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Another Fatal Shark Attack

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Created by tightlines > 9 months ago, 22 Oct 2011
teatrea
QLD, 4177 posts
22 Oct 2011 5:50PM
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tightlines said...

Rottnest this time.

www.perthnow.com.au/news/killer-shark-at-rottnest-island-to-be-hunted-down-ng-3ceba39507467de8fb8c7d0759aefe71


And i was thinking of doing the doctor raceSharks are known to pick of the stragglers.Poor bugger , diving alone is a risky business.

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 6:09PM
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That's terrible news. WA is starting to get a nasty rep for this don't think I'll be diving there.

akhawk
WA, 1085 posts
22 Oct 2011 4:10PM
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Piros said...

That's terrible news. WA is starting to get a nasty rep for this.


This is the 3rd in as many months. Very sad.

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 6:14PM
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Have to make you nervous surfing it , at least on a Sup you can see if anything is hanging around. I might leave the my 8 footer at home when I come over in Easter and ride a 10-0 Straboard Whopper to make sure I stay dry.

I'd probably piss my pants if a saw one of those great whites cruise past.

62mac
WA, 24860 posts
22 Oct 2011 4:15PM
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Whats the distance between all three attacks?

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 6:22PM
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62mac said...

Whats the distance between all three attacks?


This list does not include the past few months so add 3 to this.FAAARK

Recent WA Shark Attacks

October 1997: Former St Kilda footballer Brian Sierakowski and friend Barney Hanrahan escaped when a 5m white pointer attacked their double surf-ski 150m off Cottesloe.

October 2000: Greg Pickering, 47, a professional diver from Ocean Reef, was mauled by a 1.5m bronze whaler 9km off Cervantes.

FATAL: November 2000: Businessman Ken Crew, 48, was killed by a 4m white pointer in waist-deep water at North Cottesloe.

February 2001: A 5m white pointer leapt out of the water off Albany and clamped its jaws around an outboard motor as Don and Margaret Stubbs watched in horror.

January 2004: Allan Oppert was attacked while diving for lobster 24km offshore in Binningup, north of Bunbury. He survived, despite being bitten 11 times below the knees.

June 2004: Surfer Tom O'Brien, 17, was bitten on a foot by a bronze whaler off Bunbury's Back Beach.

FATAL: July 2004: Carpenter Brad Smith, 29, was attacked and killed by two sharks while surfing off Gracetown.

FATAL: March 2005: A 6m white pointer killed boat skipper Geoffrey Brazier, 26, while he snorkelled off the Abrolhos Islands.

September 2005: Surfer Brad Satchell scared off a 1.3m shark by punching it on the nose as it lined up to attack him 150m off Scarborough.

January 2006: Diver Bernie Williams was attacked by a 3.5m white pointer about 5km off City Beach. He received only minor wounds to his arms and said a mate's electronic shark deterrent saved his life.

December 2006: 15-year-old Zac Golebiowski from South Australia loses a leg in a shark attack east of Esperance. He was attacked by a 4.5m white pointer.

May 2007: Ellenbrook mother-of-five Becky Cooke had her foot torn to pieces by a reef shark near Coral Bay while holding her toddler in 30cm of water.

July 2007: Scotch College College student Angus Chapman, 15, was attacked by a 1.5m bronze whaler in chest-deep water in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

November 2007: A man survives a shark attack off the Kimberley coast.

FATAL: December 2008: Port Kennedy fisherman Brian Guest, 51, taken by a giant white pointer while snorkelling for crabs in about 5m of water near his beachside home.

June 2010: Walpole man Mick Bedford survives being mauled on the leg by a large shark off Conspicuous Cliff Beach, 15km east of Walpole.

FATAL: August 2010: Nicholas Edwards, 31, fatally mauled at Gracetown, near Margaret River.

October 30, 2010: Elyse Frankcom, 19, attacked while snorkelling off Garden Island

3 Attacks 2004
2 Attacks 2005
2 Attacks 2006
3 Attacks 2007
3 Attacks 2010
3 Attacks 2011 (all Fatal)

Not good......going by those averages you can expect another 3 next year.


akhawk
WA, 1085 posts
22 Oct 2011 4:25PM
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62mac said...

Whats the distance between all three attacks?


The first was about 2 1/2 hours south of Perth, the 2nd at Cott ( a popular metro beach) and this one at Rotto which is about 20km off the coast.

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 6:29PM
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Piros said...

I might leave the my 8 footer at home when I come over in Easter and ride a 10-0 Straboard Whopper to make sure I stay dry.


Might just bring the golf clubs instead.

AKSonline
WA, 925 posts
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22 Oct 2011 4:58PM
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Hmmmmm, another overcast day.......

Sorry to hear this, .... again! Seems the toothy ones are a tad hungrier this year.

