"Some of the fishermen here are real cowboys..."
Well if this isn’t an understandable, yet horrific, turn in our current, ongoing Shark Apocalypse. The one where Great Whites are using sophisticated military tactics to surround and squeeze Florida, Tigers are eating people whole in Réunion and Bulls, generally intransigent, carry on as normal. T.S. Eliot, inspiration behind the worst movie ever made, once declared, “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but whimper.”
Poignant, starkly beautiful but wrong.
The world ends in the jaws of a prehistoric apex predator.
It ends in the jaws of a Great White, likely, but if mankind is born with one trait it is self-preservation. If born with with two, self-preservation and a love for Martin Scorsese mob films where many people become executed, gangland-style, with a bullet from very close range to the head.
And this is, allegedly, what a scuba diver discovered buried in a shallow reef cave underneath stop number 3 on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour Margaret River.
Oh you already know that West Australia is home to a vibrant, aggressive band of Great Whites, that they regularly threaten to bite, chew, eat surfers. It is illegal to hunt them but fishermen are known to take justice into their own hands.
Our source on the ground says, “Some of the fishermen here are real cowboys. They carry guns when they go out in case of, uh, emergency.”
Other divers have confirmed the shark’s existence, each declaring it to be “huge” and “massive.”
Still other, third-hand, reports declare the shark may have a rope still tied to its tail suggesting it had been possibly “dragged and drowned.”
The sharks presence, noted on West Australia’s shark spotting and tracking app SharkSmart, has reportedly not been dissuading surfers from enjoying Main Break’s big scary.
BeachGrit has commissioned a diver to confirm the shark’s presence, current state and cause of death.
More as the story develops.
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Were the jaws of the shark still there ?
Dead sharks are a shark repellent yaano
It a sad story that fishermen and surfer are destroying ocean animals for cheap thrills. You should be ashamed.
Leave the gun, take the calamari
The goodfellas.
These articles are pretty pathetic. That was a long winded way of saying “someone found a Great White shark dead, and we think it may have been shot, but we don’t really know for sure, but we’re still going to write about it anyway.”
Shark tried to steal Greta’s childhood,
Humans should make all of the Earth’s decisions and wipe out species when they become inconvenient. Right? Everyone knows, if you can do something, you should.
Deep.
Why are we as species so damn ignorant?I can understand killing an animal that would hunt us on land,or have the abilities to beable to do both. We are not meant to come from land to get in the Ocean and be king of the seas. Its there world,were just dumbass land mammals that have no buisness even considering that were the king of theres.You surfers and fishermen are going to wonder what the hell has gone wrong when your precious reefs you surf are dead and gone.Not to mention all these fishermen who believe that the White sharks are the reason for there declining numbers of there catch.If the Whites are gone,the seals will decimate the catch 25x faster any sharks could.Then you Surfers wont have beach to surf do to the seals numbers overtaking the areas of your sport.You know arguing with individuals otherwise is pointless due to the ignorance that humans have the right to take and kill what we seem fit.
There was a couple of massive whites feeding on
a whale off three bears in yallingup last week. Further north of prevelly (margaret river mouth)
https://www.perthnow.com.au…
I find the name ‘three bears’ deeply disturbing as there are no bears native to Australia.
Koala bears are.
Yeah but… they ain’t bears.
Drop bears? Got to be careful of those fuckers.
Yeah ok, I’ll give you that one.
This is a good little semi history of “Bears” .
https://surfingdownsouth.co…
What a crap story….full of emotion and bull shit
He was a loan shark — he had it coming…
This just pisses me off. These deadshits 💩💩💩that killed this Great White should be jailed. Or even better when/If they are caught tie them by the feet & drag them through the water. Paybacks a bitch.
“Happy anthropomorphic poo, Happy anthropomorphic poo, Happy anthropomorphic poo” ?
Yes, the locals of Elliston surely are the worlds greatest example of “good men”.
Maybe they could kill some cats next time and tie them up underwater to scare away the movie.
That Shark was a well know ice dealer , he had it coming,
Just send down longtom, preferably carrying his knife between his teeth for effect.
He could drive around in an underwater bus, ‘accidentally’ knocking over sharks.
So maybe they are working on the theory that a dead white being posted nearby a spot as a warning to the others? I feel like I’ve heard of this being a thing. If the GW’s are smart, and we know they are – vicious fuckers, but smart – staying away from someplace a hitman fisho is cappin’ on his homies would be wise I’d think.
Yeah was going similar line
But if is a warning thought they had to stick on stake like a scarecrow so could be seen not put em in a cave!!
Personally I would make some shark crosses and nail them all to those on ocean floor as a barrier
You’d end up starting a shark religion.
That only creates more problems as the gullible then start fighting each other over which superstition is the correct one.
There’s evidence that suggests sharks will avoid an area that has a dead shark present, so I do wonder if this was the motivation for killing/discarding the shark in such a manner.
There was a big argument here a few years ago after a dead shark washed up on a breakwall – one side was saying to leave the thing there, let it rot as it would in nature, and hopefully work as a repellent.
The other side wanted to remove the thing and give it a ‘proper burial’ – which makes absolutely zero fucking sense as the only proper burial for a shark is let it rot as it would in nature. I’m all for shark conservation but burying an already-dead shark as a gesture of respect is not going to do two fifths of fuck all to help marine eco-systems.
Definitely should have let it rot!
“Proper Burial” is a sweet band name.
It would be a village brass style ensemble playing ska versions of industrial thrash metal.
“Proper Burial” is on tour right now actually. “Let It Rot” is opening for them.
I laughed out loud at “proper burial”.
That shark was named Luca Brasi. https://youtu.be/V7RMKq8RQj4
But sharks don’t sleep?
The fact that sharks can be rendered catatonic by turning them belly up means their brains are wired to be in a “sleep” brain activity state. Give them a canyon with a 3knot current and they could just maintain position and “sleep”.
https://youtu.be/evVgOvHrnso
That’s science bitch.
(Not aimed at you Otto
Just a saying by a wise man.)
Thanks cb! It’s not often I get called wise.
Them beastie white boys….no sleep till Brooklyn!
I hadn’t realized that T.S. Eliot’s the Wasteland inspired In God’s Hands