[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Mike W.

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mike:
      
Congratulations on checking out that picture.  Good job telling the rest of
the story.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA




R22MikeW wrote:
> 
> Rummy,
> 
> I love these pictures.  I wanted to know if it was genuine so I googled it
> and found it to be real
> (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/sharkkayak.asp).  It was part of a
> larger story.  The exact excerpt is as follows:
> 
> Sitting in a 3.8-metre sea kayak and watching a four-metre great white
> approach you is a fairly tense experience. Although we had extensively
> tested the sharks' reactions to an empty kayak and had observed no signs
> of
> aggression, this gave us little comfort as we eyed a great white heading
> straight for us, albeit slowly. Just a metre or so from the craft it
> veered
> off, circled and slowly approached from behind. It did this several times,
> occasionally lifting its head out of the water to get a better look. Then
> it
> lost interest, and as it continued on its way we were able to follow a
> short
> distance behind. Once we'd come to terms with having nothing between
> ourselves and a four-metre shark except a thin layer of plastic, our kayak
> made an ideal research platform for observing great white behaviour in
> shallow water. Its advantages are twofold: it is inconspicuous and appears
> not to cause the sharks to alter their behaviour for long, and it allows
> us
> to watch them in a natural situation, as it is not necessary to attract
> them
> to us with food.
> 
> Another photo from the sequence appears in a related story:
> http://www.whitesharktrust.org/pages/mediaarticle/media26.html
> 
> Any way you cut it, I would prefer being on an R22 (or safely on land)
> instead.
> 
> Mike
> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> 
> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:11 PM
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