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MrCassdin

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The real thing.

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This terrifying picture of a great white shark was taken by an American teacher in South Africa. Amanda Brewer, 25, from New Jersey, took the photograph from a cage off Seal Island.Picture: Amanda Brewer
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic...of-the-day-10-October-2014.html?frame=3068418
 
MongGrel

MongGrel

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Yep, that is one monster shark that has been hunted so much over the years now that it's on a protected species list from the 70's

They are awesome, but have been hunted down a lot since then, they just doing their thing I guess.
 
purbeast0

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that is awesomes. cage diving with great whites is on my bucket list of things to do. don't think i have the balls to do it outside of a cage to see those species up close.

also on the bucket list is to swim with a whale shark. not really concerned about safety with that though, but holy shit that would be surreal.
 
ImpulsE69

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purbeast0 said:
that is awesomes. cage diving with great whites is on my bucket list of things to do. don't think i have the balls to do it outside of a cage to see those species up close.

also on the bucket list is to swim with a whale shark. not really concerned about safety with that though, but holy shit that would be surreal.
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That would be awesome.
 
Koing

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purbeast0 said:
that is awesomes. cage diving with great whites is on my bucket list of things to do. don't think i have the balls to do it outside of a cage to see those species up close.

also on the bucket list is to swim with a whale shark. not really concerned about safety with that though, but holy shit that would be surreal.
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I've touched some rays and that felt surreal enough. Also when I saw some smaller sharks but that was okay as they were small reef sharks. In Thailand I saw a leopard shark that was about 3M or so long and that was cool. That felt surreal as well. It was asleep or so and we had a good chance to just watch it for a bit. Maybe 15-20seconds?

Seeing a whale sharks would be epic!

Koing
 
Mayne

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where the fuck do great whites get off thinking they have free reign over the ocean. They piss me off with their stupid big mouths and teeths. Just get rid of them.
 
KeithTalent

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Cool pic, but I wish I could see it without whatever effects they seem to be adding in there.

KT
 
TheSlamma

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Orca's still smoke these wimps. Apex predator, also the only other animal besides humans that hunt polar bears.
 
KeithTalent

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feralkid said:
Yeah, the frickin laser beams attached to their heads is obviously fake.

Wait, what?
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I just thought the colours looked very weird. Maybe I'm wrong and it's all natural. What do I know. :\

KT
 
alkemyst

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purbeast0 said:
that is awesomes. cage diving with great whites is on my bucket list of things to do. don't think i have the balls to do it outside of a cage to see those species up close.

also on the bucket list is to swim with a whale shark. not really concerned about safety with that though, but holy shit that would be surreal.
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Down in the islands they do a dive open with sharks. No great whites AFAIK, but still risky as fuck.
 
AMCRambler

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I thought HDR combined multiple pictures taken using different aperture settings? There's no way to do that if you're not shooting still life. That shark was thrashing about. How the heck could it be HDR?
 
alkemyst

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AMCRambler said:
I thought HDR combined multiple pictures taken using different aperture settings? There's no way to do that if you're not shooting still life. That shark was thrashing about. How the heck could it be HDR?
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Fast cameras.
 
mammador

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sorry....i just have to laugh at dopes who say "sharks are evil"...don't believe everything you see in a Hollywood movie (if you believed Sauron's ring actually existed a decade ago, or there's a British man who is wheelchair-bound, lives on the US Eastern Seaboard and who can stop time with his thoughts, you need treatment...)
 
TheSlamma

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BUTCH1 said:
Wow, what an eye-opener and in this vid it explains how and why once an Orca has taken a great white they disappear from the feeding grounds, dive down to 1,500ft (probably too deep for the air-breathing Orca's to go) and made their way off to Hawaii..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9NF9hm_44
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This Orca goes out of it's way to kill white sharks just for their livers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GaDuCvYbE

For decades white sharks (not "Great White" it's a white shark) have gotten this reputation of the ultimate killer of the sea, not even close, the Orca (which is a dolphin, surprised that Nat Geo video said they are "like a dolphin", they are in the dolphin family) take anything down in the sea. They are called Killer Whales because they KILL WHALES. As I noted in my earlier post they also hunt polar bears.
 
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