Man bitten in half by shark at busy Sydney beach

So he died of natural causes.

I'm not surprised. Sydney Harbour is supposedly full of bull sharks.

This was a Great White.

SWWWWIMMING!

At least we won't have to ask what was on his iPod.

There is nothing great about white! Stop all the racism! It WOUNDS!!

So he died of n̶a̶t̶u̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ covid.

Whites ARE great at killing people.

Do not go in the water in Australia. It's not difficult.

[Quote]Sydney Harbour is supposedly full of bull sharks.

[Quote]This was a Great White.

And Little Bay Beach is not Sydney Harbour.

He was wearing a wetsuit. Great Whites don't see well. They don't want to eat humans but humans in a wetsuit are mistaken for prey.

[quote] With the victim's remains having tested positive for COVID-19, the pandemic death toll in Australia is now at 4,727.

Unbelievable!

Horrific account of a non-fatal great white bite.

One's worst nightmare. There's (discreet) video...

It's not so much the shark...its those seagulls above the scene in the video taking bits of me which I'd strenuously object to!

Jesus christ. I assume that's the victim shouting at the beginning of the video? At least it sounds like it was very, very quick. I guess it would be. But yes, those seagulls...

r10 my point was that if Sydney Harbour is a 20 minute drive from this beach so they probably have the same sharks. I know you had nothing to contribute so you appointed yourself the Map Police. I understand you but I still hate you.

Better a clean good honest hungry shark than a crocodile who is only shopping gathering the menu for later dishes. Ceocs pull you down into their nest and let you season before they Begin to snack,

Anyone wearing a black wetsuit in shark infested waters is insane because the dumbass sharks mistake you for a seal and go chomp.

Australia and the US have hellish oceans for swimming. Sharks, jellies, rough seas. Head to the Maldives if you want calm, shark free swims in warm turquoise water.

The guy who was eaten swum there regularly for YEARS.

It's just one of those freak things. Swimming further out than most beach users is a small risk but a very real risk.

A horrific way to go.

But when you compare it to rotting away from dementia over 15 years or other common ways to exit, you have to wonder what's worse.

I know perspective is not DL’s thing, but it is the first fatal shark attack in Sydney in 59 years. Horrible, but in no way common.

Told you I was hardcore.

Look at the size of the fin and tail

I'm thinking you might be an idiot R12.

Yes, I think so.

[quote]Anyone wearing a black wetsuit in shark infested waters is insane because the dumbass sharks mistake you for a seal and go chomp.

R19 I've always wondered why apsosematic colours arent more commonly used for wetsuits - something like bright orange and iridescent blue stripes, colour combos that scream "I am poisonous". Its strikes me that looking like a seal is just a bad idea when diving, especially if sharks are a possibility

Fatal shark attacks in Australia. Aussie sharks are hardcore.

Our hats are off to you gentlemen, you Aussie sharks @R27!

Chomp chomp!

R24 Um...that's a helicopter. Clearly.

The dead man was a rock fisherman who slipped off the rocks into deep water. The whole area looks horrible for swimming. Rough sea, rocks everywhere.

I lived in Sydney. When you swim in the Harbour, it is behind shark nets or fencing.

When we would go sailing, we'd see sharks all the time.

I once got stranded in the middle of the harbour when our sailboat had a leak, took on water, and sank. I spent 40 minutes thinking we were going to be killed by sharks. But the "coast guard" told us the sharks would see our sail under the water and assume we were a whale and leave us alone.

Humans don’t belong in the sea.

[quote]But the "coast guard" told us the sharks would see our sail under the water and assume we were a whale and leave us alone.

I think we can assume from that that Chrissy Metz would be safe then

[quote] I've always wondered why apsosematic colours arent more commonly used for wetsuits - something like bright orange and iridescent blue stripes, colour combos that scream "I am poisonous".

Because those colors aren't slimming, silly!

Sharks bite very colorful sail and surfboards, as well.

I thought you should wear black and white striped suits because then the shark would mistake you for a poisonous sea snake and leave you alone.

This will certainly be the best episode of Shark Week this summer.

I don't buy this guy's claim that eating humans is a clear waste of energy for sharks. Clearly this shark didn't think so as it ate most of the body and came back to attack multiple times.

We get it - sharks shouldn't be demonised, but they are predators and will eat humans when they choose. to. Great Whites eat seals, dolphins and sea turtles among many other items. Humans may be less fatty but they're clearly also worth eating.

[quote]This was a Great White.

Why it gotta be white?

[quote] It's the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963.

Seems like a lot of fuss over such a rare event.

Young, dumb and full of cum!

[quote] He was wearing a wetsuit. Great Whites don't see well. They don't want to eat humans but humans in a wetsuit are mistaken for prey.

That's right, blame the victim.

Well, he likely needed to lose a few pounds.

That rough water doesn't look safe for 'swimming'. Why would you be out flopping around in that?

unblurred video, or it didn't happen

The unblurred video is all over Twitter you ghoul.

