Them salt water crocs are nasty

"Geo" wrote

> Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
> comes to mind, not sure what others...

Damn sure not lawyer/sharks, they find myriad excuses to avoid it.

We do get alligators, but even without I suspect "our manly bragging
rights" are there just for going under the limestone, if that's what one
seeks. Greg cannot claim it for diving with sharks, professional courtesy &
such.

Personally though, I do it just for the love of diving the passages, and
the total detachment from the surface world, get my adrenaline rushes in
different ways.

Curtis

"Geo" <ghmorris@candlelight.ca> wrote in message
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>
> Grumman-581 (five eight one) wrote:
>> "Greg Mossman" wrote in message
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>> > So says the guy who only dives in freshwater holes so the sharks can't
>> > get
>> > to him.
>>
>> Wrong-o... I dove with Curtis at Blue Springs (and nearly stepped on a
>> manatee in the process)... If the manatee could make it up from the
>> ocean, a
>> shark could also...
>
> Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
> comes to mind, not sure what others...
>
> George
>

A small Great White was caught in a brackish lake in Australia a few weeks
back. The scientists said it was probably lost and is not a common
occurrence.

Pat

"Pat" <noemail@no_where.com> wrote in message
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> Salt water crocs spin but they also have enormous jaw pressure.
> There was another attack the other day where a 10 year old girl was
> attacked but survived.

She wasn't ripe yet.

Grumman-581 (five eight one) wrote:
> "Greg Mossman" wrote in message news:11k8c7qp88noe1f@corp.supernews.com...
> > So says the guy who only dives in freshwater holes so the sharks can't get
> > to him.
>
> Wrong-o... I dove with Curtis at Blue Springs (and nearly stepped on a
> manatee in the process)... If the manatee could make it up from the ocean, a
> shark could also...

Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
comes to mind, not sure what others...

George

Grumman-581 wrote:
> "Geo" wrote in message
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>
>>Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
>>comes to mind, not sure what others...
>
>
> Yeah, that's what I was thinking of... I seem to remember a case where a
> bull shark was found quite a distance up a river at one time... Far enough
> that the water wasn't even brackish anymore...
>
>
That is why they are called Zambezi sharks somewhere else.

Matthias

"Geo" wrote in message
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> Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
> comes to mind, not sure what others...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of... I seem to remember a case where a
bull shark was found quite a distance up a river at one time... Far enough
that the water wasn't even brackish anymore...

Matthias Voss <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote:
> Grumman-581 wrote:
> > "Geo" wrote in message
> > news:1128649755.965432.45560@g49g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> >
> >>Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
> >>comes to mind, not sure what others...
> >
> >
> > Yeah, that's what I was thinking of... I seem to remember a case where a
> > bull shark was found quite a distance up a river at one time... Far enough
> > that the water wasn't even brackish anymore...
> >
> >
> That is why they are called Zambezi sharks somewhere else.


In July 1916, there were five shark attacks (four were fatal) in NJ in
very quick succession which caused a local panic.

There's two books, "Close to Shore" and "12 Days of Terror". I can't
find which one I have (I might have both?), but it was a good read.

My recollection is that one of the last attacks occurred several miles
up one of the local rivers...the number that sticks in my head for some
reason is 12 miles.

"The" shark was reportedly 9-12 feet long, and there's been speculation
on if it was a bull or a young great white, although the general
conclusion appears GW, based on one that was killed nearby shortly after
the last attack, as its stomach contents were analyzed and there were
reportedly items within that matched some of the victims.


http://www.njhm.com/matawanmaneater.htm


-hh

"H Huntzinger" <{NOSPAM-rm_to_reply}rec-scuba2005@huntzinger.com> wrote in
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> Matthias Voss <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Grumman-581 wrote:
>> > "Geo" wrote in message
>> > news:1128649755.965432.45560@g49g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> >
>> >>Not over many sharks that like fresh or brackish water. A bull shark
>> >>comes to mind, not sure what others...
>> >
>> >
>> > Yeah, that's what I was thinking of... I seem to remember a case where
>> > a
>> > bull shark was found quite a distance up a river at one time... Far
>> > enough
>> > that the water wasn't even brackish anymore...
>> >
>> >
>> That is why they are called Zambezi sharks somewhere else.

Zambezi shark and Ganges shark. Both after the estuaries they are found in.
>
>
>snip<
>
> My recollection is that one of the last attacks occurred several miles
> up one of the local rivers...the number that sticks in my head for some
> reason is 12 miles.
>
>
They have been reported being seen some 1800 miles up the Mississippi, in
Illinois and even further up the Amazon.

LD.

""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Personally though, I do it just for the love of diving the passages,
> and the total detachment from the surface world, get my adrenaline rushes
> in different ways.

I think it's because you have a grizzly bear somewhere up in your family
tree, giving you an unnatural desire to inhabit caves (not to mention the
obvious physical clues).

"Limey" wrote in message
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> They have been reported being seen some 1800 miles up the Mississippi, in
> Illinois and even further up the Amazon.

That is definitely outside the range of brackish water... If they can make
it that far, they wouldn't have a problem making it up to Blue Springs...
Might be a problem if they developed a taste for manatee...