A witness described the injury as from “the groin area down to just below his knee… it was pretty much all taken. It was pretty much all hanging there by not much.”
In a now familiar piece of theatre that’s been playing out along a few hundred clicks of Australia’s east coast, a surfer has been killed by a suspected Great White shark, the third fatality by Great White in three months.
The man was found face down in the water by another surfer just before sunset at Greenmount Beach, the final jigsaw piece in the SuperBank puzzle.
The man was brought to shore, lifeguards staunched the wound, hit the CPR buttons. The man, who was forty-six, died at the scene.
It’s the first fatal attack on the Gold Coast since a 1958 hit in Surfers Paradise and the first fatal attack, ever, since shark nets were introduced to the Gold Coast almost sixty years ago.
The first fatal shark attack on the Gold Coast in more than 60 years has happened at Greenmount, where there are shark nets. https://t.co/VZ3A1cpmr5 @alexlewisjourno #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/YFFRrHNkUt
— 7NEWS Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) September 8, 2020
One man who helped drag the man to the beach said he was “pretty much gone” by the time they got him to a stretcher.
The witness described the injury as from “the groin area down to just below his knee… it was pretty much all taken. It was pretty much all hanging there by not much.”
I suppose. To better things? Are you coming?
Imagine picking up someone for poor grammar/spelling on this site? If you enjoy watching a guy geting eaten alive, then there is a Tiki Tok video getting around you are gonna luuuurv. But yeah your desire to get off on it trumps the rights of the family and punters who came to assist…… Actually not really sure your desire even comes into it, its more BG throwing a dead surfer under the bus for eyeballs. Punch yourself in the head Derek.
You Fucking donkeys at Beach Grit skirting your responsabilities by iframing a Daily Mail clip of it… pft. Pull your FUCKING HEADS IN CUNTS!
There are family members and first responders our there that don’t need it to be put in the public arena for their own mental health. This amount of disrespect to the victim and the people involved is stagering. Like another poster put out there, you wouldn’t put up a clip of someone being stabbed to death so why do it now.
Is it for titilation, increased likes/eyeballs/whatever the fuck or are you gonna play the reverse card… We have to show it to prove how bad the situation is. Either way you spin it, its a serious breach of decent media ettiqute and based on the death of a surfer to boot. Your fucked.
Sharks scare me shitless … I want to inform myself the best I can … including watching this attack.
I get the insensitivities of it and respect the rights of the family and first responders … but I still want to see it.
Is there a way both things can be achieved?
Yep there sure is a way it can be achieved. Go and watch it on all the Oz new channels/sites, they have no qualms about it. You’d sort of expect better than that from BG though. For all the bullshit/hilarious/serious quality stuff they publish, they are awesome. In this case though Derek – was it you that the guy from Swellnet was getting into about it – it puts you on par with Channel 9. Surely thats enough to hang your head in shame!
Any relation to the Bitchy Crab?
She your older sister perhaps?
I cant find it.
Recently a man was killed by a policeman. Suspect deaths don’t happen very often but the death was broadcast across every type of media platform resulting in the policeman being imprisoned for murder and a step change in police management developed.
Recently a man was killed by a shark. The death was hidden from all to see because it doesn’t happen very often and we don’t want to people to think sharks are aggressive killers. If people saw the reality of a shark attack the offending shark might be caught and removed from the area plus a decision on sustainable shark management might be made.
Couple of black guys killed a cop the other day
Crickets…
Fuck!
I told you and Chad ages ago.
The sharks can hear you dumbfucks and your dumbfuckery.
Shut your shark shit and they’re gone.
Cow penis in a white sauce
You in?
Hear, hear
It’s the secret Ingredient in viagra
I’m sure the legend battled it out till the bitter end with that ferocious beast. Rest in peace and condolences
But what about those endless scenes of overwhelmed IC units and sick with covid patients, lefty Fascists bashing hardworking store owners glaring out from every news channel every second of every day
everything is normal then.,
Carry on BG
How many guys are out there today?
Hand full then heaps
Bet they’re all doin a run around
Can you sum it up for the tradies?
Beach Grit cunts or not?
Ben at Swellnet posted that he asked Beach Grit to take down the footage. Pretty poor form guys? Kinda thing we would expect from Stab, which apparently they posted as well, and was later deleted.
How do the Morning of the Earth twin mid lengths ride or even the upper 6’8″ range go?
Who would have thought Surfers would become so entitled, to encourage the killing of animals so they can paddle around in safety on their toxic craft with their frowny face.
Not everyone has the luxury of surfing in a river matey. We kill everything on the planet. May as well kill everything in the same proportion to keep some sort of balance.
For sure, dogs kill around 30 people in Aus each year, 100,000 attacks I reckon we start getting proportions right with pups first. Pick them out at random. If that goes well we can move on to sharks.
I dunno about Oz or Germany. But I can tell you unequivocally that in the USA, if a dog mauls a person… It get’s put down right away 99% of the time. Just saying… That’s a pretty poor analogy dude.
