Ian K said.. dan berry said..
It hung around for a while after the attack. Can't believe they didn't shoot it.
I had a bit of a google search to find any reports of the one shark biting a second person. Never been recorded. Tigers are known to become man eaters but sharks apparently not. The shark that has bitten a person and found them not tasty is possibly safer to be in the water with than one that hasn't.
I actually have a very frail book called Shark Attack. It was written in 1958 V.M. Coppleson. It goes into all the worlds shark attacks (at the time) and tries to form any patterns. It was actually very thorough and it looked at all sorts of parameters. Like animals in the water, people seeing in the water, water temps, splashing, tides, women menstruating, that sort of thing. He found that one of only three coincidences was that the shark will almost never attack a second person in the water. I can even remember one story in San Fran were a surfer was attacked and swimmers surrounded the victim and the shark kept trying to get at him, eventually re attacking from below, but it never attacked any one else.
He worked mostly through the International Shark Attack file. Id like to re -read it, but the pages are so frail I'm scared they'll break..
Edit; This is what was written about an attack in Bryon
1937. 23rd October.
Thomas McDonald, 16 years, Byron Bay Beach Lat. 28Deg 38"S. Day Cloudy. Ari temp 75. Sea Temp 65. recovery.
Swimming 120 yards out near old jetty, felt searing pain in side. Attacked twice. Came ashore on wave. typical Bump injuries (see text). Shark about 8 feet long seen by onlooker and warning given. Shark first attacked a lifesaver on surf ski, who drove it of with paddle. It made towards another man who frightened it away by kicking, and then attacked McDonald.
