www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/kiteboard-surfer-killed-by-sharks-off-coast-of-florida/story-e6frg1p3-1225826758623
he was wearing boardies over his wettie.. even sharks can't take that
www.smh.com.au/world/kite-surfer-killed-in-shark-attack-20100205-ngi3.html
Statistics don't mean anything, it's all about karma.
2 of my mates who are really sh!t blokes have been bitten by sharks, noone else I know has.
Poseidon will fark you up if you deserve it.
Actually we can use this to quieten our local spots. Lets find out favorite flat water spot and then spend the next month talking about how many sharks we've seen there so everyone else shifts to the other spots.
We'll need to alternate and back each other's stories up so its more believable and find random pictures of sharks off the web so we can claim they're ours. 2 posts a week should do it and if we get the newspapers on board with some claims about massive sharks, we might get away with it. It would help if the water is murky so the guys can't disprove our sitings from helicopters.
I reckon if we play our cards right we could get Altona and St Kilda back as the quietest kiting spots in victoria.
you don't even need to make things up... a 4 meter shark was circling a boat just off altona pier for 10 minutes in december... it was in the paper as well as on seabreeze...
here it is again:
www.heraldsun.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes
i don't know about st kilda, but i wouldn't recommend anyone to kite at Altona... there are also ongoing feces and high level of bacteria issues common to that spot... and the water is always murky so you have no chance or warning if there is something there...
IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR SAFETY DO NOT KITE IN ALTONA!!! NOT EVEN ON SOUTH EASTERLIES !!!
It seems the victim was performing a self rescue, no doubt either because of equipment malfunction or the wind died. Either way he was having a bad day, and then he gets attacked by not one but several sharks. What a nightmare!