DM

TurtleHunter
WA, 1675 posts
22 Oct 2011 5:15PM
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come on Piros your talking a few of those attacks up aren't you?
A woman having her foot torn to pieces in Coral Bay is a joke!
Standing amongst all the reef sharks where they congregate to mate and getting a few stitches from a bite is barely an attack.

mooty
56 posts
22 Oct 2011 5:36PM
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It might be time to begin an export business of shark fins to China. After all, we should be giving something back for making our SUPs, don't you think?

weiry
QLD, 5396 posts
22 Oct 2011 7:48PM
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R.I.P mate

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 7:56PM
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TurtleHunter said...

come on Piros your talking a few of those attacks up aren't you?
A woman having her foot torn to pieces in Coral Bay is a joke!
Standing amongst all the reef sharks where they congregate to mate and getting a few stitches from a bite is barely an attack.


Didn't know the details so you can scrub that one it was a copy and paste from your local rag.

krankiman
WA, 86 posts
22 Oct 2011 5:57PM
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last sunday very close to perth, there are lots about.



laceys lane
QLD, 19803 posts
22 Oct 2011 8:01PM
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might be time for a good old fashion cull/ sharkhunt???? or not?????

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 8:08PM
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No way they are too important to the food chain , it's their home not ours.We just have to accept the risk , it's a 1000 times more dangerous driving a car.

laceys lane
QLD, 19803 posts
22 Oct 2011 8:13PM
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Piros said...

No way they are too important to the food chain , it's their home not ours.We just have to accept the risk , it's a 1000 times more dangerous driving a car.


i believe a lot more could be done with shark shield research/investment.

it would be a win, win situation.

imagine a small unit you wear that no shark could come near

cheers

Piros
QLD, 7065 posts
22 Oct 2011 8:21PM
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Here it is for $600 they also have one for divers.

ocean-guardian.com/

laceys lane
QLD, 19803 posts
22 Oct 2011 8:30PM
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Piros said...

Here it is for $600 they also have one for divers.

ocean-guardian.com/




i've seen those, too big and the drag factor would be huge.

i reckon it has to be personal, say strapped to the leg as you always have a leg in the water. i'm also thinking about mobile phone size.

30 metre deterrent would be the go

Chopz
WA, 147 posts
22 Oct 2011 6:57PM
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Just a gimmick.

Sure if a sharks snooping around and is a bit curious then yeah it would repel them, but chances are you have already seen it by then anyway.

But when you got a 6m pointer hammering towards you with just one thing on its mind, by the time it gets inside the working radius of the gadget to realise it doesnt like the sensation, there is nothing going to pull that thing up with the speed its coming in at.

Like they say, its the one you dont see that will get ya, and ya dont see them coz there fast

Kakkerlak
WA, 174 posts
22 Oct 2011 7:19PM
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Intereting if that if crocodile or lion is found to be eating people it is classified as a problem animal and will get destroyed, but the fact that a shark becomes a problem animal is never considered

laceys lane
QLD, 19803 posts
22 Oct 2011 10:07PM
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Kakkerlak said...

Intereting if that if crocodile or lion is found to be eating people it is classified as a problem animal and will get destroyed, but the fact that a shark becomes a problem animal is never considered


agree. the old 'chestnut' we are in its habitat gets dragged out, but that doesn't seem to apply so much for crocs and lions

laceys lane
QLD, 19803 posts
22 Oct 2011 10:12PM
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Chopz said...

Just a gimmick.

Sure if a sharks snooping around and is a bit curious then yeah it would repel them, but chances are you have already seen it by then anyway.

But when you got a 6m pointer hammering towards you with just one thing on its mind, by the time it gets inside the working radius of the gadget to realise it doesnt like the sensation, there is nothing going to pull that thing up with the speed its coming in at.

Like they say, its the one you dont see that will get ya, and ya dont see them coz there fast


everything i've seen or read about whites pointers is they do indeed check you first in most cases

Ericson
WA, 111 posts
22 Oct 2011 8:50PM
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Glad I didn't SUP Cathedrals today as planned!

I've dived at that spot heaps of times. Can't see myself going there this summer. Shark shield for sure from now on. I remember that attack where the guy credited his mate's shark shield with saving his life. Apparently it was getting stuck into him but his mate with the shark shield on swam over and the shark took off. Good enough for me. Wish I bought shares in them yesterday.

Mind you if my dive buddy was getting chewed on by a white pointer and I had the shark shield, I would die of a heart attack before I could swim over to him to be of any use.

Salatiela
NSW, 378 posts
22 Oct 2011 11:54PM
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In todays northern star...

KAYAKERS enjoying watching whales and dolphins play at Byron Bay got more than their money's worth last Sunday when a four-metre great white shark surfaced near them and bared its teeth.

The sightseers were reportedly "very excited" at being the subject of the creature's curiosity, though naturally relieved it didn't take any greater interest in them.

The incident occurred near the "Bombie", a collection of rocks in the water off the cape, near Little Wategos.

The Cape Byron Kayaks guides told the party to group together and made some efforts to see the shark off, but it circled them several times before obliging.

