GREAT WHITE SHARK LIVE ON THE NET!

Coming along nicely that Daz 😀

With a base coat of grey paint…

Haven’t had any updates on this for a long time:

It’s not a “crazed look” at all. The sand tiger has a visible pupil, whereas the great white, for instance, does not. Some sharks have a more expressive eye than others, it just depends on the species.

its that crazed look in his eye and those sharp looking teeth that would put me off.. 😀 😮 (piccies from the Deep in Hull yesterday) Neil

Ach, that’s but a tiddler! 😉

In all seriousness, I’ve dived with sand tiger sharks. Awesome experience, and would love to do it again.

I watched a bit, but I am scared of sharks so off it went!! :rolleyes: 😀 Anna 😀

look away now..!!

Anyone watch “Bite Night” on ITV last night, in particular “Sharks on Trial”??

What a load of arse! Biased? You bet! And that Vic Hislop fellah was an absolute nutjob! 😡

I watched a bit, but I am scared of sharks so off it went!! :rolleyes: 😀 Anna 😀

Anyone watch “Bite Night” on ITV last night, in particular “Sharks on Trial”??

What a load of arse! Biased? You bet! And that Vic Hislop fellah was an absolute nutjob! 😡

Just heard a news flash that another swimmer has been taken by a white pointer while swimming at a local beach in Adelaide

Well I have a nodding alligator and nodding great white shark sitting on top of my computer – call it inspiration for my assignments – to enable me to achieve my goal of qualifying as a nurse, and as my reward for my hard work I’m going to do a shark dive and see some alligators in their natural environment. 😀

Snaps

My girlfriend bought me a 18ins cuddly toy Bruce from Finding Nemo – he wouldn’t fit on my PC monitor at work, however! 🙁

Love the middle one Daz, I went to Chicago and bought a rather large 2ft soft toy of a shark, hubby did object to the 6ft alligator soft toy though. My family are still trying to convert me to liking cute things but sharks and alligators will always be my love.

SteveYoung, if you look on the website you will click on the link to animal exhibits so it tells you all about the different kinds of sharks in with the Great White. She is so cute though, well worth seeing.:) i only know about where to look for the info on this site as I have looked at it in depth!

Regards,
Snaps

Ahhh, Bruce!

“Bruce” started off as an idea – I’d always wanted to do a radio-controlled model shark, and so I started off by drawing him up full-scale. I thought, at the time, that a wooden box for the radio gear, covered in polystyrene for the shape, and then covered in fibreglass would work, and the weight of the radio gear (and any ballast needed) would be enough to help it go under.

WRONG!!

Just as I got to the glassing stage, I realised it wasn’t going to work, so I decided to finish it as a static model, and instead of using fibreglass I used cartridge paper and watered-down PVA glue, then painted the whole lot with a couple of tins of Humbrol paint (didn’t take that much!!). The eyes are big marbles sunk into roughly carved holes in the head (which is all-polystyrene), then glued in and painted (matt black) after doing the shark’s colours.

The teeth are just plastic card, done with serrated scissors (although you can’t really tell) to get the serrated look. And they are bloody SHARP!!

I’ve recently got into the idea of building an R/C shark properly, but here are three I did earlier (kinda!)….

Just got round to looking at the Shark cam. Pretty good stuff, but apparently what we’re seeing now is pre-recorded off-hours footage. I’m not very well up on sharks; I can see two hammerheads and one non-hammerhead, I presume this is the Great White?

Probably a tope (quite common off the UK) or “soupfin sharks” as they’re known, because of the popularity of their fins… 🙁

You’ll have to wait until about 4-5pm in the UK to see something. Believe me, it’s worth it! 😉

Just got round to looking at the Shark cam. Pretty good stuff, but apparently what we’re seeing now is pre-recorded off-hours footage. I’m not very well up on sharks; I can see two hammerheads and one non-hammerhead, I presume this is the Great White?

If you think about it Daz, Keiko was used to real close human contact and in my opinion was treated kinda like a ‘pet’. Ok Orca’s would be massive pets but think of the training he had whilst in captivity, being hand fed etc. To then be released in the wild after I think being in captivity for 15-20 years he was really set up to fall. The wild was just a too foreign envirnment for him to be in. It angered me that he was released as I didn’t think it would be successful, but it angered me more that he was captured in the first place. 😡

The Great White though is being fed via a pole, just whilst she (he?) is getting used to the new environment and it allows them to do discrete checks. As you rightfully said she does have other snacking opportunties on offer if she so desires! It time she will be fed more naturally from what I can gather.

It’s great though to chat with someone that shares an interest in these creatures, I love your home built 4ft model of one though – how did you do it? 🙂

Regards,
Snaps

I was thinking earlier about the possibility of releasing the shark later on in life, and recalled that “Keiko”, the orca used for the filming of “Free Willy” back in the early ’90s, was released and subsequently died, due I think to the fact that he’d been in captivity so long that he basically couldn’t feed for himself and had to rely on human interaction. I don’t think this would be the case for the shark, although given that they feed the shark from a pole (at the moment), I do wonder what her chances might be if released.

Of course, I don’t think there’s anything to stop her snacking on a few of the other tank inhabitants…!!

I dived with sharks once, and by God I’d love to do it again! If I was a fully-certified diver, I would love to do it full-time (although I’d need spare time to build my mini-Spit!).

Funny, I’ve always wanted to keep a pet shark. Obviously not one THAT big, mind…!! :rolleyes:

I think Daz if she gets too big then they will release her back into the wild. I did sit and read all the interviews and info regarding the shark, so I could have imagined that is what I read, in regards to releasing her back into the wild! 😀

The ‘tank’ that she is in is vast so i really wonder whether she will grow out of it, and if Great Whites follow the trend of other sharks I don’t think that they are particularly fast growers so she should remain there a long time. The people that work there really appear to love what they do, it was great to read that they do not give any of their exhibit inhabitants names (except for the sea otters? as its part of their training) as they feel that it makes the sharks etc look like pets and they are not, and they are not treated as such either.

Well, if only I could write assignments like this for my nursing course! 🙁 (still feeling down because I now need the full 24 hours in a day to get all of my work done! 🙂 )

Snaps