Originally posted by JaTo:
F**K!

I've kayaked around the Florida Keys quite a bit and have had a few Nurse sharks check me out in shallow waters, but they are easily spooked and fairly small (always smaller than the kayak). Hell, I've taken a pony bottle with me to dive down and peek at small groups of them hovering in sandy hollows...

That, however, would have had me projection-spewing bodily fluids from multiple orifices simultaneously. Curiosity for many sharks is circle, smell and then take a nibble if they don't flee or wander off in the first place; curiosity for Great Whites is skipping all of those steps and just shredding the Hell out of the object of curiosity. At least that's been my fishing experience with them.

I bet the guy never goes ocean kayaking again without a .12 gauge or concussion grenades...

That pic just gives me the freaking heebe-jeebes every time I look at it...




Makes me glad I kayak on the great lakes. Though in July, we're planning on kayaking in Alaska. Only have to worry about the whales there though.

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