Speculation Great White shark that killed surfer Lance Appleby just returned to site of attack

"Get out and stay out of the water on the Eyre Peninsula if you are paddle surfing."

As the South Australian surf town of Streaky Bay tries to return to some sort of normality after the death of local surfer Lance Appleby, disappeared by a Great White while surfing Granites three weeks ago, news that a Great White has been spotted patrolling the popular surf spot.

Amid warnings the Great White population had returned to “pre-white man biomass” and that surfing on the Eyre peninsula was effectively over for anyone squeamish about being hit by a Great White, the shark was seen just thirty feet from the rocks.

Streaky Bay shark fisherman, surfer and authority on Great Whites, Jeff Schmucker, the man who caught the seventeen-foot, ton-and-a-half fish that killed surfer Cameron Bays at Cactus in 2000 and which was still hanging around six weeks after the attack, posted the warning on his Instagram account.

It was Schmucker who warned surfers, ten hours before the attack on Lance Appleby, to stay away from Granites after one mate’s cray pots had been grabbed by a frenzying Great White and another mate, fishing for whiting, had been stunned by a sixteen-foot Great White attacking the little fish in a couple of feet of water.

One year earlier before the attack on Lance Appleby, 55-year-old Tod Gendle was hit, killed and disappeared by a fifteen-foot Great White while surfing among a crowd of a dozen surfers at Granites. The Great White left only Genle’s board and the stub of his legrope.

Earlier today, a light aircraft flying between Granite and Backbench spotted eight Great Whites.