Thread: Kayaker and great white shark

Not my video. I don't normally post other people's videos, but worth a watch.

Originally Posted by MB

Not my video. I don't normally post other people's videos, but worth a watch.

Ahh yeah no thank you....bugger that for a joke.....

If on the ocean I like a BIG boat to be in.Bugga that.

Yeah nah

Saw a post on Facebook the other day about a seal with a bite mark from a gw and someone on there pointed out if you swarch Kaka point on Google earth and search along the coast line you can actually see a big patch of blood in the water and big shark moving away, have been diving there plenty of times... makes me want to give it a miss now though haha, pretty interesting, sharks from space!

Work mate showed me a video of a GW alongside his boat, (it was as big as the boat) 300m off one of Nelsons popular swimming beaches at Rabbit Island. We went swimming there yesterday and didn't see any.

I suppose that’s what you get when you are a wokie fishing off a surfboard….with lots of splashing and movement.

My local fishing page has been hot with great white stories. Now everyone's a shark expert! One or more very large great whites seems to be hanging out in Whangarei Harbour. We don't have any seals in summer and although the harbour is packed with fish, I can't see a 5+ metre shark chasing snapper around. Why summer? They can tolerate cold water and the seals are here in winter. One theory is that she is here to pup. Any thoughts?

As a diver, I'm not thrilled. Don't care about bronzies or even makos, but don't want to bump in to one of these things.

Yeah that big one in whangarai harbour was a bit concerning. I told.my kids as they were swimming out to the pole in the harbour to jump off. They didn't even bat a eye lid. Me i stayed in waist deep water for my swim. But concerning though. Must have been in there to have pups id say

Last sighting at the Frenchman.

That young fulla has some good vids.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Work mate showed me a video of a GW alongside his boat, (it was as big as the boat) 300m off one of Nelsons popular swimming beaches at Rabbit Island. We went swimming there yesterday and didn't see any.

But were any GW eye-balling you?

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Work mate showed me a video of a GW alongside his boat, (it was as big as the boat) 300m off one of Nelsons popular swimming beaches at Rabbit Island. We went swimming there yesterday and didn't see any.

"....We're going to need a bigger boat!"

As a teenager I had a lot of up close and personal views of GW's in Foveaux Strait but always from a boat. One day all the other sharks took off and a huge GW, probably 20 feet, came to check the sheep carcass bait we were trolling with. I was sitting on top of the wheelhouse with a rifle on our (3 mates) small, old and fragile clinker-built boat and the shark was about 4-5 feet longer than we were. He dived and came at us from the side and went under us but made contact and rocked us about, sticking out at least 6 feet each side as he went under. I didn't dare shoot at him with my M1 carbine in case I made him angry! It scared the crap out of the 3 of us and we never did that again!