"They are still searching the ocean for the victim."
A recreational diver has died after being hit by a suspected Great White shark near Cull Island around 1:00pm, WST, on Sunday.
Early reports suggest the man, named as Gary Johnson, lost his arm fending off a Great White.
From the police presser:
“Esperance Police and Marine Rescue WA volunteers deployed to the area on board marine rescue vessels. They are still searching the ocean for the victim. A woman who was on board the boat at the time of the incident has been returned to shore, and has been taken by St John Ambulance to hospital. She is suffering from shock.”
Two years ago, seventeen-year-old surfer Laeticia Brouwer died after being hit by a White at a popular wave in Esperance called Kelpies.
By coincidence, the surfer and doctor Jon Cohen, whom we interviewed a month ago about how to save someone who has been bitten by a shark and who sells tourniquets for surfers on his website, is currently working in the emergency department at Esperance Hospital where he is believed to be comforting the diver’s wife.
In that early interview, Jon spoke of the effect Laeticia’s death had on hospital personnel.
“I know some guys who were in the ED that day and it was a traumatic experience to manage. Cases like the are preventable deaths. People can act on the beach if they’re there when it happens. It might be scary to talk about but it’s reassuring to know that there is something you can do and it’s not complicated.”
Still, you gotta get ’em to the beach or a boat.
According to a report from the ABC, local man Glenn Quinlivan heard a mayday call his wife and raced to the scene in his boat.
“There was nothing to see,” he said.
All beaches in the area will be closed until Monday.
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evidently great whites read Beachgrit. retaliation time.
Sounds like he got a glorious death by apex predator, my preferred option.
Rest in pieces brother.
Well
Me think mother nature and the animal kingdom teamed up to hit hard Australian people’s asses…
Here in banana’s country, me think, Australian people need to call for help the orange baby, Bibi Netanyahu, the Saudi prince, and the militia bunch Bolsonaro his kids and friends, specialists in killing forests and animals, oh and of course people, to avenge those bronzed asses…. ops! sorry…. Aussies.
This SOB mother nature, this animal kingdom, these kangaroos, koalas, these fucking whities, all need be directly fucking in his asses, burning or hooked of, and bit them down!
Or maybe… not?
But… let me ask?
Australia will concentrate his forces in killing whities, or will support the orange baby in Iran’s invasion?
Or maybe… both?
What?
Sucks for the wife. Not a good way to go. But we enter the food chain at our own choice.
Not really by choice
By birth