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scooter
12-09-2010, 06:54 AM
Just saw this, suddenly I feel a lot safer in the ocean.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101209/ap_on_re_af/af_crocodile_kayaker
Hunters Pa
12-09-2010, 07:01 AM
More scared of the idiots on the road texting & talking when they should be driving. More dangerous getting TO the water than ON the water.

Unless you count the summertime drunk a$$es on jetskis
Gino
12-09-2010, 05:13 PM
saw this on my home site. Ill say it again.

1. Dont go to Africa...:biggrinjester:

2. Those Crocodiles have been eating people for 5000+ years.

That is all.
Whizz Bang
12-10-2010, 07:38 AM
"An acclaimed outdoorsman who wrote movingly about testing himself against nature is presumed dead after a crocodile snatched him from his kayak while he led an American expedition from the source of the White Nile (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101209/ap_on_re_af/af_crocodile_kayaker#) into the heart of Congo."

Coetzee Vs. Nature
Score: 26 1

Game Over.

We should all be so lucky to die a heroe's death doing what we love. Even if it is into murky water clutched in the mouth of something that was around when the dinosaurs' roamed.:cheers1:
maui jim
12-10-2010, 08:09 AM
Another RED Kayak.......Hummmmm

R---Real
E---Easy
D---Dinner

just a thought:cool:
RedSledTeam
12-10-2010, 10:17 AM
:biggrinjester: Yeah Right!
805gregg
12-10-2010, 04:45 PM
If you kayak in LJ you might want to be carefull, I was checking the surf from the Scripps pier, and met a Scripps professor he told me they have sensors in the LJ canyon and there are some very large sharks in there. Wasn't there an indicent a long time ago where a scuba diver was swollowed hole by a great white with only his fins sticking out of the sharks mouth?
tacmik
12-10-2010, 05:22 PM
More scared of what the damn seals might do than the tax man.
Gino
12-10-2010, 05:25 PM
If you kayak in LJ you might want to be carefull, I was checking the surf from the Scripps pier, and met a Scripps professor he told me they have sensors in the LJ canyon and there are some very large sharks in there. Wasn't there an indicent a long time ago where a scuba diver was swollowed hole by a great white with only his fins sticking out of the sharks mouth?


well most of the scrips people dont want us fishing period... So take that with a light heart.

But yes there is big giant sharks all over the coast. its not unusual at all
StinkyMatt
12-10-2010, 08:35 PM
If you read the WHOLE story about that shark swallowing the diver........page two states:

"....The diver escaped the clutch of the giant beast with the help of a mermaid who distracted the shark while he used a fingernail to cut its belly from inside out. The escape was a once in a lifetime event, and could not have happened had he trimmed his nails."

My ass...:D