How is it a poor analogy pea brain. People want to cull sharks, whether they kill someone or not. Let’s do the same for dogs first.
Ok dipshit… let me make it clearer for you. If you drive around town and see a rabid pitbull, and there are kids a block away in a park playing…. You can try and catch it. If it appears to be clearly devoid of any type of training or loving home – aggressive, just put the thing down. If it gets to the kids first and attacks one of them. Shoot it on the spot. They do that with coyotes, Wolves, bears, even wild boars. Clear enough for you pea brain? And I never said anything about Culling did I? But when a shark whacks a human several hundred meters or less from shore… No one with a brain smaller than a pea can tell me that with technology and a boat offshore or a copter with a camera could not track and kill that same animal in a very short time. I say kill em. Clear enough for you? Humans over animals. I don’t care who’s “environment” it is. So if a gator or snake climbs out of a swamp and eats a baby in a yard… Who’s fault is it and what do you propose happens to the gator or snake? Tough shit kid and neighborhood. Stay indoors if you live near those animals. Don’t kill that funnel web spider if it bites you when camping. You’re in their environment.
Pea brain, they do track and kill Sharks that “are considered a threat to human life” – https://www.bbc.com/news/wo…
What makes you love humans so much? What about the rapists, the kiddy fiddlers. So few humans die by sharks, the whole point that many people are calling for a cull to kill innocent sharks, just so we can live in a safe pathetic bubble of white people is a disgrace to human existence but does not surprise me https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
lolol. Nice way to straw man your stance into mines dipshit. So now you have a google MD and are letting links confirm… what the hell i’ve said from my first response to you. Yes. the big aggressive ones… fucking kill them. A big whitey seen in shallow waters near people? Kill it. A shark attacks a human… kill it. It’s a fish for fuck’s sake. We consume them every second on earth. It’s not like there’s a global demand for dolphin or whale meat, thus preservation their mammal lives are fueled by outrage, where the few countries on earth that do consume whale are custom shamed for doing so. Try and go bring your dipshit “dog” analogy to the streets of China, Korea or the philippines and see how fast you’re laughed out of the country. Us wanting to live in our “safe, pathetic bubble” free of large, aggressive sharks to preserve our way of safe recreation is coming from the same place that asians have eaten and consumed dogs for centuries to survive. What if you were told that X amount of families would die or lose jobs because they could no longer raise dogs for human consumption? What’s your stance? Let the slant eyes die? In the world of dogs, so few are consumed by humans. Why the bleeding heart for the ones eaten for survival in China? I don’t see you fighting for the rats and cats they consume daily as well. And stop ASSuming fool. …Rapists and kiddy fiddlers?..,you can add murderers, terrorists, and acts of treason in there as well. Do what China does. Once convicted, take them out back and put a bullet in their heads.
My grandfarther surprisingly said the same about Germans tourists.
Bat’s are toxic
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I’ve been emailing dpi and csiro telling them that while they are trying to count white sharks surfers are getting attacked. Maybe everyone should start hitting them up, put some pressure on them.
I even contacted the PM https://www.pm.gov.au/conta…
I have been doing that for 5 years and getting no where, for some reason the enviros have the government agencies by the balls hence my comment below questioning is it time for enviro keyboard warriors to know the graphic human cost of each shark attack.
Given snapper/green mount is up there as one of the premier surf tourism locations in the globe it will be interesting to see how the state and federal governments handle having 4m GWS prowling the lineup/swimming beaches.
I wonder if Gabby and co will ban the Snapper CT?
Find a new hobby that is safe.
Video games maybe?
I was on the fence for a while, but it’s time for a cull of some sort or maybe introduce some hungry Orcas? We all accept the risks each time we paddle out, but something is clearly out of balance. Too many sharks, not enough food? Fuck if I know
RIP
One local news channel said drum lines were present and the other said shark nets were present. Both?
They are usually combined. At my local there are nets and drum lines.
Another tragic death in our community of surfers …. Condolences to family and friends .
At a time when so much is being done to saves lives from a microscopic virus , surely something can be done to save surfers lives from a very macroscopic shark population ? Today
“g’day, 2bucks worth of hot chips and a serve of flake thanks.”
Coming from a Catholic family , I did my best every Friday night but now it’s mum‘s bowls day with my dad supplying Fish Cocktails ….
What’s that joke about oral sex and catholics only eating fish on Friday?
Yeah unfortunately flake is generally Gummy Shark which are kinda cute. Always feel bad hooking one but they are fucken delicious. Great Whites have too much mercury. Not sure if that is because of their age or not. Maybe we could start eating the juveniles. There would definitely be a market in China for virility pills containing crushed up Great Whites. It is ironic that we have no guilt killing a Gummy Shark but cannot kill a Great White. It’s fucken racism I reckon.
White privilege
It’s very simple, don’t go in the ocean.
Why do Australians expect the ocean to be a safe place?
It’s not and never was.
We dont kill all the bears, mountains lions, crocodiles, poison snakes and spiders etc.,
So why sharks?
