Sharks at Kaneohe sandbar - video!

[acousticlady]

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Very cool. Nature at its finest - or is that fiercest? Your friend looks familiar - does he spend time on Maui?

[LikaNui]

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I'd guess they'll also show it on their morning show.

Yep, they did.

I went kayaking out to the Mokulua's this week...glad I didn't spot any or I would have freaked!

Well, if you'd paddled another 10 miles offshore you would've!

Very cool. Nature at its finest - or is that fiercest?

Both.

Your friend looks familiar - does he spend time on Maui?

Not often. Occasional fishing charters who want to go there. Maybe once a year. Mostly he goes to Molokai a lot as an escort boat for the various paddling races across the channel.

[LikaNui]

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Reviving this thread to see if anyone else has noticed the increase in shark sightings on all our islands in the past couple of months. Seems like there's something in the news every few days recently!
Just moments ago I heard that paramedics were heading to a shark bite victim near Crouching Lion Inn, in Kahana Bay. Should be an update on the 6pm news.

[LikaNui]

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Just moments ago I heard that paramedics were heading to a shark bite victim near Crouching Lion Inn, in Kahana Bay. Should be an update on the 6pm news.

Okay, here is the Breaking News story:

A 40-year-old male surfer suffered injuries to his right leg today in a shark attack at Ka'a'awa near the Crouching Lion restaurant.
The attack was reported at 5:01 p.m.
The man fought off the shark and paddled to shore with assistance from a surfing companion. Firefighters administered medical aid to the victim on shore before turning him over to Emergency Medical Services personnel, said HFD spokesman Capt. Robert Main.
City Emergency Services Department spokesman Bryan Cheplic said the man was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
The man reportedly had a 15-inch open wound on his right leg and a smaller wound to the hamstring area of the same leg. He also had in juries to his fingers from fighting off the shark.
Ocean Safety personnel went out to clear the water of surfers and warning signs have been posted although the area is an unguarded beach, Cheplic said. Officials plan to reassess the situation tomorrow morning.

[Kalalau]

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I get into so much trouble for saying this, but it would be very fine with me if all the man eating shark species in the world, along with stingrays, were made extinct. I'd even put money up for it.

[turtlegirl]

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Wow!! I feel so awful for that poor surfer. Lucky for him he had a friend nearby to help.

What's wrong with the sharks lately!? Did anyone else see this article? Apparently over the weekend Kailua Beach was closed from Castles down to the boat ramp because of shark sightings. While I was on the big island, I noticed a few beaches that also had shark warning signs.

Scary!

[Composite 2992]

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I get into so much trouble for saying this, but it would be very fine with me if all the man eating shark species in the world, along with stingrays, were made extinct. I'd even put money up for it.

An eradication attempt was made where large sharks were taken out in large numbers after someone died while swimming in murky water in Maui.

What happened next was unexpected: A decrease in the number of reef fish.

Getting rid of the largest predators increased the smaller predators, which then increased the pressure on the lower rung of the food chain.

[Ron Whitfield]

Why, Kalalau?

I certainly have no problem with sharks. I stay out of their territory these day's.

Their food sources have been nearly depleated, so they're going after whatever looks like potential food.

Years ago, while at my perch at the turn from TCL to Kahana Bay, the foot of The Sleeping Giant, I watched a huge shark repeatedly lunge out of the surface at something along the reef line. A wow! moment.

Many years ago, a friend brought in a 15' tiger tangled in his net outside of Kahana Bay.

They've always been in our waters, just out of sight, but now they are coming in.

[salmoned]

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I get into so much trouble for saying this, but it would be very fine with me if all the man eating shark species in the world, along with stingrays, were made extinct. I'd even put money up for it.

I agree, every man who eats sharks or stingrays should be made extinct, next question?

[Kalalau]

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Save the sharks! Save cancer! I don't see any difference. Sorry.

I am a hypocrite on this, I know it. I get bent out of shape at the thought of Palin shooting defenseless animals from an airplane, out in the open, with no place to hide. Yet I have had minor brushes with sharks, circled twice by small sharks that were checking me out. If it comes down to a question of whether I have the right to continue existing or a shark has the right to a nip, I win every time, so does any human. Almost any human.

[Vanguard]

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An eradication attempt was made where large sharks were taken out in large numbers after someone died while swimming in murky water in Maui.

What happened next was unexpected: A decrease in the number of reef fish.

Getting rid of the largest predators increased the smaller predators, which then increased the pressure on the lower rung of the food chain.

Principal Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

Lisa Simpson: But isn’t that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we’re overrun by lizards?

Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They’ll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren’t the snakes even worse?

Skinner: Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: But then we’re stuck with gorillas!

Skinner: No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[salmoned]

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Kalalau, no need to apologize, most of us are ignorant in some areas. A shark is an independent being with a natural, evolved existence quite similar to your own, with an equivalent claim to it's ecological niche. Cancer is an independent being's own cells misbehaving to the being's detriment. No being, no cancer. Cancer has not and cannot evolve beyond the individual being in which it arises, as there is no mechanism of transferal to other independent beings. There's no possibility of driving cancer to extinction unless we drive all beings capable of acquiring cancer to extinction. As for sharks and other species, there is not only the possibility, but the current trend, of driving them to extinction, which necessarily leads to a decreased range of adaptation for our biosphere, leading to a greater likelihood of biological collapse(s).

[Likeke]

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Wow.. that is really an eye-opener.. I would freak out if I see that

[Composite 2992]

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Anyone hear the little factoid that sharks don't get cancer?

BTW, I was diving at Kaena and circling a small white-tipped reef shark the other weekend while testing out a video camera.

Live and let live.