my hometown paper!

that photo is nothing, see if you can find the one of the 630 lb Mako they had in the sports section today

12 feet long!

On edit: cant get their website to work for me, but the big shark is in the outdooors/fishing report

just a monster

there are sharks like that in the surf from now until october, and yes it is a nurse shark

I have seen photos of huge schools of 8-10 foot hammerheads swimming amongst fresh meat, er, tourists on the west coast

[Deja Q]

12. Where's Roy Scheider when we need him?

:shrug: