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Just as nasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QynC3kU-gZk
Looks like a day of sun and fun:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
So much for that leg ever being normal. Holy crapple, that must have hurt like hell:-\ That was alot of blood in the water:o
I was going to go for a paddle at first light tomorrow :-\ think I'll just keep paint'n the house instead.
That guy in the wetsuit in the second video on the mat on the beach really drove it home for me! A brother surfer by the looks of the wetsuit.:eek:
Golly Andre, you guys and gals in Oz got some bad critters all over the place. On land, water, your houses:D I love the ocean, but sharks make me nervous.
Have you ever heard about the USS Indianapolis in WWII? Got torpedoed and 1300 or so sailors went in the drink. Something like 90 hours floating in life vests, and I believe only 300 came back alive, alot of others were eaten by sharks:-X
I think so they mentioned something like that in the movie Jaws.Quote:
Originally Posted by LEGION
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Originally Posted by Andre
Instead of warning the guy, they just filmed it. :dontknow:
They should've atleast brought a long pointy spear with them.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Andre
Instead of warning the guy, they just filmed it. :dontknow:
Yes, they did mention it in Jaws and the reason it took so long to save those guys is because the Indianapolis had been carrying the A-Bomb and they had already delivered it when they got torpedoed, but it was a top secret mission and so no one knew about it for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClubberI think so they mentioned something like that in the movie Jaws.Quote:
Originally Posted by LEGION
I dislike sharks very much....there was another attack on that show that Andre's clip is from. A cruise ship had stopped somewhere in the middle of the ocean to let people get off and swim and they spot a great white and sound the horns and everyone rushes out of the water....the great white spotted a girl took it's tilted a little bit in the water so you could see it's white underbelly and latched on to the girl's leg just as she reached the lifeboat. She got on the boat alright......minus a leg.....and they showed the entire footage on Discovery Channel....it's fucking crazy. And they interviewed her and she was all like "It didn't hurt" and "I don't feel angry about it"......dude if I EVER get attacked by a shark and lose a limb I will dedicate my life to smiting those animals til they cease to exist!
I have seen that girl getting her leg ripped off. That was scary watching it on video, I couldn't imagine actually being there:-\Quote:
Originally Posted by LyleYes, they did mention it in Jaws and the reason it took so long to save those guys is because the Indianapolis had been carrying the A-Bomb and they had already delivered it when they got torpedoed, but it was a top secret mission and so no one knew about it for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClubberI think so they mentioned something like that in the movie Jaws.Quote:
Originally Posted by LEGION
I dislike sharks very much....there was another attack on that show that Andre's clip is from. A cruise ship had stopped somewhere in the middle of the ocean to let people get off and swim and they spot a great white and sound the horns and everyone rushes out of the water....the great white spotted a girl took it's tilted a little bit in the water so you could see it's white underbelly and latched on to the girl's leg just as she reached the lifeboat. She got on the boat alright......minus a leg.....and they showed the entire footage on Discovery Channel....it's fucking crazy. And they interviewed her and she was all like "It didn't hurt" and "I don't feel angry about it"......dude if I EVER get attacked by a shark and lose a limb I will dedicate my life to smiting those animals til they cease to exist!
I saw a documentary on the Indianapolis a while back, and they had some of the survivors go back to where the ship went down. A bunch of old men crying and remembering those horrible hours they spent in the water.
Yeah, that was the boat that delivered the bomb, and was on its way back to meet up with the fleet. They said that the distress signal they sent was ignored by the higher ups, because they thought it was Japanese subs trying to lure some ships out on a false rescue, so they could torpedo someone. Crazy sh#t.
Why didn't anyone quickly grabd peroxide & some bandaids? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
....perhaps the salt water was going to disinfect that?
You know what I hate "investagatory bites" as a rational behind shark attacks. "Oh he didn't know what you were so he just took a chunk out of your body to see if you were any good".....scientists can be totally devoid of common fucking sense sometimes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4S4BXeHvX0
Who's up for a swim???
This piece of meat looks like it's long past it's expiration date, but I shall take a nice big bite to see if it's still good.........................
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Actually speaking of the USS Indy...
The guy unt the seaplane that spotted them went against orders, landed and started strapping guys to the wings and pontoons to get them out of the water... He saved alot of men...
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy. She holds a place in history due to the notorious circumstances of her demise, which was the worst single loss of life at-sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. After delivering critical parts for the first atomic bomb to be used in combat to the United States air base at Tinian Island on July 26, 1945, she was in the Philippine Sea when attacked at 00:14 on July 30, 1945 by a Japanese submarine. Most of the crew was lost to a combination of exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks as they waited for assistance while floating helplessly for several days. Indianapolis was the last major U.S. Navy ship sunk by enemy action in World War II (the submarine USS Bullhead was attacked by Japanese aircraft with depth charges and sunk on August 6, 1945).
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Excerpt from JAWS
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: Shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away...but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark...he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they...rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bo'sun's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us...he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened...waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.