Kill the shark to "bring some closure to the family??' That is so fucking stupid. How the hell does that 'bring closure?'

R46 So you watched it, you ghoul

[quote]The dead man was a rock fisherman who slipped off the rocks into deep water.

See he fished rocks for all those years and then they got back at him.

That's incorrect. He did not fall in and was not fishing. The victim was a swimmer; apparently a man who swum there most days; he was wearing a wetsuit and was relatively far from the area where most beach users would swim. So an ocean swimmer but a beach paddler.

On the news this morning in Sydney they're saying it was a 4 metre Great White. They've closed 35 beaches up and down the coast while they look for it. The news today is that the guy was not a local but was a regular swimmer in that area. And yes, it was the first shark-bite fatality since 1963.

PSA: It seems this guy knew what he was doing and was just very unlucky. But if you are not from Sydney and not an Olympic swimmer or a daily surfer, then don't go in the ocean off Sydney. It's not only sharks. Far more common are the ferocious rips that will drag you out to sea or throw you at the rocks. If you swim between the flags erected on the beach you are guaranteed that lifesavers are watching you, and there's probably a drone in the air looking for sharks as well.

If there are no flags or you find a quiet spot away from them to go in, you're an idiot. If you think you can swim there because surfers are doing it, you're a moron: Australian surfers are practically fish. If you swim at night, can I have your stuff?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

R39 it's white supremacy: great whites prey on blacktips.

Cool

Warning: graphic.

Um, no. It’s not. A blurred screen is not “graphic”

We don5 call that a beach. A beach has sand and is level with, or slightly higher than the water. Those are rocks sticking out of water.

I don't want to see the video, thx. The one someone posted with a pedestrian getting struck down in Queens and having his head run over by a truck was enough for me.

What the fuck is wrong with everyone in that video? Their reactions are bizarre. It's like they're filming a shark kill a seal or something, not watching a person being killed before their eyes. Here's another still blurred video but it demonstrates better what I'm talking about. The guy filming has an oddly unaffected tone, the camera stays perfectly still and he even zooms in at one point. Just at the end it shows some guy just casually standing on the rocks with his fishing rod. They don't seem shocked or stunned, I'd be losing my fucking shit if this happened right in front of me.

I think I saw the unblurred video last night. You see some red water but no actual...human or human parts. I think you can hear the guy yell at the beginning but that stops pretty quickly. A friend of mine regularly goes swimming at a beach in Perth at dusk. I constantly tell him not to but he reckons as a Canadian I have no idea how safe it is.

It's unblurred on worldstar. You momentarily see bloody froth on the water and the shark thrashing around but I at least couldn't see anything worse.

DL will only mourn him if he was hot.

I think I'd have a mental breakdown if I witnessed this in person.

Very interesting, I didn't think humans are good eating for other species

[quote]I lived in Sydney. When you swim in the Harbour, it is behind shark nets or fencing.

I'm from Melbourne. There are shark nets across the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. There are also air patrols of the bay because they know that the shark nets aren't 100% infallible.

Great White sharks are fucking assholes. That's why we kill them any time we can.

- Your friendly, charming, fascinating transient Orca pod

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We really don't belong in their water.

There's another video now that I saw. Really horrible. The guy is dead but the shark is seen swallowing what's left of him, the head and torso.

It was a beautiful day yesterday in Sydney. Perfect blue skies and bark blue water. And a full big moon in the evening. Very sad and tragic.

Little Bay is actually a cove, you wouldn't expect a shark attack there.

It's possible the guys fishing off the rocks might be a factor. I don't know if those guys throw in the guts and heads. If so...

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Victim was a 35yo man, believed to be British.

Victim named

Couldn’t they just sew him back together?

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The ocean is the shark’s house.

[quote] There are shark nets across the entrance to Port Phillip Bay.

How do all those ocean-going Chinese ships enter the bay delivering Chinese stuff to Melbourne consumers?

A terrible freak incident,at least it was quick. I am a ghoul and watched but there is nothing to see or hear in these videos.

I take it you skipped the one at R77?

I watched r77 more than once with morbid interest. By the time onlookers reached the shore to record, the victim was finished off, nothing to see or hear.

There is a definite chunk of human (not identifiable if you didn't know what it was) in the water throughout the video at R77. The person was clearly no longer whole or alive. Shark comes back for more. I agree with the other poster who mentioned the odd responses of onlookers - it's possible they didn't know what they were filming and maybe just thought it was a shark eating a seal or some other sea mammal?

Good for the shark. Sharks are people too. Theys need to eats. LOL.

The victim was 6' 5" and gorgeous. This story just gets worse!

R86 would be happy to just ride the bottom half. She don't mind 50 feet of exposed intestine. Se'll take what she can get.

*she'll. Sorry cunts, typing in the dark. Jesus Queef.

He was training for a charity swimming competition.

Very sad story!

R89.....

Ipod

lol, r91. No word of a lie, tonight Jaws was supposed to be on one of the channels but they put something else on instead.

