I'm actually surprised more distance ocean swimmers aren't taken / eaten...
I see people swimming partially inside the Point Danger area in Torquay, which seems quite safe. But you only need to go a few hundred metres away and you'll find some deeper waters which the sharks would like to come up from.
reports up here is that he was swimming 300 meters off shore when nailed. if so wtf i dont dont get it.
Well Funky is correct it was 11 years ago in 2000,
Then Brad in 2004, Brian in 2008, Nick Edwards,2010 the young Body Boarder in dunsborough 6 weeks ago.
Theses aren't attacks, these are killings. Not surprised if it's the same shark just patrolling the beach for another easy prey.
Think about this for a second. Is it just the whales that bring then in, or the fact the government bans on fishing have increased the size of the schools of snapper which also encourage them in to the large bays.
Here's an interesting read
thewall.com.au/topics/52170-shark-attack-at-popular-south-west-beach
there's heaps of other fisherman stories I know that get no write ups
I tell you what , these bloody 'Whities' scare the living bejesus batpoo outta the Pup .... I was out paddling the 'yak on Sunday morning - a pod of 3 dolphins blew about 4 or 5 metres or so ahead of me , I'm still scraping the brown stuff from the hull.
Anything that weighs up to 3 tonnes and can launch itself completely outta the wet stuff AND swallow it's target whole .... well - it is de man/bitch of the sea!!!
What you don't see can't hurt you???? .... what a load of old goat's bollocks.
Ok it is a low ratio but what a way to go!
If you think about it 90% of peeps die in bed so it is a very dangerous place to be!
The whole thing happened about 300 metres offshore. Had it been in the main swimming area then there would have been lots more people with very graphic descriptions.
I often see people swimming out that far and they seem to disappear for minutes at a time due to small swell lines coming through or chop or whatever.
I don't pay any attention to it because they always re-appear a bit later.
In this case, apparently he didn't.
Unless somebody was specifically watching, it could easily happen that a shark could just grab you and take you under. It's quite deep out there so not a lot you could do about it.
I am getting a little tired of these sharks eating people.
I bought a new Surfski last week and a new kiteboard yesterday and still havent ridden either of them. Now , fairs fair. Everyone can endure a bit of a calm or a flat spell when they buy a new water toy. But eating people is excessive.
Come on Huey, Just go back to dishing out calms or floggings like old times.
everything seems to be too excess lately.
BTW.....this latest one is a bit weird......all the ingredients of a staged disappearance....Jeez they found a scrap of his undies FFS!!
Another question I have is : was somthing left in the speedos? If not why were they at the bottom? Speedos float very well!!!
Listened to his yong bloke interviewed, said his old man loved the sea and knew the risks. So do I and they are pretty small.
GW's fitted with tracking devices travel huge distances. We know they follow the salmon and will take seals and occasionally humans. Other than that we know next to bugger all about them and have no idea when and where they will turn up.
There is next to f all we can do about them other than netting beaches which is not going to protect someone swimming so far out. Chopper observation would probably help but if there are that many around it may screw up the tourism.
Live with them or stay out of the sea.
What weighed down the shards of his budgie holsters - we probably don't want to know in this forum (and of course due respect to the old fella's rellies,enough distress there I reckon anyways)
Jeez it'd have to be the longest net in history to stretch up our straight WA coastline - the big carcharadons lurk from Albany to Geraldton and always have.
Do we have a water current change that is bringing them from South Africa????
I'm getting another beer to contemplate .... ohm ohm ohm!
Not to make light of a serious incident but the question needs to be asked: did he just eat a Snickers bar before swimming and did he have another one stuffed down his speedos.
Used to work for Fisheries Research in Perth, at the next desk was the shark research team. They're responsible for all the tagging and research for great whites in WA, maintaining the array etc.
Data suggests that the tagged sharks dont hang around very long at one spot, and from what I saw they migrate 1000's of kms. And guys, they are pretty common in Perth (whales, seals and large spawning fish aggs). I reckon alot more sharks have had a look at you than you know....
Food for thought..
So the bathers were found on the ocean floor some 300 metres from shore in 20+ft of water where this bloke was last seen?, yet there was no obvious spoil of such an attack. An hour later when the search started, after such a violent shark attack which dislodged the bathers, would there be body parts etc still in the vicinity? given it was a calm day or ocean currents would push in the direction of wind yet the bathers just stayed on the ocean floor where he was taken? too many unresolved issues for me?, it sounds like the old Chinese sub like the same one that took Harold Holt is still in Australian waters, all this obviously written with all due respect to the missing bloke.
