Oceanic white tips are pelagics, hence the name.
Unless you're surfing several miles offshore they won't be anywhere near you.

Also, I call "bullshit". White tips need water above about 20 degrees C to survive. I don't think Cornwall has that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:05, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

2 seperate reports made to St Ives harbour master's office, according to the Beeb.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:07, Reply)

by retards more than likely
it probably was a shark, just not the sort they thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:09, Reply)

There's at least one story a year about great whites off the Cornish coast
There's never been any piece of vaguely conclusive evidence, and great whites at least have the necessary internal heat exchangers to survive in cold UK waters.

Perhaps this year's attention-seeking fantasists are going for a different flavour of scary toothy fish?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:13, Reply)

I don't think anyone who lives down this way actually takes it seriously
and if it keeps some Northerners off our beaches then I'm all for it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:15, Reply)

neither of which were from qualified marine biologists
nor accompanyied by photos, decent descriptions, or any evidence whatsoever that these are white tips except that "they had white tipped dorsal fins"

Which is rather like me claiming that the cat that lives next door to me is a leopard because it's a bit spotty.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:10, Reply)

You are Richard Dreyfus
AICMFP
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:12, Reply)

*needs a bigger boat*

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:13, Reply)

"Here's to swimming with bow-legged women"

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:19, Reply)

*Walks away with tipex in my pocket, whistling the tune to drunken salor*

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:55, Reply)

it very much does not have that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08, Reply)