"Pretty horrific."
A bodyboarder in his fifties was hit and killed by a twelve-foot shark at Cable Beach, a pretty and mostly waveless beach two thousand clicks north of Perth, on Sunday.
Charles Cernobori was a hundred feet offshore when the animal, likely a tiger or bull shark ‘cause Whites tend to do a u-turn when they hit Exmouth a thousand kilometres south, attacked.
A couple went to help Cernobori after they saw “trashing” in the water, pulling him to shore and calling an ambulance.
“Obviously that would have been pretty horrific for those people. It was very brave to enter the water and do what they did,” Inspector Gene Pears said.
Cops arrived, fired a volley at the animal, which missed, and the shark hung around for another half an hour.
It’s the first fatal shark in almost thirty years, since a pearl diver was killed at Roebuck Bay.
WA Police deputy commissioner Col Blanch said the attack was “very unusual” for the area although Cable Beach is occasionally closed when crocodiles waltz through the area.
The man’s death marks the third fatal shark attack in Western Australia in 2020, following January’s Great White hit on diver Gary Johnson in January, and the disappearing of a local surfer by a Great White in October.
On the bright side; at least there is ‘evidence’.
“and the disappearing of a local surfer by a Great White in October.”
Right, he just disappeared and it was a Great White. No reason to collect taxes from him, or look for him during the forced vaxxes. GENIUS!
Silly argument? I rest my case. To you well over 3500 fatalities in 20 years is an acceptable out come, its normalized to you.
Yes there are more cars on the road which is a valid point. Extrapolating from that, there are now a hell of a lot more people in the water than there has ever been. Fucken obviously, the ocean user group population has increased significantly over the last 20 years and corresponding numbers of fatal shark attack in relation to that population increase clearly identifies the frequency v’s population has actually decreased. So lets just expect 4 people per year to be murdered by sharks in WA waters each year and anything below that is a bonus.
People getting munged on by a shark every now and then is just a normal as people killed in cars everyday.
Wayne, this is a shark website, this is what we talk about here, okay?
Sorry, forgot.
BeachGrit subscriptions to be swapped out to Car&Driver?
Oh it never gets tired.
I don’t know, you ever tried waltzing Derek? It can really take it out of you.
Another Tragic Shark Fatality in our great state. That’s now 2 this year in WA alone and 18 shark fatalities in West Oz over the past 20 years. This captured a double page spread in State Wide paper highlighting this phenomenon.
On the same day 5 people were killed on our roads 2 of them Children. 144 people killed on the roads in WA this year alone and 3683 road fatalities in West Oz over the past 20 years. The State wide paper had a “small corner” (at least it was on the right hand page) mentioning the deaths of the children.
20 years and 18 fatalities from fish and we get excited. 20 years 3683 fatalities on the road and that’s normalised.
What type of un natural death is normal and how many? Lets call 4 shark fatalities in WA per annum normal and get excited after that. 4 could be Normal if over 144 is, surely?
The US has a solution for you Oz…. rent Ottobeenthere and turn your heads for a few days and he will kill all the sharks.
Please let him enjoy each point break alone for a surf or two. My personal wish for Otto.
Donate his pay to Donald Trumps posthumous campaign debts owed to Trump hotels. Otto loves socialism for the rich. And slimey former mayor supposed lawyers dripping in hair dye but don’t worry Lev P will arrive soon with paper towels he caught from trump himself in puerto rico to wipe the embarrassing dye off his face while Sydney lawyer destroys her career onstage with Ghouliani.
I could go on and on, but the main point I am making is Otto will swim with the sharks and kill them we promise you Australia.