'My friend said, "Jack, I think there's been a shark attack" and I looked out to the ocean and I could see a pool of blood.'"
The endangered Great White shark sure do get around considering its numbers are so fragile anyone found killing one can get seven years in the can and fined one hundred and fifty gees.
On Monday, a few hundred clicks north of Perth in a town called Geraldton, an off-duty fire fighter was surfing fifty yards off the beach when a suspected Great White tore his foot off.
One mad dog, surfer Shannan Dunn, swam out into the bloody water to save ol Mel.
“He basically said, ‘A shark’s got me, it’s taken my leg’”.
“When I chucked him in the back of the ute – it’s an old Navara – I told all the boys in the back and the lady, I said, ’This isn’t going to be a smooth ride, ’cause I’m gonna be gunning it and this car is pretty rough so just hang on’,” Dunn said.
If you want irony, Mel was photographed with Mick Fanning in 2015, shortly before Mick had his own dance with a Great White.
And, earlier today, Sorrento Beach, a mostly waveless beach north of Trigg on Perth’s northern beaches, was shut after two men went swimming and only one returned.
Witness Jacqui Rapaic told the state broadcaster.
My friend said, “Jack, I think there’s been a shark attack” and I looked out to the ocean and I could see a pool of blood,” she told the ABC. “I hugged onto my friend… [we] felt rather traumatised at that point,” she said. “It happened so quickly.”
Another told 9,
“I’m a nurse, so I mean I obviously see a lot of gruesome stuff, but to see somebody being mauled to death in the water in front of me is pretty hard to clock.” The nurse said the shark threw the man around “like a fish.”
“I only live just down the road, and I swim every day. I mean, there’s no way I’m going to be getting in that water again.”
The attack marks the twenty-fourth shark attack fatality in Western Australia since 2000.
Great White sharks have been protected in WA waters since 1997 and since 1999 Australia-wide.
In the previous one hundred years there were five, one, Bobby Bartle in 1967 inspiring the classic Goons of Doom song, The Great Shark of Jurien Bay.
“The amount of Great Whites is incredible. People are gonna hide from it and say it’s not. It is.”
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Stop it with the bullshit that these sharks are endangered. They assuredly are not endangered or threatened. We should be making HamSammishes out of them instead of the other way around.
I thought that phrase used “liberty” ?
Nice pics!
Re Trestles, if you missed the chat yesterday or the LT wrap over on SWN , here’s the bottom line: Herdy and Marshall (especially Mateus) hold Pip’s CT future in their tender fingers
Aussie phenomenon is strange , tons of whites on both US coasts , just check the new occupation of “drone camera shark finder influencer” , but rarely a nibble from them on the humans (knock on wood) , have no answers but continues to be a mystery to me that someone hasn’t actually invented a decent shark deterrent device yet – would be revolutionary , and the answer has to be out there, too bad geeks don’t surf (outside of pools)
I think a few of those lizards are running for office here in the states
Lolol. Nice.
This post and the pictures are the equivalent of an invasive species at BG. I encourage the migration!
At least the one shark has good taste in surfboards.
Jon Pretzel
Todays person who was ‘disappeared’ 15 meters off the sand was a swimmer.
Not nibbled.
Not bitten.
Not munched.
DISAPPEARED.
Let us know when you’ve made your experimental shark zapper so we can all come and watch it get smashed to bits before the current has any affect.
Or get some decent footage.
Little baby fish, like birds and lizards
I guarantee not even an experienced shark wrangler like yourself will try that with a 20 foot GW charging in for lunch.
I’d dare you to, but aren’t that much of a prick to want to see you eaten.
Apparently a behemoth, a lot more are perhaps getting to late maturity and becoming opportunistic. Scary times.
Xox
We don’t get the yellow coloured rosella here (surf coast Vic), ours are just red and blue (google tells me it’s a crimson rosella). King parrots incredibly tame, will sit on your arm even if you haven’t got and seeds. Rosellas way more shy.
Our lizards look completely different too.
How many of the Gritties that are around regularly are from your coast? Two or three, or more than that?
Wiggs was from that general area, if I remember correctly buts he’s retired now.
How has the surf been recently?
Sometimes I think half the people here are from Victoria. Wiggs I never met but seemed pretty obvious he was from Torquay. I think Harry Dean is, but might be from what we call the “east coast” (other side of Melbourne). Of course Brutus. Reckon there’s a few others too. Deeks?
Surf has been fantastic the past 2 months or so. Everyone talks about Easter being best for surf but I prefer spring through to summer.
Yeah morn.pe n. 40 from the bass coast. It’s been pumping alright an I’m injured. Torn tendon. Fucked!
and yeah I agree this time of year
Did not expect a jello biafra reference in the comments, that’s for sure.
No you can’t
You may deter them temporarily, but never teach a wild massive GW that only wants to eat and reproduce.
Their instincts over-ride everything.
That’s why they’re called ‘animal instincts’.
Especially in certain seasons wild animals don’t control their behaviour by will.
Their behaviour in these seasons are purely instinctive.
In this instance ‘doing something’ is really only achieved by getting out there, breaking a few laws, and knocking the GW numbers back a bit without asking permission.
The good old fashioned Aussie spirit…
A bit different there.
Those animals are brought up with it and learn it all their life.
I’m a cattle farmer, and I see it on a daily basis, its my business, how our family makes our income.
A big fuckin’ untamed bush bull will come in and smash your fences before it knows what’s hit it, and the fences are then ineffective.
(they really dont give a fuck unless they were brought up on that system)
Then your fences don’t work and you have to fix them again and again etc etc etc.
How do you propose effectively zapping a 20 foot wild GW from a boat in salt water without all kinds of shit going on that will probably end up in you stinging yaself and the shark smashing ya boat ?
Just knock the numbers back a bit, in true old fashioned Aussie spirit.
You obviously are
I said Aussies have lost their spirit
You didn’t disagree…
And you’re the on who wants to zap it with a little nonlethal shock ?
Bloody hilarious stuff
They’ll be straight back for another electric massage after they’ve eaten the next person
Big animals dont give a fuck about that sort of thing
Hahahahaha
That’s just hilarious
So now you’re saying ALL Aussies wherever they are have turned lame, whether in Bali or Sydney.
Actually the ones in Bali sound lamer, lazier, and even more self-centered than the ones at home.
Yeah well, do something about it then.