I agree with you about the sharks, and I've never done anything close to big wave, or tow-in surfing. I'm sure I never will. But are you serious that you would never surf in Australia? I know at least some beaches there have protective netting or something like that to keep sharks away. Plus in Australia you have plenty of beach, warm water all year round, and good waves. It would be a Surfer's paradise(sorry for the horrible pun.) I think there would be plenty of either protected or fairly uncrowded surf-spots year round. That's too good to pass up, especially considering the rareness of shark attacks.
can being the key word there. The rest of them go to prison with paid board and meals. Maybe we should give sharks the option of being put in a tank holding pen with free meals even though they know not what they do...unlike people. A CNN story is now reporting that it was only one shark and the kids in the boat tried to deter the shark by poking it with their oars. They are also going to hunt down and kill the shark. Question...how do they know which shark to kill unless they kill a shark first and then cut open the stomach looking for human remains? Then, they may have to go through multiple sharks in this fashion. So, innocent sharks may die.
Yeah, but you can't put a shark on trial. You have to catch it and cut it open to see if it's the right one. What if you keep getting the wrong one up until the victims body has already been digested?
I don't know how they're going to do it. That's their problem. (Are there really that many Great Whites swimming around in the same area 250 yards from shore?)
Since Great Whites move huge distances, we will probably never know the right shark, unless, as someone suggested, they find some remains (or a wristwatch or something) post mortem. The effect of taking sharks out of the food chain (in response to that question above) is very hard to calculate, I would think. We are losing bird species at a shocking rate, for instance. Who cares? In India, the loss of vultures, strangely, is leading to an outbreak of rabies. Vultures used to eat all the dead rats, but now feral dogs eat them, get rabies, and bite humans. Weird.
man.....stay out of the WATER...it's their world. i say stay on land that's where the ladies are...what's the point of going in the water...go to your local YMCA swimming pool...stay safe swim in pools.
He was responding to FB: "What would be the consequences if all the man eating shark species (Great White, Tiger, Hammerhead, etc.) in the world were eliminated?" Well...for one I would imagine that the populations of seals, sealions and various species of large fish predated upon by these sharks would increase dramatically. Thus the populations of those species predated upon by the seals/sealions/fish would crater. And so forth down the food chain, with increasingly unpredictable results on the ecosystem as a whole. It's generally best not to **** with Mother Nature.
why does anyone really care about a shark? this is the most pathetic tree hugging argument i have ever heard
People care about sharks, plural, because if they are an important to the overall balance of the Ocean's eco system.
...Balance? I can show you some balance. Nature always balances itself out whether a species is eradicated or not...Nature knows how to balance...
I never said anything about sharks other I agreed with surfguy. I just said that this shark attack wouldn't keep me from surfing in Australian waters.
Picture of the shark on the front page of http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au my incompetence doesn't allow me to post the image - someone else might like to. Seems the particular shark is destined to be destroyed - the SA government has authorised it - Great Whites are protected in SA waters because hunting caused them to become endangered many years ago. The reason this shark is to be eradicated is because it is feared that it will now be a "maneater" - hanging around the shoreline and feeding on humans. The sharks can travel vast distances in a day, and a few years ago there was a similar sized shark (5-6m) off the West Australian coastline which was hunting around the beaches for "food". However this is unusual behaviour for a Great White. I really don't understand the arguments of those who proclaim that the shark can do what it likes in "it's own territory" (ie the ocean) - why is it that humans cannot do what they like? If humans have the opportunity to kill a shark because it is near them, then why shouldn't they? (not my opinion, but a question that is brought up by that sort of argument) And to those who think that the "evolutionary superiority" of the shark ought to be respected, and it ought to be allowed to kill things in its domain, a similar question arises: why shouldn't the human be allowed to assert its superiority in killing a shark? (or sharks)? Again, not my opinion but shows that the argument doesn't logically work.....
heard plenty of helicopters this arvo, guess they are patrolling the beach the boys father has asked that they not hunt down and kill the shark so on the same day he says this the state government comes out and says it will kill the shark or others that pose a threat to swimmers
Kill the shark! The parents of the kid who died cannot make the decision - what if they don't kill it and then other people get killed by the shark, will there be a straw poll among all parents of the people who got killed or what...
are you serious, first death on our beach in 19 years the kids father said the ocean is their home, it was a tragic accident but no reason to hunt it down and kill it
