Good times etc.
They don’t mess around in the West, home to the great Kanga Cairns and waves that make the nostrils of even the hardiest big-waver dilate.
Four weeks ago, as reported here, “a scuba diver discovered buried in a shallow reef cave underneath stop number three on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour Margaret River…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.’”
BeachGrit commissioned divers to photograph and video the grisly discovery but by the time the swell had dropped enough to get into the cave, the shark was gone.
Now, according to Surf Life Saving WA there’s been a report of another dead Great White found “wedged under reef between South side and Rifle Butt beach.”
Two questions, I suppose.
Did the original dead shark get pushed deeper into its hole, giving the impression of its disappearance, before getting squeezed back out?
Or did the area’s cowboy fishermen kill a second Great White and jam it under the ledge, if that was possible, as a grim warning to other sharks?
And, a caveat:
If Western Australia’s healthy shark population causes you worry, don’t go near the SLSWA twitter account, a sorta porn site for people who get off on hearing about sharks at their local surf spots.
Since Feb 1, they’ve reported the dead White at Margs, an eight-footer fifty metres off Rocky Point in Dunsborough, another eight-footer two hundred metres off Windmills in Dunsborough, two eight-footers circling near Margs main break, a ten-foot Tiger a hundred metres off a Busselton groyne, an hour north, an eight-foot Tiger caught, tagged and released near The Womb in Gracetown, two eight-foot Tigers just off Rocky Point in Dunsborough, the closure of Bunker Bay in Dunsborough because of sharks, an eight-foot Bronzie near The Farm in Dunsborough and thirty swimmers evacuated from the water at Yallingup ’cause of a “loitering” eight-footer. Species unknown.”
Good times etc.
This article does not make reference to gun laws so why are the comments about gun laws . Wtf.. crazy
Balder dash
A real man would accept that he is little more than a chicken nugget in a shark’s soup and just get over it. Killing these animals is wrong.
Or the argument could be made the we are at the top of the food pyramid and we control their numbers so that they are not a problem.
A dead great white shark will keep other great white sharks away. It was proving off the coast of California. Where killer whales began killing and eating great whites. Scientist noticed the death scent can be used as a deterrent as there are no more great whites in the area. Most likely surfers are using this proving method to keep the surf locations sharkless. This could have been a different angle to researching the story
Fake news
Sad
Boy is Australia a great place to live, maybe we could get a few of our “model” citizens like Bieber, Ocasio, Weinstein, McConnell to move there!
We can always hope! ! !
Or you could just go to the Sharksmart app and be pinged dozens of times a day by some of the 600-odd white sharks that’ve been tagged off the NSW coast in the past two and a half years, now wandering around and setting off receiver buoys up and down the coast. And yes amazingly almost never attacking anyone.
So only adolescent sharks out that way lately ?
8 footers all over the place, but what about the big ones…
Ok I’ll bite……firstly accusing humans of placing the Sharks there under reef ledges is a weak hypothesis at best and secondly due to 1996 nazi fascist laws only certain groups of people can own rifles in Australia, so if there are fisherman somehow actually shooting sharks they would have to work for iether the fisheries department or some other government contractor company. Unless farmers and swat cops are having fun in the sun, sea side style??? I highly doubt the casual local father or husband is out there with a .223 or .270 Winchester rifle taking pot shots at sharks
Well quinton there are some pretty dumb testosteroney sorta people out there who believe in the Witch Theory of shark repellence, ie hang a dead witch at the entrance to the village and all the other witches will run away. But here’s the problem with that: there weren’t any witches in the first place. And there is truly and absolutely no evidence to suggest that dead sharks scare away live ones, indeed, if you catch a shark and kill it and hang it off the side of your boat, before long it will be attacked and eaten by other sharks.
But no no no, you do it anyway, because being a testosteroney fishing Man means you know that killing shit is always the best way forward.
If someone is attacked at Margaret main break in the next few months while that shark rots away under the ledge, the clever dick who stuck the shark there should perhaps think again on their cleverness.
What do they expect at a place calked Rifle Butt Beach? Colt .45 and lever action carbine carrying cowboys dont take kindly to no trespassin shark vermin
Walking along the beach in Dunsborough the other day, a great white crawled right up onto the sand and took me dog stiffy
Rip
Sorry for your loss😃
A Great White can’t come up on sand as it would beach itself. Want you say what really happened?
Ian Cairns from Margs now….
Show me where the big bad shark bit u. It would be a different story if sharks walked up onto land and bit people. 🦈🦈🦈. Watch Discovery Channel or Shark Week ya might learn something. Enjoy surfing at dawn/dusk. Or swimming in rivermouths. Dinner time/place for sharks.
There is almost fuck all to be learnt watching discovery channel. Read an actual book mate, or better yet, a couple of those peer reviewed scientific papers.
Abstract: “The Authors found that the relative risk of wanting to tee off on the skull of a shark story commenter was found to be 17.6% higher than the Tee-off rate on surf related story commenters, even normalised for frequency of comments across a range of Beachgrit Articles.
The authors thus found the Article Reading Satisfaction Equivalency Score of Shark Articles to score 15.4 points, [or 13.7%] below that of Non-shark related Articles.
Thus the A.R.S.E. Score differential demonstrated Non non-inferiority of Shark related article comments though with a p score of 0.05.
The Authors concluded that, due to this demonstrated Non non-inferiority, replying to Late Adolescent Male English-speaking commenters in Shark related articles resulted in a statistically significant rise in serum Cortisol and Metanephrine levels, and that L.A.M.E comments should be ignored.”
Sikkk!
Totally makes sense! Thanks for your tireless research and in depth anal ysis
This is intentional and the “Ocean cowboys” should be punished . I think they’re thinking if the sharks smell a dead shark they’ll leave the area. No excuse for ignorance. They need to find out who’s doing this and put an end to it.
This is all speculation, let’s not hang them until there’s proof.LOL
I’m gonna start stuffing dead avocados into the space under the kitchen units.
Just in case.
I remember JOB found a drone wedged in a pipe cave a while back
I guess it’s trending
#stuffyourcavechallenge
Ooo-er Missus.
Difficult to accomplish but what a great shark mitigation technique. Clearly it works given there has never been a shark attack at the break. They must have been doing this for years!
Actually the US government in the forties discovered that ground up shark is an excellent repellent. I actually seen the video about this on this site. So there seems to be some scientific proof to this.
Are there crocodiles around that area?
They are known to stuff their food into holes and such to allow it to decompose a bit before consuming.
Just a theory
Exactly what I was thinking. Crocs or porpoise or killer whales or mabe the scent scares other sharks to stay away when surfing. Idk mabe a giant eel brought down
Catch these morons & put them in jail. Or jam them under a ledge with no air. 🖕💩
Yeah that makes sense kill somebody over a shark being killed. My buddy just shot 12 pheasant and two quell we’re going to have a hell of a cookout . Then we’ll March yourself down to death row.
Didn’t we tell you before this was an emoji free zone?