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Researcher trying to track shark found he was being tracked

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  • cheeseysynapse, on 01/03/2008, -4/+52Dugg for the incredible picture.............if i were in that canoe, it wouldn't smell very good at that point
  • beacon21, on 01/03/2008, -6/+4I think i would be paddling a tad faster!
    • OneLess, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1Yeah, thrash the paddles quickly in the water like a dying fish. Somehow I doubt this guy is quite that desperate for a Darwin Award.
  • Dhalsim007, on 01/03/2008, -0/+6Amazing pic ,,, impressive. I hope the photographer gave the kayak some sort of heads-up.
    • blackinthmiddle, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1That was my first thought. The man is in potential danger and the other guy is taking pictures. Lovely!
    • ngmcs8203, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Nah... he probably just heard the shark say, "Where's the cream filling?"
    • tattertech, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4But the next picture had a chance to be even more memorable!
  • LmaoTzu, on 01/03/2008, -9/+3And so it begins...
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/
    • jhuebel, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Saffron Burrows-- Hot. Deep Blue Sea-- Not.
  • DreKor, on 01/03/2008, -0/+25And here's a follow up for the skeptics out there. The skeptics who haven't seen this about a hundred times already.
    http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/sharkkayak.as ...
  • Jared80KA, on 01/03/2008, -15/+6In Soviet Russia, shark tracks you!
    • SeaweedWater, on 01/03/2008, -1/+4I see what you did there.
      So does my grandpa.
  • deathproof, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8Remember that board game Shark Attack? That game sucked.
    • sjbdallas, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1isn't that the one where you take turns putting junk in the sharks open mouth and you lose if the sharks mouth snaps shut?
      • CrimsonBlur, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Yes. My grandma had it when we were kids... it did suck.
  • zwendkos, on 01/03/2008, -5/+14If I had a nickel for every time I've seen this pic on digg, I'd have approximately $249.55
    • tbunreal, on 01/03/2008, -5/+1I to have seen this 4991 times, getting old.
    • ssravp, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2So what if you've seen it before. There are always going to be people who didn't. Get over it. The next time you think about making that comment, just back away from your computer.
      • sinrtb, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1Then the article or at least website needs to say thats it is satire or from a previous post or something. It is being posted as new news not old photoshop with a new story.
  • MikeonTV, on 01/03/2008, -7/+3When the huntist becomes the hunted!
  • ccL1, on 01/03/2008, -2/+5I assume the researcher wasn't thrashing and paddling like mad to get away, which is smart. In any case, if that were me, that yellow kayak wouldn't be yellow anymore. It'd be brown.
    • qmeister, on 01/03/2008, -2/+2Mine would still be yellow, because 1) I'd be scared ***** and 2) I'd be pissing my wetsuit.
  • widgetmaker, on 01/03/2008, -0/+12Could people please stop submitting Daily Mail articles it's the British version of Fox.
    • richardiscool, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2The Sun and The Times are the News Corp. papers.
    • UrlorJkron, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I thought it was a piss poor version of bbspot.
  • Scopitone, on 01/03/2008, -0/+15He's gonna need a bigger boat.
    • Antixian, on 01/03/2008, -2/+1Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
  • DagYo, on 01/03/2008, -2/+7Esteban was eaten!
    -Is he dead?
    Esteban was eaten! Check the scanning monitor before it dives too deep!
    -Eaten! He was swallowed whole?
    No! Chewed!
  • terrorpin, on 01/03/2008, -3/+25I was amused by this comment on the page:

    "Why does the article refer to it as an "animal”? It's a FISH! They should have shot the darn thing with a high powered rifle and killed it so that it could never harm another living creature again!"

    Some people should be eaten by sharks.
    • cosmicr, on 01/03/2008, -1/+9Sharks are animals. Just as lizards, kangaroos, polar bears, humans, butterflies and lobsters are.
    • scoot2006, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8That person would have been eaten by the shark while trying to shoot it with a high powered rifle.

      Everyone knows that sharks are only killed by getting an oxygen tank in the mouth and shooting the tank. Duh.
    • poiuytrewq44, on 01/04/2008, -1/+1Another classic is the "what's that brown stuff under the canoe"

      That would be the guy's reflection.
  • mikehill33, on 01/03/2008, -7/+3We're gonna need a bigger boat!
  • joshua5, on 01/03/2008, -3/+1Yeah so I'd most certainly bring a gun or knife with me while tracking sharks.
    • louiedog, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3Or tow a small child on a raft that can be cut loose. You don't have to be overpower, outrun, or kill a predator. You just have to not be the slowest prey.
  • TheSesom, on 01/03/2008, -3/+0He should have packed some dynamite.
  • tbunreal, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3Wheres a oxygen tank and harpoon when you need it.
  • mikehill33, on 01/03/2008, -0/+14If you look closely, you can see Fonzie in the background, waiting to jump it.
  • dotlizard, on 01/03/2008, -1/+4so they had a special on one of those educational type channels, about this guy who's discovered that sharks aren't so dangerous if you just pet them. that's right, pet them. if you do, it reminds them of those suckerfish that clean them, and it feels good so they won't eat you. so this isn't a scary pic at all, the big fella just wants to cuddle!
    • rotten777, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4there was this crazy loon who tried to convince people the same about bears... he's dead now. eaten by bears. maybe you've heard of him?
    • DeepNarcosis, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1Actually, it's called Tonic Immobility, my buddy Stuart Cove discovered this, if you do one of two things: 1.) Grab the shark by the nose and shake vigorously (I about ***** when he told me to do this) ..or 2.) for smaller sharks, if you flip them upsidedown they go into the same trancelike state and are docile....
      • poiuytrewq44, on 01/04/2008, -0/+2Try flipping a 13 foot shark upside-down.
  • Zeush8su, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3This a old pic and article. Wonder why it has a new date?
  • Wesside, on 01/03/2008, -3/+2So, so old

    I don't think I've even been on digg a year and I've seen that picture at least 3 times. Yes its a cool picture, I'd imagine most people have seen it by now though, it even went through e-mail forwards for a while.
  • britblogger, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3pic or it never hap...

    *****.
  • louiedog, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Too bad the Mythbusters episode where they tested shark color preference hadn't aired yet when this was taken. They found it plausible that sharks went for bright yellow bait before attacking other colors.
  • groonk, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1circle of life.
  • tango1110, on 01/03/2008, -1/+3Family Guy:"I'm gonna eat you."
  • ScottooMc, on 01/03/2008, -3/+2Ive seen this picture about 20 times now. Kaweru, this link is for you http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o240/Inkednsf77 ...
  • trollick, on 01/03/2008, -5/+1Nice photoshop
  • heifetz, on 01/03/2008, -2/+1Looks like someone used photoshop to enhance the blueness of the water.
    • audguy, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2nope, there are parts of the world with that blue of water.
    • angryredplanet, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1The water off Africa's southern cape is actually that deep shade of blue. It's very inviting, then you remember that white pointers like it there too.
  • annabegonia, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2love the picture!
  • gegroff, on 01/03/2008, -0/+0Am I the only one that hears the *Dun dun dun* sound from Jaws when looking at that pic?
  • baalzebub, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1RE:["Luckily for Trey, the 13ft-long shark was more inquisitive than hungry."]
    i would tend to believe the shark was inquisitive alright, inquiring where you were a tasty meal or not, any animal will inspect a new potential food source before just chomping on it...
  • Synova, on 01/04/2008, -0/+2We're gonna need a bigger kayak.
  • DeepNarcosis, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1The next time I do another Discovery Channel special about sharks, I'm so wearing my Diggnation shirt....
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