Thread: Kayaker and great white shark

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

A few years back as part of shark tours on Foveaux one operator was using old wetsuits to stuff full of fish frames as it was "the perfect medium" for the sharks to rip apart for the tourists to see... teaching them that wetsuits are full of yummy fish, now that's a farking smart idea...

Really? That's got to be a piss take, surely. The same outfit was running dolphin swim tours probably haha.

That Whangarei one will be a mature female, apparently old mate from DOC (who's name is gone) that does the sharks seems to think that's a 'normal' size for an adult female white. I was sitting in at one of the talks he did a while back at the fishing club, really interesting. Apparently the things don't ever stop growing, and don't suffer from 'old age' like other species so if there's sufficient food and conditions are right... He seemed to suggest that the size we get now is mostly due to the reduction of feed in the oceans due to us fishing the hell out of everything, and that they have evidence of skeletons the size of extinct shark species but that seem to be to young to be them.