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"Dav1936531" wrote in message
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From: Peter Twydell


Dav1936531 wrote:
He'd have been feeding the sharks at the bottom of the channel faster
then a
speeding bullet.

Only if he were plankton; AFAIK the only sharks there are the Basking
kind.

Yeah, I wondered when I wrote that if there were any man-eaters in the
channel.......one never hears about any attacks there, as opposed to, say
Oz,
where surfers chewed up quite regularly by the nasty shark varieties they
have.
Dave

Among the interesting information tidbits at Sue and Jeri Drake's web page
(http://www.sue-jeri.demon.co.uk/ams.htm)
is a chart DOMESTIC SHARK SPECIES AREA/LOCATION ACTUAL GUIDE which lists
these sharks and shark-types available in the Channnel to those with an
adequate supply of lime juice:

Mako Shark S/W English Channel
Hammerhead Shark S/W English Channel
Porbeagle Shark English Channel, South and West Wales, Western Isles and
Scrabster
Blunt Nose Six Gill Shark S/W Cornwall
Thresher Shark English Channel, Luce Bay
Blue Shark English Channel, S/W Wales, North Devon
AND:
Tope, Monkfish, Spurdog, Common Smooth Hound, Starry Smooth Hound, Lesser
Spotted Dogfish, Greater Spotted Dogfish, Blackmouth Dogfish.

Cheers.





Thanks for the info. Most of those are harmless-ish, aren't they?
Predominantly at the SW end of the Channel, where the water is warmer
than the narrow bit at Dover.

Scary item in The Times this morning: a Great White has been seen off
the coast of Devon.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2,00.html and search for
"shark".
Although, strictly speaking, it's not the English Channel, it's close
enough!
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!