Whoa. This is like a real-life "Jaws" movie.

[Lex]

Date of photo Dec. 15 2004 . . .

A 4.2 metre great white shark leaps from the sea at the appropriately named Dangerous Reef off the northeast coast of Australia, 15 December 2004. A pair of great white sharks killed a teenage boy at crowded West Beach in Adelaide, 16 December, as his horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in five days. AFP PHOTO/NEWS LTD/Greg ADAMS

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/australiaanimalsshark

[Forkboy]

1. Damn,that's an awe inspiring pic

I would do just about anything to go down in a shark cage with one of those bastards gnawing on it :)

[Skittles]

2. it's a lady shark

wearing lipstick

[Lex]

6. could be . . .

I don't like that particular color on her.

[mark414]

3. ok

that'll keep me out of the ocean forever

[WilliamPitt]

4. Fuck the ocean

People who go piddling around in an ecosystem they don't comprehend, an ecosystem actively repellant to air-breathing life, an ecosystem where you can't see shit coming after you, shouldn't be surprised when dragons like that appear.

Not to say I don't feel for the family of this boy. I do...but it seems like the get it, and he did too...before he got it.

[Seabiscuit]

5. "an ecosystem actively repellant to air-breathing life"???

Now THAT's a phrase I never thought I'd see applied to an ocean.

I take it you never learned to swim?

[supernova]

7. I gather you're not a Cousteau fan

are ya, Will?

:D

The ocean is beautiful and awe-inspiring. But like everything else we humans touch, we crap all over it the minute we enter it.

[Deja Q]

9. Your sardonic sense of humor is most delicious!

You're right. On both counts.

[skygazer]

8. One more reason to stay out of the water

Water is my only real fear - the thought of drowning petrifies me and drowning while looking down to see that I was in the mouth of something like this would be very frightening. As a matter of fact, I don't think I'd die of drowning and I don't think the shark would kill me either - I think I'd die of a massive coronary.