Shark Stories
Ah. No way. Had no idea.
Riley Elliot Kiwi Shark Scientist
https://fb.watch/BWsV_IO5NQ/
^ makes an accidental fart 2:30 - 3:00..
compliments nsw, then mixes up nsw/qld
udo wrote:Not much hope of Finding this Poor Bloke
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/spearfisher-missing-off-ns...
Body recovered. No mention of cause of death but I'm guessing it wasn't a shark in this case.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-05/body-found-in-search-for-missing-...
Was about to paddle out with my daughter at longy, so sad.
Fark. Thats terrible news.
Oh man. This is so sad and heavy for the community. Most would know. Rest in peace.
RIP.
I used to always feel ‘safer’ surfing in Sydney, even at non-netted beaches and reefs.
Can’t see any of the councils electing for a non-netted beach now. State government has put it back on them to choose
RIP mate ...fuck another one down......this is a thing now with the ever growing white pointer population so mainly thru winter and spring it will happen more often........Watching the Dorsal site they have been tagging at least 10 to 15 mainly juvenile whites a week for weeks now and it doesn't take long to add up .....so i know of two bumps where the surfers were sent flying off their boards around here in the last two weeks and if you add on old mate from Caba with the massive bite on his board and the young guy who had his shoulder ripped apart at Cabba and the young kid from Tathra who had the back of his board bitten off it seems like a growing problem.....so what to do about it .....no one wants culling so what else is there ?...but it could easily be 6 dead ....in the last month or so just in nsw.
Craig wrote:Oh man. This is so sad and heavy for the community. Most would know. Rest in peace.
Name is on a lot of boards
As always, thoughts to the loved ones.
One white was pinging off the North Narra receiver a couple of times in the last 24-48hrs. Wonder if the authorities could locate one and track it ...at least on Saturday mornings when beaches are packed in Sydney.
That's so sad. Thoughts with the family right now. I'm in Sydney for the weekend and was just checking Surf options when I saw the response play out. I had thought Sydney was shark safe up until now. RIP
Was walking down with my two boys for a surf when it happened. Surfer is well known but out of respect i'll leave that for the family to announce. My wife walked past on her beach walk and what she saw was very confronting ie. surfer had no chance of surviving. Condolonces to his family. Time for a cull i don't care what people think of me for that comment. Attacks are happening a lot more than ever.
Damn, awful news. Condolences to all involved.
RiP bro
John_Clark wrote:Was walking down with my two boys for a surf when it happened. Surfer is well known but out of respect i'll leave that for the family to announce. My wife walked past on her beach walk and what she saw was very confronting ie. surfer had no chance of surviving. Condolonces to his family. Time for a cull i don't care what people think of me for that comment. Attacks are happening a lot more than ever.
A cull will achieve nothing but bravado amongst those that think like you.
I thought we were all grown up regarding this matter.
We play in their fish tank/ domain.
What, are you going to kill every shark known to man to satisfy one of our recreational needs ? Selfish .
You better go and whinge to Albo and ask him to remove all vehicles from roads then so we can reduce the road toll.
But hey yes, offer up your shark attack mitigation plan for the future if you can be so bothered.
You were right, most people are going to think you’re a knob. AW
Geez, I don't know what to say other than I feel for the family, I really do.
We lost our son-in-law to a very rare cancer and the only solace I can offer is that I hope it was quick for him. Very sorry.
Shitty news
Feel for his family and friends
Psillakis
Not the shaper?
Don’t worry John Clarke, I think you were hard done by, I got your point. Condolences to the family, tragic.
seeds wrote:Shitty news
Feel for his family and friends
Psillakis
Not the shaper?
His brother, seeds
RIP
Shit
Stuff I’ve just watched he was much loved in the community
RIP indeed
A few interesting stories on shark attacks and near misses on the Shark Shield report so I thought I would start this thread. Don't want to trivialize the subject as people have had their lives taken or changed forever by what can happen. I thought it might serve as an educational purpose by hearing others experiences so we may all learn from them and hopefully avoid it happening to us.
One of them was a mate of mine named Hazey.
He had been surfing at Castles, a notoriously sharky wave in the bay at Cactus.
Several hundred metres offshore the wave breaks before reforming into Inside Castles making a long left with several sections. The wave has been the scene of several attacks and near misses over the years including the local known as "Sharkbait" who had been attacked more than once.
Gerry Lopez is another who came very close to being attacked out there and vowed to never surf Cactus again after his near miss.
Well Hazey was surfing out the back with another bloke named Steve when out of the blue he was launched into the air still on his board by a huge force from below.
A shark had rammed him with a direct hit straight up into the air! In a moment it was gone but soon returned to the stunned Hazey and started biting him and his board. Hazey instinctively put his arms out to protect himself but both his arms ended up in its mouth. As the jaws closed down his arms could have easily been severed, but several teeth on the sharks lower jaw had become dislodged and imbedded in the board leaving his upper arms with massive injuries, but the vital inner arms where major arteries run were not majorly damaged. This probably saved his life.
By this time Steve had reacted and in a rush of adrenalin and pure ballsy courage he threw himself onto the sharks back and started gouging at the sharks eyeballs, eventually feeling one pop and the shark departed.
Steve got the two surfboards together and got himself and Hazey on and started the long paddle to shore.
Then they were both thrown into the air as the shark rammed them a third time before disappearing again. They continued to make their way closer to shore and the shark nudged them again. Steve told me he thought he really must of pissed it off when he popped its eye.
Finally they we're just a metre from shore when the shark made its fifth and final appearance. It beelined towards them and the shore while they stood in waist deep water with their boards. The sharks mouth was just rapidly opening and closing like one of those wind up sets of false teeth. The boys separated and put their hands on either side of it's body and held it on a 90 degree angle to the beach as they made the final steps to the safety of the sand.
Hazey was rushed to Ceduna hospital and then flown to Adelaide for micro surgery on his shredded arms.
Steve ended up receiving a bravery award and they both sold their story to 60 minutes and made $50,000 each out of it!
It was quite a story!