Paddle boarder hit by tiger shark, follows death of swimmer in February and government cull of protected sharks only four weeks ago…
Sharks are gettin’ real feisty again in New Caledonia, a pretty-ish archipelago in Melanesia seized by the French in 1843 and which has been maintained as a French-administered territory ever since.
Yesterday, a fifty-three-year-old man was found dead on his SUP by a passing yachtsman, the man’s leg wound consistent with a shark attack.
Swimming and all water sports in the area have been banned for a week.
The attack follows a government cull of protected sharks only four weeks ago which had been made in response to the death of a fifty-seven-year-old swimmer killed in February by a thirteen-foot tiger shark fifty metres off a popular beach.
Authorities nailed twenty-four sharks in the cull, which included nineteen tigers.
Two years ago, after a ten-year-old kid lost his leg to a bull shark followed shortly after by the death of a fisherman a few days later, also by a bull shark, authorities got out the bait and hooks and iced twenty sharks. The decision raised a few hackles at the time, a petition against the cull was circulated etc, but this time no one seemed real concerned by the cull.
In 2016, four kitesurfer were hit by sharks, two of ‘em fatal.
Theories for all the attacks include rising water temperatures caused by climate change making sharks change their habits, the El Nino weather pattern and so on.
French island and their sharks, eh?
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A Surfline forecasters wet dream
I’m sure he can choose to identify as a teenager?
Better cull all the jellies
Is Chas finally comfortable with you doing shark stories?
So culling apparently does not work?
Na it still works. The dead sharks did not eat anyone.
Good one wiggolly!
And no swear words too!
You did it!
correction – …”did not fucken eat anyone…”
Sage Erickson posted a sick clip of the Sydney Hillsong church meeting. Maybe wiggs will become religious after all.
If an algorithm were concocted to author a Derek Rielly BG story, the headline might read something like this:
Terror Rocks Gold Coast Real Estate Landscape As Great White Stalks Ellie-Jean Coffey’s Million-Dollar Spread.
Ha! Yeah.
Damn them Colonial sharks!!
Merde.
c’est un nouvelle sport, le sharkour…
I’ve always been curious about what the explorer saw, when he named it New Caledonia. It sure as shit looks nothing like the OG Caledonia.
Probably the same guy that named New South Wales.
Where was the original Zealand?
Holland. They can keep it too, it supposed to be under water
Hope you don’t mind but I sent your resume to stab. You’ll love Byron.
Not the hero Byron wants, but the hero it deserves.
Thanks boy.
What a cunt.