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The following story was sent to me and it had to be shared….
July 10, 2008 – 11:53AM (Sorry – I don’t have the original source)
It’s the talk of town, the
A commercial fisherman yesterday reported netting and releasing the monster while casting his fishing nets off
“He claimed that he actually caught the shark in his net and the shark came up and started thrashing about, and hit his boat,” said Chief Inspector Tim Winmill said.
A Tuggerah Lakes police spokesman today said there had been no further sightings of the shark.
“The Department of Primary Industries are running the operation, we’re not the shark liaison officers,” he said. The DPI has been contacted for comment.
But John West, Taronga Zoo’s shark expert, said: “I think it’s a hoax – great white’s don’t go into estuarine or lake systems. “In all my knowledge on shark biology and behaviour, that’s unlikely.
“It wouldn’t even fit in that lake, I don’t know how deep the entrance is but you’d need several metres for a shark that big to get into it.
“A large shark like that would stick out like dog’s b*lls.”
Soldiers Beach Surf Life Saving Club president Mick Crowe said the whopping carnivore was “the talk of the area”.
He was unsure if it had deterred holiday makers. “This time of year they don’t get too many people in the Lake anyway, other than a few diehards. It’s absolutely freezing cold and there’s a howling wind.”
He too was sceptical a great white could be in the lake.
“There’s no chance a shark that big could get into the entrance, you could just about walk across the entrance channel [because it's so shallow].”
Chief Inspector Tim Winmill said there had been reports of a baby great white shark in the lake a few years ago.
While stressing it was highly unlikely, Mr West said it was possible a baby great white may have snuck through the entrance to the lake.
“But if it got into there it would be trying to find its way out. They don’t tolerate the drops in salinity.
“It could probably survive for a period but how long I don’t know because they don’t go into those areas.”
Mr West said if there was a shark in the lake, it was more likely to be a bull shark.
“It’s part of a bull shark’s natural behaviour to move up into fresh water,” he said. “But they only grow up to three metres long.
“The fisherman saying it was seven metres could have been an exaggeration, but that’s a story he’ll have to explain.”
We recently spotted this news item in The Mirror – click through to the link to see for yourself!
Could this be the Loch Ness Monster?
By Hannah Wood, Mirror.co.uk 2/07/2008
New video footage has emerged of a potential sighting of dinosaur-like creature the Loch Ness Monster.
David Garside and his dad Graham were on holiday in
During a tourist boat trip on the loch, they spotted something strange in the distance so zoomed in with their video camera to get a better look.
David, 31, said: “I couldn’t really see what it was but I thought it looked sort of like a crocodile’s back or something. I was videotaping the boat tour though so I used my zoom lens to get a closer look and luckily I caught it on camera.
See full article and video HERE
