Stalins Organ Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Think you can swim fast enough?? apropos of nothing in particular, other than something completely different to the disasters of late 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abneo3sierra Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It's called "incentive" SO hahahaha..and doesn't matter if you can outswim them, as long as you are in the water with someone even slower than you edit...posted before I read the link...damn, look like sharks! he really is lucky they were orcas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_the_wino Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Is it the angle or does the bottom drop off rather quickly? Because it looks like they are in relatively shallow water, <2 meters max. One wouldn't think a big fish like that would come into such shallow water for fear of getting beached. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Is it the angle or does the bottom drop off rather quickly? Because it looks like they are in relatively shallow water, <2 meters max. One wouldn't think a big fish like that would come into such shallow water for fear of getting beached. I thought about that too. I am suspecting that the examples in that locale are much smaller than the ones we have around these parts (Puget Sound, etc.). probably more the size of dolphins. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 This article gives a physical description including size. I would guess them coming that close inshore would be pretty rare. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 BTW, they aren't fish, but mammals. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 I've swum in that bay - it's not very deep - as in it's maybe 2-3m that far from shore. if you've seen the TV programme of the Orca coming up on the beach in Sth America to get seals (?) you wouldn't think it was too shallow! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-E Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 It's called "incentive" SO hahahaha..and doesn't matter if you can outswim them, as long as you are in the water with someone even slower than you edit...posted before I read the link...damn, look like sharks! he really is lucky they were orcas. When I was an avid diver, I often had to explain a misconception regarding my dive knife... "It is indeed for use in case of sharks," I would reply. "Not for the shark itself, but to stab my dive buddy before I swim away." (it was really for use in case of entanglement) I was once buzzed by Orcas while diving. I was never aware they were even there. My wife on the boat said they came within 10 feet of us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 if you've seen the TV programme of the Orca coming up on the beach in Sth America to get seals (?) you wouldn't think it was too shallow! So the trick is not to look like a seal. We've had a similar problem in the Pacific Northwest. Surfers usually wear wetsuits here because the water is so cold. This does make them look a bit like seals and several surfers have been attacked by great white sharks who prey on the seals. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZPB II Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Ah, when I visualize what I assume to be the average American body type squeezing into a wetsuit, I can see the resemblance to a seal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Surfers tend not to be average body types. At least not any of the hundreds I have seen. The world being what it is, no doubt there is a blubbery surfer or ten somewhere in the world. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_the_wino Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 BTW, they aren't fish, but mammals. Michael Mammal grog. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 Mammal grog. Grog grog 10....... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 It's called "incentive" SO hahahaha..and doesn't matter if you can outswim them, as long as you are in the water with someone even slower than you As I recall Billy Connolly saying about the time he was swimming in Australia and the shark alert siren went off: "I came up out of the water like a Polaris missile....throwing young children over my shoulder to distract the thing..." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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