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Can't even imagine the horror of watching the poor guy get eaten by a 14' Great White, that had to be traumatizing for those that witnessed it.

Great White attack

And even more so for the victim. Lady here in Maine got the big chop two summers ago by a White. Happened 10 feet from her daughter. Nearly bitten in two.

Damn, the gulls were on it from the start too.

Sometimes your number is just up. Death by shark is pretty rare, I'd be more worried about being shot by my girl friends husband slipping out the bedroom window after he came home early.

The second you enter the ocean, you just went to the bottom of the food chain! My scuba instructor told me that in 1966. Still enters my mind, every time I see the ocean.

That worthless video shows nothing, why even put it in the article? F u cking idiots.

Damn. One of our sons lives here, two blocks from the beach. Surfs all the time. This sucks.

That guy was not a good photographer.

swimming in the ocean lost a lot of its appeal to me after all the shark attacks all around us on the outer banks a couple of years ago. the day we got to avalon we hit the beach and wondered why hardly anybody was swimming. come to find out a guy right down the beach got a chunk taken out of his ass right before that. same trip some kid got their arm chomped off on a mainland beach. funny how the local news never said anything about it. had to read about it on the internet news.

Back when I was a punk and living on Guam there were several sharks that seemed interested in making a meal of me. There is nothing quite so swift in altering intent than a speargun.

Maybe a boomstick?


Oops, bangstick

That is not a usual area of Sydney for swimmers. Had to look it up as I never heard of it and I was born there.

All Sydney swimming beaches are netted off which is why there has been no shark attacks there for 60+ years. That was the alarm bell, which meant that the location stated had to be wrong in some way. The area of the attack is open water outside Sydney Heads and no-one with a brain would swim in that unprotected water.

Secondly, Every Aussie knows that wearing a wet suit is ringing the dinner bell as you look like a seal, the White Sharks' main prey.
Completely avoidable death.

Oh GI, bang stick kirr bad boys vewy quick. Where is fun? You can't change a mind when you brow it arr to pieces!

Posted that video unedited on FB this morning.

What's your name again?
Chrissie!
Where are we going?
Swimming!

This struck me as I was swimming in that cold, emerald-colored water near Ensenada on the west coast of the Baja on a February. A couple hundred yards out, it struck me that this was a wintering area of some of the world’s Great Whites. I admit to feeling half frantic as I scrambled up on the beach.

The scary thing about the water there, though a beautiful blue-green, it was opaque and you couldn’t see your hand a foot under the surface.

Cured me.

I can’t imagine swimming there in an unprotected area.

Reason 361 to stay the hell out of the ocean.

Uncensored video here,

https://worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhD8z98mTyTBrm5OB9

I've swum at Little Bay. It is not far from Maroubra, and quite close to Malabar Rifle Range. It is one of a whole string of beaches down the coast in Sydney, and quite near the entrance to Botany Bay.

In relation to meshing, this is not at every beach, but only selected beaches, and not there every day. The meshing doesn't go all the way along a beach either, nor provide a complete barrier. It is only there to discourage big sharks from settling in. There are any number of ocean baths, either netted enclosures on the beach (usually about the size of an Olympic pool) or dug into the rock, so those who want to be in a fenced area have that as an option, but if you are going to surf or bodysurf or snorkel you are out there where the blokes in grey suits live.

Wearing a wetsuit, splashing around off rocks where seals may be found, that may have been a factor. Getting well out by yourself too. It may have been that the shark mistook the victim for a seal. Having said that I've spearfished off that same bit of coastline, in a wetsuit, and while I've seen sharks they've left me alone and I them.

The risk is really very small - the last fatal attack in Sydney was in the '60s. Nasty if you are the one they hit, but not something to worry about really.