Monster Great White shark caught – pics!
Photographs of a huge Great White Shark being dissected at the Point in Mossel Bay caused a stir around the country this week, with people sending the pictures around by e-mail, reports News24.com.
“The shark of about 4.3m, which was dissected on Friday in Mossel Bay, landed in nets of the Natal Sharks Board at the Zinkwasi beach in KwaZulu-Natal,” said Dawie Zwiegelaar of the National Sea Rescue Institute’s Mossel Bay office on Wednesday.
According to Geremy Cliff, head of the Natal Sharks Board, the female shark was weak
but alive, when it was found. It was also marked.
“Staff from the Sharks Board tried in vain to free her, but she was clearly confused and was found dead in the nets early the next morning,” he told News24.com.
Cliff said the shark was dragged to the beach and taken to their head office in Umhlanga to be cut open as part of their research into feeding and reproduction.
At the request of British documentary film production company Windfall Films, it was decided to keep the shark until the film crew could film the dissection in Mossel Bay.
According to Dr Ryan Johnson, head of Ocean Research in Mossel Bay, Windfall Films wanted to film in the area due to the natural beauty. Windfall Films was busy with the second series in their popular programme Inside Nature’s Giants.
The shark was dissected on Friday at the Point by staff from the Sharks Board.
The photographs that created such a buzz were taken at the time.
“It isn’t one of our sharks, we don’t have such small sharks,” joked Zwiegelaar on Wednesday.
- Mossel Bay’s Great Whites were recently featured in a National Geographic
documentary entitled “Sharkville”, which shows that the bay has a unique resident shark population, living in close proximity to bathers.
Researcher Ryan Johnson also made the remarkable discovery that the Great Whites hunted by breaching – at night!
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Poor thing
What a beautiful creature. Of course my thoughts would be different if one of those had to swim past me but they definately need to be protected. They’re such an intriguing species.
hen I saw this photo first thing I did was email it to my father in law to ask if it was real – I was convinced it was a hoax. But then he emailed back to say it was VERY much real! I decided I’m never going into the sea again 
ha ha ha!!
It is such a shame that such a beautiful creature had to die. they a magnificent and so graceful in the water. All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, all things wise and wondeful, the Lord God made them all. Live and let live.
Wait for it !! “Great White” oh dear.Is the term offensive and racist ??
I think it is terrible, that such a beautiful creature had to die.
you a veggie kitkat?
Let that thing just take a bite at Bakkies Botha – THEN it will know that it has been in a fight!
The environmental damage done by shark nets and Blue Bulls forwards is deeply disturbing.
I feel that human beings are so much more dangerous than sharks or any of the other preditors. We encrouch their territory and then decide that THEY need culling, etc. I think it is time that people got culled too. Oh, sorry, I forgot. That is happening VERY effectively in SA with Aids, murders, etc!
I like what they have been doing to bring down the elephant population. They inject them with contriceptives and also been sterilising bull elephants. I think a lot more of that is needed for humans!!!
SAVE THE SHARK (and the white rhino – Parks Board) and the other creatures.
What a magnificent creature this shark is.
Good grief! that is a huge shark. But sorry that it died.
I don’t like killing anything either…..so can somebody tell me what the heck to do with a freaking puff adder caught at my back door today???? I HATE SNAKES! but I also do not want to harm it.
Take the snake to open ground away from your home and let it go.Of course you could take it to Bisho and let it be amongst friends.
veetjie, are there no snake handlers in EL or maybe the zoo?
Vee, don’t go near the thing – they don’t take kindly to being prodded. If you wish, phone the SPCA or the zoo and they may fetch it.
Rule No5 of Surviving Shark Attack: Don’t panic.
In the event that a shark actually bites you, try to remain calm. This really won’t help you survive, but everyone else on the beach will appreciate you not shrieking madly, as this is quite unsettling”
Tell me, how do you remain calm when such a grisly creature crushes you? mh? mh? ahhh forget it!!
Rule No 6. If attacked by a shark, punch it on the snout as this generally frightens the shark away.
If this doesn’t work, beat it repeatedly with the stump.
Rule No 7. if circled by a shark, swim towards it in a aggressive way, as if you are the hunter..
Then swim back through the ‘brown’ water and escape….
Ever since you bunny hungers started your lets save all great big sharks because they kill fewer people than lightning campaign there has been a rise in shark attacks on humans. Yet when a hippo or lion gets out of its cage or park we shoot it. Grow up any wild animal, shark or lion that threatens us needs to be caged or put down. Boy am I glad this one kicked it. Thanks nets I love you.
Back up Goblin. All creatures, including sharks, lions etc are part of the system. Once the over-abundant human race has killed off all the rest of creation, we go as well. It’s called the balance of nature. No bunny-hugging, just a simple scientific fact that we are not self-sufficient. Sharks serve an important purpose in keeping the balance in the oceans. That balance, believe it or not, is vital for the maintenance of terrestial life. Keep the emotion out of the debate. Our natural environment is on land. A shark’s natural environment is in the sea. When we trespass, it’s at our own risk.
Future Finger – LOL, well said!
There is a snake handling dude across the road from the Friesland in the Quigney
I must disagree with Future Finger – snakes are an unsuitable way of describing the sloth like officials in Bisho – since they exhibit non of the speed, grace, intelligence or effectiveness of a snake, I would tend to think that “slug” would be more a more appropriate metaphor.
Must agree with LUDICROUS, Mr Finger speaks with fork-tongue.
Snakes are wonderful creatures that demand very little and do not bite unless provoked. I have kept snakes for years and when in SA and suffering numerous thefts & break-ins at my business decided to keep snakes on the premises in an attempt to deter the burglars. Massive success. The break-ins stopped and my stock and cash were safe. Not once did my scaly friends try to steal my money or consume my stock.
Indeed Mr Finger, comparing these wonderful creatures to the worms & slugs in Bisho is racist (reptilist ??) to the extreme
How come its the great white shark,white rhinoan and white house and snooker you have a white ball that has to sink the black ball why can’t it be called the great black shark yet be have black sheep, black mail, blacklist, blackout which all those are not good things
Why must everything always turn into a racial issue, let the past be just that. No wonder this country is in the state it is in, some peolpe just cant let it go which is so sad!!!
Why must everything always turn into a racial issue, let the past be just that. No wonder this country is in the state it is in, some people just cant let it go which is so sad!!!
READ BETWEEN THE LINES MO SHAKE AND YOU WILL GET YOUR AWNSER
Mo Shake, the answer is because black is no good, so please pass me another Black Label.
Nature and it’s mysteries, that’s one huge shark…..
I agree with Anon. Why must everything became race related in this blog? A Non-what? White?
Dave Rankin says: ‘Our natural environment is on land’. The same goes for the Lion, Leopard, Rhino, Elephant, Buffalo, Puffadder, Rinkals, Scorpion, Button spider….
So, it’s OK to either put them in zoos, parks, Vivariums, or get tourists to pay R500,000 to shoot them. What do you suggest we do with Sharks? WAIT! I just remembered, let’s catch them and says it’s for food.
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