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Sharks believed working in teams

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Teen surfer killed by two sharks
Thu Dec 16, 2004 08:56 AM GMT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A young Australian surfer has been killed in a horrifying attack by two great white sharks at a popular Adelaide beach, the second fatal attack in five days, rescue officials and witnesses say.

Witnesses reported seeing the two sharks -- one up to five metres (16 feet) long -- attack the teenager while he was being towed behind a boat on his surfboard.

"It got his left arm and took him around the boat and then another shark has come in and they just took him to pieces," an unidentified woman told Nine Network television on Thursday.

Police and emergency officials said they had been unable to find any sign of the surfer or the sharks since the mid-afternoon attack off West Beach in the South Australian state capital of Adelaide.

They said the attack happened after the surfer, described as an 18-year-old, fell from his surfboard which was being towed by three friends in a small boat about 300 metres (980 feet) from shore.

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=639450



I don't know what to say. If you are still pro-shark after reading this, I hope your family dies in a shark attack.
 
American said:
Teen surfer killed by two sharks
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Points to consider:

(1) Maybe one shark was a VIP shark and the other shark was a bodyguard shark who was there to protect the VIP shark. If that was the situation, then the bodyguard shark will face some kind of penalty for breach of protocol.

(2) Maybe those were a couple of wimp sharks who, as individuals, are afraid of a single surfer. Maybe they don't have the courage to fight mano a sharko.

(3) The sharks didn't kill for sport. They licked their platters clean. They should get credit for that.

(4) It was entrapment. A good lawyer could get those sharks acquitted.

(5) Sharks don't have big eyes and soft fur, so few people are pro-shark anyway.
 
Personally, I would rather not be the one to find out this fascinating new behavior of sharks.
 
Re: Re: Sharks believed working in teams

The idea said:
Points to consider:

(1) Maybe one shark was a VIP shark and the other shark was a bodyguard shark who was there to protect the VIP shark. If that was the situation, then the bodyguard shark will face some kind of penalty for breach of protocol.

(2) Maybe those were a couple of wimp sharks who, as individuals, are afraid of a single surfer. Maybe they don't have the courage to fight mano a sharko.

(3) The sharks didn't kill for sport. They licked their platters clean. They should get credit for that.

(4) It was entrapment. A good lawyer could get those sharks acquitted.

(5) Sharks don't have big eyes and soft fur, so few people are pro-shark anyway.
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(6) We shoulda killed that Cape Cod beast when we could.
 
I read that there was a warning about a large shark(s) being in the vicinity.
 
If there was a warning, than the surfer should be nominated for the darwin awards.
 
American, I look forward to your upcoming threads about marauding vampire bats and sneaky ol' centipedes.
 
....how was that working in teams? The article didn't say anything of the sort.
 
Would that make a shark feeding frenzy a superteam?

One shark attacks, as soon as the blood hits the water another nearby shark responds and attacks too. Thats not team work, thats natural shark behaviour.

Nowhere except in your title did it says sharks are beleived to be working in teams and given the number of great whites that make their way up and down the east coast of Oz having two nearby is nothing special.
 
Could this be evidence that it really doesn't require that much intelligence to work in teams? I mean come on, look at ants!
 
What exactly does the "pro-shark" position consist of? I don't understand the obsession American has with sharks. Dolphins are the real threat.
 
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