www.adelaidenow.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

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smicko said...

Is that smicko, or sicko?

Very lucky fella, was a large white according to that article on swellnet.

Here's his board, bet that got the coit workin overtime

Hard to judge the scale, but doesn't look to be a massive shark given the small bite radius. Well, it's relatively small if compared to others. Still enough to take a limb.

That board probably helped save his life.

Yeah it didn't look that big to me either Suba, maybe 8-9ft (not saying I'd like it to chew on me arm), just sayin. I caught a lot of sharks when I used to fish commercially in FNQ and I don't reckon that bite mark comes from a terribly big noah.

On an entirely different subject I can't believe no one has posted this video that comes up on the end of that Monty Python one yet.
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Wish it had HD.

Something tells me it would look pretty farkin big on the end of your arm regardless.

I was talking to a guy who is from the Reunion Islands yesterday he was telling me they have had 7 attacks this year 5 fatal the main surf beach which has world class reef breaks was closed months ago and the second closed last week,he said the shark population has gone nuts since the area was turned into a marine park (no fishing ) allowed.

Yeah I dunno about that Mac, fatal attacks tend to make world news and five really gets things buzzing. Just ask the West Australian tourism Board

A quick search shows nine fatalities at Reunion since 1972, there were no reported attacks from 2000-2010, but seven attacks and three fatals since the start of 2011. So perhaps his argument does carry some weight, just a little exaggerated.

Oh ok I'll be seeing this little lying so and so on the weekend,good research mate

From what I've read about Reunion the East coast has always been ultra sketchy for Bullys, lots of runoff, murky water, lots of fish. It would now seem that they are starting to become a problem on the much clearer west coast, as your mate says, breeding up due to the creation of the marine park.

I'd like to send representatives from PEW out there to swim around and do some research on the numbers of Bullsharks present, with mullet strapped to their feet for flippers.

I reckon it sucks when you have to seriously worry about getting eaten every time you go in the water. Like over here at present, either there has been a massive explosion in the population of Whites or we have a few problem sharks.

Either way it's not much fun.

Yes he mentioned it was the bulls that are the problem.

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62mac said...

Yes he mentioned it was the bulls that are the problem.

One animal that helps control bull shark numbers is actually the GW shark.

That is part of my fear, that if we cull Great Whites we could still be in the same spot but possibly worse. (not saying what we have now is not bad in anyway, my first few surfs after Ben i was ****ting myself).

I wasn't going to comment on these threads anymore but can't help myself. Has anyone else been watching the shark alarm website? Numbers of reports have now dropped of again. (even though reports from 10 km out to sea aren't that surprising and that's was the style of some reports). Is that reflective of peoples attitudes? Is it out of the media so little interest

I see that they are doing there best to start it again with Barnett's comments[}:)]

"You see them this time of the year, coming into spring. But there's been an alarming increase in the amount of great whites because the large gillnet fisheries have been ousted from SA waters due to the protection of the Australian sea lion."

"...he said the shark population has gone nuts since the area was turned into a marine park (no fishing ) allowed"

There is ample indication that these conservation policies are putting human lives at risk, yet Fisheries officials claim:
"most of Western Australia's recent shark fatalities involved risk-laden water sports in remote locations"

I find it remarkable that the official response to the adverse impact of these dubious conservation policies is that the victims are to blame. There was wide-spread condemnation of Sydney-based Mufti Sheik Taj Din al-Hila, when he "blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat". Are people like Ken Crew and Bryn Martin (who ventured just meters from shore, and within 15km of Perth's CBD) reckless adventures who need to accept the consequences of chosing to be "meat" that may be preyed on by sharks? Are we supposed to now accept that catching crabs (that is what Brian Guest was doing, one ill-fated day), is now a risk-laden water sport? Even more astonishing is the claim by Fisheries Mr Capelutti that "Bryn Martin, - may actually have drowned. No-one saw that ... no-one knows if it was a shark attack'' (Sorry, but since when do people drown and then loose their shredded bathers?). One might tolerate these sort of statements of denial from an entity like Lloyd Rayney's defense team, but from Government officials it is simply irresponsible and not acceptable. Let's face it, people are dying, often in the prime of their lives, because of this sort of reckless bias.

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smicko said...

Yeah I dunno about that Mac, fatal attacks tend to make world news and five really gets things buzzing. Just ask the West Australian tourism Board

A quick search shows nine fatalities at Reunion since 1972, there were no reported attacks from 2000-2010, but seven attacks and three fatals since the start of 2011. So perhaps his argument does carry some weight, just a little exaggerated.

Governement to fund Reunion Island shark hunts...........

www.surfersvillage.com/surfing-news/57603/

Not any more

www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/01/reunion-island-shark-attack-hunting?newsfeed=true

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smicko said...

