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Written by Rob Mousley   
Thursday, 17 January 2008

All the top paddlers will tell you that in order to increase your paddling speed, there's nothing like sprint training.  Sometimes, though it's difficult to get motivated - it's hard work after all.

shark sea kayak hoax or not?
When sprint training really matters...
 

Looks as though this guy just found the answer to the motivation problem... 

Hoax or not?

Louis Stanford sent us this photo - does anyone know its provenance?  Is it real, or a photoshop job?  We'll send a set of surfski.info stickers to the first person to prove the origin of the image.

Caption Competition 

We'll also send a set of surfski.info stickers to the person who comes up with the funniest caption for the photo...! 

(Closing date for the competition: when the article falls off the front page of the site.)

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written by Joe, January 17, 2008
Caption: I didn't know my lawyer could swim!
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Looks real to me
written by Nico de Wet, January 17, 2008
Had a fin just like that one dive under me at the Total Sports Challenge in Gordon's Bay last weekend. Only noticed it due to the sound of water movement, am normally fixated on the front of the ski. I asked the guy next to me if he saw it and he said yeah but it was on my side i.e. more my problem than his, I then did an interval and joined the group in front smilies/smiley.gif Just what I needed to get ahead.

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written by Harry, January 17, 2008
Oh my God!!! This Sea Kayak is too slow. I better make a move to the Surfski division as soon as possible.
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Looks fake to me
written by Steve Hansen, January 17, 2008
If you enlarge the photo and look at the reflection in front of the paddler you will notice what appears to be the reflection of a white building with very straight sides (calm water). Although there is a white object on the deck of the kayak, it wouldn't cast a reflection with straight edges, look at the reflections in the rest of the photo(jagged)Totally bogus!
Caption: Did someone say LUNCH ?!?
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Shark Photo
written by Craig McLeod, January 17, 2008
This photo appeared in the NZ Herald newspaper on Wednesday 16 January. It was taken at Great Barrier Island north east of Auckland. Supposedly the story behind it is that this paddler and another were towing lures for fish behind their kayaks when a couple of bronze whaler sharks turned up (they reckon they were about 2-3m long) and went after the bait. Initially the guy tried to paddle away however when this didn't work he cut the line.

This is part of a greater issue here in NZ this summer as due to very warm weather and water, there have been a much greater number of shark sightings and encounters than normal. The biggest story from the last week is when a 4m shark believed to now be a Tiger shark attacked and damaged a surf lifesaving IRB that tried to herd it away from Omaha Beach (also north of Auckland).

Cheers
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written by Herman, January 17, 2008
Here is the original link to the newspaper article http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topi...d=10487278
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written by Richard Germain, January 18, 2008
Come here sharky! Yeah, good sharky! My mother in law is just a few strokes ahead! smilies/wink.gif
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written by Rob Fishbeck, January 18, 2008
Here Fido
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written by superted, January 18, 2008
F#$K I hope thats Flipper!!
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written by Josue Delucca, January 18, 2008
Caption: Coach yells: "Hurry up, virtual partner's catching up"
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written by Darrell K. Pea**e, January 18, 2008
"Hey, isn't time I got to draft you"
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written by Ian, January 18, 2008
you don't have to outpaddle the shark ,only your training partners smilies/grin.gif
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written by nell, January 18, 2008
The yellow kayak leading the shark to the red kayak is strangely reminiscent of the movie "The Hunt for Red October."
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written by MFB, January 19, 2008
Its lunch time!
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written by Louis Carstens, January 19, 2008
To Nico de Wet - the fins you saw in Gordons Bay were dolphins !! We often encounter them along the mountain between the old harbour and Steenbras Point. They sometimes completely ignore us, and other times they follow and play with us for extended periods. Johan van Rooyen and myself once had them follow us right into the shallow area where the TotalSports' start was.
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written by Adrian Petrie, January 19, 2008
Honey, my new training partner just has that bit more motivation than you! when it comes to speed training.
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written by Doug, January 20, 2008
Hey Ahab I think I need a larger net!
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written by Jamii Hamlin, January 20, 2008
"Daniel could n't believe how well his lures worked!"

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Du-dum, du-dum, du-dum...
written by Marsh Jones, January 20, 2008
"Uh ... I think that I'm familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass" - Hooper, "Jaws"
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written by flick, January 21, 2008
Hey you with the black fin, stop riding my wake!
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Try this for size
written by Gary Kroukamp, January 21, 2008
If you think the photo at the top of this article is impressive, try this one. A genuine, non-photoshopped pic from White Shark researchers using sea Kayaks near Cape Town.
http://tinyurl.com/2ld843
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Shark pic/article
written by Rob Mousley, January 21, 2008
Hey Gary, see also:
http://www.surfski.info/content/view/172/154/
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written by sbski, January 21, 2008
"We're gonna need a bigger boat..."
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On the ball
written by Gary Kroukamp, January 21, 2008
Should have known you on the ball SS.info boys would have dealt with these amazing shots already.
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written by AG, January 24, 2008
Mate, remind me, did the instruction book say an eskimo roll was a manoeuvre or what sharks eat for lunch?
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written by Christo Tromp, February 04, 2008
--- there I was, thought I was going to die ---
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written by S, February 14, 2008
not everyday you see someone out-paddle a Fenn......i mean fin.
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