A dark day.
Tragedy struck the Valley Isle of Maui, yesterday mid-morning, as a thirty-nine year old surfer died following what was dubbed a “shark encounter.” The unnamed man was out partaking in the glorious super swell event at Paia Bay, on the north shore, when hit. Ocean Safety Officers, per the report, picked him up in the water and transported him to shore where “life-saving measures were performed by first responder personnel until medic personnel arrived to transport the male to the Maui Memorial Medical Center for further treatment.”
He succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, foul play being ruled out.
The County of Maui closed Baldwin Beach and Lower Pa’ia Park while it investigates, posting signs to let visitors know of shark activity.
This is the eighth shark incident this year in Hawaii, the third in Maui. Earlier, a shark bit a surfboard, biting its tail right off and, another, bit an inflatable SUP.
Pa’ia Bay is a wonderfully scenic strip of white sand and turquoise water named after the town which is known for quaint restaurants and shops though a French tourist had her arm bitten off by shark while swimming a year ago.
Maui has a well-known tiger shark problem. Terrible situation, as always they are.
Another sad and shithouse outcome. Condolences to all his friends and family
Sad, but I really have zero fucks to give. It’s part and parcel of the risk you take everytime you go into the ocean. Just like I wouldn’t go fishing in grizzly country Alaska without a .44 magnum or walk along the edge of a Florida waterway where there are known populations of alligators.
You appear to be an “Eco Facist” for having this opinion, according to a numbskull in this thread.
Apparently every fatal shark attack is a reason to go to war with sharks, because they’re so mean and they’re so so many of them. Too too many. Just forget the fact that their populations are a tiny fraction of what they were 100 years ago.
Hardly. The Greenies are bat shit, crazy fuckers. I burn a 8-cylinder, gas guzzling engine. I think EV’s are destroying the planet by robbing rare Earth minerals, mined by children. I believe in drilling, nuclear and natural gas. The windmills need to be torn down. I am the opposite of an Eco Facist. I lived in Oregon where I saw those nuts shut down the entire logging industry, destroy families lives, ruin our economy.
I have no affection for sharks; they scare the shit out of me. Their prey is anything smaller than them and man is much smaller. It’s common sense.
“I lived in Oregon where I saw those nuts shut down the entire logging industry, destroy families lives, ruin our economy”
I’m sorry but I have no sympathy for those families as they chose to focus their careers and future on a dying industry.
Do you see how your hypocrisy makes you look like a busted up prolapsed arsehole? Empathy for “the struggling family man” but no fucks given for the person who died in the article.
You’re a cunt.
You are ignorant. The timber industry was always a thriving industry until the Endangered Species Act shut down logging. Completely.
Key word in your dribbling response is “was” a thriving industry. Get with the times, gramps. The world has already left you behind. Hahaha.
And you know shit about the wood products industry. I dare you to step foot into a lumber town. You wouldn’t survive . Real men don’t tolerate pukes like you who need a bar of soap stuffed down your mouth when you aren’t sucking a dick.
https://theforestreport.org…
Whatta ya gonna do with your phone…
sacrifice it to the lizard people?
Is your new year’s resolution to have absolutely zero empathy? Go play in the traffic.
I don’t have a lot of empathy for people that go play in traffic and not expect to get hit.
Heartless cunt. We all accept the risk but you can still have empathy for a fellow surfer killed doing what they love.
I doubt Trudy D is a fellow surfer. More like non-surfer lured here by the headline, who decided to be a fucked cunt troll.
Get a load of Edgy McEdgerton over here.
As important as I’m sure you believe your opinion to be, absolutely nobody cares or wants to hear it. Not a single soul.
How about you go yell your wet wipe opinion aimlessly into the coconut-wireless. Fingers crossed Fast Eddie turns up and caves your skull in.
Read the room, you fucking blowjob.
You sound mighty riled up considering no one cares about my opinion and saying Eddie would come for me. I didn’t know he came for people who stay out of the lineup? I thought he got pissed at those who disrespected the locals and the protocols of surfing?
I suggest you read the room.
