It's Official

[whaler11]

I was in West Palm Beach this year on a golf trip. I was hung over and just standing in the surf. There was a CNN truck near by and about a hundred people on the beach. It was a guy just hauling sharks out of the surf. They were migrating early or late or something - once you knew to look in the surf line there were dozens swimming by. I was 15 feet away from from them and completely oblivious.

 

[whaler11]

Was in Greece swimming in very salty buoyant water for a month with my wife and 4 and 7 year olds. Took a Catamaran one day and swam through deep water caves with them, daughters with swim vests (fabric with foam). We swam like that for a month, and then the last night before flying back, we swam in our hotel pool. My 7 year old was doing the backstroke (no swim vest) across a long deep fresh water pool when she bumped into someone, turned, panicked, bobbed up and down, went under. I dove in and grabbed her and struggled to swim back. I'm 45 and although not in great shape, I do regularly exercise. Shocking to see I can't swim now like I used to. Once pulled my wife away from a current taking us out quickly in Cancun. That was 15 years ago. If the same thing happened now, I'd drown.

Cancun is a bad place for that to happen. I have a friend whose father in law drowned there and they pretty much had to buy his body back from the Government.

Really nothing good can come from going to Mexico.

 

[Srqhusky]

I was in West Palm Beach this year on a golf trip. I was hung over and just standing in the surf. There was a CNN truck near by and about a hundred people on the beach. It was a guy just hauling sharks out of the surf. They were migrating early or late or something - once you knew to look in the surf line there were dozens swimming by. I was 15 feet away from from them and completely oblivious.

Probably black tip or bonnet head sharks. They are fun to catch and can be had right off the beach when they are in!

 

[whaler11]

Probably black tip or bonnet head sharks. They are fun to catch and can be had right off the beach when they are in!

Spinners mostly but some black tips. They counted 15k within 200 yards of shore. They said the average swimmer was within 60 feet of one because there were 1,500 per square KM.

They were not small. The guy CNN was interviewing was pulling them out one after another.

If you need proof I'm stupid ignore my posts. Just know I stood in that surf and didn't see them.

 

[TheRogers]

Yes I know it's stupid and hyperbole but snakes scare the #### out of me and sharks don't.

Talk to this guy. Snakes aren't that bad......

 

[Srqhusky]

Spinners mostly but some black tips. They counted 15k within 200 yards of shore. They said the average swimmer was within 60 feet of one because there were 1,500 per square KM.

They were not small. The guy CNN was interviewing was pulling them out one after another.

If you need proof I'm stupid ignore my posts. Just know I stood in that surf and didn't see them.

Huh. I was not trying to offend you but sounds like somebody needs a drink. Just agreeing with you that sharks can come into the beaches in Florida without knowin they are there I caught many black tips and bonnet heads off Anna Maria on west coast that gasped beach goers. What you seen was very freaky but cool. I think that was earlier this spring on the east coast

 

[whaler11]

Huh. I was not trying to offend you but sounds like somebody needs a drink. Just agreeing with you that sharks can come into the beaches in Florida without knowin they are there I caught many black tips and bonnet heads off Anna Maria on west coast that gasped beach goers. What you seen was very freaky but cool. I think that was earlier this spring on the east coast

I just googled some of the details and
was sharing. I was there March 6-10 - some of the you tube videos are amazing.

The last part was an attempt at humor but if you are buying drinks I'm in.

 

[Chin Diesel]

If you ever want to confirm your worst fears of the open water take a helicopter ride or hop in a cessna along the beaches from Va Beach around the tip of Florida and all along the gulf coast. If you have a fear of sharks you'll never swim again. Most beaches have sharks that hang out just past the last sand bars. They cruise the sand bar looking for fish who are going back out to the deep.

 

[BlueMAB]

You have a wife who isn't always right? Does she have a sister?

I didn't say she admitted she isn't always right. ;-)

 

[upstater]

Cancun is a bad place for that to happen. I have a friend whose father in law drowned there and they pretty much had to buy his body back from the Government.

Really nothing good can come from going to Mexico.

Agreed that Cancun is bad. But, the rest of the coast is fantastic. We go down to Tulum all the time. No problems.

 

[CTMike]

Whaler, fair warning... This article may give you nightmares. Just awful.

http://m.thestar.com/#!/canada/python-strangles-sleeping-boys-above-new-brunswick-pet-shop/

 

[Chin Diesel]

Cool. They're showing clips of Great Whites at Cape Cod tonight. I think he said there was a 14 footer off the shore of Chattam but it might might have been Chowder. Accent was tough to figure out. If they're using captions for Swamp People they should have the same courtesy when Massholes talk.

