That's it Dean.. Your paddle with the chrome Airwave logo on it would have been like a giant lure..

DJ

Reminds me of an old Wayne Lynch story from down that way years ago. Think it was a interview in a old tracks magazine. Ive probably still got it somewhere.
Wayne and a bloke he was rescuing got stalked by a big toothy bugger.
Imagine the ones ya dont see.
W

Lobes said...

I've always been wary of wearing flashy metallic stuff in the water. Heard too many stories of divers having their silver watches attacked by barracuda. Spose sharks could be for the same.

Probably the main reason (apart from personal fashion tastes) I would be wary of wearing a fluoro wetsuit......would maybe feel like a giant fish lure

Hi dean , did anyone p155 in their wetties(before seeing the shark). Urine is meant to be a strong attractor

F##K M#!!!, so was it hanging around the boat ramp?

This made me laugh, I had my close call at Shellies at the Island, first few days of January.

Dean,was it dusk or dawn?

log man said...

Dean,was it dusk or dawn?

About 9am, quite a dim dark, heavy overcast morning, no wind. Quite a sharky sort of morning.
I had just commented to the the woman on the mal how murky the water was after the recent easterlys.
I was where I was when you saw me last week.....& the shark was about where you were sitting at the time.
The next time it appeared half way in toward the boat ramp in 2' of water...where kids play & people think they are safe
At the time I thought it was another shark, but because of its obvious interest in people, it may have been the same one having a good sniff around...that's the worry.... it was having a good close sniff at the suface.
A few years ago I used to check the surf in the mornings with a microlight, and do a bit of shark watching. Most sharks in the surf if not all, were bronze whalers, I used to watch them for hours....while they were watching people
They were never doing what the shark did today, they were always hard on the bottom just crusin along......right past/under people.
The 100's of hours flying & observing the fish I only saw 2 sharks that bothered me, 1 at Moggs Creek the other off Jan Juc, they were very active at the surface...hunting, & BIG...real big, if a shark looked big from 500+ feet in the air, it was! They were probably white's. I didnt even like flying over them...in case the engine stoped!

Hey Dean, a shark was spotted by crew at the bells comp today as well.
Could be the same one. I don't think it was in the comp area but they moved the comp from
Bells to Winki so not sure which break it was seen. They were talking about it on the webcast
today. Sounds like a similar size, about 10 to 12ft.

p.s. Man you have all the toys!

By the way, there is a BIG shark said to be hanging around between Phillip Island and
the Flinders side. Cruising the heads I guess chassing seals and tuna. When I say BIG
I mean approx 30ft.

From what I was told it has plenty of food available so shouldn't cause any problems and
it's size makes it a bit lazy. If it swam underneith you you would probably just think it
is a cloud passing over top.

But as Phil said they are everywhere and youre pretty safe, but if they wanna get ya....


Dean, love the look of the quady

My wife was out on the SUP a few weeks ago at a beach break, very sunny, very clear water but lots of fish about. There was another guy out on a mal near her and nobody else for several 100m's in either direction.

Out beyond the break a few 100m's there were a few small boats milling about, one of them ended up coming in and yelling out to my wife and the mal rider there were 5 hammerheads out there..... she did not hang around and paddled straight in.

I explained that just because we can not see them does not mean they are not there. Sharks are always there, big or small and like others have said, if they really want you they will get you.

We bought a Shark Shield a few years ago, we use it when swimming in the lake as the water can be very murky and sharks are sighted regularly. Have not used it in the surf but may start doing so. Yes, of course the thing works......I mean we have not been attacked yet so it must...right? LOL.

Hey Logman,

Not defeatist just realist, I have scuba dived for 25 yr in and around Port Phillip the surf coast and most states of Australia. In that time I have seen plenty of sharks and I dont believe I could have out run any of them. Frankly they scare the heck out of me.

Often in decompression diving on the deep wrecks we would get circled whilst on the deco line but touch wood nothing to this date has happened. If any on the sharks we have seen had wanted us we were sitting ducks. I believe I have more chance of being killed walking across the street or in a car accident than by shark attack.

Famous last words watch this space lol.

Phill

log man said...

Geez Phil, "if it wants you it's going to get you". Don't be so defeatist. I'm not very happy about going to PRK and surfing with a shark. 10 to 12 foot long!! that's like that big one at the melb. aquairium, That's things got to eat more than mullet!

silvatongue said...

Scully said...


For over a mile the shark just 'bumped' its teeth on the edge of the board, which is a 'curiousity' agenda for sharks, to see if they will break any teeth from attacking the SUP.

Maybe the Uli inflatable wasn't such a good idea, I might to have to take a back up set of water wings

Au contraire... as soon as the shark goes to swallow the Uli, you shoot a bullet at the Uli and then ka-blam-o... sushi for miles. I saw something similar in a movie once.

I don't remember when they stopped the paper. My memory's a bit hazy (well, non-existent). I do remember cutting out pictures from the paper and blu-tacking them all over my wall as a grommet though.

Legion said...

I don't remember when they stopped the paper. My memory's a bit hazy (well, non-existent). I do remember cutting out pictures from the paper and blu-tacking them all over my wall as a grommet though.

Was blue tack around back then