I seem to remember a story on here about the Winning Men's 8 Cox getting thrown into the Swan River in celebration, and getting taken by a shark... ?

1920's or something.... ??

Google isn't helping me out at the moment.

Does anyone else remember...

A scout saved a another person in the 60s/70s near the brewery... I remember the story from my scouting days... googling reveals news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19710831&id=UPc0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=uZADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5445,6016863&hl=en
and
www.mundaring.wa.gov.au/amlibweb/webquery.dll?v1=pbMarc&v2=martin&v4=130789&v5=3X&v8=130790&v9=0&v10=N&v11=1654619&v13=4C&v20=4&v23=0&v25=179.6%2022&v27=170154&v35=%7B%5D0%5B%7D%7B%5D0%5B%7D%7B%5D0%5B%7D%7B%5D0%5B%7D&v46=130790

a shark was recently seen in the Peel Inlet near the serpentine river mouth.. cant find the link but was in the local paper...

Bull sharks are not at all uncommon in the Swan in the warmer months, had a big one go through a prawn drag net one night. Scared the crap out of us.

jbshack said...

Not Swan river but i remember many years ago they were talking about Bull sharks getting out of hand in the Gold Coast channels Has the situation settled or just not of public interest anymore

It was of interest over in WA when Mandurah was starting to take off from memory.

Not 100% on the gold coast but Bull shark are in every coastal waterways and river on the east coast, Clarence river is full of pups. And even lake macquarie down here has had a few sightings, we sailed along side one for a few minutes the other month, it was just cruising like a dolphin, maybe 50 yards offshore and the same distance from swimmers. Not scared at all we would have been 10 - 20 metres from it.n Bull sharks scare the **** outta me they bite first then see what they have got.

There is a really good tagging program done on bull sharks. And basically they are everywhere.

These are really cool. Taken from a thread on Fishwrecked

Jan 1888

1904

1923