Man nicknamed "Shark Bait" becomes ninth serious shark attack victim in Australia in past two months…
You could get a terrible cramp in your typing fingers from covering every shark attack in Australia, especially as the needle swings over to summer.
Fatals, yes, attacks on surfers, sometimes, depending on the wound.
Yesterday’s attack on a surfer who proudly wears the nickname “Shark Bait” was the ninth serious shark in Australia in the past 71 days.
Joel Mason, who is thirty six, was attacked by a shark near Scotts Head Beach in Nambucca Heads. Mason swam to the nearby breakwall where an off-duty lifeguard used his leash for a tourniquet and beach towels to slow the bleeding from his mauled leg.
A pal of Mason’s who was examining the surf, Scott Boxsell, said, “I was pretty keen to go out there too and he just…disappeared. We all know the risk out here but we sorta take it on.”
Mason’s dad, Rob, said there ain’t a thing his son likes more than a solo early and said, “He says he’s shark bait but he’s prepared to take the risk and he does.”
A helicopter took Mason to John Hunter hospital in Newcastle three hundred clicks south for surgery, making an emergency landing for more blood on the way.
All nearby beaches were subsequently closed etc, not that that means much I suppose.
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Go drop a lil’ bug into your aquarium, watch the lil’ fish~ies attack it on the waters surface.
You are Thee Bug when you paddle out to ride a few waves before work, school, livin’ your life.
Hope ya don’t get bitten, it’s a rather large aquarium we like to play in for a few hours sometimes, right?
Even though I’m here in L.A.
I saw this recent story the other day on 9News:
“How Australian governments are hoping to prevent shark attacks”
Link: https://www.9news.com.au/20…
An image in the video clip linked above made me think, what does a shark see, sense when all these people came out, now splashin’, maybe even urinating in the local waters that this apex preditor swims in, all day~every day, even right now, tonight too, same so tomorrow?
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Potential prey? Like they are a buncha seals, or schools of fish?
Might be a good idea not to piss in your wetsuit,
may~be even wash it out some~times.
And get a Shark Shield.
maybe urinating?
i knew a shark bait growing up around streaky bay as a kid, he was an old abalone diver with this crazy white stripe of hair thru a full head of black, when i would ask was he born with that white strip, he said no and would tell be about the time a 15 ft white pegged him to the bottom circling right above his head, he said he was so scared that when he got to the surface he had this big white stripe running thru the middle of his hair, next day he went back to work.
Streaky Bay . White Streaks on the Scalp and Brown Streaks on the Dive Suit ?
Well that’s got me excited for my Christmas north coast odyssey stopping in at Coffs and Lennox.
Too many Fennel Head fuckwits trying to surf there
That’s it . Great Fishing spot and a lovely place for a walk along the Breakwall ,Oysters to die for but no waves ! No Seriously Nambucca River Oysters are an absolute culinary treasure , unlike the waves on the mid north coast that suck !
I don’t give fuck what the scientists and greenies say – east coast Aus and west coast Aus needs a cull. It’s apparent and obvious.
Agreed.
Fuk off retard greenies
Stick to tree hugging
You were kinda useful then
Vic Hislop for pm!
Hate to own one of them fuckin surf schools down there.
Hope he’s ok,and all, sorry he got hit, but are we onto a BBQ sauce/ shark attraction link here?
Investigation leads where it leads Harry.
At first I thought, self fulfilling prophecy, but now it seems premeditated.
Dry
You beat me to it by only 14 hours!
Well, that’s the straw/shark that broke the the camels back….WSL is never holding a contest again in Australia.
You would think! Five more years at Margs, presuming the WSL is around that long.
Thoughts on that topic?
I can’t imagine anyone besting you in social games.
We already have a Shark Bait in Newcastle though. This could be confusing if they both have to order a coffee, visit the doctors, be summoned to court etc.
But all the best to this imposter Shark Bait and his recovery, especially considering his heroic post-attack swim from Scotts Head to Nambucca (Knackers must have been on smoko?)
It’s ever so unclear. Was it Scott’s Head or Nambucca breakwall? Might have to bring the Blakeys into it. It’s their turf. UTFS etc.
It appears that the ambulance picked him up at Wellington Drive which is the road that winds down from the old highway to the Nambucca Breakwall so one would imagine he was at the rivermouth ( that place was sharky in the 80s when sharks were extinct ) and possibly swam across the river from the beach on the southern side of the rivermouth which is actually called Forster Beach to the Breakwall on the Northern side of the entrance to the Nambucca River ? Go to google maps .
Sounds like deliberate misinformation. Were there in fact multiple sharks? Perhaps positioned on the Grassy (head) knoll?
No waves ever at the Rivermouth so understandable that reporters from the Port Macquarie News were surprised that the poor bugger had a surfboard with him and assumed he got washed up from the Scotts Head Bowlo ?
Maybe surfing’s Gulf of Tonkin?
Charlie don’t surf!
Can I leave google mapping to you? i just interviewed a lovely Australian actor called Jack Thompson and my day is gonna be swallowed by transcribing. (Editing out my girl shrieks etc.)
Would love to help but Sadly I am technically inept .Can find it myself but don’t have the skills to post it . Silly old bugger me .Wow Jack Thompson Actor ! How is the old playboy ?
Still swinging!
Elated by his sister/sister feats?
You should give this a burl Dez. Goes alright.
https://otter.ai
Aren’t they from New Brighton originally ?
I think old boy lives there now.
Dude. Anyone surfing between Newcastle and Byron Bay this summer could plausibly be moniker-ed ‘Shark Bait’.
I pray they don’t take Longtom.
Every time there’s an attack in this area I assume it’s longtom
I thought he was vegetarian?
I didn’t know disappointment was such an adrenaline rush.
Could it be the relief? At some point doesn’t line between relief and disappointment become murky?
Surely it can’t be the relief why you always assume?
be great for business!
Bad for literacy
I told them not to educate the sharks . They will start to question the status quo and consumerism of the City , then follow in the wake of Nat and Co on the hippy trail to Byron ?
We can’t have two Shark Baits. What if this guy gets to keep his, and we’ll call your guy either “T-Bone” or “CoCo”.
I believe there was one at 🌵
Pretty much the OG
Oh not Shark Bait! This sounds like a job for the formidable duo Wiggs and his 12ft tinny named, Tim. You’re fucked you sharkie cunt I’m gonna put a whale harpoon through ya. Then I’m coming for the Parliament.
George Clinton gets the Wiggolly’s when he’s in a funk too.
He’s a pal of yours?
Don’t feel to bad Derek , your old mates at Stab used a photo of Scotts Head with a caption , Nambucca Heads ( about 25km by road and 12km as the crow flys ) . Hope the big Dugong / Sharkbait will be back out there soon doing his thing .
Too bad the lug’s married. He could dine on this story for years.
Very impartial assessment by the father.
He certainly wasn’t taking sides.
Solo over Red Bull?