Just thought I'd tell a shark story, as I have 2 hours of nothing to do.

Just got home from a sup on sun morn where the guys I was surfing with saw a couple of reef sharks. Nothing to worry about but they were still there. After the surf my two oldest boys 8 and 6 and myself headed down the beach for a surf in a pretty calm gutter. After a while of catching some beachies my 6 year old tells me that he can see a surfboard fin and can I get it for him. I ask him where abouts and he points about 5 m away to shark. It was not very big but I had both boys on my shoulders in no time running back to the shore through the gutter. I've seen plenty of sharks up close and personal in the surf, but have never had the heart racing as much as this time. I don't know if it was due to the risk of my boys or what would happen if the wife found out.

Lets hear your brush with the men in grey.

Not many shark stories in SA.
Well not many survive to tell them anyway....

True story,

An apprentice here at my work survived. He was surfing on the west coast here in SA when him and a mate got attacked. He says he was more worried about drowning at first and it keep dragging him under. He tryied to punch in in the face but ended up with his hand caught in its mouth. Then every bight the shark took would end up with more of his arm down its throat. He actually ended up with both arms in its mouth, its nose in his face and a complete loss of movement in his hands and fingers as all his tendons were cut on his arms. His surfing buddy swam over and eventually the scared it off. They ended up with both of them sitting on top of the surfboards together with the leg ropes tangled up. The shark attacked on numerous occasions but when it finally went, his mate dragged him ashore and a helicopter came and flew him to hostpital. By then he had become unconcious.

He survived thanks to his mate but had a few years with poor hand function and had a number of operations following.
He is back surfing now. He is the only person I know that has had an encounter. Never seen one myself.

years ago when i was into scuba had a dive of Heron Island with a bunch of germans , any way that morning we caught a couple tuna , about 6 of us where down and one bright German tourist on the dive boat though it would be a good idea to attract some reef sharks with some chum , no reef sharks come only 1 very large tiger!We exited the water very quickly and the German guy was in a lot of ****.

Seen lots of reef sharks diving , but they aren,t very scary , never seen a shark surfing , but at least suppers have a paddle to ward them off.The best sea life i have seen supping was a few weeks ago at Currumbin 2 large Manta Rays glided straight under my board.

Man thats a massive story about that lucky guy Were in great white country here and i surf heaps on my own im not temping fate talking about nothing

Time magazine did a great article on the things we actually fear and the things we should fear.

The odds of you being eaten by a shark are miniscule.

The odds of you dying from a heart attack from eating chips is very real.

It isn't the killer sharks you should fear but the " killer joules" and the "killer grams"