The incident was the second up-close sighting of a great white last weekend.

Just after 8am on Sunday, Geoff Bensley was swimming 100 to 150 metres offshore between the Pass and the surf club - something he does several times a week - when a two-metre white passed close by.

"It was easy to see it was a great white. It was a beautiful looking shark, with a white belly and a distinct line between the white and the grey. It had a straight dorsal fin which is a characteristic of the species," Mr Bensley said.

"I started yelling at my mate, who was another 50m offshore but he couldn't hear."

The near brush had "shaken him up", Mr Bensley said.

"I'm going to keep my fingers in the sand for the next few months."

It was the first time the Byron Bay electrician had seen a great white - and of that size - in the 19 years he has been doing the swim.

Cape Byron Marine Park manager Andrew Page said sightings of great whites were common at this time of year and coincided with the journey south of whales and their young.

As the water becomes warmer, sightings would grow less and less, he said.

Great whites are no strangers to Byron's waters. In August, a fisherman saw three of them near The Wreck at Belongil Beach. One four-metre shark circled his boat for half an hour.


- Now I hate to think of the 'the gray men in the water' Im glad i'm on a sup... as many have said before..."we are in their pantry"...

Thoughts to his family and friends.

Ericson
WA, 111 posts
22 Oct 2011 9:25PM
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I heard the other day that there are already quite a few that have been tagged and was wondering, would it be hard (I can't imagine it would be) to have receivers of some sort set up on popular beaches (and notorious beaches - read Cottesloe, Cowaramup Bay) that, whenever they detected one of those tags within say 1km of the beach, sounded an alarm that let everyone at the beach know that there was a whitey nearby (and kept sounding until it left)?

Obviously:
1) it wouldn't save divers
2) it wouldn't save those of us off the beaten track
3) might be bloody disturbing to hear how often they'd go off?

Surely if there are already ****loads of tagged sharks out there something like this wouldn't be hard to set up and would give swimmers and surfers at popular beaches some (little) peace of mind and potentially save lives?

Basecurve
WA, 196 posts
22 Oct 2011 9:59PM
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Don't sweat fellas help is near.

AUTHORITIES issued a catch-to-kill order to destroy a rogue shark just one hour after an American man was mauled to death while diving off Rottnest Island, Western Australia today

Read more: www.news.com.au/national/shark-attack-in-rotto/news-story/02a994567f13a7ac8099cf5bee08ddaf

hilly
WA, 7473 posts
22 Oct 2011 10:12PM
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Anything that thins the crowd is good with me

When I was 15 got attacked at mullaloo so I had mine. Lucky I jumped off the board and it just bit the board.

Does lightning strike twice I hope not but if it does it is their turf I would not want a witch hunt. RIP

Kakkerlak
WA, 174 posts
22 Oct 2011 11:20PM
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Salatiela said...

In todays northern star...

KAYAKERS enjoying watching whales and dolphins play at Byron Bay got more than their money's worth last Sunday when a four-metre great white shark surfaced near them and bared its teeth.

The sightseers were reportedly "very excited" at being the subject of the creature's curiosity, though naturally relieved it didn't take any greater interest in them.

The incident occurred near the "Bombie", a collection of rocks in the water off the cape, near Little Wategos.

The Cape Byron Kayaks guides told the party to group together and made some efforts to see the shark off, but it circled them several times before obliging.

The incident was the second up-close sighting of a great white last weekend.

Just after 8am on Sunday, Geoff Bensley was swimming 100 to 150 metres offshore between the Pass and the surf club - something he does several times a week - when a two-metre white passed close by.

"It was easy to see it was a great white. It was a beautiful looking shark, with a white belly and a distinct line between the white and the grey. It had a straight dorsal fin which is a characteristic of the species," Mr Bensley said.

"I started yelling at my mate, who was another 50m offshore but he couldn't hear."

The near brush had "shaken him up", Mr Bensley said.

"I'm going to keep my fingers in the sand for the next few months."

It was the first time the Byron Bay electrician had seen a great white - and of that size - in the 19 years he has been doing the swim.

Cape Byron Marine Park manager Andrew Page said sightings of great whites were common at this time of year and coincided with the journey south of whales and their young.

As the water becomes warmer, sightings would grow less and less, he said.

Great whites are no strangers to Byron's waters. In August, a fisherman saw three of them near The Wreck at Belongil Beach. One four-metre shark circled his boat for half an hour.


- Now I hate to think of the 'the gray men in the water' Im glad i'm on a sup... as many have said before..."we are in their pantry"...

Thoughts to his family and friends.


not so beutifull if it has just chewed of your legs.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-shark-attack-victim-was-saved-156835

open water swimmer in Cape Town last month.

DavidJohn
VIC, 17510 posts
23 Oct 2011 7:19AM
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Funny T shirt print.. unless you live in WA..

DJ

www.standupzone.com/forum/index.php?topic=13702.0



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