"He tried his whole life to warn people of things to come and now it’s happening."
If you were a little boy growing up in that long-gone version of Australia in the seventies and eighties, you knew the name Vic Hislop, a beefy shark fisherman whose skin wore a lingering fragrance of shark blood.
Vic would drive his little dinghy into the wilds, deploy multiple lines simultaneously from his boat to tire out these enormous sharks then deliver, as the shark came alongside, the coup de grace – a steel-jacketed bullet from a high-powered rifle into the White or tiger’s brain.
As he wrote in his self-published Shark Man (1993),
“They cruise around 24 hours a day tearing apart family-oriented animals such as dolphins and dugong, eating or maiming the young as well as their mother and father… Surely the creator must have realised the terrible imbalance and injustice and must have put me here to help and restore the balance and justice for all the gentle creatures of the sea”.
He was also into the protection of non-dangerous sharks, grey nurses etc.
Towards the end of his public life, Vic was the British pop artist Damien Hirst’s go-to shark man. Beginning in 1991, the Australian shark hunter supplied and prepared a dozen sharks for the British artist’s installations, most of them destined for exhibitions selling for millions of dollars apiece.
It was Hislop who hauled in the 14-foot tiger shark from Hervey Bay, Queensland, that Hirst preserved in formaldehyde as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, the piece that turned him into a household name in the art world. Hislop’s fee for catching and shipping the shark ran to around £6,000, a rounding error against the roughly $8 million the finished work later fetched.
By 2005 the original specimen was falling apart inside its tank, forcing Hirst to ring Hislop again. This time Hislop delivered five sharks to a UK warehouse, three more tiger sharks plus a great white, and threw one in at no charge, so the work could be restored.
Obvs, it all got a bit too much for the shifting tastes of the mainstream populace and Vic soon disapeared from our screens.
Anyway, the modern incarnation of Vic Hislop, BeachGrit habitué Joel Nancarrow, has written movingly of Vic, now seventy-nine, and hopes he can help bring a few viewers to Vic’s YouTube channel.
Anyone that has ever fished/swam/known what a shark was will know This man.
His names always mentioned by people asking what he would do in shark attack posts.
I’ve never really spoken about him in my posts because he has done a lifetime of incredible things and doesn’t owe anyone a thing.
If I have a question about white sharks, I call Vic, if I need to know something I can’t afford to be wrong on with whites, I call Vic, this man has forgotten more about sharks since breakfast than we could hope to learn in 10 lifetimes, he was and will always be ahead of his time with Knowledge.
He tried his whole life to warn people of things to come and now it’s happening, he may not shark fish anymore but he’s had a gut full of this stuff and asked if I can help get his YouTube channel out there and he’s uploading everything that used to get hidden before it ever made the media that genuinely would have saved so many people.
I grew up in awe of this bloke and hopefully this stuff he’s about to release finishes what he worked his whole life for.
I’ll turn the comments off in this one for obvious reasons, he’d still turn everyone of them inside out but they don’t deserve the chance to have a say.
I’ll post the link in the comments to his stuff on YouTube, I’ve seen some of it and after I post this, I’m having the night off to watch the rest as it is unbelievable!!!!!!
Interesting, yes?
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I opened the front door this morning to see the dawn. Light onshores. Misty.
Then I realised I could SMELL the fish running from over a K away.
Figured the surf would be garbage anyway, but wouldn’t have paddled even if it was good.
Got the beach and saw all the gulls on the various baitballs near and far.
Let me know if you want to use the method described or want me to send a copy to you.
Ok, this new white power discuz thing is marking everything as spam, even a Reddit address. Search google for Sea of Darkness Oblowitz, look for Reddit convo from few months ago, there is a link in there to a Martin edit of the movie. Better than nothing.
Real jobs for real men. Good wages, satisfying work and a free copy of Killing Machine by Judas Priest on sign up for extra motivation.
Great album seen JP five times way back in my misspent youth.
