Great White Sharks In The UK

[Clifftop]

Maybe this observation is incorrect but over the years of seeing great white activities food is the main factor for them to be in certain seas. In the Med they appear to follow what is left of the tuna stocks, South Africa and Australia it appears to be seals, California it would appear to be seals and surfers lol and the east coast of the US it would appear to be the same.

 

Now some sharks like the tiger shark do from what I have read hunt different species of food items in different areas and are known to travel thousands of miles, where as the great white appears to be a creature which resides in a more restricted area.

 

Do they ever tag great whites in order to track their habits more closely?

 

We do have the right attractions for them water temp and seals plus a few surfers but I am sure if they were about in any numbers we would have many sightings.

 

 

They do Ken.

 

https://www.rodneyfox.com.au/index.php/sele...ntent/340741480

 

second paragraph down

[snakey1]

More about "Nicoles" trip here

[Phone]

All,

 

FWIW,

 

Sharks along our three sea coasts are being influanced by garbage. They can detect electric current in extremly small voltages/amperages. For example, the irregular heart beat of a dying fish up to one mile is detectable.

 

As garbage is being dumped further and further out to sea sharks are being influanced. Tin cans are small electric current generators. Two different metals generate an electric current as they decay that "collects" sharks. They are appearing in weird patterns and that, to some extent, is one theory.

 

Phone

[corydoras]

All,

 

FWIW,

 

Sharks along our three sea coasts are being influanced by garbage. They can detect electric current in extremly small voltages/amperages. For example, the irregular heart beat of a dying fish up to one mile is detectable.

 

As garbage is being dumped further and further out to sea sharks are being influanced. Tin cans are small electric current generators. Two different metals generate an electric current as they decay that "collects" sharks. They are appearing in weird patterns and that, to some extent, is one theory.

 

Phone

Give that man a coconut! Elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) have sense organs called the Ampullae of Lorenzini that can detect tiny currents of electricity given off by living organisms. That scene you see in Jaws where Matt Hooper hides on the bottom of the ocean until the shark goes away is pure BS. As long as he was breathing and his heart was beating the shark would have known exactly where he was.

[captain cojones]

 

Well i was a shark this afternoon.......Swimming around in the foam party we decided to have in one of the streets in my village.

(we are "in fiestas")

I noticed the particularly nice prey in the pic....but i was afraid of being eaten alive................

[Phone]

corydoras,

 

Ha Ha, is that a good thing? In Arkansas to give a guy a coconut is to call him a "monkey" (not flattering).

 

At the risk of taking the thread "off topic" in a much more rudimentary form common carp have a similar system. Of course they rely much more on the senses of the lateral line. My point is this.

 

Long ago, I used nickel hooks with tin wire wrappings to make "hair rigs". With an acid based bait it proved to be 10 to 15% "more effective" in side by side (no science - and maybe I just "wanted" it to work based on the "sharks" wits). (This was long before there were "hair rigs" and "boilies" but the principle was the same - exposed hook point). You get the idea.

 

Phone

[smudger]

 

Well i was a shark this afternoon.......Swimming around in the foam party we decided to have in one of the streets in my village.

(we are "in fiestas")

I noticed the particularly nice prey in the pic....but i was afraid of being eaten alive................

 

Huba Huba.

talking of being eaten alive,her bikini bottom is suffering a delightfull fate by the look of that picture

[snakey1]

Where the ampullae of lorenzini are concerned it is believed that sharks only use these at very short ranges due to background "noise" relying on their other senses instead to detect prey items at longer distances and using the ampullae of lorenzini only in the final stages of prey capture, so matt hooper may well have been ok after all.

[corydoras]

Where the ampullae of lorenzini are concerned it is believed that sharks only use these at very short ranges due to background "noise" relying on their other senses instead to detect prey items at longer distances and using the ampullae of lorenzini only in the final stages of prey capture, so matt hooper may well have been ok after all.

Maybe, maybe not. I have no intention of entering their environment to put your hypothesis to the test.

[corydoras]

corydoras,

 

Ha Ha, is that a good thing? In Arkansas to give a guy a coconut is to call him a "monkey" (not flattering).

 

At the risk of taking the thread "off topic" in a much more rudimentary form common carp have a similar system. Of course they rely much more on the senses of the lateral line. My point is this.

 

Long ago, I used nickel hooks with tin wire wrappings to make "hair rigs". With an acid based bait it proved to be 10 to 15% "more effective" in side by side (no science - and maybe I just "wanted" it to work based on the "sharks" wits). (This was long before there were "hair rigs" and "boilies" but the principle was the same - exposed hook point). You get the idea.

 

Phone

Coconuts were, perhaps they still are, given away as prizes at side shows and fun fairs. So winning a coconut is a good thing. Honest Injun.