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Kiting shark attack.

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Created by Nomadhazza > 9 months ago, 17 Dec 2013
Nomadhazza
24 posts
17 Dec 2013 6:29PM
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Has there ever been one?

iggypop
VIC, 164 posts
17 Dec 2013 9:57PM
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Heaps , google it , you'll be amazed , but I don't recall any in oz

NoBS
WA, 908 posts
17 Dec 2013 7:01PM
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There was one at wedge a couple years ago. A well known seabreeze members son copped a chomping but lived to tell the tale

iandvnt
QLD, 581 posts
17 Dec 2013 9:19PM
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New Cal, Florida, both while dropped kite.

Lambie
QLD, 739 posts
17 Dec 2013 10:20PM
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Used to worry about it - but lot more chance of getting cleaned on the road up by some drunk or drugged driver on the way to and from your perfect kitesurfing location!! When ur times up - its up !! - enjoy your kiting, every windy moment of it!!

the walks
WA, 448 posts
18 Dec 2013 9:40AM
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great memory jp

Wiski23
37 posts
19 Dec 2013 5:27PM
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Never thought about it, doesn't bother me really.

Jared888
WA, 389 posts
19 Dec 2013 6:04PM
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Line ups been pretty empty lately around home, I'm sure its because of the recent shark related media.
But kiting number have increased if anything around home...
Numbers point to people being more comfortable on a kite than sitting in the lineup surfing I guess

ezza
NSW, 561 posts
20 Dec 2013 6:23PM
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I know of one (sort of). about 3 years ago I got hit from below by a shark about 2m in length on the east coast of NSW. I was tacking hard upwind so the impact sent my board into the air, flipping downwind, and *plop* left me upwind (about 10m away) in the water. The shark turned towards the board in the air and disappeared back under the water. I body dragged back to the board *oh sh!t is it coming back?!* I rode into the beach, thinking 'any moment now!' but made it back to the beach *yewww* and proceeded to go change my boardies.

I figure I have shark immunity now, on account of it being a one-in-a-lifetime event, so i'm not afraid

sir ROWDY
WA, 5353 posts
20 Dec 2013 3:58PM
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There was one I know of, yet I doubt most people in here were kiting at that point in time to know about it. Dano See (now BWS designer) was kiting at the Pass in Byron Bay and a shark latched onto his leg, he had to go into the beach with it still attached to get it off. Luckily he was wearing a knee brace on that leg at the time.

Kakkerlak
WA, 174 posts
20 Dec 2013 9:41PM
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I remember that, propably the first recorded attack not many similar that followed.

Mark _australia
WA, 22724 posts
20 Dec 2013 10:27PM
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Few of us are trying to train them to, so far seems unsuccessful


MDSXR6T
WA, 1019 posts
21 Dec 2013 12:54AM
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Never mind the sharks, at my local i've seen 2 dugites, 4ft+ in the last 2 weeks and one bigger snake 6ft+ that looked like a tiger snake but i'm not sure

I find myself a bit more worried now. I used to throw my bag and towel in the bushes at the base of the dunes but now they come a few metres onto the sand. I'm a bit scared of them and im sure soon enough someone will be attacked.

I've walked hundreds of kms in the dunes and coastal bushland in the past 12months and havent seen any so maybe time for a cull!! Joe public complains about killing a protected shark but i bet they wouldnt think twice about bringing a shovel down on a protected snake.

mick14
SA, 343 posts
21 Dec 2013 3:49AM
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Ezza, is it possible you hit the shark rather than the other way around?

I used to think sharks were quite cautious about what they attack, spending considerable time observing before going in, and therefore a riding kiteboarder would not be a target.

Sounds like your contact, whether initiated by you or it, was enough to make it think twice about coming back for seconds, luckily.

WC Canvas
WA, 55 posts
21 Dec 2013 8:26AM
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Went for a kite in W.A - nek minnet



default
WA, 1255 posts
21 Dec 2013 9:29AM
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I saw a shark INSIDE the pond on Thursday - I sh1t you not

A massive one too, like about 1.5m

WC Canvas
WA, 55 posts
21 Dec 2013 9:31AM
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Reports are they are all up the coast, everyone better stick to the river

default
WA, 1255 posts
21 Dec 2013 10:03AM
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Well, with all the new euros in town I was hoping for some white pointers.. But no one took their top off

RAL INN
SA, 2890 posts
21 Dec 2013 6:31PM
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sir ROWDY said..

There was one I know of, yet I doubt most people in here were kiting at that point in time to know about it. Dano See (now BWS designer) was kiting at the Pass in Byron Bay and a shark latched onto his leg, he had to go into the beach with it still attached to get it off. Luckily he was wearing a knee brace on that leg at the time.


Funny, I heard of a similar incident reported in the now defunct windsurf/kitesurf mag that said a kiter in Fiji kiting at dusk had a reef shark bite him but on his kneebrace, which saved him.

January down here at corner inlet is pup dropping time for the great whites, so they are coming in shallow. Perfect for testing theories.

Spitfire
WA, 397 posts
21 Dec 2013 4:59PM
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Came pretty close to a GWS in Gero this time last year. About 200m off the beach. Was massive. At first I thought it was a killer whale. Scared the living **** out of me. It didn't change its course or anything thought. I don't think it even knew I was there....Brown squid cloud

Jared888
WA, 389 posts
21 Dec 2013 5:19PM
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MDSXR6T said..

Never mind the sharks, at my local i've seen 2 dugites, 4ft+ in the last 2 weeks and one bigger snake 6ft+ that looked like a tiger snake but i'm not sure

I find myself a bit more worried now. I used to throw my bag and towel in the bushes at the base of the dunes but now they come a few metres onto the sand. I'm a bit scared of them and im sure soon enough someone will be attacked.

I've walked hundreds of kms in the dunes and coastal bushland in the past 12months and havent seen any so maybe time for a cull!! Joe public complains about killing a protected shark but i bet they wouldnt think twice about bringing a shovel down on a protected snake.


Dude, so many snakes this season, I haven't read anything official but the Ranger told me something similar to the water corp guy at the weir last week, after I told them about the previous days joly to DD's were we found a massive python resting on elephants rock and while we were looking at it we got chased into the car ( me and my heavily perg wifey) by a large tiger snake, There explanation was the increased amount of food sources and expect the snake numbers to be at least doubled this year. oh and something about an evolutionary cycle which sounded funny

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
21 Dec 2013 9:38PM
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Mark _australia said..

Few of us are trying to train them to, so far seems unsuccessful




Ha He Ha Ha,
around here we try and kite near windsurfers, we guess as sharks are scavengers they will always go for the oldest slowest food source first as its easiest prey, which is their job in the natures way of cleaning up the ocean of old creatures nearing the end of their life cycle. .
Kinda like having eskie lidders out when your surfing, reducers your chance of a bite.

Im not the fastest kite boarder, but to be safe from the toothies I just have to be faster than the other water users, so thats why we hang around polers, its just a survival of the fittest thing, natures natural culling of the weakest species .
Just quoting science here, you cant argue with nature.



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