Looks like there may have been another attack.
Condolences to family and friends if this is the case.
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-10/missing-swimmer-shark-attack/3460948?section=wa
poor guy.
you guys have a serious problem in WA. You can bash it up your arse.
And it's not less dangerous than riding in a car, dying from a bee etc. What they do with those statistics is sum every person in the world that swims in the ocean divided by the number of attacks or that are killed by bees...
What you need to do is say to yourself "if I go swimming at dawn/ dusk or after dark at cactus beach, or cottesloe or fraser/stradbroke island or in a seal colony off port lincoln, are my chances still less than being killed by a bee?" NOPE
So all you Wa guys hang onto whichever statistic makes you feel better. some guy from norway who swims in a sharkless ocean a few times a year definatley does have less of a chance of being eaten than you guys on that 'one last run' out wide when you line/uni/ fin fails...
yeah tighty, looks like it may be the case.
sad... condolences to the family and friends, rip.
its that time of year again when whiteys come in to meet the whales migrating south with their calfs - many more around than usual this time of year. The whale migrations extend into december.
be careful out there... especially learners body dragging around.
I've been surfing windsurfing, fishing etc for 20 odd years in WA and have seen a lot of sharks, big ones, not too far off the coast. Yet you often see swimmers, 500m, 1km etc off the coast swimming around, not a care in the world.. as this guy was. I'm not sure if it's ignorance or bravado...
Condolences to the family............
Not really suprising though.......
This time of year
Several hundred metres off shore,
early morning
COTTESLOE beach !! ( that place must be like a shark drivethrough )
i think if the shark is within 500m of the shore we have the right to kill it. the great white is a protected animal and now that they have learnt that they are safe in our waters they are going to stay here and not leave us alone.
my dad told me about this thing. it was where there were about 100 great whites surrounding an island off whales. then a killer whale grabbed one by the stomach and drowned it because it couldnt move. after that all of the greatwhites moved. they had a tracker on one of them and it dove down 500m and swam for hawawi
I Think ive said this before ,its time to do some thing about about this little problem, how bout all the do gooder shark lovers,fishery ministers,and people who arnt scared of gw there get out there and berly up and have a little swim with your lovely sharks maybe suppress there apitite for a while, and the rest of us can go on enjoying the beach.i feel some red thumbs coming on 
that fish has been hanging around for weeks tell me it hasnt got a taste for it 
On the plus side, my local is 2km out to sea, and every year there are fewer and fewer kiters 
So although I'm not that keen on windsurfing with sharks, they keep the kiters away [}:)]
So although I'm not that keen on windsurfing with sharks, they keep the kiters away [}:)]
WE ARE ALL KILLING THE PLANET AND HALF THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE IS GOING INTO EXTINCTION WERE RUNNING OUT OF FOREST 'S SO WHY NOT TAKE THE SHARKS OUT ,THERE ONLY GOING TO HAVE US TO EAT WHEN ALL THE FISH RUN OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they have tagged it and it hangs around, get rid of it.
That's my emotion talking, but my small brain says that getting rid of it will make no difference at all, senseless, because all the other sharks wont think "o my god they killed stevo cos he swam to close to the shore" they wont know, they dont think, just swim and eat. Where there is one gone another will replace it.
Its thier enviroment not ours
There is no right answer, i will take the small risk again this year and the next.....
Sorry to the family, rest in peace mate
Sorry to hear such bad news.....We need to creat a delacasy of GW sushi I say. With a side dish of Bull whaler stew.
You can get bloody radiation detectors for iPhones today, technology is cheap why don't they take some of that money they waste on scuptures and the rest and place systems off our beaches on those bouys the council spent so much money on, surely there is some merit in the reaserch side of things as well as the peace of mind for all that use our beaches..........??????
RIP
A few months ago I saw on the ABC science programme catalyst that there is a popular holiday spot on the nsw coast that is regarded by marine biologists as a white shark congregation hotspot. They aren't sure why the white congregate there, but they do in large numbers at certain times of year. In the reported recent study over 100 different individuals were tagged and released within a 3 week period, right in the middle of holiday season. Most were tagged within 200m of the beach, popular for swimming and surfing. There have been very few atacks at this location.
Still I wouldn't go surfing there!
Pussies, get a land based sport if your fear of the ocean drives you to pointlessly killing protected creatures.
So although I'm not that keen on windsurfing with sharks, they keep the kiters away [}:)]
