Any news from Scwafish and Baja Crew?

It's been over a week now since the Baja 08 trip sojourners departed . . . any reports back?

Mahi's garage door broke at his house, and I went over to fix it/  Mrs. Mahi had not heard from him as of Mon eve?????

just spoke with Mrs Mahi..... ALL ARE ALIVE AND WELL....  The bite has been slow????  not much to report...

KB

I was thinking that no news was good news. I didn't expect to hear anything until maybe Friday or Saturday when they actually get to the Ranch.

 I talked to Leah last thurs I believe. Sean had only called once and the word was that the Pacific side of Baja was cold and they weren't catching the right kind. So after trying a couple different areas they decided to hightail it to the Sea of Cortez side to try their luck and work down to the Ranch.
 Everyone in the group was ok, no casulties, or time outs...

Good News....Our Boys will be safe, I ran across this today while reading the local east cape
website..Bajaponyexpress
after following the "rumors" in the past couple of reports.
 #356...6-10-08        
      

Tuesday, June 10, 2008  - #356
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SHARK ATTACKS

      a.  We own and operate a dive business in Buena Vista and have received numerous inquiries for information on the alleged shark attack.  I have done a pretty thorough investigation and here is what I have come up with.

There was no shark attack and it is all rumor.  I say that because there are no eye witnesses, none of the local police or medical agencies have been contacted.  Shortly after the attack report came out one of our local commercial fisherman sighted a huge shark very close to shore in front of Rancho Buena Vista.  He hit the animal in the head with a harpoon but did not get a good shot.  In my interview with him he believed it was a tiger shark about 14 feet long.  Two days later while in our inflatable we sighted a huge shark in front of Vista del Mar.  At first it looked like a tiger shark but  when we got close it turned out to be a juvenile whale shark.  It would be easy to mistake this animal for a tiger shark as they have the same silhouette with a blunt nose.  Also the big white doted markings of an adult whale shark were not very vivid on this young shark.  Getting a very close look we could see the fresh wound in it's head where the commercial fisherman's harpoon bounced off.  For those that do not know whale sharks are filter feeders, completely harmless and fun to swim with.

To the best of my knowledge there has never been a documented shark attack in the Sea of Cortez and I don't believe this alleged incident was the first.

Mark Rayor
Vista Sea Sport
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www.vistaseasport.com