Don't look now...
Though do you remember when you were a young child and imagined monsters hiding under the bed, waiting to reach out and grab your tender ankles? Wanting for your parents to turn out the lights then for you to have to use the toilet so badly, so painfully, that further delay was simply out of the question then…
…ARGH!
Snag your dainty astragalus and pull you down to Helm’s Deep?
It turns out they were true, real, for it was revealed, just today, that for every shark we see in the water there are up to 100 more circling hungrily, viciously, menacingly below.
Is your blood running cold?
It should be but here, let us turn down the temperature even more by reading from Australia’s esteemed 7News. Let us look helm right in the face.
A drone has captured the moment a shark came within metres of two oblivious swimmers off Main Beach at Forster in New South Wales.
Bystanders rushed to alert the pair of the close encounter – with what is believed to be a 2.5m Great White Shark – but experts say encounters like this are more common than you might think.
“For every one shark that you see, there might be 10 or 100 sharks that see you,” Rob Townsend from SeaLife Sydney told 7NEWS.
“You just don’t realise because they’re not mindless killers.
Which makes matters that very much worse. Sharks, especially Great Whites, are mindful killers brimming with knowledge, tactics, intelligence and savvy. They are maniacal, sociopathic…
…there and in greater numbers than we ever supposed, ever even imagined.
But let us also learn more about this brave drone operator, this true guardian angel.
Cameron Grace, 17, was flying his drone while holidaying with family in the area when he spotted the beast on his camera.
The teenager was horrified at seeing the eerie footage and sent his aunt Rachel Walter sprinting to the beach to warn the swimmers of the imminent danger.
‘I got into the water and I waved for the two boys to get out. They were completely oblivious.’
Oh it is wonderful that this story had a happy ending but shall we gaze upon the savior? Upon the boy named so poetically Cameron Grace?
The spitting image of McLovin from Superbad no?
More as the story develops.
We gonna tell 7NEWS experts’ that’s clearly a Grey Nurse Shark or just leave it?
All scientific evidence points to the fact the evil killer creatures and the Sharks are not near extinction.
Indeed they are breeding up and teaching their young to hunt us surfers in numbers !
We need to strike first and strike hard.
Protect surfing, protect surfers, kill a shark or destroy a drone!
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This tale would be a lot better if there was no drone, no revenge of the nerds triumphantly outsmarting some creature enjoying three seconds of memory life moments, and instead insert Larry the Lawn Chair guy, courageously patrolling the skies without fear, without risk vs. reward analysis, but there, yes, there alone, to live, or die in a manner not seen outside the state borders where any given moment there at least 51, maybe 50 hicks asking the nearest object to “hold their beer, and watch this”, with no better odds than any other hick that happens to perish in the strangest of ways.
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Heroic
Lots of shark content recently. Clickety click click click. Can’t say I’m mad, either.
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I notified a grom of a fucking Tiger Snake in the shorey the other day. A fucking Tiger Snake.
A Jake can’t change it’s stripes.
Those metamorphosing Tiger Snakes can do it all. Had a worm toned grey one the size of a python nearly latch onto my face last year. It was fucked.
If I were that kid, I would be afraid of your trouser snake.
Nah, don’t do twinks. Or Bears. Are there any other demographics I’m missing?
Fuckkk…I hate snakes