"Pretty full-on, really heroic…"
Thirty-five-year-old surfer Chantelle Doyle has been flown to Newcastle with serious leg injuries after being hit by a ten-foot Great White at Shelly Beach in Port Macquarie, a pretty fishing town on Australia’s mid-North Coast.
According to reports, it was an act of bravery by her husband that saved the woman.
“This fella paddle over and jumped off his board onto the shark and hit it to get it to release her…pretty full-on, really heroic,” said Surf Life Saving NSW chief executive Steven Pearce.
So far this year, there have been five fatal shark attacks, including two on surfers: fifteen-year-old Mani Hart-Deville at Wooli, two hours north of Port Macquarie, and sixty-year-old Rob Pedretti at Kingscliff, another couple of hours north.
He survived the attack but remains in hospital.
A local surfer on the scene said, “The White came out the water and inhaled the board pretty much. The guy managed to roll out of the way and then a longboarder got him to the beach.”
The Great White shark has been protected in Australia since 1999.
As Longtom posited one month ago,
We’ve created a world tailormade for our old pal the White shark.
But if you create such a world, and the White Shark Recovery Plan makes clear such a world is a desirable and wondrous thing then ain’t there a slight ethical obligation to consider the kiddies and old sea dogs who wind up in the jaws of nature’s most long lived apex, opportunistic predator?
The people who have to drag them in, watch them turn grey while they wait for the chopper to arrive?
The Mums, Dads, school mates, drinking pals, girlfriends and boyfriends etc etc etc?
Is there an end state where we can say, OK, too many, let’s go fishing?
Real thing differs greatly from your pretend fantasies
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No fkn computer game shit ever been on a pc owned by me..
Semper Fi mofo
I’m okay but not okay.. nearly had a nasty result from some young buck testing my patience Sunday night..
Today nearly had a very nasty situation with five young thugs..
But hey..Ian having a Ball.. 🤟😂🙏🤟
When you enter a territory that is not yours, you are taking the chance of getting hurt or killed. The ecosystems in the world are in balance for a reason and when we decide to go out and kill an apex predator because someone didn’t like what it did in ITS territory, we disrupt the entire food chain. No one think of the repercussions of these actions. We have driven so many species to extinction. When is it enough? Stop killing the very things we make endangered. There’s a difference between culling the population for different reasons giving risk to the species overall survival but there is no reason to eliminate or kill a species because their numbers are replenishing. Don’t like sharks? STAY OUT OF THE WATER. I personally don’t like invaders in my home either! VIVE LE SHARKS.
So what’s your solution?
No, but being a military trainer and trained assassin with PTSD… i hate big mouthed silver spoon in the mouth cnts.. and keyboard warriors
Would Love to double tap them..
Yours kindly,
Tom
As Longtom mentioned previously and DR points out again here, some actually believe we have “created” a world Tailor-made for the Great White Shark by protecting them from near extinction. Recognising this.we have created a world tailor-made for those people who believe their right to recreation for a few hours per week without fear, is greater than that of a species right to exist in its natural habitat. If you perceive the risk as high, you’d be an idiot to paddle out in the ocean wouldn’t you? Back Kelly’s plan to Make Coolum Great again.!!!
I want to know what the fine is for catching and killing a great white. I’d kick in to crowdfund some vigilante fishing expeditions on the east coast. The aim being to catch, quickly kill and anchor the corpses of large whites in proximity to the surf zones. It sounds like whites are deterred by encountering the corpses of their brethren as they can identify a potential existential threat. I get we’re in their environment, but how many people have to get bitten before we acknowledge we may have a problem?
My sympathies go out to the victim, her family and the community.
From a local news clip: clear water, small surf, a makeshift tourniquet was used and the shark continued to attack the board for some time after the victim was clear of the area.
This common behavior seems to stand in contrast to the mistaken identity and investigative bite theories. If the bar is so low as to what constitutes a legit target and how much investigation is necessary, isn’t it just normal feeding behavior?
Also, when surfing sharky waters, it’s advised to do it with Australian friends or family. If the shit goes down, they don’t hesitate to back you up.
Her hubby is fukin core in my books.
I carry a tourniquet when I surf. God hope I never have to use it.
Been writing emails to DPI asking how much more evidence they need to see that high numbers of whites equals more attacks on humans. Still haven’t gotten back to me
Can we get LongTom to head that way to do some interviews and write a piece?
What’s up Groms?……for the Dream!!!
Legend
Really is a no brainer. Start catching the fucking things.
Hero????
When your wife/child/friend/random stranger is getting bitten next to you, anything less than diving off your fucken board and helping them out makes you a rather pathetic human.
True
I wonder what Slater would have done in 2015 , if he was in a world title race with Mick at JBay,and the Shark had turned up 1/2 hour earlier when they were duking it out during their sublime Semi Final . One hopes that the Goat would have proved his goatness by coming to the aid of a lifelong rival ? It is one thing to slap a high five in the channel at Pipe …it is another to throw oneself into the lion’s jaws .
He probably put chum in the water after he got knocked out of the competition!
Julian could have actually bolted to safety without losing face, with all the skis, boats etc around to help Mick. So his actions probably fall into the “hero” category.
There’s a DHD youtube vid on the incident I saw yesterday.
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No Derek … just no .. u and ur HiSo, white privilege, detached from reality, snout in the trough, riding the gravy train, Bondi mates cannot “go fishing” … >–)))*> … (unless it’s for mysterious packages containing glistening whiteness, washed up on the Yayo Coast, from a far away land across the bitter sea!)
