Shark Attacks
As we crest over the worst of winter and start looking forward to spring and warmer weather, a tricky question sits waiting on the horizon.
How do you solve a problem like shark attacks? Or, more to the point, is there one? There are more of us in the water than ever before. Are there more of them? And is that why WA has suffered through an horrific 10 months, with five fatal attacks?
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In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews.
As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club.
Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols.
Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis?
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Robert Smissen of country SA says:
You have about as much chance of winning lotto as you do getting bitten by a shark Read more »
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cheap white trash says:
RE Barnaby Joyce and Bob Katter,why raving loonies, well look no further that the MSM,most are coming from a socialist agenda,so you wouldn’t expect anything less,spin spin spin…. Maybe if the MSM did to Julie, Bob Brown and the greens,what it does to Barnaby and co,maybe things would be different,but… Read more »
Quint would be pleased. The professional shark-hunter from Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws would raise a glass and toast the WA government’s decision to authorise the destruction of the shark responsible for a diver’s death at Rottnest Island last week.
And just like in Jaws, there’s community hysteria, a loss of reasoned thought, at the idea there is a man-eater waiting in the shallows off the coast.
This reaction is admirable and understandable. The loss of a life through misadventure is tragic. Often the casualty is in their prime and their loved ones are always devastated. Our unreserved sympathies go out to those left behind in what must be the worst imaginable circumstances. No act or sentiment can ever fill the hole left in their lives.
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Mal 380 says:
We are a partly aquatic animal. We evolved in the tidal zone. That is why we aren’t covered in fur like every other non-aquatic animal. That is why we enjoy being in water, it is a primeval instinct for us. I’m a surfer and to tell me stay out of… Read more »
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Danielle says:
Humans in life are at risk all the time as all other creatures in nature are also. Every time you jump in your car you could be killed. You fly in a plane it may crash. You’re at work and it may be your last day you breathe. You are… Read more »
Some people get all the luck. Paul Welsh is surfing with his son, gets bitten (sorry, that should read ‘savagely menaced’) by a docile and mostly harmless Wobbegong and out come the cheque books.
Before a stitch is even sewn, he’s been snapped up by a television network and an early morning trip to the beach is now a big earner. Well done mate. If reports on the websites are true, you’ve hit the Shark-pot.
Shame it was only a Wobbegong. Imagine what you’d get for an actual Great White.
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Stan Wills says:
I’ve just fished a meter long White-crowned snake out of my pool , and set it loose .Maybe I should call some tv station and tell them it was an anaconda sizing me up .....could be worth some money Read more »
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Cameron says:
Every shark is a white pointer these days. And every snake a taipan. If the media had its way they would breed and release them to keep the numbers up! Will we now have a posse out shooting wobbegongs? Next time I go near our frog pond I will have… Read more »
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