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http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=88974 

"the great white is back"
Yeah...and funnily enough they always come back at the same time of year,just as the summer is about to kick in and the kids are off school..........the blurry pictures with non-discript shadows will start soon  ::) Stephen Spielburg & Peter Benchley have got alot to answer for  ;D

u hit the nail on it's head Martin  ;)

well we have -3 for this summer

Quote from: neville on June 03, 2009, 20:00:00 CET
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=88974 

The shark in that picture is not a Great White but a Mako guys!!

yes this is a shortfin mako that was caught some 30 miles from cirkewwa in june 2005

Yepp that mako was caught 4 years ago by great friends of mine from msida!!!!

It is the last big shark capture recorded until then.

Great white u pixxiplamtu l istess!!?? jien ma jidirlix li huma l istess jew ghandi zball

Ghadni kemm rcivejt email b'xi pics ta' din l-huta...Hsibtu ricenti...L'akbar kelb il-bahar inqabad fl-inhawwi ta' filfla minn sajjied mill-Qrendi . Wied iz-Zurrieq tistghu taraw ir-ritratti tieghu.

minalija l istess gganto by catch mal pixxispad sajjied qalieli

personalment dak li qabad iaz zurrieq kien iffitxhom dawn it tip ta sharkijiet.... ghandi ktieb ta l iscuba diving ghat turisti bl istorja tieghu u jghid car u tond x kien jaghmel

locally he is known as "l iben t alla" jew son of god.... u qabel il bir qabd wiehed ta 5.5m

mako is worse than a great white, for the simple reason that mako come out of the water and can grab a person on the boat.

hekk ikun jonqsok tkun ghamilt xi gurnata ma qbadt xejn u tara d dimonju tiela ghalik

Quote from: shanook on June 04, 2009, 08:28:39 CET
mako is worse than a great white, for the simple reason that mako come out of the water and can grab a person on the boat.

I think the great white can do the same thing Shanook. With the difference that it can swallow you whole in mid-air  ;D

I cannot understand which do they public such shitty stories just before the summer season.
I think sharks are comming nearby because they like eating jellyfish, so do not worry guys.... ;D

You have better chances of winning the lottery then coming across a great white in the med :p  ..............Let alone being attacked by one.  I've always been fascinated by the creature and hopefully one day I will get the opportunity to swim with them  :P   ..........But I'd prefer if the encounter is not in our waters and behind a cage hehe

sincerely ...I prefer winning the lottery :)

This is the Mako:



And this is the Great White:


And the PIXXIPLAMTU :

Personally I thaught the one in the independent pic is a great white but the one in the other pic is a Mako.

The thing is that I was mistaken. The real thing is that it is the same shark according to this site! And it was caught in 2005.

And the biggest one ever caught is the one caught by the Maltese man from Zurrieq.
The whole story is here:


But even this story has some doubts about the size of the shark. After careful study it measured 5.3 metres.

Every summer shark sightings increase. It can be possible nowadays because of the tuna pens. But most sightings result not being true. Hope it doesn't come out as the story of the wolf.

Recently I don't know if the story of the Portugese Man of War is true or not. That is if they were seen in our waters. Some people easily invent stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuufIy5eSw&feature=related

Great link Arti2

@ markcam .... i think it's fake. The guy looks as he is pointing his speargun to an aquarium. Just my 2 cents.

That shark was caught on the 16th of June 2005. I still have that picture saved in my PC and that guy with the Mako shark is not the man know as Futru.

even when someone will see a Muruna or a Big Mazzola being caught by a fisherman will say that they caught a white shark  ;D


it's all a bunch of lies and nothing more the only truth is that the sea is full of Jelly fish and that's the only danger in the maltese coastal waters.

tahsbulikien furtunat da jew??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqYqroPZi-U&feature=related

le f furtunat dak ma kellhux toghma tajba u bezqu l iktar jekk xi wiehed li ibul fil wet suit bhal xi 4 maltin ghorrief hafna

I guess it all publicity for swimming pools ;)

To tell you the truth me and my buddy saw a fin around a week and a half ago off zurrieq followed by a huge splash some 10 minutes after off ghar hasan as we were going back home on our rubber dinghy! Somehow its true that at the begining of the summer season some close shore appearances occur! could the reason be that this is the period in which tuna migrate and may be hunted down by some predators? Also.....just a thought......could speed boats' noises repell away these magnificant predators along the rest of the summer? Once we were going out with the dinghy from gnejna bay when we saw a shark fin on tal wahx reef.....we approached it slowly with our spearguns loaded (il-heroes ta ras -.......) and it splashed downwards as we approached as if it was afraid of the outboard's noise!

Tar rahal dejjem kienu ala l babun !!! :p   ::)

Chris  8)

lol damateur ma ntihx tort hux bil hrapen ikkargati, mela kontu ha taqbduh jew???

Quote from: TaKinu on June 03, 2009, 23:15:12 CET
Ghadni kemm rcivejt email b'xi pics ta' din l-huta...Hsibtu ricenti...L'akbar kelb il-bahar inqabad fl-inhawwi ta' filfla minn sajjied mill-Qrendi mlaqqam  il-futru. Wied iz-Zurrieq tistghu taraw ir-ritratti tieghu.

Dak ir ritratt huwa tal istess wihed li inqabad min nies tar Roberta marufin ukoll bhala "ta gerita".

Guys in this time of the year it is very common that sharks come close to land. We see quite a lot imma ma noqodux indoqqu trombi ;) Last one i saw was in march just 1/4 mile off tigne point. Kris was with me. Now as summer approaches we see sharks just 1nm offshore. Most common shark on the east is the blue shark.

just my 2c

Fuq tal Youtube , Tajjeb mela dak kwazi mkul mix shark w l iehor cool jigbed il video. mank telaq l hemm jekk ma riedtx jghinu . ???

To Arti2....  I happen to know John Abela (however not friends) and indeed, he had over exaggerated the measurements of that Great White caught way back....  it was no more than 17ft long - still a large shark by any standards. He also has the Jaws of this shark which he had purchased from the fisherman for about Lm150 if my memory serves me right. One hell of a bargain I think!! 

Great Whites in the Mediterranean feed mainly on Tuna which is why they probably appear at this time of the year close to shore. They seem to be following the Tuna migration.  Other Great Whites in California, South Africa, Australia etc feed mainly on seals and that probably explains the shark attacks on humans - they are easily mistaken for seals.  We don't have that problem here in the Mediterranean, our sharks here are only interested in Tuna and nothing else.

With regards to the Tuna Pens, only time will tell what effect on Great Whites that will have in the long term.

millux fuq ichatbox tal forum qrajt li raw xi shark hdejn il fish farms insejt min kien kitbu.

Jien gieli rajt balena ukoll  ;) U tellajta fuq il boat :D ;) :)

ma nistax inwigbek awnekk sihbi :P

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issa fhimtha tal balena

camkev....lol

@ camkev loool

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2466048/Killer-shark-in-angler-attack.html