"When I saw The Matrix at a local theatre in Slovenia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film - namely, to an idiot." - Slavoj Zizek
#4164185 - 09/02/1507:50 AMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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You also get them around South Africa and most of the coast around the USA, one was spotted off Cornwall in the UK recently too.
I've been close to a shark once, there were 4 of us in my father's 12ft boat, we were out fishing on Loch Fyne and on the east side of the loch. I had let out 150 meters (a little under 500ft) of line and had not touched the bottom of the loch, so it is a deep sea loch and also used by the navy for submarine training as part of the Perisher course.
We reeled in the line as the water got shallower closer to the shore and eventually we could see the bottom, the water was as clear as glass and we could see a shark following some fish, it looked about 3ft or so long and we thought about trying to catch it...
We could see it coming up to the surface so we manoeuvred into position and my uncle Joe was going to whack it with the heavy brass boat hook... we seen the fin break the surface, I was on the tiller, my father was on the engine controls and my uncle was standing up in the bow with the boathook poised like a harpoon. I steered the boat alongside the shark...
It's tail was behind the boat, it's fin was forwards of amidships and as it rolled over on it's side showing it's gaping mouth with rows of teeth my uncle shouted "HARD ASTERN BOBBY" and my dad threw the gear leaver into reverse and I steered the bow away from the shark. The shark flicked it's tail against the bow with enough force that the boat shuddered and nearly toppled my uncle into the water.
Now our little boat was a mahogany on oak clinker built tender with a 1.5hp inboard engine, it was no light weight and had very good sea keeping. The shark was about 16ft comparing it with the size of the boat, and we kept out the water for the rest of that day
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
#4164186 - 09/02/1508:03 AMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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You also get them around South Africa and most of the coast around the USA, one was spotted off Cornwall in the UK recently too.
I've been close to a shark once, there were 4 of us in my father's 12ft boat, we were out fishing on Loch Fyne and on the east side of the loch. I had let out 150 meters (a little under 500ft) of line and had not touched the bottom of the loch, so it is a deep sea loch and also used by the navy for submarine training as part of the Perisher course.
We reeled in the line as the water got shallower closer to the shore and eventually we could see the bottom, the water was as clear as glass and we could see a shark following some fish, it looked about 3ft or so long and we thought about trying to catch it...
We could see it coming up to the surface so we manoeuvred into position and my uncle Joe was going to whack it with the heavy brass boat hook... we seen the fin break the surface, I was on the tiller, my father was on the engine controls and my uncle was standing up in the bow with the boathook poised like a harpoon. I steered the boat alongside the shark...
It's tail was behind the boat, it's fin was forwards of amidships and as it rolled over on it's side showing it's gaping mouth with rows of teeth my uncle shouted "HARD ASTERN BOBBY" and my dad threw the gear leaver into reverse and I steered the bow away from the shark. The shark flicked it's tail against the bow with enough force that the boat shuddered and nearly toppled my uncle into the water.
Now our little boat was a mahogany on oak clinker built tender with a 1.5hp inboard engine, it was no light weight and had very good sea keeping. The shark was about 16ft comparing it with the size of the boat, and we kept out the water for the rest of that day
"When I saw The Matrix at a local theatre in Slovenia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film - namely, to an idiot." - Slavoj Zizek
#4164215 - 09/02/1510:06 AMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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Lol Immermann,I was just coming on to post that clip myself.Also,one of the greatest ad-libs ever by Scheider.
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#4164252 - 09/02/1512:24 PMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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That's one of SPECTRE's sharks that will soon be fitted with fricking lasers.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4164277 - 09/02/1512:55 PMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
#4164379 - 09/02/1505:26 PMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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The former HMS Quebec on Loch Fyne is where we kept our caravan for most of the year. In the early 1960s it was revived as a caravan site. It was rough and ready with lots of the old military/naval buildings still there, it was a great place for a kid to play with lots of nooks and crannies to get lost in.
When I was about 12 my father bought the 12ft tender at Crinan when the local laird was selling off his small fleet. Crinan is also where they filmed the boat chases in the James Bond film From Russia with Love, I was there when they were filming it
I had to GOOGLE Loch Fyne, Alicatt, to see where it was.
A Great White Shark in a lake in Scotland?
YIKES!
I thought the only monster in Scotland's Lochs was Nessie.
Don't know what kind of shark it was, it was dark on top, light on the bottom and had rows of sharp teeth, I had seen plenty of basking sharks in Loch Fyne and this was not one of them - too small for one thing.
A lot of times we would look across the loch and see something on the surface of the water, then we would have bets as to whether it was a submarine periscope or a basking shark, seen lots of both!
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
#4164496 - 09/02/1510:22 PMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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There was one spotted off Ballina NSW last weekend (we were there visiting) estimated at 20 feet plus. I dunno exactly but there would have to be a couple of tonnes of shark there...as heavy as an elephant.
"You'll never take me alive" said he, And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong "Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?"
#4164505 - 09/02/1510:56 PMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
#4164516 - 09/02/1511:35 PMRe: Dang! I thought Jaws was only big in the movie.
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