Monster Shark Eats Great White Shark In Australia

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Tourists in Australia warned of 6m 'monster' shark
Tourists holidaying in the Australian state of Queensland have been warned to stay out of the water by authorities who fear a giant six metre-long shark might be prowling the coast.

Concerns were raised after a 3m great white shark was found dead with two huge bites taken out of its body. Experts believe the bites were made by an even larger predatory fish.

Swimmers have been warned to stay out of the waters off Stradbroke Island, north of Brisbane.

"It certainly opened up my eyes. I mean the shark that was caught is a substantial shark in itself," Jeff Krause of Queensland Fisheries told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

Surfers have reacted to the news of the shark attack with shock.

"Whatever attacked and took chunks out of this big shark must be massive," said Ashton Smith, 19. "I've heard about the big one that's lurking out there somewhere.

"We're all being very, very cautious."

Australia is entering summer, a period of the year when shark attacks on humans increase because of the higher number of swimmers in the ocean.

The country's most popular beaches are protected by nets and what are known as drumlines - a series of baited hooks that hang from buoys placed in a line about 500 yards from the shore. However, neither guarantee that sharks cannot get through.

Since the net and drumline programme was introduced in Queensland there has been only one fatal attack on a protected beach.



^^The three and a half metre shark that was almost bitten in half by a large great white shark

Tourists in Australia warned of 6m 'monster' shark - Telegraph

The Megalodon lives!

[Chronic]

Possible that it was scavaging and not an attack? Don't know much about their behavior.

EDIT: Probably not.

Re-EDIT: It was!

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How long before it's killed?

[Sebastian]

Yeah, right, it was a monster shark. Never heard of it before?

[Yeshua]

sounds to me like great white shark vs great white shark. great white sharks can grow to 6m.


Wikipedia:

A typical adult great white shark measures 4–4.8 (13–16ft) and has a mass of 680–1,100kilograms (1,500–2,400lb), females generally being larger than males. The great white shark's maximum size is about 6 m (20 ft), with a maximum weight of about 2,000 kg (4,400 lb). The maximum size of the great white shark has been hotly debated. Richard Ellis and John E. McCosker, both academic shark experts, devote a full chapter in their book, Great White Shark (1991), to analyzing various accounts of extreme size.
For several decades, many ichthyological works, as well as the Guinness Book of World Records, listed two great white sharks as the largest individuals caught: an 11 m (36 ft) great white captured in Southern Australian waters near Port Fairy in the 1870s, and an 11.3 m (37 ft) shark trapped in a herring weir in New Brunswick, Canada in the 1930s. While this was the commonly accepted maximum size, reports of 7.5–10-metre (25–33 ft) great white sharks were common and often deemed credible.