ricki said...
All speed in healing fully and fast Liam. You were real calm through the ordeal well done.
To my knowledge such attacks on kiters are extremely rare to date. I have heard of about a dozen non-fatal attacks worldwide involving kiters in the last ten years. There was the one fatal attack in Florida in February on kiter Steve Schafer. Attacks on swimmers, surfers and divers are a lot more common as you know. Most involving bronze sharks seem to be "accidental," they taste and move on. Or, in this case depending on how long Liam was in the water, it may have been a sudden defensive attack if the shark was startled?
Had some questions about what happened. Does anyone know how long Liam was in the water before he was struck? Do you see bronze sharks in the area fairly commonly? Are there any seal rookeries nearby? Was there any unusual bait activity or migrating schools moving through the area that day? Last, what time of day was it?
Thanks and all the best to Liam.
Rick
G'day rick
Liam had only just slipped off his board, in the water for a couple of seconds before the bite. In our opinion it was a defensive 'bite and run' from the bronzey. Not to sure about close by seals, there around our coastline as are many sharks especially at this time of year, it happened at 5 o'clock in the arvo, about 90 mins before sunset
Tony
and i mentioned the 2 to 3 meter shark near the outer reef at sandy bay to your dad/mum and your mum looked troubled .. cant imagine how troubled she was when she heard you actually got bitten. 
