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Old 05-14-2014, 07:29 PM
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Default White Shark Attacks FL Diver, Another GW Heads For S. Florida?


An image captured from the video, see below.


On May 6, 2014 Jimmy Roseman was spearfishing while scuba diving on Bethel Shoals off Orchid Island, FL. He had just approached the bottom at 80 ft., speargun loaded when a white shark swam over him from behind. He had turned on his GoPro camera which captured what happened. Jimmy was solo at this point but had two dive buddies still on the boat on the surface. You will hear a clicking noise in the early part of the video to which he attributes the shark's teeth coming in contact with his diving tank. The shark proceeds to make close passes on Jimmy who eventually started to push it away with the point of his gun. He also tried to move next to a low profile worm rock ledge for limited cover.





The shark's behavior suggests it was getting excited. I don't know if he was trailing fish or not but it seems unlikely if the diver had just arrived at the bottom. (NOTE: I learned after making this post that Jimmy did have a speared fish with him at the time of this encounter. That would explain some of the persistence of the white shark). There seems to be a cobia swimming around with the white shark in the video. I counted his hitting the shark at least four times. He noticed this wasn't having much effect and the shark seemed to be growing more interested. He then decided to hit it hard in the head near its eyes. This sent the shark on its way and Jimmy didn't see it again. He surfaced and Jimmy and his two dive buddies moved the boat to another area and didn't see sharks again that day.



Here is Jimmy's GoPro video edited by his friend Chris Saunders complete with Jaws sound track?








On a related note, there is another white shark at over 14 ft. and 2300 lbs., named Katharine by the folks with http://www.ocearch.org/ who are also tracking quite a few white sharks including this one.


Katherine being tagged off Cape Cod on August 19, 2013. With comment: "“Katharine has us all sitting on pins and needles as we wait to see where she will turn up next. I do not believe it is coincidence that Katharine is moving through an area where other white sharks have recently been spotted. Although this is all new and exciting for us, these sharks are most likely taking advantage of resources (habitat or food) that have been known to them for decades.” -John Chisholm, Fisheries Biologist, MA Marine Fisheries" Photo and quote from: https://www.facebook.com/OCEARCH?fref=photo


This shark is moving pretty fast heading south. It was off Jacksonville on May 6, 2014 per the track suggesting it was another shark that attacked the diver off Vero. More about Katharine at: http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/05/1...ed-by-ocearch/



This is the shark's track covering almost 200 miles in the last five days. It has traveled almost 3700 miles since it was tagged last year. It was last pinged yesterday at about 6 pm, east of Port St. Lucie Inlet/northern Jupiter Island. Track from http://www.ocearch.org



An aerial photo of Katharine the shark near the beach off the Treasure Coast. From: https://www.facebook.com/Floridatoda...type=1&theater


It seems to be moving south and into South Florida. We've had them here before, some say they aren't that uncommon on the deeper reefs and wrecks off the Keys. It looks like we may have one, possibly more off SE Florida soon by current indications.


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