“Stay together! It’s a big f**king one! Head in!”
It ain’t a stretch to say that Australia’s mid-to-far north coast, roughly Forster to Coolangatta, is crawling with Great White sharks. They call it a Great White Superhighway.
You might’ve even lost count of the the surfers killed by Great Whites in Australia in the last few years.
A brief timeline.
(And it don’t include attacks that didn’t kill the surfer, like Joe Hoffman, the twenty-five-year-old shredder whose arm was destroyed by a Great White at Crescent Head or upcoming pro surfer Kai Mckenzie, 23, who lost his right leg to a Great White in July.)
Mark Sanguinetti, 59, hit by Great White, killed, Tuncurry, NSW, May 18, 2021.
Andrew Sharpe, 52, hit by a Great White at Kelpies in Esperance, October 9, 2020. Never seen again.
Nick Slater, 46, hit, killed by a Great White at the Supabank, Queensland, September 8, 2020.
Mani Hart-Deville, 15, hit, killed by a Great White, Wooli Beach, NSW, July 11, 2020.
Rob Pedretti, 60, hit, killed, by a Great white, Salt Beach, NSW, June 7, 2020.
In the latest encounter, Kye Wilkinson was wearing his GoPro when he got bumped by a fifteen-foot Great White while surfing Emerald Beach in Coffs Harbour, real close to where a surfer was killed in 2021/
“It come up and hit the bottom of my board,” Wilkinson told Channel Nine. “I half fell backwards. I didn’t know what it was to start with. I looked under me, and saw pretty clearly what it was.”
The footage is pretty wild.
“Hey guys. A Great White just went past. It came up right next to me,” Wilkinson says.
“Stay together! It’s a big fucking one! Head in!”
“Usually you see them once, then they’re off,” he said. “But to see one three or four times is pretty scary.”
Are there more Great Whites around now than there were thirty years ago? It’s the simple mathematics of what happens when you protect an apex predator for twenty-five years.
After the fourth attack on a surfer in 2018, and just before a Gold Coast real estate agent was hit and killed at the Superbank, Steve “Longtom” Shearer asked,
Are we at a tipping point where we say, maybe it’s time to take the gloves off?
History proves there ain’t no tipping point.
For despite everything, despite the overwhelming evidence that Great Whites patrol beaches in abundance and with impunity, nothing, not the roll call of surfers dying, literally, in the mouths of sharks, including a seventeen-year-old girl and a fifteen-year-old boy, will shift a perception in the essential perfection and mythology of the Great White.
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Oh that is a super tough wank.
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I’m not sure “stay together” is actually a shark safety thing? When I’m eating honey roasted peanuts I grabbed them from the center of the pack.
Cool, just booked the annual family pilgrimage for next year. Three kids is too many… right?
2.5 is average! Ooooft quite sadistic for me even that one.
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They’ve all had a good run. 3rd most promising so…
Shark Cull Australian Rivers/Oceans Party
Vote 1 SCAR/OP 🚫
They called off a local boardriders recently here due to a 1m reef shark hanging out briefly. I think sometimes the woke has gone too far.
Can’t have too many surfers invading old mate sharks safe space.
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Nightmare fuel.
Asked a buddy in Byron if they’ve been on his mind and he says that nobody’s been thinking about then this year.
Stay safe you filthy cunts. Kye’s got the right idea.
Spread the word . . Surfing’s no good for you . . Or your children
“On a wave they were never going to miss” literally misses wave.
Haha fucken hell aye.
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Exactly what I came to write. How the fuck do you miss a big soft wall of white water, on a fun board, with a MASSIVE great white shark out the back? I mean the shark’s not handing out participation trophies, catch that fucking white wash
FUCK
THAT
That guy’s a legend keeping calm like that.
Points lost for the name Kye and round nosed sled with GoPro mount. And DR the mythology of the Great White is flourishing here in AmeriKKKa.
😂
Shark swam away in disgust.
You are terrible!!
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When you’re so f lame, a Whitey doesn’t even want to gnaw on ya….
in onshore mush at that.
Its like wearing a sign that says don’t worry about me just take any wave you want.
DR only posted this because they called it a man eater and not a person eater.
What about a man hole eater ohlalalala.
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Full on
Why 5 accounts ? What am I missing here . Vote for t rump 5 times ?
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