Readers
byte each other over shark sightings
Feb 2000
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Therapy
needed for K2 - Thurs 23 |
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I think K2 (below)
has a serious psycho problem and needs therapy. He appears to have a monumental chip on his shoulder and a negative attitude towards surfers. Maybe he hasn't lost one of his best friends to a great white... remember the loss of Alex at Ntlonyane, Wild Coast in 1982? Only his
board was recovered. We do not advocate ridding the seas of great
whites but advocate caution. I think it is great you have created a forum to discuss sightings and other
related topics. Keep up the good work. Don't take too much notice of the K2's of this world - they
make a mountain (K2) out of a molehill. |
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Angry
byte at K2s - Friday 18 |
If this is a rigged response from any of you guys at Wavescape to keep his debate going, well done.
(certainly not, K2 is a reader - Ed) You've managed to turn it around completely and we've gone from sharks to sewage - Which is actually quite clever as they are the most important two hazards known to surfers worldwide.
If this response comes from you, K2, well done as well - but your attitude stinks like that pooh that floats past you when you're sitting in wait for some sloppy kuk wave at Muizenburg.
The idea was merely a debate on what shark could have been spotted at Derde Steen that day (And i believe it was a shark and NOT a Dolphin you
&*+#@! - Have you ever seen one?). It wasn't time consuming. I don't know about the others, but i am certainly not a moron and fully understand our place in the ocean. It's certainly not an ego booster as we may have had buds that have been taken by sharks.
We don't spend hours writing about our little sightings (We probably don't have time and i'm sure all have jobs and families to look after - DO YOU?).
And about Shitberg, it's Blouberg buddy - I stay here. Yes i've seen shit on the beach and yes i've seen fights and drunkards. Fights and drunkennes has absolutely
&*^@! to do with your little campaign. As far as littering is concerned -
I'll clobber any &*^@ i see throwing shit around ANY beach up the West Coast. I'll stand by anyone who has the same view. Sometimes a simple "Please throw that wrapper in the blue bin on the lamp-post over there.." works. Unfortunately i'm never able to catch the dickheads who discard their sif condoms around our parking areas after a nights poking...
If you want to challenge the council about the sewage outlets in Muizenberg, Sea Point or any other hidden location and you need support, go about it differently aggro
&*^@! Calling fellow surfers who marvel about sharks time wasting,
"moronic ass mothersuckers" is wrong and blatantly rude. None of those fat cats sitting in their leather seats will listen to your bad
mouth.
If you want to get a SAS type thing going, review your attitude and do it properly - leave your real name next time and not some kuk alias. There is nothing worse than a sea polluted with foul mouthed surfers who think they know the world. |
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K2
adds "byte" to the debate - Tuesday 15
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Basking/tiger/great white/raggie
shark .............why the fuss????
Has anyone told these morons that the sea is full of large creatures known as fish and more commonly known as sharks,
or ......... was it a dolphin .... and that they will sometime or another be lucky enough to see one of these scaly buggers.
These people make out like sharks are flipping aliens and refer to the experience of seeing one of these awesome animals as a "sighting".What did you expect, you idiots? They live under your little playground 24hrs a day and you all get a little hard-on because you had a lame ass "sighting". I think its a surfer thing to boost your ego to be able to tell everyone that you saw a
shark .......... "oh my gawd, I neeeaarrllyyyy died!!!!!!!!"
You are all a bunch of lame ass mothersuckers, you spend your hours writing about your little sightings when you could be more pro-active in standing up about more important issues like all the shit they are pumping in to False bay and many other places around our beautiful coastline.
Have you seen the state of Muizenburg lately.......its a goddamn toilet!!!!
Been to Blouberg lately? Its more like Shitberg. Paper, shit, broken bottles, drunkards, fights.............. nobody does a thing!!!! Where are your hearts? I'm sick of cowardly South Africans.
Get a life, if you really care about when next you want to amaze your friends about that shark that you saw, then you had better take a stand about what the
f . . . s dump into our playgrounds...... and how the other pigs net schools of dolphins and slice em like sushi to feed their fat faces..... right on your doorsteps. Do something, or one day you won't even see a bloody piece of kelp drifting through your break.
We can start something like SAS and fight the vermin and protect the state of our land and our seas.
