"Nothing clears the lineup quite like a rapidly advancing shark coming your way… then following you on to the rocks."
Australia’s great experiment to fish its oceans clean of every species with the exception of the vexatious Great White shark and then sit back and see what happens yielded more fruit yesterday when a flotilla of surfers was cleared from the water by a fifteen-footer.
Swing to the second frame to see the panicked lineup.
Hein Cooper, a musican-surfer from Milton, near Ulladulla on the NSW South Coast, was among the pack when a four-foot high fin made a sudden appearance.
Below, Hein recounts the episode.
“I feel so grateful to come close to an animal like that and not die!” he says.
Australian surfer-musician Hein Cooper chased from water by 15-foot Great White shark!
Wild, yes?
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Love the first sentence of this post.
Multi pass?
The kicking feet. How brilliant!
That’s pretty fucked how they didn’t stay together.
Beyond human to shark respect, there is an Earth to human connection intrinsic to the activity itself.
I rate it over longtoms froth blog
Grateful he didn’t get his leg chomped off at the knee and his arm at the elbow = ok
Grateful he had a close, beautiful, lived experience with such a majestic apex predator of the sea = lying, pretentious cunt
Lucky there was no sets. Shithouse spot to be going straight.
Imagine being the last bloke that missed the wave into the rocks. Probably felt very lonely immediately. Glad they got in unscathed!
His helmet would have saved him if he got hit.
what a 15ft dick!
when is it deemed safe to continue surfboarding at such locations after these sorts of occurrences?
single men: 30 minutes.
family guys: 2 hrs
what if you’re single but dating a model and a perennial taster of the world-champ’s cup? just hit the ski and reset