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.
Hmmmmm, another overcast day.......
Sorry to hear this, .... again! Seems the toothy ones are a tad hungrier this year.
DM
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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