Mantas 3 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 It's shark happy hour down here at the moment. Three shark attacks in 2 days. None of them fatal. Now this. just up the coast from me. Maybe Indos' theory about the full moon sending the sharks crazy has some merit. Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yep swimming, wake boarding and surfing is definately not top of my list at the moment. Shark Attack just off our coast they think was a white pointer. Did you read the story about in Tassie. The little girls cousin jumped in to save her and the shark was thrashing her around, throwing her in the air and then dived under with her. He paddled out and saved her and the shark kept at them the whole way in. SCARY!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 yep.....not gonna take up surfing methinks!! Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 hmm, i'm going up that way for a couple of days next week. I might give blueys a miss... Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 i have a swimming pool Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 My Bro is living in Australia now over near Perth and told me about it the other day. He said after hearing this he isn't going to go to far out in the water. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 He only needs to get up to his knees and he's a chance. There has been more than one fatality in WA that have occured very close to shore. One of the attacks this week was in a lake near a boat ramp! Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Are we absolutely sure they are sharks and not kids with cardboard cutouts like in Jaws? Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 "The shark dragged the girl under water twice before her cousin reached the scene on his surfboard and hit the shark, causing it to let go, said Senior Sergeant Jason Elmer of St Helens Police. The cousin, a man in his 20s from Queensland, pulled the teenager up on to his surfboard and paddled towards the shore. The shark followed and circled the frightened pair. At one stage they caught a wave, but the shark was in the same wave, said Senior Sergeant Elmer, who arrived on the scene shortly after the attack. "They managed to get to shore," he said. "There's a significant bite out of the surfboard. I understand there was a fair bit of blood in the water." After reading that and seeing the board I am not even putting my big toe in the water. We were all going wake boarding this weekend and I have kindly volunteered to be the driver. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 It's all bullshiat and media hype. They reckon that is a dolphin fin anyway. Not one person saw that fin which would stike you as being odd don't ya think???? A shark expert was on sunrise yesterday or the day before and gave the media a good dressing down. All these reports about sharks being about wrong species and harmless species etc. (sure the 3 attacks were real though!) Remember the 2 whitey chomps back in 2000? 1 at cactus and one at Blacks? I'd be more worried about that as they occured in closer proximity than these attacks which were spread out over 15,000kms of coastline (and one is a place where you require a passport to go to! ) Link to post Share on other sites
gareth_oau 2 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Originally Posted By: Indo A shark expert was on sunrise yesterday Haha, I take a biiiig dose of salts with anything said by an "expert" on sunrise LMAO Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 No, actually he was speaking sense and having a go at the Media.. (though i agree with you on "Expert" and Sunrise!) Link to post Share on other sites
Rag-Doll 0 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I wonder if she thought..... I gonna need a bigger board! Great trophy to show the grandkids though. The media loves a good shark story and that fin does look more dolphin than shark. A shark swimming that close to the surface would show its tail fin as well, wouldn't it? But yeah, pretty much anything more than knee deep and you're a half a chance. Bull sharks and bronze whalers can be dangerous even when fairly small (less than 2m) and people have died from their attacks simply due to massive blood loss. I've seen or heard or read somewhere that humans don't make good feeding for sharks anyway, we're too much bone and not enough meat. Many shark attacks tend to be bite and release, with few people ever actually being eaten. Small comfort, I know! Speaking as a person with bugger all knowledge on the subject, I'd feel more comfortable swimming at ocean beaches, particularly on the east coast than at estuarine rivers, lakes, or canals, where those nasty little bull sharks lurk in shallow murky water. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 love the name Gimp!! Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 not going north now. going south to frazer park.. woot! Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Originally Posted By: The Gimp The media loves a good shark story and that fin does look more dolphin than shark. A shark swimming that close to the surface would show its tail fin as well, wouldn't it? Good point. Generally sharks are easy to spot because of the tail fin and the way they move through the water. At first I though it wa a dolphin too, but after reading this guys comment I changed my mind. This is a renowned surfer with some 30+ years experience. Also why would he be blabbing on about sharks in the area if he runs the local surf school? "It was just having a cruise, it wasn't showing attack mode behaviour. We have a lot of sharks up here but they are really well fed," said Mr Hughes, 50, who built an international reputation in big waves at Cronulla Point in the 1980s. "I didn't tell the students 'cause they just would have worried. "It might have been a great white. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 So he saw it now!!!!!!!! I'm sure he knows when a shark is hungry or not! Though a good guess would say that it mustn't have been coz it (if it was a shark, and not P'shopped) didn't chomp chomp. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 shark sighted at newcastle beach yesterday.. What's going on? Paranoia or changing feeding patterns. I have never seen any sharks on city beaches before.. Link to post Share on other sites
Rag-Doll 0 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Has global warming been blamed for this yet? Surely it is only a matter of time. Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Originally Posted By: Mantas One of the attacks this week was in a lake near a boat ramp! In a Lake?? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Well at least with these extra shark sighting we know that FLAKE will not be off the menu for a while! Link to post Share on other sites
Rag-Doll 0 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Originally Posted By: stemik Originally Posted By: Mantas One of the attacks this week was in a lake near a boat ramp! In a Lake?? Yep, in a lake. brakish shallow murky water that is linked to the sea is prime bull shark territory. That's why canals, and river mouths and such are probably more dangerous than the surf. From wiki- The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, also known as the bull whaler, Zambezi shark or unofficially known as Zambi in Africa and Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a shark common worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. The bull shark is well known for its unpredictable, often aggressive behavior. Many scientists agree that since bull sharks often dwell in shallow waters, they may be more dangerous to humans than any other species of sharks,[1] and that they join tiger sharks and great white sharks as the three shark species most likely to attack humans.[2] Unlike most other marine sharks, bull sharks tolerate fresh water. They can travel far up rivers. As a result, they are probably responsible for the majority of shark attacks on humans that take place near the shore, including many attacks attributed to other species.[3] However, bull sharks are not true freshwater sharks (unlike the river sharks of the genus Glyphis). Link to post Share on other sites
Rag-Doll 0 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 they're not usually large enough to eat you, just take enough out of your leg to ensure you die of blood loss and shock... I think they do that deliberately - nasty, mean little bastards. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 The incident that gave birth to the movie Jaws is a shark that they reckon got trapped in the rivers and canals in New Jersey in the 1920's and 1930's and ate a few people over the course of a summer. i watched a documentary about it once on discovery. It swam really far up river, which really shocked the marine biologists as they didn't think sharks could live in fresh water Indo those chips look great....I'd kill a surfer for a bag of those chips right now!! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 yeah, but what are those overfried things at the bottom. Too small for a fish fillet. Link to post Share on other sites
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