Kid on plastic boat sees life flash before him etc.
It’s the year of the Great White in Australia, to put it mildly.
Over the course of four months,
Nick Slater, dead, killed at the Superbank, Mani Hart-Deville, dead, killed at Wooli, Rob Pedretti, dead, killed at Kingscliff, Chantelle Doyle, maimed, at Port Macquarie, Andrew Sharpe, dead, Esperance, Phil Mummert, disfigured, Bunker Bay.
All surfers. All attacks via Great White.
Two divers also killed by Whites this year. Gary Johnson, Esperance, Matthew Tratt, Fraser Island.
Therefore, it doesn’t come as a tremendous surprise that a kid in his kayak was able to film himself being stalked by a twelve-foot Great White while fishing for snapper a mile off Black Head Beach, just north of Forster in NSW.
Matthew Smith was on his little kayak, couple of fishing rods out, when he was visited by the White.
“I just looked next to me and the shark was just gliding past, looking straight at me,” the kid told 9News.
Meanwhile, Matt’s pal, Nick O’Brien, watched it all via his drone.
A demonstration of human vulnerability and a what-if scenario that will find its way, I think, into the kid’s night thoughts.
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“Does she go?”
Hold on…. he’s still alive? Not disfigured? WTF is wrong with this shark?
Kid seems way calmer about this than Derek and Chas.
The guy hiking with the mountain lion was way heavier..
no sound on computer my fuckup – but that my local was it redhead or not???? that video is redhead
He screamed at that shark like I scream at ghosts in my nightmares.
Seen this on the news yesty. Couldn’t help but think he got off lightly. Probably wondered why he wasn’t catching fuck all, lucky for him the Noah was well fed.
Purely Hypothetical
Well if you go surfing , the goal is to catch waves ! One is not attempting to interact with the sea creatures , but purely the swell on the sea surface , leaving only ephemeral tracks .
So , If you go fishing , with a goal to catch Fish ,on a leaky boat , using bait to attract them , then should one be surprised that they , the fish , might not appreciate this , and fight back ?
Willem Ungermann would’ve jumped over the side with a chook under arm. https://beachgrit.com/2020/…
Just a quiet day fishing with my fucking go pro and drone.
Right? Fuck drones.
Just be careful of the sharp plastics.
That’s known as a drone bone.
They used to be known as Man Eating Sharks …..
It’s possible they will become known as Man Filming Sharks ?