Feel good factor
You often promote an opinion different to mine but your delivery is top shelf
Love it
I just say what everyone’s thinking really.
“My god that Billy cunt is well hung”
See … I can do that too
I’ve always thought that
Hi Ck ,Just to put the facts straight, I never mentioned killing in the above comment .
As for the bears ….. a bear came down to Rincon a few years ago and was put down humanely. Crocodiles often turn up in public places in Darwin ,and are removed , put back into the Wild or sent to Crocodile farms / sanctuaries.
https://www.surfline.com/su… the bear story
https://www.abc.net.au/news… crocodile story
You obviously can’t capture and relocate sharks like a croc.
The bear was killed because relocation doesn’t work, they usually return, often very quickly.
You seem to view the ocean as a park like environment that should be safe for people.
I don’t see it that way, I see it as a wild untamed place. I think the wildernesses should remain wild.
There is a risk of getting bitten every time I surf here so I don’t think I’m telling other people they should do what I don’t.
I’ve seen people get attacked, it’s very scary.
Aren’t the smart drum lines capturing and relocating sharks?
Obviously we are drawn to the ocean because it is a wild untamed place . The joy of separation, from the pressures of life on land ,is possibly the jewel in surfings crown. I suppose the reality is , somewhat different and there are strict laws international , national , regional and local which dictate where , when and what we can do in an on the oceans .One can not surf in the patrolled swimming area or commit piracy in territorial waters etc …. So what , in our inter subjective myth may seem to be a zone , Wild and Untamed , is just not the case.Anarchy it ain’t ! ….sadly enough ?
This law , to protect Great White Sharks and other species , introduced in 1999 , has done a great job in increasing the number of sharks but I am wondering if those involved in the creation of these laws had really taken into consideration the long term outcomes of rising shark populations , the future increased interactions with coastal human populations and the socio economic effects on these regions ?
You are referring to laws that govern human behavior, not the ocean.
I’m sure those who created the laws protecting shark populations thought of the socioeconomic effects of their actions. They just saw a healthy ecosystem as more important than our safety. I agree with them.
I would much have preferred they stop all mining on the Sea Floor, to protect the oceans , than creating a situation where my fellow surfers are being more frequently attacked by the protected ones , but that’s just my opinion . Happy Surfing Ck .
Sharks have been around for 420 million years. That makes them older than Mount Everest, older than dinosaurs, older even than trees.
No one created the situation from my perspective, all they did was allow them their space to do what the evolved to do. I don’t see the earth as belonging to humans. I think living in harmony with our environment is the best approach.
The surf was good this morning. A little overhead and clean. The north swells are returning and the surf season has begun. Super stoked. Hope you get in the water soon brother.
I think there’s a difference between killing all sharks and managing them in a way that minimises risks to water uses.
White sharks travel huge distances every year, it’s not possible to manage them in any way that does not disrupt the ecological balance. That is why they are protected.
White Sharks are apex predators and they regulate species abundance, distribution and diversity, which in turn can impact the health of marine habitats. Additionally, they provide essential food sources for scavengers and remove the sick and weak from populations of prey species.
The only answer is for people to accept that the ocean a wild environment and should be entered at your own risk.
It’s also true that the system is heavily impacted by pollution, overfishing and climate change … what we’re seeing is an unbalanced system and if they aren’t managed there will be detrimental impacts to the system as a whole.
A do nothing approach, when we’ve already fucked the system, is flawed.
The reason people are seeing more sharks is partly because there is way more people in the water now and the fact that in the past they were way over fished.
The return of the sharks is a good thing.
I don’t see any detriment
People dying is not a detriment?
No.
It’s their fault for entering a dangerous environment.
It’s a choice we make.
The sharks are not entering our living space just our play space.
We had a koala bear cull, Aus doesn’t have mountain lions I don’t think, we had a croc cull, poisonous snakes get killed or removed from area when near humans and we all got bug spray.
I see a lot of people are upset about the clip being published and I agree with them, it should be censored. It is upsetting for the victims family and confronting for everyone else especially surfers. As surfers every attack is another chip in our it will never happen to us armour. For those of us with kids it may even be the attack that creates enough paranoia to stop going to the beach so much. What about the opposite, what if the clip was left up everywhere, what if enough people where exposed to the cold hard Gruesome tragedy of shark attack up close and the devastation of the first responders that maybe we could swing the general public to enable politicians to have the balls to recommence culling. We cull native and imported animals By the thousands every year yet sharks are untouchable. Australian waters and fisheries are global best practice, protection and quota’s have enabled all species including sharks to be plentiful, the tipping point has been reached, the clip is difficult to watch but what other options are left.
We kill billions and billions of fish every year. Yet, we worry about several hundred sharks who live where we live. People seem to forget that we eat much more mentally developed animals – pigs being smarter than dogs – but we worry about the well being of a ruthless and stupid predator.
Culling needs to start NOW. Email your local, state and federal member ASAP.
Completely offensive and insensitive to this mans family and loved ones, but the excessive sensationalising shark reporting had to peak somewhere!! Where to now….?