summitchallenger wrote:It's a shark...because of the fins and gills. I don't know if it is real or not.
Bummy, love your Avatar! It reminds me of when we were skiing Lower Vertigo together and you went first
Bummy?
You're calling SummitChallenger Bummy?
And Fantasy Inn reminds you of Vertigo?
Actually, weird what happend. I posted in this thread, went to edit it and I got bumped off the 'net and somehow my post got deleted. But I guess it showed up before I went to edit it and Atomic quoted me but somehow because my posted got deleted it quoted summitchallenger's post. Could this have happened or did Atomic have a blond moment again?
And just for the record, my first time on Vertigo headwall that day, I fell gracefully..... so gracefully that I was able to pop myself back up again (Dork was there).
It was between Panic Button and Needles where you pushed me and I received my injury that took me out for the season.
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Turzman wrote:This footage is real, and that is a seal in its mouth (not the singer, unfortunately).
Great Whites have been observed breaching like this when hunting seals for the last decade.
It was first observed off South Africa at, oddly enough, Seal Island (guess why it's called Seal Island).
Similar behavior has been observed in Whites off Northern California, but the breaching is not as spectacular there as So. Africa.
The slow motion in this video is a great touch, by the way.
Any idea why they feel the need to breach the water to get a seal? Seems like a lot of work to get their enormous mass out of the water for a little seal.
Turzman wrote:This footage is real, and that is a seal in its mouth (not the singer, unfortunately).
Great Whites have been observed breaching like this when hunting seals for the last decade.
It was first observed off South Africa at, oddly enough, Seal Island (guess why it's called Seal Island).
Similar behavior has been observed in Whites off Northern California, but the breaching is not as spectacular there as So. Africa.
The slow motion in this video is a great touch, by the way.
Any idea why they feel the need to breach the water to get a seal? Seems like a lot of work to get their enormous mass out of the water for a little seal.
It's their style of hunting...
They approach their prey from underneath and behind and then launch a surprise attack. The surprise element is the secret to their success.
The momentum of their speed is what causes the breaching, so they're not doing it for the sake of doing it.
It's a by-product of their hunting technique.
Turzman is correct about that Seal Island place. If you ever watch Shark Week on Discovery, they did a whole show dedicated to these Great Whites and their hunting techniques. They have lotsa cool underwater footage as well that shows the angle of attack and the amazing speed they reach.
The videographers would actually "bait" the sharks by towing black styrofoam that was cut so that it resembles the silohuette of a seal.
And to keep this ski related; Junior enjoys getting tea bagged by sweaty Mexicans.
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The Shark Week special being referred to was called "Air Jaws" and they made an "Air Jaws II" the next year for Shark Week.
I heard about the pregnant Hammerhead, and that is a damn shame. I don't know if the article mentions it, but Hammerhead females go through their reproductive cycles every two years, so the loss of 55 pups can seriously hurt this particular species.
For the record, it is estimated that Great Hammerheads can reach lengths just shy of twenty feet, so a 14 foot female is still in its prime.
Turzman wrote:The Shark Week special being referred to was called "Air Jaws" and they made an "Air Jaws II" the next year for Shark Week.
I heard about the pregnant Hammerhead, and that is a damn shame. I don't know if the article mentions it, but Hammerhead females go through their reproductive cycles every two years, so the loss of 55 pups can seriously hurt this particular species.
For the record, it is estimated that Great Hammerheads can reach lengths just shy of twenty feet, so a 14 foot female is still in its prime.
