Yea I am with you how things get stretched a little here and there. To the press' credit though, the report I heard is that they did see a 17-18 foot tiger in the area (from a search helicopter) but didn't think it was the same one due to the smaller size of the wound.
Tiger Shark attack off Makaha, Oahu
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Yea I am with you how things get stretched a little here and there. To the press' credit though, the report I heard is that they did see a 17-18 foot tiger in the area (from a search helicopter) but didn't think it was the same one due to the smaller size of the wound.
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As long as tigersharks do not attack scuba divers, I do not believe there is an issue.
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Surfing, swimming, freediving, and snorkeling seem to be at risk, and not scuba apparently.
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I thought Tiger Shark grew only to a max of 12ft. I might have to Google it.
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they definetly get much bigger than 12 feet
...how much for the statue?
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In 30 years I've only seen 3 Tiger sharks (but who knows how many saw me during that time
)... and two were over 12 feet. So yes, they get quite large. Two were seen while I was paddling in outrigger canoes or surfski's, one while spearfishing.
It was an "exciting" several moments being checked-out by a large predator while stupidly holding onto a stringer of speared & bleeding fish... I think I could have been attacked (a big maybe) if I had been free diving and spearfishing rather than scuba diving and spearfishing... I had the feeling that the sound of the regulators, our appearance, the good visibility, etc., alerted the tiger that we were not "prey"... but who knows. It could be that the shark was merely curious. It made a couple lazy circles at a range of maybe 30 feet away, then swam off slowly.
The weird part was how I felt at the time. My buddy pointed, I looked, and there was a BIG fish swimming slowly across our path... then I thought, " Oh, that's not a big fish, thats a really big shark. Wow. Uhhh, maybe holding on to these fish is not so smart..." (I was holding a 3-prong spear and the fish, my buddy has a 3-prong and a bang-stick). But then a few moments later it was gone. Just swam away and faded from view.
It was more exciting and surreal than scary, but we returned our small boat as soon as we felt sure the Tiger had left the area.
That encounter occured in the mid-80's, and pretty much put me off spearfishing :11:
.. how about... NO
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