Thread: Another fatal shark attack in SW WA

I spoke with a surfer this morning when I was launching my racing ski. He had a big one pop up beside him yesterday just south of Cottesloe . They closed Cotts yesterday when probably the same one came within 20 m of the beach. Apparently the guy this morning lost an arm but made it to the beach unfortunately he was alone and bled out before he could get help. A passer by found him a few hours later.
Mike

I remember watching a documentary on White pointers, made in South Africa. a part of the show was about placing a GPS or similar device to a female shark, to determine where it went. No one knew , in those days. Long story short , the female crossed the Indian Ocean, was tracked north to south down the W.A. coast. The general consenus was, the females travelled to find mates, away from their group, to keep the blood line clean. Interesting to see if these attacks each year coincided with the migration. Bob

You go in the water, you take your chances. More people are killed by bees each year, but we don't hear any hysteria about that.

Leave the sharks alone, they are just doing what they do.

Originally Posted by bacicat

You go in the water, you take your chances. More people are killed by bees each year, but we don't hear any hysteria about that.

Leave the sharks alone, they are just doing what they do.

Amen to that.

WOULDN'T IT BE INTERESTING IF WE TREATED CARS AND THEIR DRIVERS THE WAY WE TREAT SHARKS EVERY TIME THERE IS A FATALITY.......IN FACT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SCORE EVENED UP A BIT.....

I guess I am in a unique position.

First up, I am TOTALLY AGAINST any cull, hunting or anything else to do with killing sharks, regardless of the circumstances.

Why unique? My father was attacked & killed by a shark in 1967, while diving off the coast of SA.

He left behind my mother 4 month pregnant with me, and my 2 older sisters.

The only time I would advocate hunting a shark, is if it is walking down the street, its jeans hanging half-way down its butt, wearing a hoodie, and thumping people for no good reason.

Otherwise, if you enter their playground, you play by their rules.

Sharks don't seem to like me much. I drove trawlers in the Gulf of Carpentaria when a young fella and had to go over the side at night to open cod ends underwater that were full of mud, fish and sea eggs after we flipped a board. The jaden winches couldn't lift the weight on board.
The crew used to say I came back out of the water like a Polaris missile after free diving down 6 m to empty the nets. When we got the nets on board you could see the holes , bite marks . I remember once my progress to the surface was suddenly impeded when I head butted a rather large object above me. I think I must have given the shark a fright as well as it moved away and I was on board in a split second. A few years later I went over the side for a few hours of unintentional swimming while wearing a red T shirt ,leapord skin jocks and with a 6 inch shifter tied to my wrist.
It took a while for the crew to realise I was missing and then longer to find me. While treading water a 3m Bronzy became quite infatuated with me every time he came close I swam at him and tried to attack him. This a lesson I learnt from spearfishing with Black tip reef sharks it seemed to work on the whaler as well. When he disappeared I was worried he was coming up from below but the attack never came.
While snorkelling on Woody Island off Esperance a few years back as I dived down to look at a little sail boat wreck, a nice size White was on his way up to check me out . We were on a head on collision course , I made it to a large boulder and stood up in only 1/2 a meter of water about 100m from shore. My wife waved from the beach you have no idea of the courage I had to muster to leave that boulder and make the beach. I have never swum so fast in all my life.

Last summer I was snorkelling and free diving on the North Mole off Port Beach Freo. When I came back I swam diagonally across the beach from the Mole . I got out of the water and my wife said there's something big and black in the water . A couple of minutes later the chopper sighted a big white and closed the beach.

As I said Sharks don't seem to like me, the above and a few more events not yet discussed are proof of this . I spend a lot of time in the water on Sea kayaks , racing skis, diving ,fishing and swimming. It would appear hat I have placed myself on the menu many times but have always been ignored . Or maybe i'm just a lucky Bas$##^%& .
Mike

Originally Posted by bacicat

You go in the water, you take your chances. More people are killed by bees each year, but we don't hear any hysteria about that.

Leave the sharks alone, they are just doing what they do.

x2.