TEEN SURFER KILLED BY TWO sharks

[Testosterone boy]

thats the beach i used to swim at!!! i used to live (a year ago) about 3 miles from there

anyway that report is old, witnesses of the incident have now said that there may only have been one shark, and that shark has apparently ben shadowing the area for the past 2 weeks. conditions today are apparently excellent, visibility is great, the water is very flat, and the shark was spotted this morning (ie a few hours ago). the South Australian government has sent shark hunters on a search and destroy mission, so hopefully we will be seeing pictures of a very large dead shark by the weekend

dont get me wrong, im not one of those people that demands animals be killed in their own habitat, but given that this shark has been stalking the area for a sustained time, and has taken someone...just kill the damn thing already, im going on holiday there in a month or so and i want to get in the water!

Should be quite safe after that killer shark gets taken out.

That was meant to be smart ass....fell short.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I think great whites are fascinating (though not for this). They should be feared, since the water is their territory, and anyone who ventures 750 feet from shore is at their mercy, which apparently they weren't interested in showing in this case. I though whites only attacked if they smelled blood, or perhaps fear? It's tragic, those sharks tag-teamed that kid... shit. Maybe it was a mother with her young one, teaching it how to hunt. That would've been terrifying to experience being attacked by a shark. At least the kid didn't have a chance to suffer. Merciless killers, the great white are.


dirty~d~, do you have any extensive knowledge of great whites and their feeding habits? I'd like to read them.

 

[Centurion]

it's funny cause i dont know him

 

[shawnerk]

hmm- I thought great whites traveled alone, maybe wrong- Damn, as if one isnt bad enough- sucks for those people

 

[GoldenDelicious]

I think great whites are fascinating (though not for this). They should be feared, since the water is their territory, and anyone who ventures 750 feet from shore is at their mercy, which apparently they weren't interested in showing in this case. I though whites only attacked if they smelled blood, or perhaps fear? It's tragic, those sharks tag-teamed that kid... shit. Maybe it was a mother with her young one, teaching it how to hunt. That would've been terrifying to experience being attacked by a shark. At least the kid didn't have a chance to suffer. Merciless killers, the great white are.


dirty~d~, do you have any extensive knowledge of great whites and their feeding habits? I'd like to read them.

uuuuuuuh the 17 foot long mother teaching the 15 foot long 'baby' how to hunt? lol

i get the impression taht the 15 footer kinda already knows what its doing

anyway they dont usually attack people, and if they do, take an 'exploratory bite' first, to see if its something that they want to eat. humans apparently taste bad/different, and so people are usually left alone after the first bite. (the bite is just a quick chomp, not a chunk being torn out) apparently theyre more interested in eating seals etc.

sharks are the reason i dont swim where i am at the moment...i mean, crocodiles arent really going to get you out on the open water, but the sharks around here are something else...the only reason no one has been taken is because no one swims (water is full of jellyfish etc) but wowee are tehre some big tiger sharks around here...went fishing once and caught a hammerhead that was bigger than the boat...and the boat was 20 feet long...we were like oooommmmggggggggggggggggggg and cut the line faster than perk getting off on tranny poon...

 

[biteme]

It's like wandering around the jungle with lions on the prowl. I'm just surprised it doesn't happen way more often. This is stereotypical, but most black people that I have known, think white people are crazy for swimming in the ocean.

 

[Sassy69]

What GD said. Sharks only see about as good as we do -- surfers look like sea lions from underneath. Anything struggling in the water could be a target dinner. Something like 3/4 of the shark attacks recorded in the Shark Attack File are either "mistaken identity" or something provoked the attack (say like a diver pulling the tail of a nurse shark under a ledge --- would you pull the tail of a sleeping pit bull???). A very small percentage are actual "killer shark attacks".

It does suck tho. If you see shark teeth up close, it is really gruesome to imagine that ripping thru you.

 

[Wynn]

Can we say OWNED ?

More like SHARED.

If there had not been witnesses the family probably would have assumed drowning and a search effort would have begun. The parents didn't have much to bury at a funeral.

 

[Taps]

My uncle was attacked by a shark when he was in his teens. He said the impact was so strong it knocked the wind out of him, and at first he thought he'd been hit by a speedboat. Fortunetly, the shark was just tasting him (as noted above, sharks usually "sample" thier prey before killing it) and he was able to swim back to shore.

He was lucky. Needed stitches on his left leg, and had major bruising from the impact - but nothing life threatening.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

uuuuuuuh the 17 foot long mother teaching the 15 foot long 'baby' how to hunt? lol

i get the impression taht the 15 footer kinda already knows what its doing

Hahaha, I missed that part.