 

[whaler11]

Whaler, fair warning... This article may give you nightmares. Just awful.

http://m.thestar.com/#!/canada/python-strangles-sleeping-boys-above-new-brunswick-pet-shop/

I played Quarry Ridge today which has a random rattlesnake now and again and got out of there alive.

Constrictors don't bother me because just like I can punch a shark in the nose I can ward off a boa. It's only poisonous snakes that bother me.

 

[RioDog]

I played Quarry Ridge today which has a random rattlesnake now and again and got out of there alive.

Constrictors don't bother me because just like I can punch a shark in the nose I can ward off a boa. It's only poisonous snakes that bother me.

I hear ya, but its flying stinging insects of any type that freaks me out. Lived in Tucson with rattlers under every freakin' bush. Spent years diving and boating in CT, ME, Bahamas and the Caribbean, never had a serious shark problem. But if a wasp or a hornet flies into the room stay out of my way- even a large man can move fast when motivated by pure terror.

 

[whaler11]

I hear ya, but its flying stinging insects of any type that freaks me out. Lived in Tucson with rattlers under every freakin' bush. Spent years diving and boating in CT, ME, Bahamas and the Caribbean, never had a serious shark problem. But if a wasp or a hornet flies into the room stay out of my way- even a large man can move fast when motivated by pure terror.

I love Arizona but have refused to play golf there. I have a friend who will swim with sharks rather than see a small spider.

I actually drove from Vegas to Phoenix and spent the whole time looking for rattlers to run over. These phobias aren't rational.

 

[CTMike]

I hear ya, but its flying stinging insects of any type that freaks me out. Lived in Tucson with rattlers under every freakin' bush. Spent years diving and boating in CT, ME, Bahamas and the Caribbean, never had a serious shark problem. But if a wasp or a hornet flies into the room stay out of my way- even a large man can move fast when motivated by pure terror.

I am SO with you there. I am a large man and will run like Donald Brown with a bee in the vicinity. You ever hear of these suckers? I hadn't till a couple weeks ago, then saw them in action playing PGC in Portland :

http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/the-cicada-killers-are-coming/277688/

Booked that cart as fast as I could in the opposite direction from those bastards.

 

[RedSoloCup]

Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.

mary Moffat, she broke my heart...

 

[RioDog]

Funny story- my wife and I were walking on a trail near our apartment in Tucson when we happened upon a baby rattler, only 5 or 6 inches, lying in the middle of the path. The little guy was so still and flattened out that I thought it was dead- crushed by a dog or a bike or something. As we were edging around it, it moved....my wife started screaming "its alive, its alive!" in Portuguese, making running leaps into the air and windmilling her arms, hammering me in the chest in the process (completely unconcerned for my well-being). The snake did indeed almost kill me...through laughter-induced asphyxiation.

 

[RioDog]

I am SO with you there. I am a large man and will run like Donald Brown with a bee in the vicinity. You ever hear of these suckers? I hadn't till a couple weeks ago, then saw them in action playing PGC in Portland :

http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/the-cicada-killers-are-coming/277688/

Booked that cart as fast as I could in the opposite direction from those bastards.[/quote



Cheezus Mike you trying to give me nightmares? Haven`t seen them around my house here in Rio, but we DO have enormous cicadas here-loud ones, so it wouldn't surprise me if we had 'em. You can beleive I'll be keeping an eye out.

 

[whaler11]

At least I'm scared of rattlers. Are you afraid the cicadas are going to damage your hearing?

If you don't like them steer clear of Hamden and Meriden.

 

[CTMike]

I'm cool with cicadas - 2 inch long fat helicopter lookin bees that were gang r*ping the cicada I saw near my ball... awwww hellllllll no.

 

[whaler11]

I'm cool with cicadas - 2 inch long fat helicopter lookin bees that were gang r*ping the cicada I saw near my ball... awwww hellllllll no.

Oh the sand bees? Don't go to Banner Lodge in August - they take the bunkers over.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Sitting at our desks 20 minutes ago and my boss runs in and says. "Who wants to kill a cottonmouth?".

Found this three footer on his patio.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

I was referring to Shark Week and the Megalodon show but who am I to dictate where a thread goes.

As for living in Florida I'll take salt water over fresh water every day because of cottonmouths and gators.

That being said rip currents are no joke and they kill every summer. Victims are almost always drunk guys from Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee or Ohio.

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A few years ago, I was water skiing when I thought I saw a log in the water. It was a gator, so I decided to sell my water skis and I never been water skiing since. (Another thing I miss about Connecticut - no gators in lakes - or Pythons, either)