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Reporting shark sightings - what would you do?

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Created by cantSUPenough > 9 months ago, 26 Sep 2018
colas
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12 Dec 2018 3:36PM
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micksmith said..
There's no way you can substantiate these claims, as long as man has been studying these things ( which isn't that long really ) nothing has changed, to say their organs have changed is absolute nonsense.
Yes crocodiles observe movements but this is on any animal not just humans, they hunt on instinct.



Woah! I guess you should read about the progress of science in the twentieth century... Paleontology has progressed immensely, both with the analysis of fossils (we can now get traces of individual cells, and thus the colors of a skin by the type of its cells in some dinosaur fossils) and of course genetics. And the progresses have accelerated greatly in this century.

Youtube is ripe of super-interesting lectures, such as



For the organs, for instance modern crocodilians can now move their lungs as a kind of mobile ballasts:

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080313124451.htm

Bighugg
482 posts
12 Dec 2018 11:13PM
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My wife only EVER sees dolphins @ OG n 13th

micksmith
VIC, 1674 posts
14 Dec 2018 6:42AM
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colas said..

micksmith said..
There's no way you can substantiate these claims, as long as man has been studying these things ( which isn't that long really ) nothing has changed, to say their organs have changed is absolute nonsense.
Yes crocodiles observe movements but this is on any animal not just humans, they hunt on instinct.




Woah! I guess you should read about the progress of science in the twentieth century... Paleontology has progressed immensely, both with the analysis of fossils (we can now get traces of individual cells, and thus the colors of a skin by the type of its cells in some dinosaur fossils) and of course genetics. And the progresses have accelerated greatly in this century.

Youtube is ripe of super-interesting lectures, such as



For the organs, for instance modern crocodilians can now move their lungs as a kind of mobile ballasts:

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080313124451.htm


yeah great you stay in the twentieth and I'll go twenty first, if you want to believe what you hear from every scientist out there go right ahead. I prefer to ask questions and challenge, and to me there is no conclusive proof.

colas
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14 Dec 2018 4:42PM
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micksmith said..

yeah great you stay in the twentieth and I'll go twenty first, if you want to believe what you hear from every scientist out there go right ahead. I prefer to ask questions and challenge, and to me there is no conclusive proof.



Asking questions and challenging yourself is the base of academic work. This is why you should watch and read scientists who work and publish in peer-reviewed media, such as the video above. See his credentials for instance clas.uiowa.edu/ees/people/christopher-brochu

How can you challenge their claims if you do not do the research yourself to substantiate your claims but just rely on ignorant preconceptions?

Tardy
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14 Dec 2018 5:46PM
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surfing today ...i seen a fin .....

it looked flappy ...i soon realised it was a turtle ...

then i saw another doing the same thing less than 6 foot away ...on it side tapping its flipper ...

i presume this was a mate ing ...ritual...

i was on the edge for a while ...but then realised ....i stubbled upon a turtle love scene ...it was cool

it lasted for the whole hour i was out ..i guess when your a turtle everything goes slow ..

my last shark i saw was 5 months ago ..it was a 5 foot reef shark ,,it was hunting for small fish ...

the surfers went in ,i stayed out ....i had a bloody good session ...just me and 5 foot off shore waves ...

if the shark i see is more than 6 foot i go in ...smaller than me and not interested in me ..i'm cool with that .

if it a white i go in ...but luckily we don't have many here ...those are the ones that scare me ..

pumpjockey02
309 posts
16 Dec 2018 8:52PM
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Check this out!!


just shows how white sharks are not aggressive, this guy swam straight into the path of the white, solo on the beach. It was not a juvinile and it circled him and bit him, however it did not eat him, it just tasted him. It had the opprtunity to finish him off.
Whites have a history of just biting their victims over here in OZ and then the blood loss killing the person on the beach.
Bull sharks are much more dangerous, and crocks, wont just take a bit they will eat you whole, bit by bit.

Gboots
NSW, 1314 posts
17 Dec 2018 9:26AM
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That Cohen guy apparently had a previous record of ignoring previous life guard warnings about sharks as well . He is lucky to have survived

micksmith
VIC, 1674 posts
17 Dec 2018 2:25PM
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colas said..

micksmith said..

yeah great you stay in the twentieth and I'll go twenty first, if you want to believe what you hear from every scientist out there go right ahead. I prefer to ask questions and challenge, and to me there is no conclusive proof.




Asking questions and challenging yourself is the base of academic work. This is why you should watch and read scientists who work and publish in peer-reviewed media, such as the video above. See his credentials for instance clas.uiowa.edu/ees/people/christopher-brochu

How can you challenge their claims if you do not do the research yourself to substantiate your claims but just rely on ignorant preconceptions?


You don't know me or I know you. Yet you presume because I don't conform to your way of thinking that I must therefore be ignorant, you're a joke mate and dare I say, arrogant.

DHUPEDNORTH1
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17 Dec 2018 1:28PM
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saw a big grey fin come out of the water 10m away last month at Serangan. After initial shock saw it was flappyish and worked out it was a dugong on it's side. Needless to say, needed the local parrot fish to clean me up before continuing my session.



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