Hi
Yesterday I've seen another fin in the water and swimming around.
I've switched to panic mode and I jumped outta water and I asked other kiters and they told me that they are couple of small sharks and they wont attack you.

On the other incident I cr@p my wetsuit because of a whale (I thought it's a big shark)

When am I legally allowed to panic?
Is there any special type of fin than I should beware off?

When am I legally allowed to panic?

When the fin is triangle shape and between 500mm - 1m protruding from the water.

Even then no need to panic because they normally won't let you see them if they are going to attack. If they are hungry they will hit you like a mack truck, it'll be out where the water drops away to the dark depths of the indian ocean. That way they can generate speed from below, it will be over in minutes.

That's my uneducated guess anyway......

You won't have time to panic.
Its the ones you don't see that will eat you.

Lots of sharkies around at the mo, seen about four small ones in the past 2 days in and around Scabs.

Idiot said...

Is there any special type of fin than I should beware off?

Otto, Nils, Stefan to name a few.

Yep it's a quiet day at work.

That's about as funny as a shark attack.

Bully said...

be aware of surfboard fins, they will follow you everywhere and strike when you least expect it, and no you will not see them coming

Hope I get the hang of jibing soon then :)))

getfunky said...

Usually when you here the cello kick in it is officially 'lay cable' time.

lol

gruezi said...

Idiot.........

Great video fish lover.
I've done speed riding last year (bullet 09 speed wing) and I can promise you that I'm not brave enough to do that again.
That is one crazy sport which if you don't die by an accident you will die from a heart attack

When to panic:

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Hell yeh!!!!

Saw a 5 ft Hammerhead at Leighton last season as I came over a bit of chop and he was probably only about 6-8 metres from me, it was actually awesome to watch him just swimming around slowly, I was cautious, but a hell of a lot calmer than I thought I would have been.