Its above. Supposedly another called Point of Change about the fallout from the discovery of Lagundri but I have no idea if its any good. Assuming not since haven’t heard much about it.
it’s good
You know of anywhere for free streaming? I can’t find it yet.
This Nanacrow fella could fart and Dez would turn it into a headline. Struth. Suck him off mate.
1. What’s the best way to make gravy?
2. All of your comments always seem quite ornery and prickly toward the local, zionist-adjacent, francophile, surf-magazine editor legend.
I do admire your love for the GWs and your willingness to take on those of use who want to cull a significant amount of thier numbers, but did you really just come here today to make that comment and say nothing else? Do you think that your case for getting him to conduct fellatio on another man was convincing enough? Seemingly not.
3. Do you prefer white flour or corn starch as a thickener for your gravy?
Serial account deleter.
Is he coeliac?
Brilliant!
All happened when Gila first came in and started deleting comments. Negs had a soft spot for him but eventually he too got fed up and banished him to Strayan Cunt’s bumhole a few times.
So was Gila (crazy, in Indonesian) the same ranting deleting twit a Blowarse/job ?
If so, now I’m twigging on to what’s happening…
Gila Kontol (which actually means crazy for dick, not crazy dick) is the same person as Blowin, None, John Dory, etc.
I see the doughboy farmer woke up during the night and deleted his most egregious defamatory shit cunt posts.
Any post deleting to cover shit cunt comments is fucked in my world. But you already know that.
I have a copy of it somewhere, just not sure where it is though. If I find it I’ll send it to you somehow but it ain’t the original.
preying on “family-oriented animals”. That’s rich. I am sure that is calculated because white sharks are such jerks.
This whole shark business is so silly.
Saw on local news last night that there’s a sea turtle nest in seal beach. First time in recorded history.
Don’t tell the white sharks!
Nothing happened with the login, seems the same. As for down below, its like a repeat of previous conversations. Deleting comments is pretty lame, that was why Com went on that mass run of screenshotting dumb comments and reposting them right after.
What’s you’ll favourite surf film of all time, and two reasons why?
Which one would you be happy to watch again, even though you’ve seen it dozens of times?
Five summer stories of course. Talk about an era defining film. Also Crystal Eyes by Yuri Farrant. Incredible footage of the north shore
Oh yeah the music for five summer stories, especially the beach boys, was great.
And the interview with Rory Russel at the end of crystal eyes where he was talking about going to a fancy party at diamond head with grubby Clark when he was a kid. There was a huge buffet and Rory asked grubby if he could go back for seconds.
“Get it while you can Kid” Grubby told him.
Litmus-Derek Hynd’s interview, Joel Fitz
Indo Express-because its Indo
Sea of Darkness-absurdity of what they did
Have you seen the unedited version?
Ha!
Anything with Annette Funacello
Wet Pussy Dicsucz
Xox
Finteresting.
Every fishing port/village has a Vic. This one seems different! Old salts tell the best tales, and this one seems no different! Special. Having gone to war with the oceans apex predator I can only imagine the things ole Vic has seen. Im definitely about to dive into the channel and absorb as much as possible. Great write up Derek. Interest peaked!
Sounds like the Australian shark attack file is, in Vics eye’s, corrupt. I believe the fella. One tidbit that gives me chills is when he talks about the smell coming from the sharks after they’ve eaten a human. How it is far worse than anything else they prey upon. Chills…
humans have got a pretty big shitbag. Like a rabbit but lots bigger
I recon. I would’ve not thought it worse than say, a dolphin. The amount of blood they carry is incredible. Not sure what a dugong is, but it sounds big. Another tidbit said in a different clip is from the marine research guy. “We can afford to lose a few skin divers a year”. Telling…
think we accidentally got the wpDicks plug in
Jeezus..never go full retard
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what’s going on below here?
where did this blow up come from?
