Sharkers identify this one - Page 4

knock down · 07-02-2009, 07:16 PM

Bull Shark !!!!

Gringo · 07-02-2009, 07:29 PM

I just looked at the four or five surface shots we took before La Gringa started driving the boat and I started climbing around on the gunwales trying to get the u/w shots. Nothing useful in the topside photos Pretty blue water. With a big dark blob moving through it.

It was difficult to get underwater shots that way. We had to keep the boat moving to stay close to the shark. But trying to extend your arms down into the water with a camera in your fist while the boat is moving is pretty danged tricky. The water will try to rip your arm out of it's various sockets. Failing that it will just bend it in strange directions. And it will try to take the camera away from you. If you have the little cord strap around your wrist, you will not lose the camera. You do lose some use of your wrist for a few days, but the bruises look so pretty when they start changing colors.

If we stopped the boat to make the photography easier, the shark got too far away to get a good image.

Oh well. We have credible people who think it is a Tiger shark, and equally knowledgeable people saying it is a bull shark.

neither one of them make good pets, as I recall.

Deep C · 07-02-2009, 07:37 PM

Gringo... Yours is a tiger for sure... That being said. Have LaGringa hold you by your ankles or man up pass the fish and jump in... Not likely that it will eat you. Yeah it could but most likely not. Rub em on their snout and or belly and they love it...

07-02-2009, 07:29 PM	#32
Gringo I think Admin is going to let me have this space Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: 21.9 deg. N Posts: 2,185 Credits: 5,601.4 Boat: Contender 25, Hobie Mirage Home Port: Providenciales TCI BWI Best Catch: This girl who shoots the monkeys off my back. Occupation: Perfecting the art of the 7 day weekend.	I just looked at the four or five surface shots we took before La Gringa started driving the boat and I started climbing around on the gunwales trying to get the u/w shots. Nothing useful in the topside photos Pretty blue water. With a big dark blob moving through it. It was difficult to get underwater shots that way. We had to keep the boat moving to stay close to the shark. But trying to extend your arms down into the water with a camera in your fist while the boat is moving is pretty danged tricky. The water will try to rip your arm out of it's various sockets. Failing that it will just bend it in strange directions. And it will try to take the camera away from you. If you have the little cord strap around your wrist, you will not lose the camera. You do lose some use of your wrist for a few days, but the bruises look so pretty when they start changing colors. If we stopped the boat to make the photography easier, the shark got too far away to get a good image. Oh well. We have credible people who think it is a Tiger shark, and equally knowledgeable people saying it is a bull shark. neither one of them make good pets, as I recall. __________________ http://2gringos.blogspot.com/ There are very few personal problems that cannot be resolved with the proper application of high explosives.

07-02-2009, 07:37 PM	#33
Deep C Master of all things wet Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Plywood State Posts: 13,636 Credits: 42,099.8 Boat: Several Home Port: Palm Beach Best Catch: Mrs Deep Occupation: Killin Stuff	Gringo... Yours is a tiger for sure... That being said. Have LaGringa hold you by your ankles or man up pass the fish and jump in... Not likely that it will eat you. Yeah it could but most likely not. Rub em on their snout and or belly and they love it... Last edited by Deep C; 07-02-2009 at 07:39 PM.

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