"Spread the word. No one goes in the water."
As one below-the-line sage remarked a couple of weeks back when fifteen-year-old grom Khai Cowley was killed by a Great White in front of his dad at Ethels on the Yorke Peninsula, “In South Australia, you can have sharks or you can have surfing. You can’t have both.”
(Or words to that effect.)
Two months ago, 55-year-old surfer Tod Gendle was killed and disappeared by a fifteen-foot Great White at Granites, twenty clicks out of Streaky Bay, South Australia, seven hundred clicks north-west of Adelaide.
Earlier in 2023, and just a hundred clicks south, local school teacher Simon Baccanello was killed by a Great White while surfing at Walkers Rocks in Elliston.
A brave soul, Baccanello warned others to split as the Great White started swimming towards him telling terrified kids in the lineup, “Don’t worry, get yourself to shore”.
Now, a sixty-four-year-old surfer from Elliston has been bitten between the ass and leg at Blacks by a Great White. He paddled in, climbed the cliff, refused an ambulance and drove himself to hospital, reflecting the chaotic nature of a Great White hit and the difference just a few millimetres can make.
Still, a Great White hit is a Great White hit. Substantial.
A message bouncing said the surfer, named Murray, “needs stitches but will be ok. Spread the word. No one goes in the water.”
Blacks, which is near Elliston, is the archetypal South Australian slab, swells swinging onto shallow limestone shelf before evaporating in uncomfortably deep water, notorious for Great Whites. In 2000, two surfers were killed in two separate Great White attacks, one at Blacks, one at Cactus 140 miles west.
I remember sending a few pro’s to Blacks years back and laughed, but understood, when I heard a story of ‘em paddling onto the dry shelf when a couple of dolphins surfaced.
After Khai Cowley was killed on December 29, the South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas said,
“The reality is there are sharks along our coastline around the southern part of our nation. When people venture out, particularly where they go quite far away from the shoreline, there is a risk associated with that.
But we’ve seen 11 fatal shark attacks in South Australia since the year 2000 so the fact we’ve seen three across this summer is startling and it is of concern.
Sharks or surfing? Which way do you swing?
(More on the attack as it comes.)
dad
if the comments here are anything to go by, i fully support no nets and no tagging. surfers are taking the piss and expecting the taxpayer to pay for their arsehole to be stitched back on.
Yep,vote Trump.
Do we really need GWs? Won’t a bunch of smaller, cuter sharks fill the void?
That’s what happened in False Bay, South Africa. Orcas killed/scared off the GWS and Bronzies took their place.
Decolonize the ocean. Down with the GW, up with the Bronzie.
consider this; what are sharks good for? they eat our fish, destroy our boards, cause fear for us and the other fish who share the ocean with them, they maul our friends and families, and they keep us from enjoying ocean activities in what should be a safe space.
and what of now, if dinosaurs were still tromping about, eating your friends and neighbors, destroying your gardens and trees, wrecking your houses and leaving giant dinosaur poops on your lawn.
would you not eradicate them?
imagine of it was one million years ago and you saw Raquel Welch about to succumb to the attack of dinosaurs. would you not destroy them all?
dinosaurs lolz good one
Please. If only we’d do away with law enforcement they’ll act civilized. How has that worked out? The only wall blacks are up against is a wall they built themselves. That and the soft bigotry of low expectations that Democrats have poured on blacks for decades.
I dunno, if it was dingos atttacking people they wouldn’t just say “oh well there’s just more people these days so its to be expected”
This will sound glib but is actually serious — someone needs to get Elon on this issue. Between SpaceX and Tesla, they’ve got to have some tech that could address the GW problem from a personal deterrent angle.
Glad the ones that hang around NZ coasts are not interested in humans. Yet…
Pt. Sinclair
Wade Gray Shipard was taken swimming in a bay near Cactus 1975
He was 11 years old……………..
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Where was that?
Rip
Isn’t cage diving essentially teaching sharks that humans = food?
That’s what I reckon. Must piss em off.. It’s right there!
Don’t they lure in the sharks with food? Maybe not, either way, seems dumb as fuck.
Apparently he drove himself to hospital and since been airlifted to Royal Adelaide.
Now I’m not say his soft or nothing but it’s pretty unaustralian after being attacked by a great white and having your leg ripped off too accept a emergency medical flight.
Cunt should stole a wheelchair from the hospital and made an effort too get himself there!
https://amp.theguardian.com…
I actually wish him all the best.
I hope the shark is ok too
Too many words from dumb cunts on both sides of the argument.
Academia in every country is arse-backward. I’m fucking in the middle of it. Unis give faculty rewards and perks based on grants they can get coz the unis get a % payout and bonus from the grants.
Teaching and helping students is about #37 on the list of importance to the Deans and bean-counting boffins. Get grants, get grants, get grants is #1 #2 and #3. #36 is get grants. So every faculty member just makes up bullshit bullshit to get grants to maintain their cushy tenure. This shark shit “research” is no different.
Seriously, who gives a flying fuck if a Byron buoy just pinged a White that was first tagged in Coffs? What fucking help is that when said White disappears a bloke at Kingslciff? “Yeah, we saw that one this morning at 01:00 hours swimming up past Cabarita.” Well fucking tickle me pink, your “research” pinged the fucker and then it bit some cunt’s leg off a few hours later. Great! Now off you go and present your wonderful findings at your shark conference and get some more publications. Cock.
Snapshot of modern governance and humanity. Self-serving arse-fucking-backwards.
True ,most if not all aussies are beyond retarded
Alcohol feotal syndrome thank you very much
Especially since they all shot that shit in their arms
3 times! I’m officially a junkie
Should be at least five now
Youre a antivax cooker mate.
Yep it went too mainstream for me
Fuck you , my mum and her brother ( dad) have never touched alcohol!
Its true – so retarded they should be called Americans
Futures fins triumph again. No need to re-glass those beauties. Their sheer quality scare all sharks. But not FCS though. Even dumb fucking Tigers know FCS are weak as shit.
It is 90 fathoms deep right where Blacks reef drops of into the channel
A tourism cage dive industry 120km south of this area also
Your numbers are off, but the sentiment is probably correct
C’était moi –
“As one below-the-line sage remarked a couple of weeks back when fifteen-year-old grom Khai Cowley was killed by a Great White in front of his dad at Ethels on the Yorke Peninsula, “In South Australia, you can have sharks or you can have surfing. You can’t have both.”
Not happy about being right, not this time anyway – scary stuff.
Fellow is lucky to be alive.
No idea why the Australian government on both the federal and state level prioritises Great White Shark health and safety over human health and safety?
Unless that policy reverses 180 degrees, there will be more close escapes and more fatalities.
It’s almost as if there’s a depopulation agenda.
sorry but there are waaaaaaaaay more of these fuckers now. DPI wont tell us if its the same shark doing circles around the buoys or if its multiple tagged sharks but each day those things are all pinging. How many more kids need to be killed? These ‘researchers’ are just milking the teet and never going to conclude anything. Science is bullshit. Theyre all just feathering their own nest cherry picking data and falsifying facts to suit their agenda and furthering their research budgets. Imagine any of us working normal jobs but never getting a result or reaching a target or finishing a project but asking for more money and getting it. spend the millions to pay some fishos some money to do a cull and get some flake back on the menu.
That’s a great post.
Sounds like the .Australian surf living association .
Never so well funded- never so many drownings!
The answer ( if you listen to them)is – more tax payer $$$