WA Police’s Inspector Danny Mulligan revealed on Sunday
afternoon that the 60-year-old woman, who was mauled late on Sunday
morning, had been with a male diver partner between One and
Three-Mile Reefs.
The 43-year-old man said he thought he saw movement in the
water and surfaced, where he found the woman with severe injuries –
apparently as the result of a shark attack.
Three men in another boat arrived to assist and said they
saw the shark and positioned the boat between the creature and the
man, enabling him to lift the woman onto the boat the pair were
using.
It was these three men who said the shark was longer than
their boat. Female great whites have been known to grow to bigger
than six metres.
Similar to Tuesday’s fatal attack in Mandurah, twenty minutes
before the woman was attacked, Surf Life Saving WA had tweeted that
a shark had been spotted in the area.
Public report 3.5m white shark sighted 13:31hrs 05/06,
Binningup Boat Ramp, north of Bunbury 3km offshore , heading
south.
Six minutes later.
Public report 4.5m white shark sighted 13:33hrs 05/06,
Mindarie Beach, Perth Metro 300m offshore, 300-400m off Mindarie
Marina .
And, finally:
Fisheries advise shark incident 1km off Mindarie. Beaches
closed.
It is understood fisheries officers are set to deploy baited
drum lines in the area.
Come take flight into nostalgia's comforting time
warp at the Fiji Pro!
Do you like taking flight through nostalgia’s
comforting time warp?
The Fiji Pro, which ran through the twelve heats of round one
today in good enough three-to-five Cloudbreak, fell to
its knees for two old favourites, Jordy Smith and Kelly Slater.
Jordy left speckles of dried blood on the jerseys of his
opponents, Taj Burrow, who is competing in his last-ever WCT event,
and the tawny-haired goofyfooter Adrian Buchan.
Jordy knows the kink of judging better than anyone. The
full-wraps, the two brawling turns instead of the fat boring
business turns, oh, let me tell you, it gets the judges off their
cushions, their hearts feeling a thrilly quickening.
Afterwards, Jordy said, “It’s on! it’s on! The waves were
flippin‘ cooking! It’s so bonkers right now!”
Examine Jordy’s nine, here.
The reverie of seeing Jordy as comely stud was interrupted two
heats later with the highest scoring heat of the round. Kelly
Slater, Kolohe Andino, Sebastian Zietz, averaged almost
seven-and-half per wave.
Kelly, riding a lower-rockered version of the Webber banana,
looked as happy as a new divorcee eyeing a young soldier on
leave from one of America’s wars. Panting, Kelly locked his thighs,
and put that damn five-ten Webber… everywhere he
wanted. When these surfboards are warmed up fully, “He
feels connected to the board from nose to tail,” the shaper had
told me a couple of weeks earlier.
Kolohe’s fierce eyes and sandy coarse mopped head gave him the
aura of a jungle cat and, but for a wave that extinguished itself
prematurely with ten seconds to go, would’ve put out even Kelly’s
brush fire.
Watch that heat here!
Fiji Pro Round 1 Results:
Heat 1: John John Florence (HAW) 10.33, Alejo Muniz (BRA) 9.33,
Davey Cathels (AUS) 8.60
Heat 2: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 13.76, Ryan Callinan (AUS) 12.56, Jack
Freestone (AUS) 9.94
Heat 3: Jadson Andre (BRA) 14.60, Stuart Kennedy (AUS) 12.67,
Gabriel Medina (BRA) 12.26
Heat 4: Keanu Asing (HAW) 13.04, Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 12.56, Josh
Kerr (AUS) 10.26
Heat 5: Miguel Pupo (BRA) 15.23, Italo Ferreira (BRA) 15.10, Alex
Ribeiro (BRA) 8.63
Heat 6: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 11.73, Tevita Gukilau (FJI) 8.17,
Kanoa Igarashi (USA) 4.84
Heat 7: Matt Banting (AUS) 10.34, Julian Wilson (AUS) 9.16, Conner
Coffin (USA) 3.57
Heat 8: Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 15.60, Mick Fanning (AUS) 11.90, Kai
Otton (AUS) 8.47
Heat 9: Jeremy Flores (BRA) 12.67, Nat Young (USA) 9.70, Dusty
Payne (HAW) 8.46
Heat 10: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 16.67, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 15.44, Taj
Burrow (AUS) 10.44
Heat 11: Adam Melling (AUS) 11.26, Michel Bourez (PYF) 11.14, Caio
Ibelli (BRA) 8.60
Heat 12: Kelly Slater (USA) 16.13, Kolohe Andino (USA) 15.90,
Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 12.60
Fiji Pro Round 2 Match-Ups:
Heat 1: Italo Ferreira (BRA) vs. Tevita Gukilau (FJI)
Heat 2: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) vs. Alex Ribeiro (BRA)
Heat 3: Gabriel Medina (BRA) vs. Ryan Callinan (AUS)
Heat 4: Julian Wilson (AUS) vs. Alejo Muniz (BRA)
Heat 5: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Kai Otton (AUS)
Heat 6: Nat Young (USA) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 7: Caio Ibelli (BRA) vs. Taj Burrow (AUS)
Heat 8: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) vs. Kanoa Igarashi (USA)
Heat 9: Kolohe Andino (USA) vs. Josh Kerr (AUS)
Heat 10: Michel Bourez (PYF) vs. Stuart Kennedy (AUS)
Heat 11: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Jack Freestone (AUS)
Heat 12: Conner Coffin (USA) vs. Davey Cathels (USA)
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"Heyyyy twitter gurl.... wanna see my........
voice?"
