Looking forward to the magalodon show. I can't imagine a shark more ferocious than a great white and a few times larger. Not much smaller than a blue whale. Scary. Compared to Great White teeth: I find these two animations pretty awesome: Click on the above pic. It's hard to see the beast coming up from the depths on the left in that small thumbnail. I can't imagine seeing something like that coming after me. It would be the embodiment of sheer terror.
Seems a little later in the summer this year than it usually is on. Maybe our vacation was earlier this week, because in the past I have seen shark week then gone to the beach a couple weeks later. Standing in knee deep water looking around like there was something I could do if I did happen to spot one swimming my way. A few years ago I was out in chest high water doing some body surfing. Was walking back thru the water and someone's T-shirt was in the water and wrapped totally around my calf. I ran into shallower water and kicked my leg expecting to see a shark go flying off. Instead the shirt did. I decided to stay near the cooler and beer on the beach for a while after that.
Not a damn thing scarier than a shark swimming towards you in the water. I've never moved that quick in water than I did trying to get out of the water.
Yep, about 4 years ago. The lifeguard seemed to think it was a bull shark based on my description. It was 5-6 feet long and close enough that I could make out details and see its teeth.
Last summer, North Myrtle Beach in Hog Inlet. I've fished this place in a jon boat for over 20 years. The tallest building on the water on the left that you see is the condo I stay in. I was there the week this happened, and we had gotten to know these folks as we floated by even before this happened. I came in a frog's hair 3 times of jumping in and swimming to a sandbar where my bro-in-law was catching bait minnows. Something kept telling me to not jump in. Luckily he finally stopped throwing the net and came to the dock to get me. That was 3 hours before the video and only about 150-200 yards away. [youtube]ZcuYjDR2tSg[/youtube]
I always think about that when swimming in the ocean, but never had anything like that happen. That'd be pretty terrifying. I've only seen more mundane critters swimming with me.
