Whale Shark caught in Kuwait
Someone emailed me these pictures of a huge Whale Shark that was caught in Kuwait. I don’t know when these pictures were taken but since I haven’t heard about this before it could be very recent. Seems the pictures are old but you still check them out below..
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Jun 21, 2006
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1. Fonzie | June 21st, 2006 at 9:53 am
I got this email a couple of months ago
2. Pearls | June 21st, 2006 at 10:32 am
Why didn’t they let it be?
3. Yassie | June 21st, 2006 at 11:10 am
i’m thinking of getting my brother an i-mate k jam for his b-day, but i don’t know much about pocket pc’s, is there something better out there? any feedback would be great.
4. Mark | June 21st, 2006 at 11:16 am
Yassie try asking in the Forum
http://www.248am.com/forum
5. Marzouq | June 21st, 2006 at 11:42 am
Pearls Im guessing they didnt leave it alone is because it was already dead. Whale sharks need a lot of depth to survive, and our ocean is relatively shallow compared to areas that this fish is usually in.. and it is harmless to humans.. he just probably floated to the top and people took him out. I dont think they could have killed him..
whats odd is how everyone had a camera.. even by the water!
6. Marzouq | June 21st, 2006 at 11:42 am
I wonder which area this was one.. i couldnt tell..
7. Sharkies | June 21st, 2006 at 11:46 am
This harmless shark is one of the oceans most gentle creature. It is also protected from fishing by 43 world governments and all environmental groups. It is an extinct species and as always no one here seems to care the least or educate themselves about it. For them its just a show of muscle.
8. omar | June 21st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
this picture was taken in kharien resort and it was taken long time aqo
9. Pétalo | June 21st, 2006 at 12:18 pm
It’s opposite to Kheiran resort, El-Khor El-Mfatteh. It’s c;ear in the first picture.
This is the second time this incident happens, only the first time it was alive and jet boats/skies maneuvering over and around it — really disturbed “me”, God knows how it was to it! :-/
10. Pearls | June 21st, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Marzouq, I agree! how odd!
11. Anon | June 21st, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Sharkies, if you claim it is an extinct species, then doesnt their catch contradict that? unless the one caught was the last one in which case now it is extinct… :)
hehe
12. Anon | June 21st, 2006 at 1:43 pm
cant be too long ago, the GMC is the current model with the rounded lights at the front
13. Carlsb3rg | June 21st, 2006 at 1:56 pm
I wonder what ‘Shark of Kuwait’ would say..
14. holla | June 21st, 2006 at 3:50 pm
he drove one of his 30 harleys there and posed with the dead shark. the pix will be up on his website in a few days. shark VS shark, only the reel sharq gonna win u.
15. limited_edition | June 21st, 2006 at 3:53 pm
OMG thats in Khiran and i’m going there tomorrow sooooooooo hell no am not going to be swimming there tomorrow with freakin’ sharks floating past me!! :S
16. Yassie | June 21st, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Thanks mark i’ll try asking in the forum… i was hoping for speedy feedback and everybody totally ignored me
17. Yassie | June 21st, 2006 at 6:09 pm
grrr it takes a while to receive the activation e-mail.. still didnt get it
18. The Grenadine | June 21st, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Motherfuckers…
19. Mini R. | June 21st, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Uhh..to rectify everyone’s info.
That whale shark pic is old. It wasn’t caught. It beached itself, when whales beach, that means they came to die.
Ask me how I know? I was working for the EPA when that incident happened. And it wasn’t the first whale to beach. I remember there were 3 others, one was young but seriously injured.
So no one caught it, trying to catch a whale shark with our teeny bopper fishing boats? That’s a joke.
20. The Grenadine | June 21st, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Okay, well that was my knee-jerk reaction at seeing those photos…
Now for my collected reply:
I bloody hope they found that shark already dead.
21. fadibou | June 21st, 2006 at 8:59 pm
very sad photos :(
22. Entrepreneur | June 21st, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Beautiful creature… and yes, very sad to see its life come to an end…
its shear size is awesome…
23. oceanus | June 22nd, 2006 at 1:12 am
took a wrong turn into this shit pit
24. k | August 27th, 2006 at 6:54 am
re: whale shark in kuwait – the lack of respect in this country for people/creatures is astounding
25. Emily | August 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 am
Who ever did this to that poor animal is creul. Whales Sharks dont eat mammals it is physically incappable of doing so. They eat things like fish eggs. I cant believe someone would do this to a gentle giant.. Dumb people
26. q8ty | March 18th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
he was dying they had to get him out of there and he was trapped he couldn’t get out of the resort
27. KaniiBeeBee | October 14th, 2008 at 7:41 am
of course..
there go the forigners messing crap up again.
the whale didnt do anything to anyone.
and even if it was dieing let it be
not pull it out of the water so it suffocates faster
but people dont care about any of that
29. fadibou | July 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 am
funny to see someone using my nickname
I didnt put comment 21:
But still its a sad story
30. roxas | July 22nd, 2009 at 1:08 am
dude where were you in the 2nd grade whales kill them self for a unkown reason they just shove them self into the beach
why do they do this reason unkown
31. chuck | October 6th, 2009 at 3:20 am
the pictures cant be that old look at the SUV and car in the picture
32. Ash | October 21st, 2009 at 11:59 pm
ONE – Whale Sharks are NOT extinct. They are, however, on the endangered species list.
TWO – They CAN live in shallow water. Fact – They spend most of their lives at/close to the surface.
THREE – No one hurt this whale shark. When they’re about to die they swim to shore and beach themselves.
It is sad to see, but, bottom line is that he was not harmed.
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