Possible Great White shark in English Channel

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A GREAT white shark was last night feared to be in the English Channel after another man-eater was savaged.

A 5ft blue shark washed up on a beach had a giant bite mark, suggesting it had been attacked by an even bigger predator.

A dog walker who discovered the dead shark sent pictures to experts who said it could have been attacked by a Jaws-like killer.

Vet nurse Nikki Lambert, 27, who found it on Camber Sands in East Sussex and emailed photos to the Marine Conservation Society, said: ““It had a hole just behind its flipper through which you could see its internal organs.

“I was told that the only animals who would attack a blue shark like this would be a great white shark or a killer whale.

“But I suppose it’s possible the wound was made after it was dead by a dog or birds.”

Blue sharks, which can grow to 12ft and have killed humans, have previously been found off England’s west coast.

There has been no confirmed great white sighting in British waters but, with warmer seas, Richard Peirce of the Shark Trust said there was a “good chance” they would stray here.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/mobile/topn...nglish-channel-115875-23538753/#ixzz1dPjTM8i6

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lenseman said:
A GREAT white shark was last night feared to be in the English Channel after another man-eater was savaged.

A 5ft blue shark washed up on a beach had a giant bite mark, suggesting it had been attacked by an even bigger predator.

A dog walker who discovered the dead shark sent pictures to experts who said it could have been attacked by a Jaws-like killer.

Vet nurse Nikki Lambert, 27, who found it on Camber Sands in East Sussex and emailed photos to the Marine Conservation Society, said: ““It had a hole just behind its flipper through which you could see its internal organs.

“I was told that the only animals who would attack a blue shark like this would be a great white shark or a killer whale.

“But I suppose it’s possible the wound was made after it was dead by a dog or birds.”
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Wow, what size dogs and birds do you have in that neighbourhood?
 
lenseman said:
“I was told that the only animals who would attack a blue shark like this would be a great white shark or a killer whale.
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why not a killer whale, then? They are the most widely distributed animal on earth (apparently) - after human beings, I suppose
 
TiggerToo said:
why not a killer whale, then? They are the most widely distributed animal on earth (apparently) - after human beings, I suppose
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'Cos orcas' are all intelligent and child friendly like "Willy", especially if you ignore their appetite for cute, cuddly seal pups. On the other hand great white sharks hold a grudge, sink fishing boats and have an appetite for gingers. Which one is most likely to strike fear into Daily Mail readers?
 
awol said:
'Cos orcas' are all intelligent and child friendly like "Willy", especially if you ignore their appetite for cute, cuddly seal pups. On the other hand great white sharks hold a grudge, sink fishing boats and have an appetite for gingers. Which one is most likely to strike fear into Daily Mail readers?
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Blow the seal pups - did you see the footage of them hunting a Minke on Frozen Planet?
 
Oh dear, I flushed my daughters gold fish down the loo by mistake... it might have been him that attacked the shark..!
 
I'll probably get mocked for trying to give a serious answer, but here goes...

In 1988 I was closing Start Point after crossing from Guernsey, motoring in flat calm conditions.

There were plenty of basking sharks around, which we'd had a careful look at, obviously these get quite big.

Then I saw a BIG fin, and moving in very different, purposeful way; we went over, and it was indeed a 'proper' shark ( I'd seen a few around 5' before around the West Country ).

It was VERY BIG, and as we closed, submerged about 2' then came to us, very different to a basking shark.

My chum and I both estimated it was over half the length of our 30' boat; no drink had been partaken and we don't do funny substances.

This thing stayed close ( too close ) alongside, looking at us, I lost my nerve thinking if it did ram us or something we'd be poorly placed - know they don't act as in 'Jaws, but looking at this thing, very reminiscent of an F-16 felt no time to prove it, and cautiously angled away.

We still talk about it; no idea what type of shark it was, but we had a very good look at it, at least 16' and a vaguely striped appearance - Tiger ?

Not a Whale Shark, don't think we get them anyway.

There have been similar reports from locals.
 
Used to make a lot of money shark fishing years ago and we have plenty of White pointers here attacking people but I have never seen one! Most of the sharks we long lined were whalers, hammerheads and a few tigers and makos. Blue sharks are the dull lazy version of a mako. They are often caught when they swim up a burley trail to the back of the boat and the fishermen just gaff them. Amatuer fishermen after records would hook the fish at the rear of the boat then have to bang the shark on the head with the gaff so it would swim off pass the line double so they could then pump it back to the gaff! Anything could have bitten that blue shark. Makos are the exact opposite.

Seajet, sounds like a tiger. Nasty critters, eat all sorts of weird stuff like drums etc. **** money.
 
Seajet said:
I'll probably get mocked for trying to give a serious answer, but here goes...

In 1988 I was closing Start Point after crossing from Guernsey, motoring in flat calm conditions.

There were plenty of basking sharks around, which we'd had a careful look at, obviously these get quite big.

Then I saw a BIG fin, and moving in very different, purposeful way; we went over, and it was indeed a 'proper' shark ( I'd seen a few around 5' before around the West Country ).

It was VERY BIG, and as we closed, submerged about 2' then came to us, very different to a basking shark.

My chum and I both estimated it was over half the length of our 30' boat; no drink had been partaken and we don't do funny substances.

This thing stayed close ( too close ) alongside, looking at us, I lost my nerve thinking if it did ram us or something we'd be poorly placed - know they don't act as in 'Jaws, but looking at this thing, very reminiscent of an F-16 felt no time to prove it, and cautiously angled away.

We still talk about it; no idea what type of shark it was, but we had a very good look at it, at least 16' and a vaguely striped appearance - Tiger ?

Not a Whale Shark, don't think we get them anyway.

There have been similar reports from locals.
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A 365lb porbeagle was fished on Achill Island in Ireland.
 
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