"A KITE surfer skipping across the water looks like a big piece of dangling bait to tiger sharks, warns a Gold Coast fisheries expert, who predicts an attack on a kiter is inevitable.

Bond University fisheries researcher Professor Daryl McPhee also warned people to be prepared for more attacks in the wake of a horror year for shark maulings on the NSW far north coast last year."

There's more...unsubstantiated claims but head over to the GC Bulletin for more info

Shark nets have been set up again tho so we're safe

In over 30 years of fishing ive never caught a shark trawling lures, always on bait so this doesn't make sense to me???

Tiger sharks 9 knots kiters 18. Just keep rideing

Great whites can hit 60kms an hour! I'm sure Tigers are quicker than 9 knots!

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billob said..
"A KITE surfer skipping across the water looks like a big piece of dangling bait to tiger sharks, warns a Gold Coast fisheries expert, who predicts an attack on a kiter is inevitable.

Bond University fisheries researcher Professor Daryl McPhee also warned people to be prepared for more attacks in the wake of a horror year for shark maulings on the NSW far north coast last year."

There's more...unsubstantiated claims but head over to the GC Bulletin for more info

Especially if you are a whale dressed in a seal suit!

But sharks can't jump.

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GarryA said..
But sharks can't jump.

Ahh yes they can..

Makos jump better than some of our kiters

Great, now they can fly

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billob said...
"A KITE surfer skipping across the water looks like a big piece of dangling bait to tiger sharks

So the obvious solution is to not dangle, just keep the kite low and powered and you will be sweet !

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Gazuki said..
In over 30 years of fishing ive never caught a shark trawling lures, always on bait so this doesn't make sense to me???

I caught a bull shark on a lure on my stand up on monday!

Batman caught one kite surfing! 2 line kite and unhooked!

I'm sure a car crash on the way to the beach is more imminent that shark attack.

Had more trouble with the blows in's on twin tips today then the sharks i saw out back

The real issue is twin tips in the surf. Twin tip riders in the surf should be culled

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Plummet said..
I'm sure a car crash on the way to the beach is more imminent that shark attack.

Truth.

He sounds like a c0ck if he thinks kiters and 'sailboarders' look anything alike - even to sharks.


It's the angle of the dangle.

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gcdave said...
Had more trouble with the blows in's on twin tips today then the sharks i saw out back

The real issue is twin tips in the surf. Twin tip riders in the surf should be culled

Was out yesterday with a mate, he was on his foil in the surf,,,I was on my mutant scored a couple barrels...

Came in after a great sesh,,,mate says to me farq we better get outta here before some c*** on a surfboard spots us.....

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Gilly3 said..

gcdave said...
Had more trouble with the blows in's on twin tips today then the sharks i saw out back

The real issue is twin tips in the surf. Twin tip riders in the surf should be culled

Was out yesterday with a mate, he was on his foil in the surf,,,I was on my mutant scored a couple barrels...

Came in after a great sesh,,,mate says to me farq we better get outta here before some c*** on a surfboard spots us.....

I love my mutant. I can boost to the moon blaze down the line, ride the shallows and rocky areas. Sure it doesnt feel like a surfboard or a twin to tip. Its somewhere in between. It does things you simply cant do on a tt or a surfboard. Man I'm grinning when I ride it.

Yep

So called Experts regarding sharks are scary , they should be banned from commenting

GC , comment on twin tips , been a surfer for 40 years kiter for 14 years , ride SB , mutant and twiny in the surf depending on the break and how i feel.

Rules of surfing apply no matter what we ride , enjoy the stoke

Last year i had two encounters with bronzies, both times they raced toward me at 45 degrees then veered away at about 2meters away from me, so i guess we are an "interest"

I also hit a very small hammerhead once, it was going slow i was going fast, i felt bad

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kitcho207 said...




Makos jump better than some of our kiters

That's an Ocean Rodeo team shark - doesn't count

here's what i wrote on gold coast bulletins home page...i am waiting for it to be deleted

Hello everyone, i have windsurfed on a weekly basis since 1979 on Moreton Bay and the Gold Coast and also Kitesurfed on a weekly basis since 1999 here on the Broadwater and the ocean beaches with the Gold Coast Kitesurfing community very very regularly and all I can say about these claims by a publicly funded "professor" kind of dude is that every time we windsurf or kitesurf near a shark of any type they poo themselves and take off at a hundred miles an hour! Be careful who you you fund with taxpayers dollars.

I'm more worried about landing on a stingray in the shallows.

Green leader

Well said , truth

If you are cool like Fonzie you can just jump the shark

Bond "University", that says it all... case closed.