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30-06-2018, 01:00 PM
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Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44666250



For the first time in more than 40 years, a great white shark has been recorded swimming off the Spanish Mediterranean island of Majorca.

A wildlife conservation group captured footage of the shark wandering around the Cabrera archipelago.

The last confirmed sighting of such a fish in the Balearic Islands was by a fisherman in 1976.

Great whites can weigh up to two tonnes, grow to lengths of 20ft (6m) and reach speeds of 64km/h (40mph).
Now I know that great white sharks are "relatively" harmless (and some people think that they're beautiful), but .....
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30-06-2018, 01:10 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

Originally Posted by Omah ->
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Now I know that great white sharks are "relatively" harmless (and some people think that they're beautiful), but .....
wow I wish I'd witnessed it, magnificent creature
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30-06-2018, 01:36 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

Originally Posted by Omah ->
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Now I know that great white sharks are "relatively" harmless (and some people think that they're beautiful), but .....
Beautiful creatures although I wouldn't like to meet one in the sea.
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30-06-2018, 03:17 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

It would be worrying for me to see any kind of shark in the sea
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30-06-2018, 04:31 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

I love swimming in the ocean but I have to admit I get nervous sometimes wondering what might be swimming alongside,,,, if I thought there was a great white about I would stick to the swimming pool
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30-06-2018, 04:56 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

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Now I know that great white sharks are "relatively" harmless (and some people think that they're beautiful), but .....
'Relatively Harmless' OMG, tell that to the people who have ended up in pieces on the seabed after being attacked by
Great Whites.
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30-06-2018, 05:09 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

Absoutely they are not relatively harmless at all.
We just do t swim as much in this climate and therefore don't come into much contact them .
Go to Australia or South Africa and swim at your peril .
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04-07-2018, 04:00 PM
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Re: Great White Shark sighted off Majorca

In the water with a great white shark? No how, no way. We are fortunate that we only get a great white sighting here very few years.

Now it is a strange phenomenon that when I surf, and you'll see dolphins doing the same thing, that typically non-aggressive, small sand sharks like to draft alongside me - lazy creatures.

They get a free ride and I am very, very careful not to fall of the board .
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It is the Sharks on land that are more dangerous
 

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