Shark bite
I am glad to see that the young bloke who was bitten on the foot by a Grey Nurse shark is recovering well and will soon be back on the water.
I also hope the Grey Nurse has a quick recovery from having a couple of teeth extracted when it bit the young bloke.
Now some months back another surfer was bitten by a small shark in the same general area, and luckily he to only received minor wounds.
Now I have read in a number of good quality publications that it is not recommended that you go swimming surfing etc. in amongst schooling fish, the reason for this is that predators/sharks like to feed on schooling fish and if you are amongst them you could find yourself being mistaken for a fish and bitten. As I'm sure in my own mind that is what has happened to this lad.
River/estuary mouths are also mentioned, again in quality publications as places that are known hunting areas for sharks, put together with schools of fish, in this case herring and you have the right combination for something like this to happen.
My be the SLSA should place aa sign near the club house warning surfers that if blah blah blah conditions are prevailing you should be aware of the dangers the conditions promote.
I am glad to see that the general population is not screaming and dancing around calling for the mass killing of poor old Grey Nurse sharks, the poor buggers got a hell of a hammering when power heads, smokies etc first came on the scene.
Now, I am not having a shot at the SLSA of WA (Way back I was a member of North Cottesloe SLSC)so I'm well aware of the good service they do for the community at large, however to site a club in this location (pyramid beech) I think was not thought through a lot, there is just about always a strong rip running near the south wall of the cut and this has taken one life already.
It is my hope that the people who use this swimming beech use a lot of safety awareness when using it.
Just my view on things.
scottland
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Good views
but if they had a sign for every stupid thing a surfer did tge state would be in debt. ( more in debt)
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carnarvonite
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Grey nurse sharks
WA has never had a shortage of grey nurses because our coastline is completely different to the east coast and their habitat is more or less out of range of most spearfishermen who too pride in nearly wiping them out.
Have caught and released hundreds up and down the coast fro just under a metre long to over 3 metres and never had a problem with them trying to snap at you when doing so unlike most other breeds of shark
Rob H
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Date Joined: 18/01/12
too true
Many pockets of them offshore that we came across when fishing up here-not at all endangered in WA
Signage, don't really agree Meg, it is generally well known that surfing/swimming in amongst schooling fish is a risk.
Signs (in excess) = pollution
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Meeuwissen
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Signage is good.
Up here there is a sign for crocs before every creek. Mostly for the backpackers that like to swim in the jellyfish waters. You have signs for snakes, dangerous cliffs so why not for sharks too. There should be enough data now to know where people have been bitten before and let people there have been sharks in the area before they swim.
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