Send Message
Weather | Buy&Sell | Forums |  |
Weather | Buy & Sell | Gallery | Forums | |
I seem to remember a story on here about the Winning Men's 8 Cox getting thrown into the Swan River in celebration, and getting taken by a shark... ?
1920's or something.... ??
Google isn't helping me out at the moment.
Does anyone else remember...
seems to be a 1923 reference to near a boatshed.
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45596509
www.goshark.co.za/incident.php?id=772
A scout saved a another person in the 60s/70s near the brewery... I remember the story from my scouting days... googling reveals news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19710831&id=UPc0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=uZADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5445,6016863&hl=en
and
www.mundaring.wa.gov.au/amlibweb/webquery.dll?v1=pbMarc&v2=martin&v4=130789&v5=3X&v8=130790&v9=0&v10=N&v11=1654619&v13=4C&v20=4&v23=0&v25=179.6%2022&v27=170154&v35=%7B%5D0%5B%7D%7B%5D0%5B%7D%7B%5D0%5B%7D%7B%5D0%5B%7D&v46=130790
a shark was recently seen in the Peel Inlet near the serpentine river mouth.. cant find the link but was in the local paper...
If you look at the records i think there were more fatal shark attacks in the Swan river than the beaches before 1950.
This would be due to the greater popualtion using the river. Baths and sailing was predominantly river activities.
Now with more and more people using the open oceean and beaches, shrak attacks are more prevelant in these areas.
I also remember jumping off Mt Henry bridge one night about 18 yrs ago.
After we swam to shore and run up again for another jump we look down to see a 5-6 ft Bull shark circling the area where we just jumped in.
Bull sharks are not at all uncommon in the Swan in the warmer months, had a big one go through a prawn drag net one night. Scared the crap out of us.
Not Swan river but i remember many years ago they were talking about Bull sharks getting out of hand in the Gold Coast channels
Has the situation settled or just not of public interest anymore
It was of interest over in WA when Mandurah was starting to take off from memory.
Has the situation settled or just not of public interest anymore
Has the situation settled or just not of public interest anymore It was a real press beat up at the time, was curious if was just that or if ts settled down
