The Sun.
It could actually be a dogfish and The sun would pigeon hole it as a 20ft man eater

I'm sorry... maybe neither one of you saw the question at the bottom

Any views on the photo? Great White or something else?

Mop

Please repost when you have a photo of Cthulu or Leviathan plz

If we all waited to post when something like this comes along, it would be a pretty boring place




Dalek

The Sun.
It could actually be a dogfish and The sun would pigeon hole it as a 20ft man eater

Is that your reply to the question... a DogFish??

The Sun is far from the most credible piece of reading, but they did however print the story, in which the photo is my topic for this thread.



What's your take on the photo?

Its tough to judge by the picture alone. Can't really make out the size, or see its head. It could just be a porbeagle or mako.

And the previous sightings off the coast was a hoax. The guy that had the picture of the shark admitted he took it in South Africa.

Well im not a qualified expert but i hope to be some day and in the mean time i have been studying sharks for a few years

And personally the patterns suggest a mako shark or great white shark but the shape suggests a bullshark apart from the dorsal fin which suggests none of the above

But i can say with confidence that i dont believe that thats a great white

Its not the clearest of pictures but given the pattern and the size of the shark people would just assume its a great white, but i highly doubt that it is

for some reason many groups seem to have an obsession with the concept of " great white sharks in UK waters " that goes far far beyond


some sportsmen [ sea kyakers , wind , wave and kite sufrers ] seem convinced that if a GW turns up it will eat them and thier entire club

i have encountered fishermen with obsessions of being the first to catch a GW in UK waters

scaremongerers who think that the plot of the jaws movie / book will be played out on newquay beach

there is virtually no barrier to the GW coming here - bar apathy / inertia - why migrate when its current habitat is niether over populated , poluted or devoid of food ?

but strangers from distat oceans appear here with regularity - by accident or design - what is so special about the GW ?

from a saftey POV - the apperence of tigersharks in numbers would be a far greater concern

the GW has developed a mythos so far divorced fom reality that even the POSSIBILITY of its presence here provokes near hysteria

IMHO ` lost ` individual GWs probally traverse UK waters with regularity - as do sunfish who come just as far and are just as ` out of place `

south africa , the USA and other places have 10s of thousands of sharks in thier aters - with only a hand full of attacks

but some how certain elements in britain hve convinced themselves that a single GW will unleash carnage in UK waters

PAH ! i would love to see GWs here - it would save me havoing to go to south africa to see them

I fail to see why this thread is on this site to be honest.

This is not a one line post.