[Humour] It’s the silly season part II - will it be this year a Great White Shark is CONCLUSIVELY seen in the Channel?

[portlock seagull]

Fisherman’s tales abound, but surely it can now only be a matter of TIME before a Palace Pier jumper is gobbled up by JAWS, and a new TERROR to rival Southern Water is FOUND off our MASSIVE coast?

 

[Hugo Rune]

It’s coming:

Will the climate emergency really drive great white sharks towards British waters?

Rising sea temperatures caused by greenhouse effect prompting predators to seek out cooler habitats

www.independent.co.uk

UK grey and common seals are going to be in for one hell of a shock when a population is established.

 

[Goldstone Guy]

It’s coming:

Will the climate emergency really drive great white sharks towards British waters?

Rising sea temperatures caused by greenhouse effect prompting predators to seek out cooler habitats

www.independent.co.uk

UK great and common seals are going to be in for one hell of a shock when a population is established.

I don't think the typical human will be exactly calm about it either.

Can't remember where I saw it recently (might have been springwatch), saying that triggerfish (fairly common group of tropical fish that scuba divers might know) are now being seen in British waters. They're territorial and one bit me on the head once when I was scuba diving (didn't hurt but there was a mark to prove it).

 

[portlock seagull]

I don't think the typical human will be exactly calm about it either.

Can't remember where I saw it recently (might have been springwatch), saying that triggerfish (fairly common group of tropical fish that scuba divers might know) are now being seen in British waters. They're territorial and one bit me on the head once when I was scuba diving (didn't hurt but there was a mark to prove it).

Did you punch it?

 

[Goldstone Guy]

Did you punch it?

I was too slow. Don't think Muhammad Ali would have got close to that bugger.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Hope so

 

[spence]

Horrific shark attack in Egypt the other day which claimed the life of a Russian person. . Again so close to the shore.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Horrific shark attack in Egypt the other day which claimed the life of a Russian person. . Again so close to the shore.

I made the mistake of watching the video. Brutal

 

[Hugo Rune]

I made the mistake of watching the video. Brutal

Me too. Not recommended.

To think, it’s likely that poor young Russian man seemingly escaped Putin’s meat grinder in Ukraine, only to swim into a different kind of one in the Red Sea.

 

[The Wizard]

If they feed on pier jumpers I’m all for the great white

Why anyone would step foot in the water around Brighton I don’t know, it’s hideous and full of sewage, not to mention most of the beaches along our end wouldn’t be suitable for great whites,

The bit between the marina and hove would become like an all you can eat BUFFET for the sharks, which I’ll be honest I wouldn’t be against.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

More importantly will there be a boy swimming faster than the shark ?

 

[vegster]

I don't think the typical human will be exactly calm about it either.

Can't remember where I saw it recently (might have been springwatch), saying that triggerfish (fairly common group of tropical fish that scuba divers might know) are now being seen in British waters. They're territorial and one bit me on the head once when I was scuba diving (didn't hurt but there was a mark to prove it).

There have been several caught in recent years down the west country... I've seen Tuna leaping and chasing Garfish down south Cornwall the last two years... only a matter of time.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I don't think the typical human will be exactly calm about it either.

Can't remember where I saw it recently (might have been springwatch), saying that triggerfish (fairly common group of tropical fish that scuba divers might know) are now being seen in British waters. They're territorial and one bit me on the head once when I was scuba diving (didn't hurt but there was a mark to prove it).

Migrating triggers have been caught quite regularly since the 70's on rod and line. Most summers there are numerous reports of so called 'warm water' species showing up throughout the channel

 

[Goldstone Guy]

There have been several caught in recent years down the west country... I've seen Tuna leaping and chasing Garfish down south Cornwall the last two years... only a matter of time.

Great that tuna are back. Hopefully we can avoid over fishing them.

 

[vegster]

Great that tuna are back. Hopefully we can avoid over fishing them.

The last couple of years we have been reminded by the Mousehole Harbour Master that it is illegal to land them here in the UK....amazing when you see them hitting Garfish shoals.....the Gars go skittering over the surface then whoosh !

 

[METALMICKY]

I made the mistake of watching the video. Brutal

Ditto! It was the legs in the air bit that was grim.

 

[Nobby]

Brother in Law saw Orcas off the Cornwall coast yesterday.
The Sharks are coming

 

[portlock seagull]

I’d give my eye teeth to see a Great White underwater, preferably from a cage mind! I’ve dived with plenty of sharks, some from the City, but also the natural ones we’re discussing on this thread.

Have to say of all marine life, my favourite is the little clownfish ie Nemo. They’re hilarious and I can enjoy an entire tank just watching these beauties.

 

[portlock seagull]

Ditto! It was the legs in the air bit that was grim.

I’d heard about this, how on earth would someone not just do the decent thing and delete instead of spreading on the World Wide Web.

It’s almost as sickening. People need to seriously have words with themselves when in comes to tragedies.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Ditto! It was the legs in the air bit that was grim.

There’s a women in the background repeatedly saying a breathy “oh my god”…wife thought I was watching porn