If this guy doesn’t get some sort of OAM level recognition, I’ll riot.
On A Mission?
The 90’s surf brand?
When some one decides to become a surfer , they are not signing up to be a soldier or fireman or one of the many hazardous careers knowing full well that they are being paid to put themselves in the line of Fire . All of these are very respectable career choices .
Now ….These remarkable surfers who ,out of empathy, risk their own lives to save another’s from the Jaws of an Alpha Killing Machine , with the aid of nothing more than their own fists , and a surfboard are TRUE BLOODY HEROES and should be on the front page of every media outlet .
I look forward to full coverage in the
Star Observer.
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You are worth reading JB .. unlike some … eh Bex…
Thanks TT . Though I must say that Bex is the spice in the recipe … the yin and the yang ….. as all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example, female-male, dark-light and old-young……without Bex it would be a boring old space .
Did you see Nick Caves thoughts on the subject?
Political correctness / cancel culture, has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world. Its once-honourable attempt to reimagine our society in a more equitable way now embodies all the worst aspects that religion has to offer (and none of the beauty) — moral certainty and self-righteousness shorn even of the capacity for redemption. It has become, quite literally, bad religion run amuck.”
Cancel culture’s refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has an asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society.”
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”
― Noam Chomsky
There were two Australians at The University of Bordeaux , a surfer , ok I won the French University Titles Twice having been ripped off on the first attempt finishing second and a mate who had played with the Australian Schoolboys Rugby League Team . We had a wonderful petite professor who was translating into French one of Nick Caves’ Poetry Books ( 1997 ) and she asked us for some help to try and capture the essence of some of the cruder passages that even gave a giggle to a surfer and a footy head , both from cultures which have spawned extremely colourful language .
Tre magnifique!!
I’m not much of a Cave fan but he speaks truth on this.
I was surprised he was very popular in Brasil.
He lived there for a couple of years and his first born is a brazzo
Until his collaboration with Kylie , on the murder ballads , he was definitely more celebrated in London ,Berlin ,Rio and Paris than in Oz .
Mate of mine was on a road trip that took him through country Victoria one xmas time. Went to a pub in a one horse town and ordered a beer while waiting for a mate to arrive. Saw Nick Cave at a table having a drink on his own. Asked if he could join him while waiting so they both didn’t look they were drinking on their own. Turned out Nick was back in town for the family get together and needed some time away from the family.
After a while a local bloke came up, quite friendly, and asked who these interlopers some questions to establish bonafides. Among other questions, he was asked what he did for a crust? Nick replied he was in a band. Questioner then asked the name of the band.
“The Bad Seeds”
“Oh mate. You’ll never get anywhere with a name like that”
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You’ve been reading The Guardian, I feel proud.
Andy bolt on sky news brought it to me.
The guardian journos drink babies blood
Andrew Bolt’s been reading The Guardian!
Of course
He’s fair and balanced
Unlike myself.
He’s a corporate lapdog shill with his own tv show and columns in all News’ newspapers.
You’re just easily controlled by your prejudices.
Corporate is all cancel culture and BLM So you’re way off
You let them control you too easily
I thought you supported BLM?
I certainly do not.
Andrew Bolt doesn’t support it either, coincidence? I think not.
Why would we support a violent racist movement designed to keep the black community under the Lefts Marxist thumb
Disgraceful and pathetic and more and more bruthas are condemning this antisocial evil organizational.
You mean Usain Bolt right? Right —> get what I did there Bexy?
They both love all races!!
Fact u watch Sky News and esp Andrew Bolt says it all
Yeeeaaah boi!!!
What’s your show killa?
The project?
Hush child…
Children should be seen and not heard
I dont watch TeeVee
The drug of a nation..
ps .. silence is Golden..
All that Glitters not Gold
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used to
gore
not any more
now just a whore who wants more
Cant find the door
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ooops 1-1 caps are recommended tho’
Ok… maybe Kelly is a environment warrior.
By building a pool his given surfers a chance to surf safe and great whites can live free!
Hope the surfer concerned pulls through.
Fuck Australia.
Who’d want live in essence a convict state surrounded by such heavy sealife?
What a backward cunt of a place
Australia really is a fucking awful place.
I hope the refos are reading this
Don’t concern yourself .. They are not.. (holy irrelevancy Batman) Imagined White privilege is cringe worthy!
You and me both. Chances are that these keyboard warriors would not have the balls to say it to our faces. Racism is disgusting. Such a judgement is really for the small minded. You cannot anticipate how someone acts or thinks by their location of residence, amount of melanin in their skin or their religious views. We are all human. Some of us are just very uneducated or just nasty pieces of work.
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I think of it as a evolution experiment.
God has inbred the animals. Which are all fucked and deformed.
Now his Halfway through his human experiment?
It’s Fucking ‘he’s’ not ‘his’ FFS.
Twice in the same thread says this is not a one off error!
Well your ilk is not allowed to come to the lucky country anyway…
Well your type is not allowed to come to the lucky cuntree anyway…
Precisely why we don’t let you in. Fuck you’re a real piece of racist shit. Enjoy the land of Fatness and fuckwits who think they have “freedom” but really are just delusional. Also enjoy your pompous, sexist, orange Leader. Hell of a guy. Really represents you so well.
Fckn Aye!!
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