Just in: Ron Blakey hates you!
By Chas Smith
OR maybe drunk in the booth! (Matt Warshaw made me
do it!)
Soooooo I’m 3 to 4 vodka gingers in andwatching
the World Surf LEague in Fiji. Do you think they care that they
gots no sponsros? FIJI PRO. Not the Jeep FIJI pro or Samsung FIJI
pro or even SHARKBANZ fiji PRO. Nope. Nothing. Out of business!
Everything must go!
I think Ron “Dog” Blakey is celebrating by getting smashed. Like
me! At the start of Jeremy Flores vs. Boring White Kid vs. ? The
camera shot over to Ronnie and he maybe had something in his
mouth/is drunk and so couldn’t talk. And then he continued to
muddle his words and sound marbles.
I tweeted about it, tweeting, “Is Ron Drunk?” or some shit and
Matt Warshaw, who can alwasy be counted on to be sitting in front
of his computerwith twitter in his hand tweeted back, “Game know
game?” and I tweeted back “DUH!” and tried to include
@rondogblakey, his Twitter handle, but do you know what happen?
DO YOU?
It came up defunct! @RON DOG BLAKEY deleted his twitter
account!
A) Get so much Twitter hate that his feelings go hurt?
B) Hate you and don’t wanna chat?
C) Hate his @WSL boss and stopped getting paid so fuckit?
D) Busted with chick?
E) Busted with @mickfanno?
F) Drunk and accident?
G) Other?
H) Donald J Trump
)J CEO of the world Paul Speaker says, “ROn “”Dog””? How old are
you? Fifteen?” and he feel embarasssed becuz he stuck “DOG” in his
handle?
I) Because I like you.
M I C K E Y MOUSE!
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Emergency: We really need Da Hui!
By Chas Smith
The Club of Wave Sliders is our only hope!
Do you remember, in the 1970s, when a pack of
grubby Australians washed up, unwanted, on Oahu’s North Shore? As
chronicled in the 2008 documentary Bustin’ Down the Door,
they got some good cracks from the very scary Black Shorts and
quickly learnt respeck.
I have spoken lots about this particular time with Da Hui
co-founder Eddie Rothman. Whatever opinions or preconceptions you
have about him they are likely wrong. Eddie is articulate, he
is thoughtful and he cares deeply about Hawaii, as deeply as I have
ever seen a person care for a place.
He disagrees with some of the storytelling in Bustin’ Down
the Door, particularly the line “bustin’ down the door” as he
says, “There was no door to bust down…” but I think agrees that
there needed to be order so that the locals would not get chewed up
by a burgeoning surf machine and his club provided it.
In any case, Hawaii is, once again, being overrun by detritus
from other countries. CNN reports:
Vast amounts of trash have been
washing ashore on the state’s once-pristine beaches.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration has been trying to keep critical parts
of the ocean clear of marine debris, removing 57 tons of it from the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands in 2014. This area is a part of Papahanaumokuakea
Marine National Monument, the largest conservation site in the
United States.
Despite the government agency’s
efforts, Hawaii continues to be plagued by trash, much of it
plastic.
Originally it was thought this
trash was coming from the 2011 Japanese tsunami but new research
suggests it is not.
“Most of what was mapped is
common, everyday items that someone haphazardly tossed onto the
ground or directly into the water,” Case said.
In short — it’s coming from
just about anywhere and everywhere.
With the way the state is
positioned geographically, the ocean’s current is carrying massive
amounts of plastic waste to Hawaii’s coast.
“These items get caught up in
ocean currents and unfortunately much of it eventually lands,
mostly on north and east facing shores. Hawaii is recognized around
the world for our beautiful beaches. Unfortunately we cannot say
they are pristine, because they’ve been so seriously impacted by
our trash,” Case added.
Maybe it is time for a Da Hui world
tour! They go from capital to capital dishing out slaps and
menacing stares. Washington DC, Beijing, Brasilia, Ottowa, etc. All
they would have to do is look mealy-mouthed politicians in the eye
and problem solved!
Should we crowdfund?
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Rumor: DC comes back to surf!
By Chas Smith
Could the surf industry be in for a glorious
renaissance?
Have you watched Zeke Lau’s newest video
offering Views from Bali? It is, I think, exclusively
on Stab/Stitch but is totally worth going and seeing and
then being force-fed PowerBalance and SharkBanz! (FCS lyphe)
(AF)
Zeke is a magnificent surfer, the soundtrack pops and the
gentlemen at production house From the Basin capture both the
surfing and lifestyle in exquisite high definition.
The definition is so high, in fact, that every small wrinkle can
be seen on Zeke’s brow, every mark on his surfboard.
And what’s that? Could it be? Yes! Yes it is! The DC shoes
sticker right there under the Electric lightning bolt!
DC put together one of the greatest surf rosters in
a pre-2010 heyday. Andy Irons and Dane Reynolds together
on the same team! Quiksilver’s financial woes forced the shoe brand
to exit surf a few years ago (Quik bought the brand for 87 million
in 2004) and the surf industry entered a tailspin toward total
destruction.
But a rumor from a very inside source has them back! Back in the
game! And this Zeke clip proves it!
Why does it matter? Because I am nostalgic for those heady days
when Andy was brutally mangling Kelly and Dane was pure
possibility.
