Good work Virgili. 
Posts by ladvr
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10/6/2013
Just a heads up and a good reason not to become complacent around the juvi and tweener sized GWS's.
Shark came out of nowhere to attack Calif. surfer | Outdoors | The Seattle Times
QuoteDisplay MoreEUREKA, Calif. — It was a perfect day for surfing. Except for the shark.
Jay Scrivner, a 45-year-old college English teacher, was waiting for waves off the Northern California coast near his hometown of Eureka after surfing for about two hours when a great white he estimated at about 8-to-9 feet long bit his thigh and board.
“Sometimes you have a feeling that the water is weird,” Scrivner said in a phone interview from his room at Eureka’s St. Joseph Hospital on Monday afternoon. “But everyone was just so happy. I was lying on my board, paddling around just waiting for a wave set.”
Scrivner regularly surfs at the spot near Humboldt Bay known as the Samoa Peninsula. He was aware that another surfer, Scott Stephens, survived a shark attack in the same area last year.
Scriver said that “out of nowhere” he saw the shark’s teeth and nose while surfing Sunday. After he was bitten, he took a swing at the great white and let out what a friend nearby described as a primordial yell.
“I couldn’t believe it happened,” Scrivner said. “When I turned away from the shark, I said, ‘Did I really get bit?’ Your mind doesn’t believe it.”
Scrivner said he did a quick inventory of his body parts and found everything was intact. A friend encouraged him to keep paddling toward the beach.
Once there, friends and fellow surfers applied pressure on the wound and tied a T-shirt to stop the bleeding.
“What’s strange about it was how amazing the morning was, how everyone was having a good time, and then the dichotomy,” he said.
Scrivner was alert and conscious on shore when rescue crews got to the scene around 8:45 a.m., Samoa Peninsula Fire District Chief Dale Unea said.
Scrivner, an English lecturer at College of the Redwoods who is married with two young children, said the bite wound on his left thigh did not sever an artery or damage any tendons. There was some muscle tissue damage that required about 30 stitches, but he was expected to fully recover.
He said he thinks he was spared from more damage by his old surf board, which is thicker than many modern boards.
“If you’re going to get bitten by a shark, I had the best scenario,” he said.
Scrivner said he will “definitely surf again,” but with trepidation, and said he’s already had an anxiety dream where something was tugging on his surfboard leash.
“There’s just a power in the ocean,” Scrivner said. “When you see a shark or get bitten by a shark, you’re just made critically aware of that power.”
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Nice fish Dan.
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I hope Ricks family is able to find some peace.
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Contains cursing.
Some pretty excited kids, I turned down the sound 2nd time around.Cheers, Don
Those boys are stoked.haha
A few weeks ago we had an eight footer chase down a cormorant about 15-20 feet from us. The bird got away minus a foot and some tail feathers.
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I'm wondering how do you guys recover fish that get tangled in the rocks or just get wedged in a hole at the limits of your diving ability?
All gear is disposable. Just leave it and hunt shallower next time.
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Might reduce the risk of ear infections for some divers.
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Congrats to Diane and her team. "Your never to old....."
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Your stoked.
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Caught part of this episode the other day on PBS.
Puerto Escondido: Living the Dream: Television - Rick Bayless | Frontera
Episode 10: Puerto Escondido: Living the Dream
QuoteEver dream of renting a space with a kitchen in Mexico just so you can cook all the fresh fish you can eat? Rick lives the dream at Hotel Villas Carrizalillo in Puerto Escondido. First, he peruses the town market for inspiration and ingredients from heirloom tomatoes to the local tuxtla chiles. Then he joins a resident expert to take him spearfishing off Roca Blanca Playa, one of the prettiest beaches in Mexico, for the freshest possible catch for his feast. And what a feast it is! Rick takes one robalo and turns it into an aguachile (a spicy ceviche appetizer), a brothy soup with chayote and beer, and pan-seared robalo with a tomatillo –pumpkinseed sauce. All from a small kitchen at the villas, a sharp knife, a couple of large pans and blender! Paradise indeed!
I generally dislike cooking shows but Ricks show is interesting and he seems like a cool cat.
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Good resource here:
I think your initial thought is probably correct. You need an external light source.
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Introduce someone to fishing. September 7th.
We have a good selection of fishes to chose from this time of year.
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Nice. Do your halibut have parasites?
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11/32 lays the smack down on big wsb.
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a trawler out with a spotter helicopter. They are trying to tag a few sharks. Lots of monsoonal cloud cover this morning with some surface chop. Not the best conditions for spotting.
Two great white sharks seen off Manhattan Beach
QuoteDisplay MorePosted: 08/27/13, 4:48 PM PDT |
MANHATTAN BEACH — Two great white sharks were spotted just offshore in Manhattan Beach today.
County lifeguard Capt. Kyle Daniels said lifeguards assigned to the city said they also saw what they believed to be two great white sharks on Monday.
“Actually we’ve had several shark sightings over the last few weeks, since mid-July really,” Daniels said, adding that the sharks didn’t appear to be an immediate threat to swimmers.
El Porto beach in Manhattan Beach was closed briefly July 9 when a juvenile great white shark was seen in the area.
A helicopter and a boat owned by the Monterey Bay Aquarium were in the area today, as part of an attempt to capture or tag the fish, which were estimated to be 4-7 feet long. Adults can grow to about 20 feet.
Until shark experts from the Monterey Bay Aquarium started capturing juvenile great white sharks in and around Santa Monica Bay in recent years, no great white shark had ever been held in captivity for very long
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Want to borrow my long spotter rig, but it is set up for a banjo Canon mount.
Cheers, Don
Thanks for the offer. I might take one of my housings with me tomorrow or Wednesday.
