Yet another shark attack.......
 

......2 in less than a week

Stay out of the water

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa...d-at-mindarie/

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Do you favour a cull, or feel it's a complete waste of time?


S

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Waste of time

Snark nets work well

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Shark attacks seem to be on the increase around Oz.

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Yes, this was my take on a cull as well.



They do - I'm wondering when the sharknado is going to happen...


S

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Now that their natural predator, the human, has been taken out of the loop.

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Saw the channel 7 helicopter flying over yesterday and I said to my wife "I wonder if that's another shark attack then?" Sure enough...

My Mrs dives, she was at Rotto 2 weeks ago diving and going back next weekend. She's pretty much in the ocean at least once a week all year round. She's not worried about sharks and we are both against killing them. Her philosophy is "when it's your time, it's your time"!! :cool:

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South Africa has used shark nets for decades and in areas where they are installed, shark attacks are virtually unheard of

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Don't be ridiculous - Surely helicopters and an army of manual spotters are much more cost effective than static, proven shark nets...


S

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Shark: When it's lunchtime, it's lunchtime.

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There have been zero shark attacks on football pitches this year alone.

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Seems to be the perfect application for a drone, equipped with a high-definition camera and / or other mechanisms to detect sharks in the water and relay their position back to shore. Got to be more cost effective than a helicopter, but maybe not a static net?

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The woman who died, 60 year old Doreen Collyer, emigrated from Chester 5 years ago to be closer to her son and grandchild :( She was a nursing lecturer at Perth's Edith Cowan University.

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Going out killing them (sharks) really makes me angry. :mad: It's completely dumb and anyone who goes in the water knows what they may come up against.

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I agree

A totally pointless exercise

People being killed by sharks is not cool but going into the ocean makes you part of the food chain............

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It's almost as if they (powers that be) believe they can invoke human laws. This shark killed the woman, we need to go kill the shark. No you don't, you leave these beautiful creatures living in their own habitat.

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It's horrible and my worst nightmare. I really feel for the victims and their family's. Attacks are certainly getting much more frequent but I don't believe in culling them. When I was a teenager, every time I went for a snorkel or a dive I'd scream into the water, old tip from reading Hans Has books lol. As my son (when he was about 6) once said to his 8 year old sister when she was going off at him for eating meat "It's the food chain Em, sharks can eat us and we can eat cows".

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:lol:

In my younger (and stupider) years I used to swim out into the ocean just north of Lancelin with crayfish traps, baited with rotten meat.

I was swimming back one day when a fin popped up about 5 feet in front of me. I think I beat Jesus' walk on water trick that day. Luckily for me, it was only a dolphin.

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Oh my lord!!! I remember going on grade 7 camp to Lancelin. We caught a cray boat over to Lancelin Island to see the seals and birds nesting. The boat couldn't go in close to the island so they ferried kids and teachers over in the dinghy - those of us that could swim, just jumped in and swam to shore. Those were the days. My nephew was a pearl diver at Broome 25 years or so ago, he had some very close calls with sharks and crocs and then one of his mates was taken by a tiger shark, that was the end of his diving days.

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:eek: Imagine the risk analysis on that school excursion these days - it'd never happen!

I've always admired the guts of the Broome pearl divers, not only sharks but salties to contend with. Sad to hear about your nephew's mate, no wonder he gave it up.

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Or crocs, gorillas etc...

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Yeah, he was fortunate enough to be working at the Pearl Farm of an old family friend of ours and he ended up marrying the daughter so ended up managing the farm and getting his skippers license and stuff when he quit diving. His wife still seeds pearl for the Japanese sometimes I think but he's out of the industry all together now.

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Another today near Esperance

Very sad

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...tern-australia

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One of those terribly sad incidents that everyone who surfs knows is a possibility. So young too, and how horrible for her dad who was with her :(

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Absolutely. I would love to go doing something I loved though. (Ignoring the pain and terror she must have gone through) I do hope they're not hunting down the shark :(

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Yet another shark ... just eating?

If humans want to put themselves on the buffet menu then surely this isn't news?

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I was reading today that her mum and siblings were on the beach watching while it all happened. How horrible for them all to have to witness this while being stranded on the beach helpless. Very sad indeed.