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Well, if you're anything like me you ain't thinking about Timothy!

Only that I'd be a little remorseful in her case.

To All,

My husband, "Tex", has been a dedicated shark-hunter, since he was in college & worked as a volunteer for the famous Professor Eugenie Clark PhD, for several summers from 1965 & remained one of her fans/correspondents until her death in 2015.
He & his friends catch, (often) take tissue samples from, measure, tag & release many large/dangerous sharks of several species each season.
(When I can get away from work, I join him in his "hobby".)

He always says that, "There is a fine line between very brave & needlessly reckless, with your life."

In my opinion, that lady has long ago crossed the line from bravery into recklessness. She may not live long enough to regret her foolish decisions.

Large sharks are completely unpredictable & may bite anything within their reach, whether or not that they are hungry. - For example, the Summer that we met & started dating, a large Tiger Shark took a bite out of the aluminum transom-ladder on his old 18 foot boat.
(In the case of "Big Blue", even a "curiosity bite" would likely be lethal.)

Sincerely, DarlaG

Why do "Tex's" posts have a Big Squeeze feel to them lately? Who puts their wife on here to tell their stories? Maybe I'm wrong but it sure seems a little off...

I think it is known fact the White Sharks do not intentionally hunt or eat humans, but we also know that sharks make mistakes.

I would be for more willing to swim with a White in clear water, than I would laying atop a surfboard in murky water,

She tries that in the murky waters in the Red Triangle CA, she won't make it long.

I’ve been in a shark cage off Oahu twice. The first year (several years ago) there had been a huge white show up and the boat captain and crew free swam with a very large white a week before we arrived. The captain showed me her footage she captured on her GoPro. While my wife and I were in the cage there was a couple of very large tiger sharks show up and circled the cage. One had a large stainless circle hook dangling from its mouth. There were quite a few Galapagos sharks swirling around all the time until the tigers came in. The Galapagos sharks took off when the tigers appeared.
This past summer we returned and did another shark cage trip. There were quite a few Galapagos sharks and a couple of other sharks working the cage and just fun and fascinated with sharks. They are so fast and powerful and I fear at some time we will hear of these free swimmers with whites get more than they bargained for.

Free swimming with sharks is like playing with lions. Stupid.

ADDENDA to Post 13470036, above,

After "the boys" brought a VERY large & ANGRY female Tiger alongside last Spring, I came close to quoting a famous line from JAWS by Roy Scheider, as "Chief Martin Brody": "You're going to need a BIGGER boat."
(That afternoon, I feared that she was going to be "in our laps".)

Before the next "shark-hunting season", we will have a MUCH larger/beamier, I/O-powered, open utility, with "higher sides" to keep the toothy critters OUTSIDE of the boat.
(Years before we met, Tex had a juvenile Tiger end up aboard the boat, where the shark took a bite out of a boat-seat & ate a tackle-box, before "being escorted off" of the interior.)

Sincerely, DarlaG

Reminds me of that dude that wanted to live with bears.

its like their sitting side by side......telling each other what to write down...….bob

Sharks are impressive in many ways. They are also a real pain in the ass if you're not into sharks watching.

Although I agree with all the comments about recklessness and Darwinism, I have this fleeting thought that there's a great white and a big shark in that picture!

Rooster7,

THANK YOU for your incredibly DUMB & generally worthless comment. - I encourage my Darla to be involved in shooting, hunting & in our "catch, tag & release" shark research.
She also is "a committed activist" & is "involved in" several conservative social/political issues & in some ways is MORE conservative than I am.

Are you, per chance married?
If you are, do you tell your wife what to post or NOT post, about whatever information seems interesting and/or important to her?
Also, inasmuch as THE GOOD BOOK says that married couples, "- - - - shall become as of one flesh", I'm not sure that it makes much or any any difference which of us is writing/not writing any particular comment/post.

In this particular case, I was busy doing a repair to one of my antique OMC OB motors (a rather rare "long-foot" 1956 Johnson electric-starting OB) & was "up to my elbows" in oil/grease. I chose to not "clean up" to make comments about the CRAZY people, who insist on risking life & limb by "free swimming" with sharks.
Darla read what she was writing to me before "completing" her comments on the recklessness of swimming with dangerous sharks & describing some of the activities that our "crew of amateur shark researchers" do.
(Personally, I would have said that that anyone who "swims with dangerous sharks" may become SHARK FOOD & may well win the Darwin Award. Furthermore, I completely OPPOSE "hand-feeding of sharks, as those people are teaching sharks to associate the presence of swimmers with FOOD, which MAY well get persons, who are NOT "involved in the hand-feeding", attacked & perhaps killed.)

yours, tex

BobMT,

In this particular case, Darla & I were about 15-20 feet apart, while I was working an antique OB, which is another of my hobbies.
See my post # 13476901 to "Rooster 7" for more information.

yours, tex.

Real pretty gal, hope she dosnt turn into fish food,

I would definitely be much more sorry to see her go than the grizzly dude.

Tex.......gotcha.......if that rooster guy hadn't made that stupid comment, i wouldn't have replied ....have a good day....bob

BobMT,

ImVho, we have a number of clueless (and evidently terminally BORED), "know nothing" members, who seem to spend all of their time posting "something", even when posting that "something" makes them LOOK silly, ignorant of facts, "empty between the ears" & like jackasses.
(At least this particular forum hasn't yet "been blessed with" the presence of "Jersey grrl", who has joined another forum that Darla & I belong to. = "Jersey grrl" seems to spend all of her time complaining, griping, carping, whining & "jumping on" other members for typos, misspelled words, awkward syntax & other really minor "errors" of grammar/style. - Both Darla & I have put "Jersey grrl" on PERMANENT "ignore".)

yours, tex

Chum.

Really hot chum, but chum none-the-less.

CharlieFoxtrot,

I suspect that young woman will NOT die in her sleep in old age. = RECKLESS accurately describes her, imo.

yours, tex