Fark me a few mates and I went diving this morn outside hillarys, our first choice was rotto, nth pt reef! This is unbelivable!
www.news.com.au/national/shark-attack-in-rotto/news-story/51b2959125f7f425e7f62b90e821395a
Probably the same one that did the Cott attack two weeks ago.
The possibilities are, either there's lots of white pointers around and they all enjoy eating people in their spare time, or it's the same shark that unlike most white pointers, has taken a liking to feasting on people.
Either way, sharks that eat people need to be removed from the system.
If there's so many around so as to make shark attacks so regular then we wont miss one or two when we remove them.
If it's only one, then we will miss it even less. Either way, whenever a shark eats somebody we should do the logical thing and get rid of it.
Since we are assured that they don't like eating people then the culling of one or two should fix the problem.
{edit} just as I posted this I hear on the radio that Col has done the right thing and ordered the shark be caught and killed.
Good work Col. But it would have been better if this was ordered after Bryn Martin got eaten. Oh well, better late than never.
The thing I like about Col is that since he was about to retire before the last election and didn't want to be Premier anyway, he is often guilty of doing the right thing rather than what he thinks might be required to keep him in the job.
I wish they would all do that.
I really don't know if it is likely to be the same one from Cott two weeks ago........ Really, there are a lot of sharks following the whale migration this time of year, lots of tasty whale calves to eat and if they can't get them they will go a seal.
A bloke with flippers can look like a seal ........
Yeah,,,I guess your right, just kill a shark that might?? have been the one cause its in the same area??? Their are probly 200 Whites in the area about the same size.
Problem solved. Eye for an eye.
If your in the sea,,its the chance you take.
As sad as it is for his family,,its just how swimming in the ocean is.
Killing one shark hoping it was the one,,,,wont stop the rare shark attacks.
But might make You feel better/safer maybe?
Im not having a stab at you Pweedas, we all have different thought/opinions,
I just think(not very often) that ALL sharks are potential man eater and that most of the time they think we are a tasty seal.
So killing one(thinking that now they it has a fetish for humans) will not make any differents.
Other then a feeling of revenge.Which might make me feel better if it was one of my loved ones that was taken.
Cheers
Not what he meant: are you gonna kill all sharks that bite the sheep until you find human bits in it ?
How many are you gonna cull, 100, 10000 ?
I suspect you're kidding, but can't find the smiley...
200 whites in the area...... Hmmmmmmmmm somehow I don't think so.
3 fatal attacks in 7 weeks isn't exactly "rare attacks"
^^^So you think it was the same shark. How many do you think swim past that spot daily? Not saying your wrong, probly correct.
Even though we only seen the odd one here and there, I think there are lots you didnt know where there.
I think there are more sharks swimming locally than you think.
I have seen shark feeding frenzies(spelling?) of several hundred sharks in the one spot. And am sure that wasnt all that might have been close by ,,just round the next headland were probly heaps more that hadnt heard of the all you can eat feed going on.
The shark in question could be 200kms up the coast by now?
Nah personally I don't think it was the same shark.
Yep there are plenty out there. Caught plenty (not whites) and had whites come up and hang around my boat on a couple of separate occasions a few k's of the metro coast while fishing.
Sympathies to the family and friends of this man who has been taken by the apex predator of the environment we all love so much.
It could easily have been anyone of us.
Calling for the slaughter of many sharks is rediculous.If the attacker remains in the area by all means despatch it.
Remember all these attacks happened in the ocean.Improve your odds by staying ashore not wholesale slaughter.
RIP Skindiver man!
I'm sure the majority of ocean users would be more than happy to see a cull of
whitey's or at least one, to justify 4 human deaths in just over 12 months.Not to mention the other attacks where people have survived.
CSIRO has a paper on line
"Changing patterns of shark attacks in Australian waters
John G. West"
at
www.publish.csiro.au/MF/pdf/MF10181
Conclusion
Patterns of attack have changed substantially over time as a
result of the changing population and human behaviour. If
human activity related to water-based activities and the use of
beaches, harbours and rivers continues to change, we can expect
to see further changes in the patterns, distribution, frequency and
types of attacks in the future. Encounters with sharks, although a
rare event, will continue to occur if humans continue to enter the
ocean professionally or for recreational pursuit.
It is important to keep the risk of a shark attack in perspective.
On average, 87 people drown at Australian beaches each year
(SLSA 2010), yet there have been, on average, only 1.1 fatalities
per year from shark attack over the past two decades. It is clear
that the risk of being bitten or dying from an unprovoked shark
attack in Australia remains extremely low.
^^^
thats a great chart / map.
you can see how the population follows the attack locations pretty well. id be betting if the population was consistent around the coast nationwide, the dots would be as well.
thanks for posting.
what a joke. scum everday are robbing,raping and killing innocent people and they get bugger all penalty yet you want to start killing sharks
lets clean up society first and let nature deal with it self like it has for millions of years
When you enter the sharks domain you take a risk.... I do and many others do also.
But what's next stone fish, sting rays, jelly fish etc etc.
I will accept that the next shark that enters the human domain should be culled immediately.... we should have got em by the the time it gets to the beach side cafe or coffee shops.
if you think about it, since the protection of the big whites, the younguns may have come of age and are now going back to what they always have done.
just a thought.....