GWS spotted again last 3 dd in a row. What are the f..ing authorities waiting for? Another death? Maybe a kid? Only a matter of time again.

They should hunt and kill all great whites over 2.5 meters. There is no reason to have such large predators in the water. These sharks are hungry because we take all their food. Either we kill them or they eat us.

SHARKS ARE NOT MAN KILLERS! horses kill more people cars kill more people illicit drugs kill more people. ffs smoking kills more people but you want to hurt an innocent creature? if you get eaten then bad effing luck!!!! p.s I had a gws eat a tow rope out of my hands a couple of months ago on the east coast n i dont hate them

Think about what you have just typed. They clearly can't be that hungry as they have reached over 2.5 m, almost certainly without enjoying the taste of human flesh.

Why is it their water? The ocean covers the greater part of our planet. Surely we can have a small little strip adjacent to land that we can feel relatively safe in. Also I dont buy all the BS about mistaken ID. Maybe in the past,maybe with other non GW species,, but WE are being hunted now. If we were not a food source most of these victims remains would be found.

People killed by Sharks every year: 9 So more than half were in WA!!!??

^ this ****s me- people surprised sharks live in the water.

What part dont yu understand? Looks pretty clear to me.

i understand you're a dumb **** . what else is there to understand ?

The part with "we don't need sharks bigger than 2.5 m in the water" is so ridiculous is not funny. How to put this clear and comprehendable: WE (humans) depend on the effing SHARKS. WE (humans) are already harming ourselves by killing so many effing SHARKS. Yes, it's such a tragic and painful experience to lose someone like that, but that doesn't mean we should hunt and kill them. Because they play a huge role in this already unbalanced world. I am scared as **** when I go in the water, but that is part of the experience and I am willing to take the risk. Just a super brief explanation of why do we need sharks... As the apex predators of the oceans, the role of sharks is to keep other marine life in healthy balance and to regulate the oceans. The prospect of a food chain minus its apex predators may mean the end of the line for many more species. Sharks have widespread global distribution, are highly migratory and play a vital role in maintaining the health of ocean ecosystems. Sharks are a critical component in an ecosystem that provides 1/3 of our world with food, produces more oxygen than all the rainforests combined, removes half of the atmosphere's manmade carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas), and controls our planet's temperature and weather. The oceans are the most important ecosystem on the planet, and our best defense against global warming, containing life that absorbs most of the carbon dioxide (global warming gas) that we put into the atmosphere, converting it into a large percentage of the oxygen we breathe. Sharks play a vital role at the top of the food chain by maintaining balance in the oceans. Destroying shark populations could destroy our oceans and our life support system. We have already witnessed localized collapses of fisheries and ecosystems due to the removal of sharks, including the scallop fisheries in Chesapeake Bay, the coral reefs in Belize and the cod in New England.

Errr, wild pigs are an introduced species in Australia and as such should be culled. You can't justify killing sharks on this basis. Non argument.

How many people in Gracetown, Port Kennedy, Cottesloe and Wedge have been killed by elevators, escalators or toasters? How many have been ripped limb-for-limb by blood-thirsty maruading sharks?

Cott and trigg

Err, So are poms and europeans. Should they be culled as well?

Apparently about 20 years ago the GWS became a totally protected species in Aus. Is it possible we are now living with the consequences of this decision? I don't want to see any species wiped out, but is the great white at risk of this? If not, then I'm curious why they are totally protected?

In recent years more people have been critically injured/ripped limb-for-limb and/or killed on blood thirsty, marauding dirt bikes at Wedge/Lancelin than all shark attacks around the entire country, you'd have a greater impact on human life banning dirt bikes in and around this tiny stretch of coast than you would have if you killed every GWS in Australian waters. Face it, kiting, surfing, diving, kayaking, whatever you poison, now has a slightly higher risk of something bad happening with more GWS around. Why did so many many surfers undermined their own argument by going back in the water at Wedge so soon after the last attack? If there are so many sharks in the water that the risk is unacceptable why the feck did they go back in the water at Wedge so soon and before any GWS were culled? If it's back in the water at the same beach and as an act of solidarity towards the victim (it's what they would have wanted...) why is that justification no longer bandied around two or three weeks later when the risk is reduced? I think if you can put up with the risk of going back in the water at the exact same spot as a fatal attack less than 24 hours earlier then you lose the right to whinge about the risk three weeks later. Culling, shark nets, a better shark shield, I've no fricken idea what the solution is, neither does anyone else really, what is needed before this problem can be managed is more meaningful research and more tagging, and lots of it. Then a decent, informed decision can be made. The call to cull 'em all without any scientific basis and with what can only be considered objectively at the moment as a statistical anomaly is narrow-minded, selfish and short-sighted. For the record, if I get taken by a shark kiting, diving or kayaking at my local; you can leave the shark alone and I don't want you back in the water at the same spot the next day as an act of solidarity, put it simply, stay the feck out of the water for a few days, there's a big shark out there!