Yeah, yeah – all I hear is you admitting that you’re a cunt. Now fuck off, yeah?
You are probably gay because no woman with an ounce of self respect would tolerate that word from a pig like you. Disgusting swine.
Got an email notification telling me you had replied. Didn’t bother reading your response. Just wanted to come back and tell you to fuck off and that me and my wife are laughing at you and there’s nothing you can do about it. You fucking wet wipe.
God, she must have zero self respect . Poor woman to tolerate a guy with such a small dick and a huge mouth that needs to be pummeled. I know a lot of locals that would line up to rearrange your face.
Still not reading your wet wipe replies. Still laughing at you. Hahahaha.
Superman has got nothing on you, you fucking cunt.
Well a 10 mm is better for a bear by the way
Love to his fams.
Lighten up Francis! Surfers know and should accept the risks every time they paddle out. Now as for Otto, he wasn’t being disrespectful.
Apology accepted
Beachgrit is a fucking den of wolves best fuck off to the inertia if you can’t handle the jokes
More like a den of attention seekers.
Den of Barcaloungers mostly
Nobody pays attention to Beachgrit.
I’m done pondering. I want answers dammit!
Somebody posted this here a few minutes ago, but it disappeared. A good read…
https://www.moolelo.com/sha…
So from what I can gather from
this article, if a shark attacks a haole, then it’s an aumakua. But if a shark attacks a native hawaiian, then it’s a colonizer.
I posted it and removed it but I doubt Otto can comprehend it… it’s worth a shot Occ…
Thank you for posting it for me to read. As a resident of Hawaii with ag land, I’m interested in the Hawaiian perspective of aina a me kai.
Stop acting like a girl.
Interesting read, and informative.
What a terrible way to end the year. Condolences to his family and friends.
Terrible way to end one’s life
Probably better than burning to death.
That would depend on the length and quality of the burnination. Joan of Arc style on a stake, and I might take the shark. Instantly vaporized by a nuke, and I’d probably take World War III.
While not instantly, don’t we all become just a shadow of our former selves?
idk, that can happen over the course of an afternoon and/or evening with respect to yours truly.
I hate the diction “encounter” fed to and used by media to describe shark attacks.
“Shark attack” is exactly, precisely what happened. But the shark humpers aren’t going to let you call the thing what it actually is. There’s an exhibit called the “Penguin Encounter” at the San Diego Zoo. There’s no limbs torn from bodies and children screaming crying for their father.
So fuck you and your bullshit shark encounter Orwellian New Speak you eco fascist twats. It was a shark attack, with real and heavy human consequence.
Condolences spelled backwards is Secnelodnoc
It’s not an inappropriate joke ya fuckwit. It’s a question to which I wonder what the answer is.
Some people are so sensitive. Negs needs a sensitive badge for these types
Uncle Charlie Maxwell, may he rest in peace, was an esteemed Hawaiian kūpuna and kumu but he sometimes tended to embellish and over romanticize.
People often confuse the difference between ‘aumākua and kinolau. Kinolau translates literally as “many bodies” and refers to the physical earth manifestations of the many gods that make up the Hawaiian pantheon. Sharks, man-eating or otherwise, could be a personal family ‘aumākua but were generally considered kinolau of the war god Kū and the ocean god Kanaloa.
Sharks in pre-contact Hawaii were not sacrosanct by any means and when certain sharks were troublesome they were hunted and possibly consumed and their body parts used in practical ways such as sharkskin for pahu drums.
Modern day Hawaiians are split as to when and if troublesome attacking sharks should eradicated. From 1959 to 1976 Hawaii had a culling program but since then have opted for scientific tagging and tracking.
I still remember the division in the Hawaiian community in the early 1990’s when there was a spate of tiger attacks. Perry Dane wasn’t having any sympathy and you can review just one article here https://www.newspapers.com/…
This thread need a soundtrack
https://youtu.be/tw5lIdSYFDM
RIP Jason Carter and condolences to all his family
Super interesting. Thanks for the informative response.
When there’s a tiger shark attack, do Hawaiians believe that shark is an aumakua, or a shark that is not an aumakua?
Paging Dr. Huli…