Sharks happened
Blowie went psycho
Then deleted heaps
Then came back weirder
The farmer from NZ wanted the sharks at my local beach killed so he could sleep without the nightlight on.
I told him to harden the fuck up and he doubled down with the power whining.
I realised that the argument was destined to go thermonuclear because I found his crying to be objectionable but he showed no sign of self awareness dawning. I weighed my options and decided that he was ordinarily a decent enough bloke so I nixed the whole thing from my end. Delete and reset. No biggy. Obviously not the preferred method taken by others on here but that’s my prerogative.
So I chose to walk away, however I came back later and the farmer had started foaming at the mouth. Firehosing pure defamatory dogshit like he was getting paid by the word. And here we are.
He’s ten bongs and fifteen longnecks of Kiwi lager deep, sitting in a puddle of his own piss and slurring about how drunk I am whilst I’m sitting here dead sober.
He’s slandering my sanity whilst dribbling shit like a mad woman .
He’s saying I’m unstable and how’s my missus put up with me, whilst his missus had enough of his shit, packed her bags and left years ago,
End of story.
I don’t delete comments
But now I’ll have to block you cos you’re just a fuckin’ psycho
On your bike then, cunt.
Don’t start shit if you don’t want it returned in spades. I was magnanimous about it but you couldn’t help yourself.
Feel free to reengage when you’ve emptied your nappy. Everyday is a fresh day. Life’s too short etc
So the new disqus rollover is going great by all accounts.
From what you’ve told us,mate….your woman left you. And there’s no replacement knocking down the door.
So perhaps it’s time to curb your little assumptions about me and mine?
No I didn’t.
For a start, which woman ?
I never talk about any stuff like that on here.
And always think that those who do are being idiots.
Goodness knows what your kids think about your psychotic episodes, cos if ya like this here goodness knows what ya like at home…
Sorry brother I will shut up about Mindy and Minis mum from now on!!
How did that go?
About five comments ago you told us you used to be married.
Unless you’re widowed, in which case I sincerely apologise for the mention, then you’ve broken up with the women who swore to be with you till death do you part.
Which means she’s gone because you couldn’t maintain a relationship.
And yet here you are bleating your shit about me, bloke.
Wow you really are a spinner
Go bleat to ya wife and kids
Though they probably don’t even exist
Good bye………
No, mate. Not pissed.
Just realised the conversation was going somewhere I didn’t want it to go. I usually like your comments and you’re entitled to your opinion but unfortunately sometimes I don’t like taking a backward step and would rather escalate. That’s where that was headed from my end.
So I put an end to it. It’s actually the opposite of me losing control. It’s me being rational enough to decide I didn’t want to alienate you over something so meagre.
But that’s the problem….people often confuse kindness for weakness.
No big deal. As you were.
Hahahaha na carn mate thats not what happened at all. If you really didn’t wanna fall out with Beefy you would have just stopped posting and left your existing comments up to let everyone see where you were coming from. Maybe then politely just say Beefy I don’t wanna fall out with ya over tihs so I’m not going to say anything else.
Instead you deleted all of your comments on here once again, which even Old Negs banned you for once before. If ya don’t like or agree with what ya post then just don’t say it. Deleting a pissed mistake once or twice is sweet but when it happens over and over it shows a pattern and just pisses cunts off. Just my opinion and what the fuck would I know cuz I just fuck this place up hahaha
Nope. That’s exactly what happened. I didn’t want to go down that path from start to finish so I erased it.
Except when I came to have a look Ol Beefy had doubled down with the shit slinging. This time he’s gone full retard and saying I’m medicated, on drugs and insane.
So yeah, it doesn’t take much to realise why I’d now decide the cunt isn’t really worth the good intentions ?
Stop acting like a psycho then.
I wouldn’t have a clue who you were before you changed your name, but do remember a lot of deleted comments and bannings etc. and general discussion of fuckwits.
So whoever you are, fuck off and go sit on a whale carcass you boring dickhead.