I'm up for facing your fears no matter how big or small.........two great articles, thanks for posting them!

Brilliant guys!

I think you've just cured our reckless kiter tourist problem... post these shark satellite tracks all over the web!

That's a gripping and *very* sobering story Nonickers.
That's certainly my biggest fear.
How deep was he water underneath you?
Thanks
Graeme

i was a fair way out so the water was quite deep where i was and crystal clear .... thats why i had no doubt about what it was....
last year i could not even get in the water because seaweed scared the crap out of me ... let alone sharks!
its amazing how your body sets itself to survival mode when you are in such a situation

Hey Wave-ho what do you do?

wrestle em in and give em a bit of a hiding

or tell em to fark off and go bother a hearing?

had a great session from 5-6:30

As a rule I dont eat shark

You no eat me I no eat you

Ah, shark topics, it's almost as high on the list of topics in the human race as God and Politics; especially with kiting folk.

Personally, I will be the first to say that my biggest fear, apart from marriage (in July) is the great white. I am an import from South Australia and I don't live there anymore for one reason, dark shapes that are bigger than the average taxi.

I'm humbled in the environment that I live. (Geraldton and up and out to the Abrohlos) I'ts important to me that I keep a very honest perspective about it all and it's quite simple. Assessing risks before going on the water, in all circumstances minimise the risk of a bad encounter with creatures from the deep is one of my pre water considerations. I'll be the first to tell anyone, that arriving on the beach in the dark after a long swim is a life changing experience, it's simply humbling. Something to learn from and not to be repeated. from such an experience I learnt caution, but not fear, just enough to make me think about what I'm doing before doing it. Failing all that I have faith that I'm a nice guy and I don't deserve such a fate, I have so much to offer the world. That's why you won't find me under the narrows bridge.

Hey Gav,

I like you, have a healthy respect and moderate fear of sharks, especially the big white ones, however, I think you missed the one thing that makes this and most other sharks so scary is that they eat nice guys too.

I dont think that they discriminate between nice guys, bad girls, fat or thin people, young or old. That is the problem, they kill indescriminately and if you make it back to the beach after a long night swim back in, then you were either lucky or the shark wasn't hungry as was probably the case with Nonikkers. They may have even discovered you werent actually on their menu without having a taste test first as is the case with the Bull sharks or Bronzies.

I'm sure the guy who got taken at Cowarumup was a nice guys after having read the thoughts of friends and surfers who knew him. Minimizing the risk is the best bet, know the conditions they feed in and avoid thrashing around panicking if you are out there in trouble.

If you get nailed, it was just a roll of the dice and nothing more, at least if it happens to me, I will be in my playground where I am at my most peaceful and happy and would have been enjoying what I love the most, ..... the ocean!

a relayed point from a sport shark fisherman who has caught almost all types of shark and all just inside the port phillip bay heads.
Some were to big to get in the boat some bigger than the boat, and were cut loose.

In his quest for better fishing spots, he asked a shark spotter plane pilot where he saw the biggest sharks the most.

Answer: 20m outside the breakers at all the main surf beaches!

rules: don't kite with seals and surfers. Wear a shirt with "i'm not a seal or surfer" written on the back, and "surfers that way (big arrow)"on the front.
girls should just kite in bikini's

best winds
Tony

Tourboat operators who attract sharks with big chunks of bloody meat so dumb tourists can gawk at the 'man-eaters' feeding in a frenzy should be horse-whipped.

We get a lot of hammerheads around here (Perth). There was a big one at the end of last season which closed down the Cotteloe beach one hot Sunday afternoon. I arrived to see 1,000 people playing on the waters edge but not a single person actually in the water.

I did a bit of reading up on hammerheads. The web site said there had been 352 reported attacks in the last couple of hundred years, but not one fatality. I took that to mean that we don't have to worry about dying if there is a hammerhead in the water, even though he might chomp your foot off.

Graeme

Last Update: Saturday, March 19, 2005. 7:12pm (AEDT)

Man killed in shark attack

A man has been killed in a shark attack off the West Australian coast.

Police say the 26-year-old deckhand was with a group of tourists snorkelling off the Abrolhos Islands, about 500 kilometres north of Perth, when he was attacked by a six-metre shark.

It is understood the man died from massive injuries.

Police say the group was from a luxury charter boat called the Matrix, which was on its maiden voyage to the Kimberley.

Police say it was moored off Pelseart Island when the attack happened.

Nobody else was injured.

Police and fisheries officers are travelling to the island to recover the man's body.

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I find this S thread fascinating.....a huge resource to challenge us all.

Personally, I find I am much too busy recovering from whatever stupid thing I did to even think about anything else..........but get going again, and asap.........because y'a never know what could happen next.

I agree with Ral Inn

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sharks maybe a little dumb but they tend to be like macdonald's customers.

they eat what they think they know to be food.

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So, better not to go out under-powered, at dusk and bleeding after being cut up by the reef.