Shark attack close to home

[Scrapheap]

Have you guys heard the news about this shark attack?? link

That happened at the beach that I'm closest to. It's less that 10 miles from here as the crow flies.

The victim (who died from blood loss) was a student at Santa Barbara City College, so there's a chance it was someone who was on our field trip to Owens Valley.

[P7PSP]

RIP body boarder guy. Great Whites are bad to get on the wrong side of.

[Loupgarou]

Welcome to the east coast and west coast of Australia.

We got some of the deadliest snakes in the world, the great whites(although more attacks come from bull sharks), spiders and Holden vs Ford fanatics.

I remember being on one of our islands(stradbroke) with my mum and we were swimming in the ocean. We spotted 2 (what we might have thought were dolphins, but as they got closer we realised they did not swim like dolphins) bullsharks coming towards our location. The worst thing you can do is run out of the water as they can sense flailing or thrashing and think it is prey, so we had to walk calmly but quickly back to shore.

It was exhilarating watching them swim back and forth through the waves and were only about 10 metres from shore by the time we left the water. Close call. My poor mum shat herself.

Loup

[P7PSP]

Welcome to the east coast and west coast of Australia.

We got some of the deadliest snakes in the world, the great whites(although more attacks come from bull sharks), spiders and Holden vs Ford fanatics.

I remember being on one of our islands(stradbroke) with my mum and we were swimming in the ocean. We spotted 2 (what we might have thought were dolphins, but as they got closer we realised they did not swim like dolphins) bullsharks coming towards our location. The worst thing you can do is run out of the water as they can sense flailing or thrashing and think it is prey, so we had to walk calmly but quickly back to shore.

It was exhilarating watching them swim back and forth through the waves and were only about 10 metres from shore by the time we left the water. Close call. My poor mum shat herself.

Loup

Yeah you Ozzies are blessed with a plethora of deadly critters. Your poor mum must have been terribly embarrassed.

[Parts]

When I was in high school in Florida I was walking out to a sand bar in waist deep water next to a channel when I had a dolphin surface less than ten feet away and scare the shit out of me.  We never used to think to much about sharks and used to go swimming in the dark with water proof flash lights even in the passes between keys where we had been warned about them.  Young and indestructible I miss that feeling

[Osensitive1]

Never could do sea water because of the thought of sharks, jellyfish, rays, and such. Someone once told me that was stupid because I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than getting bitten by a shark. So I said, yes, but I don't stand out in the rain either.

[Loupgarou]

Welcome to the east coast and west coast of Australia.

We got some of the deadliest snakes in the world, the great whites(although more attacks come from bull sharks), spiders and Holden vs Ford fanatics.

I remember being on one of our islands(stradbroke) with my mum and we were swimming in the ocean. We spotted 2 (what we might have thought were dolphins, but as they got closer we realised they did not swim like dolphins) bullsharks coming towards our location. The worst thing you can do is run out of the water as they can sense flailing or thrashing and think it is prey, so we had to walk calmly but quickly back to shore.

It was exhilarating watching them swim back and forth through the waves and were only about 10 metres from shore by the time we left the water. Close call. My poor mum shat herself.

Loup

Yeah you Ozzies are blessed with a plethora of deadly critters. Your poor mum must have been terribly embarrassed.

Don't know about embarrassed, but she told me I was a fucking loon for being so excited about having sharks so near. People terrify me, but sharks don't

She just shook her head at me in disbelief 'cause I wanted to get closer to them. It was like a magnet.

Loup

[richard]

poor shark! he was just doing his job, maybe he was hungry.

in my area we have mountain lions, bears, and hanta virus. elk, (they are scary)  although im shure there are more deadly animals here. I have seen a bear here before out in the woods near mountionaire

while i was out walking with my cd player fantasizing i was in a band,