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rogerj1
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Make sure you hose off before heading to your favorite apres surf hangout.
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JESSE
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So in order to make it they have to kill sharks to get the extract?
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whodat54321
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for now they have to. I'm sure they are seeking out the active ingredient that makes the sharks bail and will synthesize it.
putting myself in the shark's place, I wouldn't want to be around rotton stinking bodies either.
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Markitos
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Just drop a dead chicken in your mates wetty! The sharks will leave YOU alone!
Make sure your amigo has payed his share of the gas first thou
All that wonder are not lost
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MaiTaiMama
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Thanks for the info Grover. I love the ocean but couldn't wait for the real thing to keep those buggers away....anyone have any follow-ups on shark
repellant??
[Edited on 8-8-2004 by MaiTaiMama]
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whodat54321
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battery chuckers?
an old friend of mine who dives some told me a story of how they dunked a starting battery in the drink for a few seconds to scare off a bunch of the
sharks, but I somehow think that's a bunch of bull....
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bancoduo
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I think a rabbits foot would be just as effective.
[Edited on 3-7-2006 by bancoduo]
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Diver
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Responding to a post from 8-8-2004 ??
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bancoduo
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sharks
Are sharks obsolete in 06? 
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KAT54
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Diver leave this guy alone.
He's new and doesn't even know that there aren't waves in San Felipe.
He wiil learn.
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tehag
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sharks
Some Pacific Island cultures believe that sharks are repelled by bold stripes. Some research has suggeted that it may be more than just superstition.
Take a look at old beach costumes, lots of very bold stripes. Have we forgotten something else? I have been wearing a striped tee shirt to snorkel and
dive in for an unmentionable number of years all over Baja and So California without so much as a wink from a shark.
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tehag
Some Pacific Island cultures believe that sharks are repelled by bold stripes. Some research has suggeted that it may be more than just superstition.
Take a look at old beach costumes, lots of very bold stripes. Have we forgotten something else? I have been wearing a striped tee shirt to snorkel and
dive in for an unmentionable number of years all over Baja and So California without so much as a wink from a shark. |
Not enough meat on you for a shark to bother with, no matter what suit you wear ??
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Al G
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I going to opt for the repellent because in a wet suit I look just like a seal. I am sure I would be the slowest out of the water. What am I talking
about I don't know how to surf!!! Gotta lose some weight
Albert G
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bajarasta
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sharks... what sharks!! ? there are no sharks in baja worth wasting your time worring about! im telling you from experience man!! unless your at the
gut dump at the fish camp on an outgoing tide youve got nothing to worry about!!!
try living and surfing in the heart of the red triangle where you often surf alone and the locals name the fish(no bullchit).
there is a spot in humboldt where the local shark is called "twenty foot tony"!! and at yet another yet more secret place you have to paddle through
whats known as "the petting zoo" to get to the lineup.
we pray all year to not get bit in the water sos we can go to mex for a while and not worry about it at all...
but the stripes in bold are for real.the stripes mean "predator " in the ocean not prey. sea snakes, zebra fish, and other poisonous animals have
these similar zebra stripe patterns.
as for gettin bit? well if it happens it happens. at least a baja tiberon wont be the size of a eurovan camper!!!!
just surf and "no worries"!!
bajarasta
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Sharksbaja
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Better slather your dead shark repellant on
because they do exist...everywhere you wanna go.
http://www.santarosaliacasitas.com/city.htm
and some discussion re: same:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=7861
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Bajamatic
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yeah - and smoke another one if you think the shark, with eyesight about as good as my 90 y.o. gramps behind the wheel after dark, is gonna care if
there are stripes on your board while he looks up into the sun at your silhouette.
yuletide
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Bruce R Leech
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¿Grover have you tested it yourself yet?
once again thanks for all your help Grover.
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bigzaggin
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There is only one reliable way to repel sharks...
...if you see one coming, just shove your face underwater and yell "BEAT IT!" super loud. They will probably bail. I tried this a number of times
at the reef breaks north of Santa Cruz with typically positive results. You might have to translate when screaming at sharks in Baja (¡salga de
aqui!), though a fair number (especially in Norte) do understand English.
By the way, central Baja is basically overrun with voracious sharks, especially the Sisters area where upwards of 19 attacks (11 fatal) have been
registered in the past 9 months. A local fisherman there, who has fished the entire West Coast from Washington down (and is missing a leg), told me
the sharks in that zone are hands down the hungriest, toughest, most aggressive beasts for thousands of miles in every direction. I am being totally
serious.
Something to consider anyway.
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bigzaggin
By the way, central Baja is basically overrun with voracious sharks, especially the Sisters area where upwards of 19 attacks (11 fatal) have been
registered in the past 9 months. |
bigzaggin what's the source of that statement? I have been observing sharks and their relationship with fisherman in the central Sea of Cortez for
many years, and based on what I have seen (see photo below) the sharks have certainly taken a bigger hit than the fishermen. What species do you
think are the "voracious" ones? Threshers like those whose fins are in the panga?
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Bajamatic
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That part of baja, being the end of the japanese current, is a well known hunting ground for whities. There have been some caught off santa
rosaliita. Shark week always talks about it. One guy was claiming that this year its really thick with 'em - "you can almost walk on the water on
the backs of the sharks" he said. Might have lost something in translation but scared the balls out of me.
yuletide
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