Razzonater said..

shark trained by humans to attack humans alpha predator......lets go feed the lions by hand and see what happens..... tge seemingly random movements in the tasman are in line with the tuna cycle of spawn migrate and grow..on the west coast we have whales sept-november some ofthese sharks do the tuna run than hang around come across the bottom and wait for the whales to get to gero-kalbarri,stalk them down past perth and into margies before completing the circuit again... The other ones do the run from the tasman up to lennox and broken head to wait for the whales on the east coast, similar time of year august-nov....... One part of it is they in general stop at around the same latitude either side of the coast where water temps become warmer.... A shark has to be around 20 years old (great white) before it has the jaw strength to eat a mammal(seal/human) this also is about the same time they have been protected but also are not scared of humans in fact are encouraged to relate people with food.. Coupled in with the whale population booming and offshore tuna being in lower numbers due to foreign flagged vessels hammering tuna stock in australian waters. (legally and under australian licenses no ****tttt). It is of note though that many of these boats illegaly unload at sea onto other foreign vessels to ensure they are " above board" when they unload in aussie ports and not blow there quota..... That along with crayboats no longer being able to catch bycatch ( sharks through shark hooks on cray floats) has allowed huge huge huge population growth. The sad thing is that they cannot be untrained,scientists still dont know how long they live and ages in excess of 100 years are agreed to be not only realistic but quite possibly a gross underestimate.. When you were kids there was always a scary dog that you would have to walk past on the way to school. For a laugh most kids would drag a stick along the fence to really rev the dog up.....Its not right you say,you cant do that,..Well this and worse is what we have done with these sharks, imagine what would of happened if the domesticated dog got through the fence..... Sharks have memory and are habitual feeders,if a whale washes up on a beach and a white gets a feed every time he is on his circuit he will return to that beach on the way through, The shark attacks at cottesloe over the space of several years can only be put down to one or at most two different sharks.. In the 70s a huge whale washed up on the beach and was there for months and months, every shark for miles got a feed or five ...You may say yeah but there was no attacks for 30-40years after and you would be correct, this actually just re-inforces the point even more, because the same sharks that would swim past on their circuit every year never thought of humans as food until the 2000s when shark cage diving became a "thing"... so between the twenty year old sharks who are young pups learning new tricks and the old sharks who have the system wired and only recently related people to food we are doing a stirling job of training them up to hunt humans and attack them... Please remember too that in most of the recent attacks people werent mistakenly bitten and let go they were hunted and eaten..A shark does not accidently eat some one... Solution,,,,Ban shark cage diving and muppets hand feeding/training/taunting sharks immediatley, Kill the sharks that we have now trained and allow the ecosystem to restore itself. The reality is that until the trained sharks are killed is that attacks will not only keep on increasing but fall into what a shark constitutes as part of its diet..... We created the monster so therefore are accountable.... Reality sux aye

laceys lane said..


I am scared of dogs ,bees, cows ants horses and mosquitos too if they can kill me.

something ought to be done with the cow problem too.


however i deal with beds everyday of my life and have managed to survive.




im pretty sure if I have to deal with a shark in the water my chances aren't as good as an encounter with a bed




and my friend shark encounters are on the up.


another typical misuse of facts

Cobra said...
i enjoyed this.





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AndyrooMac said..

Anyway, if you want to be scared of being killed by an animal then you ACTUALLY should statistically be more scared of Dogs, Bees, Cows, Ants, Horses, Mosquitos etc etc Sharks are way way waaaaaay down at the bottom of the list, i think its the idea of the unseen that makes people fearful of sharks... in fact statistically you should be more scared of falling coconuts, lunch, champagne corks, vending machines and beds as statistically these are more likely to kill you

Jfunk said...




Completely incorrect and a poor use of statistics. You have to equate the base of the people at risk in each category.

In the examples' you used, every person on the planet is at risk from Dogs, Bees, Cows, Ants, Horses, Mosquitos' etc etc... With sharks, the only people at risk are deep water users - surfers, divers etc. So 7.2 billion, verses 10 - 100 million. Lets for the sake of this argument say ocean users at risk of shark attack is 72 million, to equate your statistical measures, you would need to multiply the number of shark attacks by 100 to show a fair comparison. In Australia the ratio is more ocean users than average. Probably 1 million of the 22 million population. So the multiple would be 22 not 100.

So on average 10 people a year die in Australia from bee sting. There have been 12 attacks in NSW near Ballina alone this year. On average in Australia, 2-3 people die from shark attack each year. So already, without equating the base of your measure, there are more attacks in NSW than bee sting deaths in Australia, 10 v's 12. Death verses death with an equal base in Australia, 10 verses 44-66.

Mosquitos on the other hand there is no comparison, but billions of dollars are being thrown at that problem.