Just goes to show: surfers are not their natural prey, coulda taken a bite if she wanted but quite happy to co-exist with us in their territory while they're looking for "real food". Sharks are always there, you'd be unlucky to get bitten though.

Gateman said..
Just goes to show: surfers are not their natural prey, coulda taken a bite if she wanted but quite happy to co-exist with us in their territory while they're looking for "real food". Sharks are always there, you'd be unlucky to get bitten though.

www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-02/manly-shark-attack-leaves-deep-gash-on-swimmer/11270280

Richoa said..

Gateman said..
Just goes to show: surfers are not their natural prey, coulda taken a bite if she wanted but quite happy to co-exist with us in their territory while they're looking for "real food". Sharks are always there, you'd be unlucky to get bitten though.

Could show it wasn't hungry. maybe on a diet, or a vegan shark.

Pfff ... how do you really know this ... ? Everyone a Fckn shark expert.

Could have just eaten, got a whiff of an easier prey, maybe a current took away the sense, knowledge of the surfer who knows man.

No one really knows except that video sent shivers down my spine. ****en awesome predators.

From another Pffffftttt shark expert...

Sharks eat approx every three days naturally, compared to a mammal their survival metabolic requirements are way lower, although some can metabolically produce heat they are cold blooded (physically and IMO literally!!)
Watching that video put shivers down my spine too..
It will likely double the spook factor I get from my kite shadow on the bottom when in shallow-ish water
It neatly sums up why I can't paddle-in surf - way prefer to be able to move along with kite - in the years of Kiting and surf-life saving never seen a shark - just knew they were there - just like those surfers.

Wonder what a drone like that could do by way of warning?? Loud speaker playing Jaws movie theme??
New-ish legislation makes flying drones and any other R/C stuff a real hurdle run...
Cheers
AP

LostinSpace said..
Maybe he's just a Reggae Shark!

Hes a master of the arrrts and craaafts

Can any Shark experts confirm a statement made to me once in Fiji?
"our sharks are friendly, and anyway sharks only attack at surface so if scuba diving make sure it's with a group of snorkellers ".

RAL INN said..
Can any Shark experts confirm a statement made to me once in Fiji?
"our sharks are friendly, and anyway sharks only attack at surface so if scuba diving make sure it's with a group of snorkellers ".

Pretty much just island tour guide humour

Enough people have been attacked and/or killed while scuba diving to well and truely debunk that theory.

The last Perth metro shark fatality was a scuba diver in 2016 about 1km offshore

RAL INN said..
Can any Shark experts confirm a statement made to me once in Fiji?
"our sharks are friendly, and anyway sharks only attack at surface so if scuba diving make sure it's with a group of snorkellers ".

seen plenty of sharks when scuba, free, bluewater spear diving. when your on top there are usually splashes that excite all pelagics. when you're under with them they show interest but don't seem as aggressive. however you look out for the usual signs (assuming you see them).... twitchy movements and dropped pectoral fins and arched back. then its time to get away. its when you don't see them, they are actually trying.

RAL INN said..
A marine biologist I did my IKO with said the time to get out was when they started to circle and arch backs ( usually when the fin is exposed out of water), this he said was them getting territorial.

Thats when its time for old smokie

Bull

Nah...not a bull shark.

(just ignore the dramatic music)

bjw said..
I am a shark expert and a shark can't be vegan, because they don't have access to social media to lobby everyone else to be vegan.

I dont know why yr so cock sure about that fella, They could have all sorts of sophisticated social media stuff going on at the depths of the ocean they can travel. People aways just assume. Sharks never look very happy to me, so they must have some vegans pestering them, probably whiney protestors too. Chanting dont eat humans its there earth too.