Northern Beaches - Shark circles surfer
Moderators: jimmy, collnarra, PeepeelaPew, Butts, beach_defender, Shari, Forum Moderators
Northern Beaches - Shark circles surfer
Missed the main news last night. Channel 7 had a few news flashes and they said at one point about the sea planes may be coming back (I only posted a query about that one before Christmas!)
One report said "A shark circled a surfer on the Northern Beaches". Later report said Monday morning.
Does anyone know where abouts - which beach - any more details???
One report said "A shark circled a surfer on the Northern Beaches". Later report said Monday morning.
Does anyone know where abouts - which beach - any more details???
-
- newbie
- Posts: 33
- Joined: Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:18 pm
R&R you are a marked man...now which current takes me to Mollymook againRockin' Ron wrote:...Nth Curly...was probably heading there for a late today....Bombo...was there three days in a row between Chrissy and New Year....Mollymook...in that area for two weeks at the end of February. Can't they all just faark off to somewhere I'm not going?
-
- Huey's Right Hand
- Posts: 26515
- Joined: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:29 am
- Location: Newport Beach
That poor woman does everything wrong at North Straddie, swims with a dog at dusk in known shark territory, dies horribly as a result.
So all the Usual Suspects turn sharks into the Weekly Terror, using her death as their jump-off point. The shark plane guy uses it as a way of trying to gee up his business. The leader of the NSW Opposition says he's concerned because he swims at BONDI every morning.
The only person quoted in the papers who seems relatively unflustered is the surfer from North Curly who actually SAW one.
Face it -- we surf and swim in cohabitation with sharks all the fricken time. Some species are low in numbers right now, but that don't include the bronze whaler or the bull shark. Dive off any bombie reef in Sydney and you'll see both almost automatically.
It seems to me that excessive fear of sharks is unnecessary and advocating mass elimination, etc, is pure self indulgence. And preying on said fears in the wake of a tragic death like that of the woman on Straddie ... well that's something else again.
So all the Usual Suspects turn sharks into the Weekly Terror, using her death as their jump-off point. The shark plane guy uses it as a way of trying to gee up his business. The leader of the NSW Opposition says he's concerned because he swims at BONDI every morning.
The only person quoted in the papers who seems relatively unflustered is the surfer from North Curly who actually SAW one.
Face it -- we surf and swim in cohabitation with sharks all the fricken time. Some species are low in numbers right now, but that don't include the bronze whaler or the bull shark. Dive off any bombie reef in Sydney and you'll see both almost automatically.
It seems to me that excessive fear of sharks is unnecessary and advocating mass elimination, etc, is pure self indulgence. And preying on said fears in the wake of a tragic death like that of the woman on Straddie ... well that's something else again.
They just ran the George Bass (surf boat race from BBay to Eden) down here. Racers and crew were all frothing at the number of sightings, plenty of great whites apparently, reasonable size too and more sightings than usual.
Wouldnt have been looking forward to treading water waiting for your changeover 500m-1k offshore.
Wouldnt have been looking forward to treading water waiting for your changeover 500m-1k offshore.
the dreams that stuff was made of
-
- Grommet
- Posts: 91
- Joined: Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:38 pm
- Location: narra
I was out at south narra last week when a clubby in an IRB screamed past telling us he was chasing off a bronze whaler... Also paddled out at Mona Vale on saturday to have the other lads already out say they had just spotted a bronze whaler too..
I tend to not give it too much thought... the way i see it, i've been in the water with 'em for years... getting munched by one is like being hit by lightning or winning lotto... rarely happens to anybody you know. Especially since there has been just ONE fatality in Sydney in the last 75 years...
I tend to not give it too much thought... the way i see it, i've been in the water with 'em for years... getting munched by one is like being hit by lightning or winning lotto... rarely happens to anybody you know. Especially since there has been just ONE fatality in Sydney in the last 75 years...
i bent my wookie
hahahahahhaaaShaunm wrote:Should start a rumour that sharks don't go in between the flags - keep all the swimmers away from the surfers' area!
serious tho, do you really think there are more sharks now than 10 years ago ?? I DOUBT IT !!!!
this will be all forgotten about next week as soon as the media find another story, just like the cronulla riots, chapeele corby, guy that got hung in singapore, etc etc......
deal with it, we play in their home.
-
- Supporter
- Posts: 1094
- Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:33 pm
- Location: nowhere near the bends (queenscliff)
how many people you reckon get into the water off the northern beaches every weekend?
Probably at least 100 surfers hit the water at some time during the day at every beach, plus another hundred swimmers. So maybe 2000 people a day hitting the water in the northern beaches alone on any given summer day. Over just the three months of summer thats 50,000 potential human live baits in the water just on weekends.
How many shark attacks off the northern beaches this summer?
Probably at least 100 surfers hit the water at some time during the day at every beach, plus another hundred swimmers. So maybe 2000 people a day hitting the water in the northern beaches alone on any given summer day. Over just the three months of summer thats 50,000 potential human live baits in the water just on weekends.
How many shark attacks off the northern beaches this summer?
"Stay happy and everything will be perfectly all right"... Jack Norris
-
- charger
- Posts: 905
- Joined: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:47 pm
- Location: Queenscliff
-
- Supporter
- Posts: 1094
- Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:33 pm
- Location: nowhere near the bends (queenscliff)
yeah was being conservative and manly/queenscliff's about 3 times as crowded as the rest of the beaches - but I reckon your right - probably more like 10,000 a day in the water. Looked at the queensie/manly stretch last night and it looked like the usual zoo and hit north curly instead.barstardos wrote:Zed's I think you might be undercalling the numbers a little - have been in the water lately? would've been at least 100 surfers in the water at once (not to mention swimmers and other flotsam) at Queensie - pipe last night.
"Stay happy and everything will be perfectly all right"... Jack Norris
That was in Middle Harbour in 1963 in murky water, a bull shark's favourite territory. An aspiring actress dived in from a boat and was immediately attacked by a shark - when they pulled her back in, the shark had taken everything from the waist down.dangersean wrote:Especially since there has been just ONE fatality in Sydney in the last 75 years...
Today's papers are scant on detail but infer that the 1963 fatality occurred at a surf beach. The last fatality at a Sydney surf beach (Manly) was around 1933.
There have been Sydney attacks but injuries have been minor eg. a spear fisherman at Queensie in 1974.
Last edited by chrisb on Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:41 pm, edited 2 times in total.
- yanks r us
- charger
- Posts: 798
- Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:07 am
- Location: Shelly Beach
-
- Supporter
- Posts: 1094
- Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:33 pm
- Location: nowhere near the bends (queenscliff)
Never taken any notice of a shark siren anyway but that sounds like pretty lame behaviour if true - though I think its been going on for a long time - the old shark siting in a crowded lineup on a good day to clear a few people out.
yanks - what time was the chopper at nth curly - might explain why it was relatively uncrowded in the evening. Also was a bloke stuck in the rip at sth curly (around 6:30) on his way to the diggers that had to get picked up by a coupla surfers then the clubbies - possible chopper was there for that?
yanks - what time was the chopper at nth curly - might explain why it was relatively uncrowded in the evening. Also was a bloke stuck in the rip at sth curly (around 6:30) on his way to the diggers that had to get picked up by a coupla surfers then the clubbies - possible chopper was there for that?
"Stay happy and everything will be perfectly all right"... Jack Norris
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 81 guests