"I immediately just ripped my leg rope off and I swam towards these guys here who were paddling towards me."
After a few bumper seasons, multiple deaths, kids, moms, Dads, swimmers, surfers, divers, Great Whites have been a little quiet this year.
Yeah, there was the swimmer who was hit and killed by a fifteen-foot Great White shark at Little Bay, a few clicks south of Maroubra beach in Sydney’s south-east, in February, filmed and broadcast around the world.
But since then, very little activity, until yesterday when a kid competing in a surf ski race at Seacliff in South Oz, was hit by a twelve-foot Great White.
Nat Drummond, who is nineteen, was a click into the race, mid-morning, when the White hit, from below as they do, biting through his fibreglass ski and real close to getting a hunk of his ass.
“My ski just kind of lifted above the water and then next thing I knew I was in the air and then I was in the water and I saw this figure fall back into the water. A big shark,” he told 9News. “I immediately just ripped my leg rope (attached to the surf ski) off and I swam towards these guys here who were paddling towards me, thankfully, and then just jumped onto their craft and pulled me out of the water to safety.”
The kid wasn’t too put off by the hit, howevs.
“It was an absolute freak accident. One of those one-in-a-million things that happened,” he said, before reassuring beachgoers, “We were out in pretty deep waters, this shouldn’t put other people off.”
He did say he might “go and buy a lottery ticket.”
A teenager taking part in a surf-ski race off Adelaide’s Seacliff Beach has been attacked by a Great White Shark.
He’s told how he was flung metres into the air and then rescued from the water, walking away without a scratch. @inglis_cam #9News pic.twitter.com/C7ogsdsnLx
— 9News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) October 23, 2022
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It’s actually getting mounted in the shark’s pool room. Even though it’s a ‘one that got away’ story.
Patiently waiting for the Jonah bots to show up… https://media1.giphy.com/me…
story is he had fish for breakfast and was farting fish gas…..trully amazing how tuned in a GWS is!
It’s Dec. 8 – 20.
since when do these cunts wear legropes on 18 ft skis – i usually seen them eat fucking eat shit and the thing goes on a 500m solo rampage ???
fuck NZ is great !!!!
and i cant write anymore
yeah, we’re waiting for lab results and plugging into a streamin surf movie!
lifeguard’s on semi strike…still savin knives those knives are out!
Howzat?
AFAIK Masters was shut for good in 2016, but this might help.
https://www.bunnings.com.au…
Sharks hate clubbies too
Snicker snicker
The worst!
Fake news. These are all just crisis actors. There’s no such thing as a ‘shark attack’. The only thing that can stop a bad person with a shark is a good guy with a shark.
Clearly the kid was begging to be attacked if he dressed like that and he should be forced to carry the wound to fruition because anything else is murder and the shark should have a say because it’s the daddy of the wound.
Oh and the election of the surf lifesavers was stolen. Build a wall.
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Is that “5 arseholes” or plenty asterisks appended to my world title?
Good ‘ol fashioned 5-Stars my friend!
Oh.
That’s a pity.
I was hoping that I had some World Titles that no one told me about.
(winky winky face)
Make Sharks Great Again
tommy john’s!
I have no idea what you are talking about but I’ll upvote you!!!
unisex underwear promoted by WSL on re-broadcast of finals day and surgury need by pitchers that throw their arms out…
Fuck you’re a mad kent CB! And I love it!
Only a sufferer know the feeling.
True and do
Alex Jones type hype may cost you $395M
You guys should just start letting the porn bots in the comments start writing articles for you.
I concur. I’ll savage ’em below the line.
Would you leave and vow never to return?
No, I would read even harder
That’s the spirit!