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more at link.
the Government is going to authorize a cull of whites, although they are protected. been too many recent deaths.

George Thomas Wainwright of Texas sustained 'horrific' injuries while diving off Rottnest Island, a few miles from Perth

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1bdWPZ4Na

Post: #100

This is my backyard....
Looks like Long Key, but who knows. This is where I live and we hear these stories all the time.

Post: #101

boy does that look familiar!

as a kid i used to see huge schools of hammerheads while fishing off the bridges (old 7 mile), not anymore.

Post: #102

poor seal.






Cape Town in South Africa

Post: #103

That does not inspire me to go for a swim...not that I resemble a seal.

Post: #104

agghhhhhhhh

not sharks.

A teenage swimmer has been eaten alive by piranhas after he leaped into a Bolivian river infested with the fish.

The unnamed 18-year-old boy was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in the town of Rosario del Yata, 400 miles north of the capital of La Paz.

Post: #105

I swan with them in the Amazon region, they are rarely dangerous.

Post: #106

witnesses say bull shark this time.








A surfer has been killed by a shark at a South African beach dubbed the world's deadliest following a string of attacks.

Ngidi Msungubana, 25, died yesterday after being repeatedly bitten as he rode the waves off Second Beach in Port St Johns.Officials described how Mr Msungubana fought with the shark yesterday for around five minutes before being dragged bleeding out of the murky water by a lifeguard.

Post: #107

You always manage to get us great pix, LC. Thanks!

I cringed but it's an awesome, gory photo.

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Sydney Morning Herald
In the 32 years he has been flying the coastline rescuing people, Graham Nickisson has never seen the water brimming with sharks like he did on Wednesday.

The long-term Hunter Westpac rescue helicopter crewman was part of the team that scoured the coast in the hours after Redhead surfer Glen "Lenny" Folkard was attacked by a shark.

A surfer dragged from his board and mauled by a two-metre shark was circled by the predator as he tried to make it back to shore.

Glen Folkard, 44, known as "Lenny", is in a stable and lucid condition in John Hunter Hospital today after being attacked while surfing off Redhead Beach, south of Newcastle, yesterday afternoon.

More than 100 people were in the water when the shark attacked. Witnesses in the surf said Mr Folkard was lying on his board about 20 metres from a large group of surfers when the shark struck about 4.40pm.

Believed to be a bull shark, it took a large chunk out of Mr Folkard's thigh as well as his board before dragging him underwater, witnesses said.

He was able to shake himself free and get to the surface. Several surfers came to his aid as he tried to paddle to safety and helped him catch a wave into shore.

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Australia. see post above ^



5 weeks after attack




A surfer has spoken of his terror as a ferocious bull shark sank its teeth into his leg.

Glen Folkard was thrown off his board and dragged beneath the surface as the 10ft animal caught him it its vice-like grip.

But as the bull shark - a species known to be highly aggressive towards humans - released him for another bite, the 44-year-old seized his chance for life.

He managed to climb back onto his board and ride the waves back to Redhead Beach, north of Sydney - all while the menacing dark shadow stalked behind in the blood stream gushing from his horrific thigh wound.

‘It was everything you'd think it would be, just sheer terror.

‘He's hit me from underneath, he's grabbed me, he's turned me, took me under and then let go cos I think he had fibreglass in his mouth... and that was my chance,’ he told AFP, five weeks after the savage attack.

The father-of-one collapsed in the sand with a ‘big mass of yuck’ where his thigh once was, but euphoric to be alive.

He added: ‘I just remember rolling off the surfboard onto my back, looking at the sky and just loving life instantly,’

‘I was laying on my back looking just at the blue sky, going "I'm alive, I made it" because it was all but over. He was metres away from having a second go.’

daily mail

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A father-of-two yesterday became the fourth person to be mauled to death by a shark off a stretch of coast in Western Australia - raising fears that a rogue Great White is responsible.

Peter Kurmann, 33, was scuba-diving with his brother Gian from a small boat when the 13ft shark attacked.

"He had a go at the shark with his knife," friend Peter MacDonald said. "They were both descending down the anchor rope to the dive site and Peter was in front of Gian and apparently it came out of nowhere and grabbed him."

Gian, who was not hurt, hauled his brother's mutilated body from the sea and called for help to fishermen on another small boat nearby.

A sea and air search has been launched off the coast on a hunt-and-kill mission for the shark.

Beaches north and south of the town of Busselton were closed as the hunt began.The state's Premier, Mr Colin Barnett, said he was concerned there had been four fatal shark attacks since February.

Post: #111

A surfer died today after he was attacked by a Great White shark in South Africa.

The local man, believed to have been aged in his 20s, was body boarding in the Indian Ocean at around midday when the 16 foot beast struck.

Witnesses watched in horror from the beach as the man was dragged underwater by the deadly predator in the sea at Koeel Bay east of Cape Town.

And soon after the fatal attack, the spotlight fell on a National Geographic documentary crew who were accused of risking public safety by luring sharks in close to the shore for filming.

The tragedy happened at the Koeel Bay beach, a popular surfing spot which lies close to the town of Gordon's Bay around 30 miles east of Cape Town.

Today's attack comes after a TV documentary crew was accused of risking public safety by attracting sharks into shallow waters around Cape Town.

Experts this week expressed concern after a team from the National Geographic Channel's 'Shark Men' series starting filming along the region's False Bay coastline.

The popular show aims to debunk myths about Great Whites by allowing viewers close-up access to the beasts.

A team of scientists working for the series in South Africa had aimed to reveal details of the species by attaching trackers to several sharks and following their movements on screen.

However the project raised concern among conservationists after it emerged the film crew were using chum and bait to lure sharks to their boats.

the shark is seen in center of this photo

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re: post 111 ^

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A man in his 20s was killed by a great white shark about 5 metres (16 feet) long that bit off his leg when he was body-boarding off the coast of Cape Town on Thursday, South Africa’s National Sea Rescue Institute said.

“There are no other bite marks or lacerations on the deceased man’s body – only the complete amputation of the right leg and the leg has not been recovered.

David Lilienfeld





his boarding page

http://www.sixty40.co.za/profile/1183/david-lilienfeld