Keep the wonderful experience of seeing an awe-inspiring beast like a shark to yourself and shout out loud and fight for your life against some mother#%$@#$ throwing his shit down on your beach.
Those interested in getting a SAS (surfers against sewerage) type organisation together must post a response to this on Wavescape and we can get a website going to organize a fight against filth and the
murder of our sea. |
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K2 |
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Platboom
sighting - Tuesday 1 Feb |
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Goodafternoon, I've got a question:
Last week we were surfing in Platboom and we saw two
vins in the water, I was convinced it where sharks,
my friends told me that sharks are always single
"swimmers" and never with two. So they
claimed it would be dolphins. It was about 20 meters
from the shore and my boyfriend had just been
surfing, so was he lucky or is he (still, because
he's still there in Table View) dreaming? I always
say that dolphins carry a ball and listen to the name
"Flipper" if not, they'll listen to Jaws!
By the way Scarsborough is more then beautifull with
a great swell and we will submit some pictures soon,
although Witsand has really high waves too. A place
what needs to visited again! Thanx for your
reaction! |
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A (kind of
worried) girlfriend - (hayke.van.dommelen@multisystems.nl) |
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Derdesteen
shark: Larry Coe responds - Saturday 29 Jan |
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I have been reading the responses re
the shark sighting with interest. Yes I was close
about 12 feet away and it was a small 4' shark. Yes I
have seen the big plankton eater a number of times
out at doodles in blouberg. The 2nd dorsal fin on the
little one does NOT look the same as the basking
shark and the best fit description I can give is of
the nurse (raggie) type. The main dorsal fin was like
an inverted V and the 2nd a bit smaller ,the same
shape. it was also very narrow torpedo shaped. The
tail fin was longer on the top than the bottom,
(similar to a thresher). There was no markings on the
fin ruling out a white tipped sharks. What other
species are found in this area ? The water was very
cold (11 deg) when we saw it. |
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Larry Coe |
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believe the Derdesteen
shark was a Basking shark - Tues 18 Jan |
I refer to the articles placed by
Patrick Dilley
and Larry Coe -
I was quite interested by Patrick's summary of the shark and more surprised when his closing statement was
"... haven't identified type but definitely not a raggie."
It sounds as though Patrick may think that the ragged-tooth shark, which can be found anywhere along our coasts, is the most common shark found
on the West Coast (Blouberg to Koeberg). I believe this to be untrue. Firstly, due to my own frightening experiences and many sightings in the past, i believe The Basking Shark to be the most common shark found in the waters between Blouberg (in front of Steers) and Koeberg.
It happens quite often that surfers/bodyboarders who see a shark often label it as one of the more ferocious ones like the Great White or Ragged Tooth Shark species. It's quite easy to make this mistake because the dorsal fin of
a Basking Shark looks like that of the Great White. The slow movement of the Basking Shark may give the impression that it is a Raggy
because Ragged Tooth sharks are slow movers.
Secondly, unless Patrick or Larry actually saw the markings of the shark up close it would be extremely difficult to label the shark they saw a Raggy. Harmless, despite it's formidable appearance, the ragged tooth shark's common habitat are the coral and rocky reefs of warmer waters. Some have been spotted though, by divers around the seaweed beds around Melkbos.
Could the shark they saw have been a small basking shark? Any sighting can be terribly frightening and stories can fly if an incorrect assumption is made. I believe the shark they saw was a harmless plankton feeder called the Basking Shark. |
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Derdesteen
shark was a Raggie - Friday 14 January |
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I saw the same 4' shark clearly on Sunday at Derdesteen, left of the rock area. My kids' shark book did not give me any idea except its
shape was closest to a leapord shark although the colouring was grey/blue.
There were 3 of us out there and all saw him about 12' away. None of us
hung around, the surf was getting blown-out onshore anyway.
Update: it probably was
a "Raggie" (ragged-tooth) - I've seen a few
having been on the East Coast for some time (but never this
small)
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Larry Coe |
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Shark
Alert - Monday 10 January
Shark
spotted at Derdesteen (Cape Town) at 11am yesterday morning
(Sunday 9 Jan). Three surfers (myself included), two
boogie boarders in the water. Size of shark probably
approx 4' maybe a bit bigger. Haven't identified type
yet but defnitely not a raggie. Will let you know
once I've identified it. |
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Keep
on surfin', Patrick Dilley |
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