Man Dies From Shark Attack At Byron Bay

Vic41 · Guru

Man Dies From Shark Attack At Byron Bay

bill12 · Guru

If you swim in their environment with the big predators, you tend to become food. Crocs are the same. Sorry to hear about it, but tems the rules. Bill

JRH · Guru

bill12 wrote:
If you swim in their environment with the big predators, you tend to become food. Crocs are the same. Sorry to hear about it, but tems the rules. Bill

Agree with you 100% Bill, it is their environment, their home even. Swim there at your own risk.

SnowT · Guru

From the sound of it and if the picture is of the time, it looks like a Bull shark..

Juergen

Sheba · Guru

I thought they said on the news tonight that it was a Great White.

Just a reminder to people about Dogs. Years ago, you were not allowed to take a dog on the beach, for a very good reason. People seem to have forgotten the fact that Sharks can smell a dog on the beach from about 2 miles out at sea.

This has nothing to do with the Byron Bay attack, but I just thought I'd remind people.

Cheers,

Sheba.

SnowT · Guru

The Bull shark if the one that is most often found in close in greater number's..

They conducted a Catch and Tag Program in Sydney harbor and The number of Bull sharks compared to any other species was like 50 to 1..

they warn you not to go swimming in the channels and definitely not to let the dog go for a swim..

Juergen

Jonathan · Senior Member

bill12 wrote:
If you swim in their environment with the big predators, you tend to become food. Crocs are the same. Sorry to hear about it, but tems the rules. Bill

.. and I agree with you Bill.

Having spent a great part of my life as a diver, one gets to see a few things in the open water as well as from a cage ..

Have hand-fed sharks years ago at Marineland at Manly (Sydney) and watched a big croc from the "confines" of a cage in the NT .. and happy now to treat all that as a past experience !

But .. I also don't agree that they should be killed because of the danger they impose .. many swimmers are killed and injured from sea-snakes/jelly-fish etc but you never see them getting chased to be put down .. nor have I seen any white-pointers out walking the streets to get revenge. When young, many of us lived like there was no tomorrow .. these days, tomorrow is evenless likely to happen for us .. let 'em be !

bill12 · Guru

Its a bit like the controversy about the shark culling program. We have had one for many years in Qld, and I don,t think it has made ANY difference to the anount of large sharks around.In other words, whats the point in killing them. Its just so the politicians can look like they are doing something. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for window dressing.You just don,t put yourself in a situation where you might get eaten.ANYWHERE.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

This is not good news at all but I have been at one of my favourite places, Byron Bay when a large shark was attempting to cause havoc with all at the main beach. No one was taking any notice and were still out in the water. The authorities were not amused.

As for a shark eating you, I prefer to be the eater not the eatee.

Vic41 · Guru

This is the latest article, also shows some stats for shark attacks in each State;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-10/byron-bay-shark-attack-victim-was-british-expat/5732372