Yeah I dunno about that Mac, fatal attacks tend to make world news and five really gets things buzzing. Just ask the West Australian tourism Board

A quick search shows nine fatalities at Reunion since 1972, there were no reported attacks from 2000-2010, but seven attacks and three fatals since the start of 2011. So perhaps his argument does carry some weight, just a little exaggerated.

Governement to fund Reunion Island shark hunts...........

www.surfersvillage.com/surfing-news/57603/

Although the following information is incredible, I think it is also credible:
Liste des attaques recens?es ? la R?union entre 1990 et 2011 :

5 mars 1990 : Sainte-Marie, un surfeur est attaqu? au coucher du soleil par un requin bouledogue.

1er juillet 1991 : A Ravine des Sables ? l'Etang Sal?, un surfeur est attaqu? par un requin tigre de plus de 3m.

29 janvier 1992 : A Ravine Trois Bassins ? la Saline les Bains, un chasseur sous-marin est attaqu? par un requin gros de 1,8m.

22 mai 1992 : Au lieu-dit Cayenne ? Saint-Joseph, un coureur ? pied se fait attaquer mortellement par un requin de 3 ? 4 m.

juin 1992 : Saint-Paul, un plongeur se fait attaquer par un requin mako.

28 juin 1992 : Cap de la Marianne ? Saint-Paul, ? 14 h 30, un surfeur d?c?de apr?s avoir ?t? attaqu? par un requin bouledogue ou requin limon faucille.

15 juillet 1994 : Au lieu-dit Cayenne ? Saint-Joseph, un homme est attaqu? mortellement par un requin bouledogue de 3m pour 200 kilos.

9 juillet 1994 : Barachois ? Saint-Denis, un v?lipanchiste est tu? par un requin bouledogue.

10 janvier 1996 : l'Etang de Saint-Paul, un surfeur d?c?de ? 16 h apr?s avoir ?t? attaqu? par un requin tigre de 300 kilos.

janvier 1997 : Un nageur et un chasseur sous-marin meurt apr?s avoir ?t? attaqu?s par un requin bouledogue au cours du m?me mois.

1998 : Beaufonds, un plongeur est tu? par un requin.

25 janvier 1998 : Petite-Ile ? Grand Anse, en milieu d'apr?s-midi un nageur est tu?.

octobre 1998 : Saint-Beno?t, un plongeur est attaqu? par un requin.

3 janvier 1999 : la Pointe au Sel ? Saint-Leu, un chasseur sous-marin meurt ? la suite d'une attaque de requin bouledogue.

11 avril 1999 : la Roche aux Oiseaux ? l'Etang Sal?, vers 10 h 30, un nageur est tu? par trois requins bouledogues.

8 septembre 2000 : Pic du Diable ? Saint-Pierre, au coucher du soleil, un surfeur est attaqu? par un requin bouledogue ou requin tigre de 2 ? 3 m.

15 avril 2004 : lieu-dit Cayenne ? Saint-Joseph, un requin bouledogue de 3m et 200 kilos attaque mortellement un homme.

27 mars 2004 : Au spot de la gare ? Saint-Beno?t, un surfeur est attaqu? par un requin de 2,5 m.

6 octobre 2004 : Ti'Paris ? Saint-Pierre, un surfeur est attaqu? par un requin vers 18 h 30.

2 ao?t 2006 : La Piscine au Port, un chasseur sous-marin est attaqu? par un requin bouledogue de 1,5m.

20 ao?t 2006 : Pic du Diable ? Saint-Pierre, un surfeur est attaqu? mortellement par un requin.

27 ao?t 2006 : Cap des Aigrettes ? Grand Fond, vers 18 h 30, un surfeur est attaqu?.

4 avril 2007 : Spot de surf ? Boucan Canot, un bodyboarder est attaqu? par un requin tigre de 2m.

27 mars 2010 : Spot du Butor ? Saint-Beno?t, ? 11 h, un surfeur est attaqu? par un requin tigre ou bouledogue de 1,5m. Il s'en sort miraculeusement.

19 f?vrier 2011 : Spot de Trois-Roches, un surfeur est attaqu? par un requin vers 18h30. Il est s?rieusement bless?.

(It is French for: nearly 30 shark attacks at Reunion between 1990 and early 2011, of which 12 were fatal).

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smicko said...

Yeah it didn't look that big to me either Suba, maybe 8-9ft (not saying I'd like it to chew on me arm), just sayin. I caught a lot of sharks when I used to fish commercially in FNQ and I don't reckon that bite mark comes from a terribly big noah.

On an entirely different subject I can't believe no one has posted this video that comes up on the end of that Monty Python one yet.

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Wish it had HD.

Well the girth of the shark may not have been big, but the girth in my pants is,

^^^^It takes a lot of guts to say that.