renth

A GREAT white shark spotted off Perth today swam past thousands of swimmers and surfers, said a reporter at the scene.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...0-1245,00.html

The Bloke

So, it was only Greg Norman going for a swim.

moneypenny20

Do you really get thousands and thousands of people on the beach and in the sea on five beaches That sounds horrendous

cranni

Bit scary, but at least they are watching out for them, they dont watch down here, hope its not headed our way.

northernbird

It sounds a lot to me too. However Cottesloe to Trigg is about 15km of coastline so although it sounds a lot its very spread out.

ew502

Hi

I live just outside Taree, on the NSW mid north coast. Beautiful area and lovely beaches...or so I thought, until I was told a 3meter great white beached itself on the beach (the next one to where we live). It was chasing salmon apparently and swam a little too close to shore!!!!

Not sure what this says about the intelligence factor!!

moneypenny20

Someone else on here from Taree - do you know him - he loves the area as well. The shark was there to piss him off bigtime

DunRoaminTheUK

Did it get the living crap beaten out of it....once the odds were evened out between man and toothy fish?

steve99

A couple of the locals decided to bite big chunks out of it because it was encroaching on their territory

annqldau

It'll be just another remake of jaws... .

ew502

You can't mean Arkon ... he hates it!!! But I love his posts, they make me laugh out loud!!

arkon

OMG, and I don't mean the shark, we get them in the river anyway so nothing new there, not great whites but some kind of meter long grey things.

Oh yes the OMG, I can't believe someone else chose to live here!! It is good to know that I'm not the only one that left my common sense behind when I sold the house in blighty.

Lord Pom Percy

500 people drown each year in the ocean in OZ each year and does'nt make the news, around one person is killed by a shark a year and its fronts page news for days.

busterboy

I'm not sure which death I would prefer....oh I know, I plump for neither.

When we were in Oz in 2004/2005, it seemed everywhere we went there was a pointer spotted either a day before or a day after. Imagine little white Jockess being stalked by Great White!

katsmajic

OMG the stoopid people not the shark!!!
why stay in the water??? :scared:
i love the sea, but am wary of 'things in the water' (weve all seen Jaws!) but im going to Adelaide...2nd largest breeding colony of great whites in the world! i must be mad!