From the NY Daily News:

Nom nom nom nom nom

it must not have tasted very good, 'cause the big one didn't clean his plate

The owner of the bigger shark clearly isn't a true vegan/vegetarian.

sextonseven said:

sextonseven said:

seafood doesn't count...fish & other sea creatures don't have feelings

sextonseven said:

Survival of the fittest. Ever was it thus.

na nah

na nah

that's suppose to be the jaws theme.

HughEdwards said:

Thanks Hugh, I'll bear that in mind!

lazycrockett said:

Sounds more like the theme to the Banana Splits.....

mcmeekle said:

really?

Ahhhh, sushi sushi, now!!!

roodboi said:

And even if they did, they're not cute.

POOR LITTLE 10 FOOT SHARK Taking "Big Brother" to a whole other level.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

We have the cosiest wildlife in the world here, don't we?

http://www.aussiepete.com...llers.html

I wish they had gotten that on video!

A bone-chilling wind Tuesday carried the putrid odor of decomposition up a gulch near Fort Bragg where scientists, students and volunteers continued the daunting task of slicing up a massive blue whale and preparing it for burial.

“It smells,” said Connie Scherer, a master of understatement who has a vacation home nearby.

The overpowering odor grew exponentially in the early afternoon when workers cut into the gargantuan belly, spilling mountain of white intestines onto the rocky shore.

“I'll never eat bockwurst again,” said one observer.

Meanwhile, thick long slabs of foamy blubber were sliced and pulled off the 72-foot whale, then winched up the cliff above the inlet where the carcass of the female blue whale — the world's largest mammal — came to rest.

The whale was mortally wounded when she tried to surface under a research vessel off the coast of Fort Bragg a week ago Monday.

It's was still unclear Tuesday afternoon how the tons of blubber would be disposed of, said Sheila Semans, a Coastal Conservancy official and an organizer of the mammoth effort to salvage the whale skeleton so it someday can be displayed in Fort Bragg, where it could providing educational opportunities and serve as a tourist attraction.

Semans said a person had offered to take and compost the fat, but that's not an allowed use for parts of a federally protected species. Like everything else about the salvage project, solutions to problems are continually in flux.

Once the blubber — roughly 7 inches thick, is removed from the whale, the task of cutting the whale into manageable sections will begin, she said.

Those will be taken to an unidentified location deep in a private forest and buried in deep holes filled with a mulch that includes sand and manure to enhance decomposition. It will take up to five years for microbes and bugs to clean off the bones.

By then, it's hoped Fort Bragg has a marine research center and museum in which to reassemble and display the once majestic beast. A marine research center is one of the proposals suggested for the defunct Georgia-Pacific mill site.
http://www.pressdemocrat....ing-stench

I like the network caption in the bottom left

7:23, Cairns, 31 degrees and sunny


Re the shark, that is two bites, one from each side? looks like fakery to me!

what a fantastic thread name... however its mighty grim

Fury said:

incredible!

sextonseven said:[quote]From the NY Daily News:

[quote]Samuel L Jackson bitten nearly in half by 20-foot 'monster shark' near Australian beach
By Ethan Sacks
Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, October 26th 2009, 10:30 AM

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Swimmers were warned that a "monster shark" was prowling off a popular Australian beach, one that nearly bit a 10-foot great white shark in half last week, London's Daily Mail reported.

Based on the bite marks, experts say the larger shark must be twice its victim's size.

The smaller - relatively speaking - actorwas hooked on a baited drum line when it was attacked, and was still alive when it was hauled onto a boat off north Stradbroke Island in Queensland.

The fatally wounded actor was found just a few miles away from the island's popular beaches, a haven for surfers and bathers.

"That cannibal thing is what great whites do; they'll eat anything, including their own kind," Hugh Edwards, a local shark expert, told Australia's 7 News. "It would be sensible not to swim in that area for a little while."

Though shark attacks worldwide dipped from 71 to 59 between 2007 and 2008, according to the International Shark Attack File, and few of them were attributed to great whites, the large shark had been vilified even before Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller.

Speculation is that this "Jaws"-sized shark has been lured to the area by the rotting carcuses of three whales that were trapped in anti-shark netting surrounding the Queensland coast.

But Queensland Fisheries Minister Tim Mulherin told Australia's Courier Mail that the grisly find shows why those nets were still essential.

Five people were fatally attacked in the late '50s, the Courier Mail reported, but only one since the nets were put in place in 1962.

"Whatever attacked and took chunks out of this big shark must be massive," surfer Ashton Smith, 19, told the Daily Mail. "I've heard about the big one that's lurking out there somewhere.

"We're all being very, very cautious."