Inviting Aussie beaches... All welcome!

[ANZAC]

Just imagine it!



We had 11 Hammer Heads up to 3m swimming 50m from the bathers at Northbeach on BoxingDay and then 12 White Pointers off Hawks Nest the day after.
We got sooooo many bait fish inthe water at the moment, because of the warmer currents. There is also mass schools of Salmon, which bring in the hunting packs.
We had a guy attacked at Tea Gardens just last week too... Bit thru his board and bum! Poor @#$%!

below is all in 1 week.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... public_rss

http://illawarra.yourguide.com.au/news/ ... 51891.html

http://newcastle.yourguide.com.au/artic ... topstories

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22 ... public_rss

[billie_morini]

That is wild! Also learned some other things from the links you provided. I didn't know there are airplane and boat patrols looking for sharks or that alarms are sounded to call everyone in from the water.

I appreciated all those news links you provided. It gave me the opportunity to see what else is going on in Australia. The news looks almost as crazy as in the US - Sydney's beaches closed due to big swell, 1000 guns found hidden on private property, Wollongong's polluted water can make kids sick, rottweiler kills toddler, and etc.

[ANZAC]

We got it all mate!

[pkbum]

Why can't we all get along with sharks? Our body doesn't taste so good ;_;

[CHarvey]

Well at least with the hammer heads you don't have to worry about anything. To my knowledge there have never been an attack by one.

[ANZAC]

Usually the Lifeguards clear the water pretty quickly when the Hammerheads are out... Here's a table of reported shark attacks and common species to attack..
http://danger.mongabay.com/shark_attacks.htm

Species Name Common Name Recorded Attacks

Carcharodon carcharias, white 373

Galeocerdo cuvier, tiger 137

Carcharhinus leucas, bull 88

Carcharias taurus, sand tiger 67

Carcharhinus limbatus, blacktip 32

Carcharhinus spp., requiem 48

Sphyrna spp., hammerhead 35

Prionace glauca, blue 34

Carcharhinus melanopterus, blacktip reef 14

Isurus oxyrinchus, shortfin mako 42

[CHarvey]

Thanks for the correction ANZAC. I will have to do more research.

[crepuscular]

Bondi FTW!!! There's not a single shark attack incident for decades, unless you are dumb enough to paddle all the way past the shark nets, rarely any breaks there anyway... The guy on the news about been attack by a shark @ Bondi few weeks ago was a lier, he got those wounds from break-n-enter, and ended up with the cops, lol...