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rinselberg
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SEP 07, 10:02 AM
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The first media reports did not describe the sharks.
Summoning my memory of the Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" programming over the years, I was thinking it was likely a swarm of Oceanic Whitetip sharks, which are considered the main culprits in the notorious World War Two episode of the USS Indianapolis.
It was a 30-foot long catamaran with inflatable floats that was attacked in the Coral Sea, to the north and west of Australia.
Select this link to come face to face with the culprit:
https://www.abc.net.au/news...expedition/102822734[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 09-07-2023).]
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82-T/A [At Work]
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SEP 07, 10:32 AM
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I do not like this Rinse... post happy things! Hahah...
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ray b
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SEP 07, 04:34 PM
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Patrick
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SEP 07, 07:59 PM
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Not a cookiecutter...
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MidEngineManiac
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SEP 08, 04:51 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Not a cookiecutter...
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Awwwwwww.....
He is cute.  Wonder if I could keep him in the river. Not sure who what too feed him though.
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JetroGT
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SEP 24, 02:28 PM
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I read that wrong. It would have been more interesting as a 30ft inflatable Cartman.
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cvxjet
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SEP 24, 11:38 PM
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Back in 1979-80, I was stationed on the USS Coral Sea during the Iran Crisis....We were in the Sea of Arabia and the USS Nimitz put on an Airshow for us...An F-14 did a high-g turn just off the angle deck and then a vertical climb out....There was approx' 1500-2000 sailors on the angle deck watching- after the F-14 departed we all (Basically) looked down in the water- I think most of them thought what I did- that we were seeing a LOG floating in the bow wake...Someone called out "Hammerhead!" and suddenly we saw it was a 20+ foot-long hammerhead shark....and, in unison, we all took a step back from the edge- and then we all looked at each other and burst into (Sheepish) laughter.
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