... what I'm going to say about this.
A diver gets chomped, then spat out by a 3m White Pointer Shark (aka Great White Shark, aka fucking JAWS). Eric Nerhus, a 41 year old abalone diver, was happily swimming along when the shark, apparently mistaking him for a seal, grabbed him by the head and attempted to munch on down. Luckily Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw happened to be passing by in their boat the 'Orca' and rescued the man with the help of an air tank and a Lee Enfield rifle... No wait, that's wrong. Nerhus stabbed the shark with his abalone chisel, making it spit him out.
What a fucking hero.
Let me see, on one side we have an extremely well evolved killing machine with big teeth, and on the other we have some terrestrial mammal dressed as a seal. He was baiting the shark. To quote Grant Willis of Sydney Aquarium:
..with his black diving outfit moving around in the reef [Mr Nerhus] would have looked like a seal
No shit? And for this he gets an undisclosed but no doubt huge sum of cash to appear on Channel Nein and tell his story? Where's my fucking seal suit?
Look, I can only keep saying this for so long. If you go in there, things will try and eat you, especially if you're dressed as a seal. It's simple.
THIS is what happens to pinnipeds* when a nearby carcharadon* feels a little peckish. Don't say you weren't warned.
Also: refer to Gabe's post 'Hawaii' for more terrifying underwater exploits.
You're all insane, the lot of you.
* pretentious I'm-cleverer-than-you latin-name references to seals and great whites respectively.
posted @ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:05 PM