The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Sharks
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Lifted from Jerry's Facebook page.
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I'm sure this Great White means no harm. He's just curious. Wants to see what's going on. Then wants to eat the participants. Borrowed from the discoveryocean Instragram feed (recommended!)
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Fish. There was and is something cool about watermen and waterwomen referring to sharks as "Fish". The landlord, the man in the grey suit, Fish. Yeah well… OSEARCH (the talent agency that represents Mary Lee and a bunch of other Fish) says they've tracked a great white into the Long Island Sound, and this is…
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via @thelifeofsharks
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Ah Mary Lee. A ginormous Great White Shark that got in good with OCEARCH and then into social media. Like everybody who is anybody (every fish who is like anyfish?) once she found Twitter well, she just couldn't resist sharing. Until she fell off the radar last summer (did she drop her iPhone? Eat it?) …
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"She's back!" Scott texted. Yes she is. Mary Lee, three thousand five hundred pounds of Great White Hell is coming for to eat you up. The good people at OCEARCH track her and other sharks for the betterment of science. 'Cause sharks are really great. Just look at the pictures. In photo #1 Mary…
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Somebody: Who is Mary Lee? Somebody else: Great big shark. Somebody: The Jaws kind? Somebody else: Yup. Lord Scotworth The Earl of Kielt announced Mary Lee's presence this morning. Like clockwork (or calendarwork) this big fish returns to the waters of greater Puffindom…a review of the archives shows that exactly one year ago today…
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"Can I give you some constructive criticism?" Hulse asked. "No" I replied. I had just returned to the beach after a few minutes of humiliation in the impact zone. Couldn't get out, couldn't get in gracefully. "Well you're going to get some anyway." This I knew when I said no. Saying "no"…
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Sharks get a raw deal when it comes to public perception, is the thinking of the learned and the green. "You're more likely to be killed by a falling coconut or a cow than by a shark, they say. For us watery people that comparison does not serve. Ain't nobody made so much as eye contact…
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Champion surfer Mick Fanning was unhurt by the shark, but how scary is this video? And what is going on with sharks this year? This took place during live competition in South Africa. That is a big shark. Yikes.