http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8404622/?GT1=6657
This is one fish that would noodle you! GO RED NECKS.
Wife and I were very thrilled to see a 2 ft baby sturgeon when scuba diving in Lake Ontario a few years ago. It means that they’re still breeding. Reports of plentiful 8-10 ft sturgeons in the area were common when the white man first arrived, but now they are an endangered species.
I don’t think I would want to eat a fish that looks like that.
Dave in VA
That’s good news for all of us as sturgeons don’t eat people. Down here in Florida, I’m wishing Bull sharks were on the endangered/scarce list cause any time I even think of open water swimming, my wife lifts her eyebrow like the “ROCK” and shoots me the evil EYE! These days it seems like every week someone has either been bitten or killed. At lease I won’t have to contend with a lunker cat fish, since I’m not planning on going to Thailand anytime soon.
Paul
Shut the fu** up. No Fu@#$% way!!!
Looks a little like me in my wetsuit.
Most of my open water swims are in the St.Lawrence River near Long Sault, and I’m still waiting to see a sturgeon. I’ll take a small one at first, and then work my way up to the larger ones as I acclimate to the shock effect. Really, though, it would be a thrill to share the water with one.
Really! Then u better not go to Tialand cause they chowed down on that fish after he was beached!
“Down here in Florida, I’m wishing Bull sharks were on the endangered/scarce list cause any time I even think of open water swimming, my wife lifts her eyebrow like the “ROCK” and shoots me the evil EYE! These days it seems like every week someone has either been bitten or killed”
This statement goes right along with all the total devistation that Florida experienced in the hurricane season last year. Yep, lots of people lost ALL their life long possessions and some loved ones…But…Tons of Floridians lost or saw nearly nothing from the hurricanes. Statements like yours raise panic among the masses that see only the TV and Newspapers. There was one girl killed and one boy bitten by a bull shark over the past 10 days or so…that is a far cry from “weekly”. I’m a business owner and lost 10K’s of business due to the over reaction of the “Weather Channell”. We had people cancelling reservations more then 10 days before hurricanes were to hit FL, if at all, due to the mass panic the “Weather Channel” produced last Sept and Oct. I was standing next to the Weather Channel guy as he was yelling into his mic as though he was about to be blown away…it was all BS…It was actually a very nice evening outside. SORRY>>>>>>>>got carried away!!
Your sweeping weekly shark attacks statment just hit a button…sorry
Yup, you have taken my comments way to seriously. My wife is more of a danger to me then any shark, she has to be twice has likely to kill me in my sleep, compared to a shark attack. 
joke. OK I admit it… I was trolling and I caught ya.
None the less you have a point. The media has jumped off the dock in search of the great-white story and its possible your business may suffer. Case in point see today’s Sp times has it’s loaded with sensational shark photos. The paper version has 6 shots, two of which are shown here.
Good luck this season!
Paul
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/30/Tampabay/One_rare_scare.shtml
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/30/State/Attack_victims.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3534658.stm
I think Walter Cronkite actually developed a tumor from watching the “news” when he discovered it was a televised version of a poorly written newspaper’s opinions page.
What bothers me is the media, the people once responsible for delivering factual (meaning verifiable, reproducible evidence) information, no longer rely on experts for their information. They talk to the doof that works at the lifeguard stand or some bean counter from the Parks department looking for answers to “why are sharks attacking!!???” I don’t know much about marine biology, but I surely don’t need a 2.5 GPA high school grad who can’t find Iowa on a map telling me about “the summer of shark attacks!”
Why did those awful, mean-spirited sharks attack those innocent kids??? Because sharks are predators, they got hungry, and took a bite out of the slow moving slab of meat floating in the water.
The media in America is fu(king useless. Instead of giving possible answers they only want to propogate fear, and fear is the most powerful emotion for idiots, morons, and the vacant; and we have a minimum of 60 million of those in America.
what are you trying to do … scare the competition from getting in the water? i used to think the lakes were ok and i only had to worry about the ocean but you people keep posting stuff thats making me think there is no safe place … stop the madness!!!
I don’t think I would want to eat a fish that looks like that
the thing is, you probably already have many times. you just didn’t know it.
I will just make sure to swim with someone at least 50lbs heavier then me. Making my skinny ass less appealing. Should keep the sharks busy enough for me to swim to shore 
Hey Longspur…
A fellow ST’er in my neighborhood! I usually do my swims at Blockhouse or Centeen park.
I don’t enjoy seeing ANYTHING when I swim.
Zipp,
Looks like its going to be a long summer. 
The sharks just scored some Aussi points. See below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8434265/
BOCA GRANDE, Fla. - A shark bit an Austrian tourist on the ankle Friday while the man stood in chest-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, the sheriff’s office said. It was the third shark attack in the state in a week.
Armin Projer, 19, was airlifted by helicopter to Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, where he was in good condition, hospital spokeswoman Pat Dolce said.
“It is a confirmed shark attack,” Lee County sheriff’s spokeswoman Ileana LiMarzi said. “Someone else in the water saw a shark.”
Paramedics also indicated the wound was consistent with a shark bite, she said. The man was bitten near the lighthouse at Gasparilla Island Beach.
“We are out there right now letting people know, notifying people on the beach about what happened,” LiMarzi said. The beach was not closed to swimmers.
Two other young people have been bitten since Saturday in gulf water off Florida. The latest incident was about 280 miles from an attack Monday on a 16-year-old boy who lost his leg and about 350 miles from the spot where a 14-year-old girl was killed Saturday.
Experts believed bull sharks attacked both teens in the Florida Panhandle. The type of shark involved in Friday’s attack was not immediately determined.
Experts say shark attacks are rare, pointing out that there were only 30 in 2003 among the millions of people who hit the state’s beaches. Most of those attacks were minor bites on the feet or ankles. Last year, when four hurricanes kept many visitors away, there were 12 attacks.
If you research shark attacks you’ll see this happens every year at this time all over Florida. It speaks to the numbers of people vacationing in Florida. More people, more food, more sharks eating that food!
Same goes for cycling. We ride 12 months of the year in FL…Wisconsin rides a few months per year…where do you think you’ll see more cyclists hit by cars? Does this make our roads any more unsafe…I don’t think so. More cars, more cyclists, more days to cycle…= more cyclists hit!