Great White off Cornwall?

[LymingtonPugwash]

What a cynical lot you all are! Of course it must be true.... I saw it in the Sun, so the story must be true!

 

[chwarae]

I like to keep an open mind on such things but also remember that Cornish surfers often start rumours of this nature to keep the grockles out of the water.
Harry.

 

[rogerthebodger]

That look more like a great white than a mako as mako's have a more pointed nose.

 

[rogerthebodger]

The breach.of a great white is a hunting technique used to catch seals off the cape south coast by seal island.

basking sharks are fliter feeders like the whale shark so I dont think they would breach

 

[Speed]

Basking sharks may be filter feeders, but they do breach - we've seen this behaviour over 100 times.

Nobody is quite sure why, but it may be part of their courtship ritual. Both males and females do it.

In 1937 a breaching basking shark landed on a sailing dinghy in the Firth of Clyde, capsizing it and three people lost their lives - one of the only accounts of a "shark attack" in UK waters!

 

[StugeronSteve]

[ QUOTE ]
In the East we can only manage a whale under the Orwell Bridge and vets have had to put it to sleep

[/ QUOTE ] That was a tragic case of "Chinese Whispers", their instructions were to kill Shambo, not Shamoo.

 

[flyingjunior]

Didnt we have one of those sightings a year or so ago off the north devon coast turned out that the witness was a 10 year old brummie /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[pheonix]

Does anyone share my oppinion that the reported sighting must be true the reporter is highly thought of he sits on blackpools tourist board.
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[Lizzie_B]

---------I like to keep an open mind on such things but also remember that Cornish surfers often start rumours of this nature to keep the grockles out of the water.
Harry.----------

Yeah! Those Cornish surfers are always making up stories.

I think they're away with the Piskies /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif