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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on December 17, 2004, 12:11:16 AM
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Dunno bout you folks but where I come from when you drag something behind a boat its usually called "Trolling"
"being towed byt a power boat"?
why the hell didnt they just get him IN the boat
"ADELAIDE, Australia (Dec. 16) - Two great white sharks attacked and killed a surfer while his friends watched in horror Thursday off a popular beach in the southern Australian city of Adelaide, authorities said.
The 18-year-old man had fallen from a surfboard being towed by a power boat when the sharks attacked him off West Beach mid-afternoon, South Australia state Sea Rescue Squadron spokesman Fraser Bell said.
"He fell off the surfboard and the shark appeared and took him," Bell told reporters. "It tore him apart ... apparently it tore him in half and the other shark came in and took the rest."
Asked if there were any chance the victim had survived, Bell replied, "None whatsoever."
Police and state emergency services said there had been no sign of the victim or the sharks since the attack despite extensive searches off the coast.
Bell said the sharks were between 4.5 to five meters long (15-17 feet).
The attack took place about 250 meters (yards) from a crowded beach.
An unidentified woman on the beach told Seven Network television the shark that led the attack "caught his left arm and took him around the boat and then another shark has come in and they just took him to pieces."
Two of the three 16-year-old boys who were in the boat witnessed the attack and received medical treatment for shock. The four friends, all from Adelaide, had been on the water for just 30 minutes before the attack.
State police chief inspector David Lufty said beaches in the area would be closed as the search continued for the killer sharks.
He did not say what would happen to the sharks if found. Great whites are a protected species.
The tragedy is the second shark fatality in Australian waters within a week.
A 38-year-old man was killed by a shark while spearing fish on the Great Barrier Reef off northeast Australia on Saturday.
Two sharks were involved in a previous tragedy in July when a witnesses said a 29-year-old surfer was attacked by a great white shark and possibly a bronze whaler shark off the Australian west coast.
Experts said at the time that sharks were not known to hunt in pairs"
heh, guess they are now huh
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
why the hell didnt they just get him IN the boat
Probably happened too fast to do anything.
There was a documentary (Anatomy of a Shark Bite?) on one of the smart channels a while back where they tried to figure out the reasoning and physics behind attacks. In one of the cases a woman lost part of her leg while a boat was trying to rescue her. One of the researches theorized that the shark took it off because it viewed the boat as a competitor.
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Originally posted by jigsaw
Probably happened too fast to do anything.
There was a documentary (Anatomy of a Shark Bite?) on one of the smart channels a while back where they tried to figure out the reasoning and physics behind attacks. In one of the cases a woman lost part of her leg while a boat was trying to rescue her. One of the researches theorized that the shark took it off because it viewed the boat as a competitor.
I saw that show. Man, I still have images of that guy's leg minus one calf muscle. :(
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A 38-year-old man was killed by a shark while spearing fish on the Great Barrier Reef off northeast Australia on Saturday.
ironic isnt it.
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When you go hunting you should make sure you are on top of the food chain in that area :D
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Human: the other white meat.
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If the surf isn't "up" on the beach lots of surfers will go out to the breakers off shore. Instead of swimming all that way they get a boat to tow them out.
Of course doing this in Great White infested waters is quite Darwinian.
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Originally posted by Curval
If the surf isn't "up" on the beach lots of surfers will go out to the breakers off shore. Instead of swimming all that way they get a boat to tow them out.
Of course doing this in Great White infested waters is quite Darwinian.
The beach this happened on is like a bay beach - flat , and very unusual for whites to be in that patricular vicinity.
there's no surf around there they were just water-skiing using the surfboard.
last week in Queensland a guy sank his boat , and floated in quite sharky water s for 36 hours until a boat happened past.
This kid behind the boat was in the water for a few minutes.
Bloody unlucky
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I never understood why people jump on a board in known shark water then proceed to paddle with their feet and hands, making themselves look as much as possible like a seal. Then when one of them becomes a snack for Ole Jaws everyone acts like it`s a big shock and start discussing and theorizing on what might have caused the shark to attack.
HELLO! You looked liked the blue plate special Einstein.
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Originally posted by SunKing
ironic isnt it.
Very much so! I stopped spear fishing in the gulf after I had a 8ft shark take away my AJs i had speared. I figured after that anything I'd be shooting underwater would be through a camara..
LoL I've been, well what can I say, severely humbled by 6-10ft sharks a few times.. But a 17ft greaty? **** that!!!