Home Tournaments Calendar Weather Merchandise Sponsors

Go Back   Spearboard.com - The World's Largest Spearfishing Diving Boating Social Media Forum > United States Geographical Locations > Florida East Coast Spearfishing

Florida East Coast Spearfishing Let's talk here about spearing on Florida's Atlantic coast. Reports and other issues about this region belong here.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rating: Thread Rating: 14 votes, 5.00 average. Display Modes
Old 07-17-2012, 07:21 PM   #46
SpearMax
Forum Administrator
 
SpearMax's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 16,466
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

The story is starting to go viral.

The Huffington Post picked it up 4 hours ago here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1680526.html
SpearMax is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-17-2012, 11:18 PM   #47
Rod27
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 7
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

Quote:
Originally Posted by steve-oh View Post
we started chummimg after our diver was out of the water to get him as close to the boat for pictures and video as we didnt have any cams up at the first few minutes
Quote:
Originally Posted by steve-oh View Post
after watching him circle off and on for 20 min, we left and didnt even stop at the 90ft ledge. we went straight back to some 40 ft areas and were still paranoid as hell.
This shark is a SHE.....not a HE. No claspers behind the 2nd pec fin. And the girls are big!! She looks big with her slow, lumbering movements.
Rod27 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-18-2012, 03:16 AM   #48
flamencoguru
FII Freediving Instructor
 
flamencoguru's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Jupiter/West Palm Beach, Florida
Posts: 2,789
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

Quote:
Originally Posted by RyanofOZ View Post
Its funny how we all talk about fighting the bull sharks for fish we shoot- Shoot cobia off of bull sharks etc.. We see a GW in our area and everyone runs for cover!

Awesome vid and for the record, I would have run for cover too!
I agree. To be honest, I'd love to experience an interaction with a great white. I've had good experiences with bulls, lemons, hammerheads, oceanic white tips, reef, silkys...... (no tiger yet, but I'm looking forward to it. ) bulls are the ones that I have found to be the sketchiest to say the least.

Errol

P.s. I think if you see a great white you'll be in good shape..... If you don't , pray for a quick and painless death.

Last edited by flamencoguru; 07-18-2012 at 03:57 AM.
flamencoguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-18-2012, 03:50 AM   #49
alemaozinho
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA
Age: 61
Posts: 193
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

oh crap.....
alemaozinho is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-18-2012, 06:55 PM   #50
Reef Reaper
Registered User
 
Reef Reaper's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Jax beach/Lauderdale
Posts: 493
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

Quote:
Originally Posted by SpearMax View Post
The story is starting to go viral.

The Huffington Post picked it up 4 hours ago here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1680526.html
Is that why the east coast section is getting so many viewers? One night it had close to 600 viewers when a active night usually gets only 110 viewers.
Reef Reaper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-18-2012, 09:24 PM   #51
Rocker John
Registered User
 
Rocker John's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Tavernier, Florida
Posts: 656
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

That thing's posture is sick
Rocker John is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2012, 09:13 PM   #52
MagicMike
Mike Pearson
 
MagicMike's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: New Smyrna Beach, Fl.
Posts: 522
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

They were just on fox news.
MagicMike is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-19-2012, 11:12 PM   #53
SpearMax
Forum Administrator
 
SpearMax's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 16,466
Cool Re: Great white in Fort pierce

Quote:
Originally Posted by Reef Reaper View Post
Is that why the east coast section is getting so many viewers? One night it had close to 600 viewers when a active night usually gets only 110 viewers.
Yes, I would say so (plus more Ponce People ).

The day Steve reported it on Spearboard, I gave the story to my friend and diver WPTV news anchor Jay Cashmere who passed it on to their news partners at the local papers as well as the TV news crew. Steve and the guys may have contacted the media also.

A WPTV video was aired on 7-17-12 and you will see the WPTV footage in subsequent stories around the country, sometimes re-edited. Here is a link to that WPTV Story:

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_...-records-video

Newspaper Writer Ed Killer mentioned the "Florida East Coast section of Spearboard." Steve, Eros and Jeremy were subsequently interviewed by the TV and print media and are probably still doing so.

Here is the WPTV news video picked up by another TV station:

http://www.ksby.com/news/great-white...prettyPhoto/0/

Here are more viral pick-ups of the story with some mentioning Spearboard and some having new interviews with the guys:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/new...rk-off-florida

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/264...ast-of-Florida

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...sEnabled=false

There are dozens of others all over the web now. Just google it.

It is great to see the guys in the spotlight.
SpearMax is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-26-2012, 03:14 PM   #54
SnapSlap
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 196
Re: Great white in Fort pierce

more great whites = more traffic for Spearboard!!

Awesome video!
SnapSlap is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:40 AM.


The World's Largest Spearfishing Diving Social Media Forum Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2002 - 2014 Spearboard.com