JAWS has been found.... and tagged

MAKE no mistake, Jaws is out there. And we have a picture to prove it.

This photo shows the size of a great white shark tagged twice by Fisheries Department officers last month.

The female has been detected lurking off West Australia’s south coast prompting a caution to swimmers to beware.

The 5-metre shark was detected near Albany at the weekend when a distressed whale beached itself.

Local beaches were closed to allow the removal of the carcass but the monster shark is believed to have remained in the area.

Mark Kleeman, from the Department of Fisheries, said the great white has been detected regularly near Albany since it was fitted with an internal acoustic tag last month.

eddie wrote:Is that the biggest ever seen then?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Is that the biggest ever seen then?

Not by a long shot, their corpses have been recovered measuring 6.5, and reports have 8-meter sharks have been made.

eddie wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Is that the biggest ever seen then?

Not by a long shot, their corpses have been recovered measuring 6.5, and reports have 8-meter sharks have been made.

Bloody hell!
Swimming in the middle of the ocean is not going to be top of my list of things to do this year then   

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:

Bloody hell!
Swimming in the middle of the ocean is not going to be top of my list of things to do this year then   

I understand though that they don't tend to target humans unless they're pretty desperate or they smell blood ...

gerber wrote:Very good friend of Son's who had emigrated to Aus came to visit last Christmas.  He lives in Perth and has a wicked humour.

He recalled the day he was fined on Perth beach by the Police...............  Unamed shouted " Shark " and to his delight all the swimmers left the Ocean rapidly............  He reckoned he had never laughed so much and seen people move so quickly.  He was fined $200 Aus by the beachboys for stupidity........