Has anyone had a close encounter with a Shark?

Question

sorry....watched Jaws 2 last night!

Answer 1

Twice. The first one was when I snorkelling off Williamstown in Victoria. There is an old water tank or something very like a water tank a feww hundred metres offshore. I swam over the top of the tank to find myself face to face with a shark. It was big to me, as I was about fifteen at the time. It was a three foot long shark that took of at the same rate as me, in the opposite direction.
The second, I was in the sharks kitchen. Fishing in the surf at Wonboyn Lake in NSW. To cast out, I had to wade out to my waist. I stood there after I had cast out and I saw this shape in the water beside me. It was over 6 foot long and brushed up alongside me. The skin is like sandpaper and left me with a gravel rash. It was a Bronze Whaler. Consequently, when I fish, I always cast from the sand.
The third encounter is rather funny, I know I said I only had 2, but in fact the third is the best. Some sharks are great with chips.
I love the sea, the number of sharks is small, the number of attacks is small. Just go to your local beach and swim. The Jaws Movies are media hype.

Answer 2

Yes. I used to do a lot of surf fishing when I lived in Florida. Many times while standing knee deep in the surf I see sharks. Most of them ignored me. A few times I got checked out. Couple times I had em scrape me. Sharks you see in shallow water like the beach area are usually small.

I used to fish for shark when I could not catch anything else. I have a couple shark jaws. One from a lemon shark, the other from a sand shark.

Answer 3

Yes, I did while scuba diving in the Red Sea just off the coast of Marsa Alam in Egypt back in January 2004.

Luckily, sharks do not tend to attack humans. Apparently they don't like our taste.

Your only really liable to be attached by a shark if you are swimming in an area where their favourite prey, seals, are in high numbers. Also it does not help to be wearing flippers as this apparently makes you look more seal like.

In my case I came up against a pod of hammerhead sharks. They circled me and my friends a couple of times and then swam off. I think they were more weary of us than we were of them!

Answer 4

Yes, one time, while i was snorkling in miami, a 9 foot nurse shark swam right underneath me. i wasn't scared though because i realize that most sharks are very docile creatures.

Answer 5

yeah man, it was way close. I was lucky the big glass plate was in between us.

Answer 6

ya with Shamoo