[release]A tourist enjoying a swim yesterday off of Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town, South Africa, was suddenly pulled under the surf and dragged out to sea by what onlookers have called a "dinosaur-sized shark," according to several media reports.
Iafrica said there is little chance of finding the tourist, 37-year-old Lloyd Skinner of Zimbabwe.
National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson Ian Klopper said, "The shark attacked him three times. It didn't bite him and let him go." But then, "It came back and carried on eating" the victim.
Skinner was said to have been about 328 feet from the shore, alone and farther out than other swimmers, when the attack happened. Witnesses say he was about chest deep in warm water, adjusting his goggles, when he was pulled under at 3 PM on Tuesday. A search for his remains continues today, although an ominous patch of blood was visible, and Skinner's swimming goggles have been recovered.
While the shark has not yet been identified, most suspect it was a great white, based on its size, the way it swam toward the victim and the fact that other great whites have been spotted near the beach in recent days.
British visitor Phyllis McCartain told the Cape Times newspaper, "We saw the shark come back twice. It had the man's body in its mouth, and his arm was in the air. Then the sea was full of blood."
Normally sirens go off at the South African beach, warning the swimmers, surfers and bathers to get out of the water when a shark is spotted. But it is my understanding that no warning preceded Skinner's attack. Word has been out in the local community, however, that the waters off the beach have been unsafe for a while.
Many locals say they will continue to go in the water, since the chance of being attacked by a shark of any kind is still relatively slim.
According to the International Shark Attack File, from 1990 to 2008 there were 9 fatalities due to shark attack in the waters off of South Africa. Seventy-eight non-fatal attacks also occurred in the region over the same period. [/release]
[url]http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaur-sized-shark-kills-tourist.html[/url]
No pics unfortunately, but I'll leave you with with this...
[img]http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/images-2/jaws-universal-tour.jpg[/img]
They're gonna need a bigger boat.
in before "I read the title as "jews" kills a tourist xDD"
Never seen a dinosaur
So how can they know the shark is that big
Unless South Africans are hiding something from us
I read the title as "jews kills a tourist"
Seriously though, I did.
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[QUOTE=EdBiew;19625015]I read the title as "jews kills a tourist"
Seriously though, I did.[/QUOTE]
see?
[QUOTE=DaveP;19625012]Never seen a dinosaur
So how can they know the shark is that big[/QUOTE]
Fossils n' shit
Talk about a big [i]bite.[/i]
Megalodon?
The way you put the " around the word Jaws made me believe you were talking about this guy:
[img]http://jakemcmillan.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/k15-jaws.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=EdBiew;19625015]I read the title as "jews kills a tourist"
Seriously though, I did.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Index-Jews-Jaws.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Brian Williams;19625006]in before "I read the title as "jews" kills a tourist xDD"[/QUOTE]
I read it as "Jaws kills a terrorist"
I was kind of disappointed.....
[QUOTE=Khaos23;19625092][IMG]http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Index-Jews-Jaws.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Hahahaha I was just thinking this exact picture.
Natural selection.
I read the title as "Jaws kills a terrorist."
[QUOTE=acds;19625055]The way you put the " around the word Jaws made me believe you were talking about this guy:
[IMG]http://jakemcmillan.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/k15-jaws.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I was just thinking about that guy..
Hahah seems like it's out of a movie. All that they found was his goggles.
:siren: ALARM! ALARM! GET OUT OF THE WATER! SHARK ALARM! :siren:
no seriously where is Roy Scheider and a gas canister when you need them!
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mqgtn5muHyc[/media]
That ride at Universal is awesome. I never sit on the end though. :|
Anyways, poor Shark probably thought he was a seal or some shit.
And for awesomeness, some pictures of a Megalodon:
[img]http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/fishing-for-megalodon.gif[/img]
[img]http://www.karencarr.com/auto_image/auto_image_mid/VMNH_megalodon.jpg[/img]
[img]http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2008/11/25/0_20.jpg[/img]
Okay, that's enough. Lol.
I read the title as "Jaws kills a tourist" because I'm sober, and pissed off about it.
I read the title as 'Jew kills a terrorist'.
I read the title as... ah nevermind :frown:
ITT: Facepunch is either really racist or can't read.
[QUOTE=Faren;19625035]Megalodon?[/QUOTE]
Megalodon would be beached in chest deep waters. And because of their size, a human would be like a single chunk of popcorn chicken. Megalodons feed on Giant Squid and Whales. My bet is Great White. There's quite a lot of them around South Africa. It makes sence considering the terms of the attack, finding no body yet. No shark smaller than a Great White would do that. Maybe Tiger Sharks, but they don't live off of South Africa, so it must have been a Great White.
[QUOTE=Pascall;19628164]*Megalodon pics*[/QUOTE]
Just the thought of that thing has always scared the shit out of me.
That's a bad hat Harr- OH MY GOD THE SHARK JUST KILLED HARRY!
