I kite all around perth metro beaches (mostly pinnaroo, mullaloo and trigg/scarbs)... I can't be the only one that sh!ts themselves coming off my board 200m out
I'd love to hear some shark experiences and encounters while kiting etc. from you guys and girls...
Just remember when you see this 2km's off Hillary's..
a white shark see's
Delicious right...
You've just got to hope the drive through line isn't too long so that they have to go looking for something else thats close
the chances of getting done by a shark while kitesurfing are pretty non-existent . Water is dirty and choppy and generally not shark conditions . If you were supping early morning and it was flat then yes i would poop myself , but not while kiting
Saw my first shark while kiting last week. Only a little 4-5 footer. Came down from a big boost and saw him cruising around behind the reef break right about where I was gonna land, I hit the water and he took off
If u do all the islands up around onslow....montebellos...thevanard....direction....its great. There are so many and its super cool &good vis.. Abrolhos is a good place to chase and spot them too....
However I have to say two years ago in lancelin was the only time i ever purposely 'lost' a board.... 25mins teabagging in 8m+ green muck 1km+ out was enough for me. When I finally got it back up I was back inland in a shot. Never dropped a kite since and been v aware of wind dropping etc on exmouth bommies and reefs since then. Around exxy theres heaps too.coolest one was 3/4m hammerhead head out of water going nuts.
If you wanna see some and make friends with them...go there. Down south and nsw they seem to be a little more kfc hungry. But what do you expect..the reefs around mindarie and two rocks rockingham mandurah are completely buggered and overfished.95% of mindarie divers have shark shields.....looks quite funny underwater lots of dangly long black things in a circle :-)
Not required up north..
You would have to land on him with his mouth open or spend a lot of time in the water like surfers or divers. . . . . Unlucky u would b as a kiter
Cool tightlines interesting abrolhos story thanks for that
a friend showed me this pic...I quite liked it....
On the day of the 'mega moon'(full).. a friend went to do an adelaide cage dive. V interesting...the day before..... chummed water...sharks everywhere...the day after...chummed water...sharks everywhere...... and ....
That very day (spookie hey??!)..... chummed water....no sharks anywhere....at all..... all three (?) Operators.
That very day.
Saw a large 4m+ White shark whilst kiting 200m off Tarcoola Beach up in Geraldton a few years back. It was just cruising south. I got a good look at it rising up in the swell and swiftly turned back to play closer to the beach! I don't think it saw me or was interested....They are much blacker than you would imagine, thought it was some sort of whale at first. Nope.
What I want to know is some statistical information on HOW MANY sharks can be found at any one time on a beach through out the day.
We all know sharks exist, but how often are they there?!?!?!?!?
To be honest, every time I am kiting or surfing it feels like there is a shark in the water, maybe not next to me, but somewhere close by... waiting to pick up my electrical rhythms with its ampullae of lorenzini from like 1km away or whatever... sniffing the aromas of my skin cells as soon as I dip my pinky toe in the ocean from a few kilometers away and then it comes rushing towards me, waiting for me to make one false slip on the board so that it can have it's meal... Just incase anyone's interested, I am selling an reel leash, don't be fooled by people when they tell you body dragging is safe from sharks, limited time offer only.
Guy stranded 3km from cott beach in 2013. **** THAT!
Spotted in the paper this morning...
More info here www.google.com.au/url?q=https://amp.smh.com.au/nsw/photo-shows-startled-25metre-shark-in-wave-next-to-10yearold-surfer-20170125-gtynx1.html
I lost the thread of this
But whoever wrote ' I dont go out more than 500metres' I thought was a bit of an english term 'wally'....your missing the best stuff..its cheaper and easier than boat charters etc and that's how it goes beyond 'surfing'
And whoever wrote dont go any further out that you can swim I thought was cool ......
?...was that the same person?
My two cents on the maths of this (As a kitesurfing Actuary I think I can give a fair and balanced opinion)
A lot of speculation above on could this happen, unfortunately it already has:
mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-07/shark-kills-australian-kitesurfer-in-new-caledonia-officials-say/7821020
And it's not just sharks to be mindful of: mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-18/crocodile-attacks-chris-keeping-kitesurfing-near-darwin-beach/6477022
So it's plausible. Risk is about probability of occurrence and consequence of occurrence.
So let's start with probability, original poster asked how many sharks are out there, well there's a lot, sorry dude. www.sharksmart.com.au/shark-activity/ This website publishes sharks spotted and tagged around Perth, I've seen the tracker in safety bay have over 30 detections in a day, now I SUP, Kitesurf, Kayak (often from point Perron to port Kennedy), scuba, etc all in Safety bay, all weather conditions, times of day/night and never once seen a shark. I don't see them, but sharkpatrol and beacons do, they're there. Probability of you coming within 100m of a tiger/great white each time you go out maybe within the 1-5% chance depending on time in water and distance offshore, you cover a lot of distance on your board, sharks cover a lot of distance, we're crossing paths more than we know. But probability of being in the vicinity of a shark does not equal the probability of being eaten by one, think that's where you are worrying yourself, stop watching Jaws. If encounter=death, someone would be eaten daily.
Whats the actual probabilty of being eaten, I propose the following calc, I don't know the exact numbers so I will guesstimate. Number kite surfers x number years kitesurfing on average x number times get out a year x number of hours In each session. Let's say 200,000 worldwide, on average been kiting 3yr, who get out 10times a year for an hour on the water a time, of which only 1 has died, that puts your odds of death by shark while kitesurfing at 1/(200000x3x10x1) or 0.000017% Probabily of being killed by a shark each time you go out. Considering the only person to be bitten was off his board, then you could considerably reduce that risk by not falling off, and because we live in a great white zone increase risk the rating by 500%, which would still make the Perth rating at say 0.000083%.
Now if there is a marine biologist out there who can tell me the number of tigers/ great white in Perth water, and average swim speeds I will do the math to work out probability of intersection of the two vectors, or what's the chances of you kitesurfing over the top of a man eater without knowing.
Hey Drewpweiner,
Virtually every post you make is loaded with pessimism, fear and self doubt.
It's probably best you find another sport/hobby that doesn't scare the #### out of you.
Just do what you want to do, fate sorts it's self out.
I am pretty damn sure Drewpie is a troll..............for his sake i hope so!!!!
If not i doubt he has to worry about sharks..........
with the amount of negativity he generates nothing would want to come within Cooee.