Man swimming fifty feet from the beach disappeared by suspected Great White.
A male swimmer is missing after being hit by what witnesses described as a “massive” shark at Port Beach, a dozen clicks or so west of Perth.
A chopper and marine rescue crews are searching for the man who was swimming fifty feet offshore when witnesses say he was “taken” by what was, likely, a Great White shark.
Three ambulances are waiting in the carpark.
Witness Kaiden Boult told the West, “We scurried out onto the rocks as soon as we got out to get a look from a high vantage point and as soon as we did we saw a massive shark out in the water. It was very big. Next thing you know there’s cops and paramedics coming out of everywhere, and they cordoned it off and said it was a crime scene.”
Another witness told WAToday he saw the man being circled by the shark before disappearing.
The attack came on the twenty-first anniversary on the twentieth anniversary of Ken Crews’ horror death in a Great White shallow water attack at nearby Cottesloe Beach.
Attacks by Great Whites, once a wild rarity in West Oz, have become wildly common.
Last October, surfer Andrew Sharpe was disappeared by a Great White at Kelpies, near Esperance, south of Perth; that January, an Esperance diver was hit by a Great White and three years before that, still Esperance, teenager Laeticia Brouwer was killed by a Great White in front of her family at Kelpies.
Plenty more, of course, but y’get the picture.
Tons of Whites.
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It must be a parody, right?
Wrong.
https://youtu.be/iBRtucXGeNQ
If a beautiful 17ft Great White shark swam through the Malibu lineup tightly circling a certain pudgy man with a long john but deciding to back off in disdain…..would that make prime Beach Grit news?
If you mean a newly muscled movie star sex symbol, yes!
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Everyone blames the whites
Tough way to go, if he saw the shark circling him first. Not a fun last few minutes of life.
On BBC they interviewed his wife. He was a keen 57 year old swimmer. She said the required “he died doing what he loved.’ BS. Who loves being ripped to pieces by a killing machine?
A crime scene? What laws were broken?
The only crime here is fisheries mismanagement.
I wonder how they tape off the ocean?? How far and do they have enough tape?
Local news is reporting two sharks attacking one being a white the other a tiger.
If a shark with COVID tried to attack Mick Fanning, but Kelly saved him telepathically …
Would that be peak Beach Grit?
Only if Mick was wearing a whoop and Kelly gave bone broth to the shark
While Kelly believes everyone is entitled to his opinion and of course his bone broth(sick AF) I suspect the shark has other ideas for Kelly
World title on the line?
Yes, this would need to happen during a World Title showdown at 2ft Trestles
Metavigilance at work?
You’re missing Uncle Joey Hill and Ez Logan, but yeah, close.
checks off some of the boxes but i feel a thing or 2 missing for that ellusive unicorn.
Today I read an article about Tasmanian Fisheries ripping predatory Long-Spined Sea Urchins off reefs and possibly using them to make fertilizer ….
Strange how we are happy to annihilate poor little marine creatures to protect the Abalone and Lobster industry but not ……..ourselves ?
https://www.abc.net.au/news…
I took five minutes to look at the reason why there is an imbalance of sea urchins because that doesn’t happen in nature by itself.
Ecosysytems have been in balance for millions of years. Sure enough the reason is that the urchins only predator, the lobster has been over fished. Now they are calling the urchins pests that need to be killed, when the real answer is to stop over fishing lobsters.
Urchinists!
You must not be happy about the crab delay. Crab for Thanksgiving was what our family had for years.
Yeah good thing we’re off the water. Now they can be killed off without witnesses by the tras Pac container fleet.
Hi C4 ….. To be honest I was just trying to point out that under the current laws concerning fishing , is that it ok to stop urchins to save lobsters but not keeping Sharks away from Humans ….
So Hypothetically …..Are Urchins lives worth less than Sharks ?
I’ve been told so by many shark huggers.
Urchin Lives Matter
Dickensian Twist …..
It get’s soo Urchin.
Urchin Urchin Urchin Urchin emergency!
In Australia, it appears that Shark Lives Matter.
Three million kangaroos fall under the hammer every year, ain’t much chatter ’bout that.
Yep .
Hypothetically……For what reasons are certain creatures defined as a pest , representing a danger to a fishing industry , and therefore removed , while others in the same environment , ours , the earth and its oceans , should be protected at all costs , even though they represent a danger to human life ….?
tasty suckers them roos. if i could go to the fish shop and buy great white i’d be a pescatorian pronto
I’d say the governments of Oz have proven to be idiotic at many levels with their handling of covid so I feel for the urchins on land and in the ocean
Humans aren’t natural?
Sure, we can eat all the animals that taste good and exterminate all the others but that didn’t work out too well in the past. Otters and peregrine falcons etc are just now recovering around here after almost becoming extinct.
So what, they’ll be extinct one day anyway
It’s just a matter of time.
The animals couldn’t care less
Jebus made us,
This I know,
Becuz teh bible
Tells me so.
Breakfast..lunch or dinner.
At least this time it wasn’t in Australia
What do you reckon they should call West Oz? New Australia? East South Africa?
The place the props up the rest of Australia’s economy.
Bloody parasitic east oz cunts
Give them hell, turts !
Fucken ANZ and WEstpac posting record profits off the back of kiwis for years. Cunts.
The Rhinehart?
Palmers paradise?
Just working on suitable new names.
Western Twiggy Sticks
Twiggy town. Palmer can just fuck right off
Nah, he’s yours now. Although, I live almost next to his ex-resort. Fucken dickhead lands his chopper every now and then, which freaks out the dog when the it is only about 50m overhead.
East Wadjemuppet
South Kuta.
For a while there New Durban or New Cape Town would have been apt ?
Dutchland or in keeping with its population Little London.
They’ll just go back to calling it Terra Nullius. That way they can happily keep on destroying sacred caves.
Why are they sacred?
Why are u such a cunt?
Just trying to fit in
I’ll be laughing at “East South Africa” for days
Gods country
Not a fan of the west? What’s your beef?
Never been, its good?
Great Whites Union Rep: “Oh nooooo! Another Great White attack! Big whoop! Not like you humans will ever do anything to make us stop attacking you. You’re too soft hearted.”