I’m 38 now, and while I am terrible at math, one thing I was blessed with is a photographic memory for quotations, history and what have you.

When I first viewed my dive mate’s photos, this “smiling” White shark photo jumped out as better than all the rest. I posted it and about 50 other on shark attacks.com (and another shark site).

Within a few years, having forgotten about the photos I posted, I will never forget getting a FWD from about 30 different people that used the same photo. It was since debunked on snopes. Classic!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/scubashark.asp

I know it’s the internet and people are going to believe what they want to believe and I really could care less insofar that I have zero right to say “it’s my photo” because, in the end, I didn’t take it. So it isn’t my photo. Moreover, I think it is so cool every time I see it on youtube or a cover of a shark book or what have you.

So, not looking for props, just wanted to share with my fellow sharkies

Of course, someone else “claims” he did. But if he was actually the photographer, presumably he would be getting royalties from all the uses.

http://www.thedorsalfin.com/uncategorized/great-white-shark-photo-is-this-your-photo/

definitely a long fin Mako- and a fat one at that.

The best time to go to Guadalupe island is between October and November- although the sharks are there before and after.

I went in October years back and did it through Doc Anes and SD shark diving
http://www.sdsharkdiving.com/ .

I saw at least 10 different White sharks the first day; only one juvenile the 2nd day (that was following the small mexican fishing boat that came to visit); and about 4 or 5 the last day. One day trek to and from San Diego. Visibility was absolutely amazing. True, it’s not as affordable as South Africa, but it was a dream come true for me.

Notably, some guy on our trip went on Rodney Fox’ Neptune Island shark dive…says he paid $10,000…and they saw ZERO White sharks. You can always count on the visibility and numbers to be good off Guadalupe. Even though the island itself looked like Ayer’s Rock-desolate, underwater was literally teeming with life.

One shark came so close to the cage I shook its pectoral fin and said “I am”

Also, look at how the tail is exposed when the dorsal fin is as exposed as in the Hawaii Mako video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f9Pkf75yX0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phy1zzMMK3Y

A White shark that long would be more like a submarine shape. At least the ones I dived with in Guadalupe were.

Very nice vid by the way, thanks for sharing.

http://www.thedorsalfin.com/shark-videos/shark-caught-on-camera-in-hawaii-waters-mako-or-white-shark/

Speaking in terms of shark attacks globally, fish stocks are down worldwide. I think attacks in the Seychelles and Reunion Island might reflect this dynamic.

As an aside, I use the term “generalist feeder” because it is a term of art in sociobiology. As you are aware, most fish/reptile/avian apex predators will opportunistically realize feeding opportunities as they present themselves- and, in contrast, Killer Whales may have more specialized diets.

Bull/Zambezi sharks are certainly opportunist predators, perhaps not feeders. A very plausible argument against those who purport that sharks in fact do not like the taste of humans is that in most cases the human victim is removed or escapes from the water. In the bull sharks case and the findings of stomach content analysis (analysis shows little preference of food item) there exists your theory that given the circumstamces the opportunist shark may feed on the preyed upon item and again if the opportunity presents itself may return on occasion to find an established food source corralled into a restrictive swimming area along the beach. I would go so far as to say I support the theory that in this case an altered feeding behaviour exists during the summer months when swimmers and sharks interact within the shallow waters.

“For the adaptive will continue to survive”

Can anyone truthfully say that, “but for the sheep being dumped in the Red Sea, the Oceanic Whitetip sharks would not have preyed on those people”? And so with animal sacrifices.

Again, my thought is that “but for the diminution in fish stocks and the resultant disruption in the oceanic food chain caused by this, by climate change and/or via industrial pollution, shark attacks would be less frequent.”

But these sharks have always been know to eat us prior to any of these selective forces pressing down upon the species. This is a very important point, in my opinion. Namely, far too many marine biologists and state officials want to begin their analysis from “something went wrong” [e.g., territorial response; 'mistaken identity'; sick/injured shark] instead of dispassionately accepting the fact that we are a known and readily available resource for pelagic sharks.

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” – Saul Bellow