I can't believe they pulled it. Like it wouldn't have done great numbers for them.

And it was just stupid, too. How many people die in ways that are part of movies and TV shows they show all the time but for this, horrifying as it was, they opt not to show Jaws. Dumb. Still, they probably would've been criticised if they had shown it so wanted to avoid the shit show and dropped it. I was pissed off, too, I was going to watch it :)

I'm sure the Apple views are through the roof tonight.

This poor guy was from the UK. Every few years, there seems to be a Brit abroad animal tragedy story. To memory, there’s been ones involving polar bears, crocodiles, bison, and assorted safari animals in Africa. It seems such a bizarre thing because nature has been almost completely managed here. The top predators are foxes and badgers.

R86 he’s three feet now and aged badly.

Humans have a lot of bones. That shark is gonna regret that meal when it’s time to shit.

Think of how many animals humans have killed. It seems only right for them to get one of us every so often.

.....Maybe If I’d Been There,...I Could’ve Helped.

R96 There was a young woman from Europe who survived the Bali bombings only to be taken by a crocodile in northern Australia not long after.

Good for the croc.

Be careful there are tons of hacking sites claiming to have the shark attack video

I stand with the water against this white oppression! #somethingstupidwokeshit

[quote] Their reactions are bizarre. It's like they're filming a shark kill a seal or something, not watching a person being killed before their eyes.

[quote] I agree with the other poster who mentioned the odd responses of onlookers - it's possible they didn't know what they were filming and maybe just thought it was a shark eating a seal or some other sea mammal?

The video opens up with the guy holding the camera yelling “A shark just ate someone! It’s a great white.” He later says “the person is still in the water!” He says multiple “Oh NO!”s and “Fuck!” He and the other guy who is fishing are obviously stunned by what’s happening in front of them and they also realize there’s nothing they can do about it. They can only watch.

Isn't it odd for the shark to have eaten so much? In stories I've read about fatal shark attacks, the mostly intact bodies are recovered. Maybe it's because it occurred closer to shore and the sharks were driven off before inflicting more damage?

He tasted good

What was on his iPod:

Did he died with COVID?

RIP.

[quote] We really don't belong in their water.

It’s all our water, baby.

I wouldn’t watch.

It doesn’t look either busy or like a beach. It looks like a cove with 2 or 3 guys fishing off of rocks.

If the fishermen were chumming the water they may have caused this mess by attracting fish and the shark to the area.

Chumming is vile and should be stopped IMO.

R113 Fuck off, asshole. It wasn't their fault. If you swim in shark infested waters, it is 100% on you.

Infested? INFESTED? Fuck you, mate.

SURPRISE!

White Mischief

Contrast R116 with this clip of two Orca and two kids:

"What the hell is wrong with them?!!" "Drama Queens, I guess!" "I'd SAY!" "Let's go find something to eat."

What were those fishing guy trying to catch, anyway?

I won’t call them fishermen, because fishermen are guys in boats who fish for a living. These guy were on rocks using rods. They weren’t fishing for sardines or trout

Maybe the dude who got eaten was on his period. Sharks love blood. Never swim when you're filled with cunt blood!

Chumming is illegal in CA. There are day trips out to the Farallon Islands where there are a ton of sharks and it's illegal for boat operators to chum just so tourists can see some sharks up close.

But I'm sure it gets done often privately.

He was cute r75, so we can now call this a tragedy.

I'll never understand people who swim in live bodies of water full of living creatures that can and will maim, harm or kill you. And I understand this thinking less when said live body of water full of living creatures that can and will maim, harm, or kill you, is literally anywhere in Australia.

Like...do these people not know where they live?

I hope at least he was delicious.

More Orca fun.

She was definitely delicious, said the shark.

Would the appropriate wine be a light chardonnay with fruity undertones or a deep Burgundy with a big finish??

"Delish!" exclaimed the shark.

Maybe that’s why the fishers weren’t losing their shit. They knew it was their fault for chumming the water. That one fisher sure knew his sharks. “It’s a great white!” Mighty quick, sure identifier. No doubt he’s seen them before in that cove.

I don't want to die that way. Please don't laugh.

Who does?

Jaws was on BBC America last week. I hadn’t seen it in years. I’ve seen it many times over the years but usually I’m reading while it’s on in the background. This time my iPad and phone were being charged so I watched the film instead of reading while it was on. It is still very suspenseful.

BBC America needs to have “BBC” taken out of the title. It just shows old American movies & tv shows. Last night it was playing Law and Order with long dead Jerry Orbach.

And what looked like an adolescent Chris Noth

I too found the reaction odd. Also, it's always the morons who can't film correctly who witness these things.

The Aussie I heard on camera (oh no, someone has just been eaten by a shark; it's a Great White!) didn't sound calm to me, he sounded very upset.

However, if you haven't listened to a lot of Aussies and they way they speak/cadence etc., they tend not to be hysterical sounding, even when there is something shocking or violent happening. I've watched a lot of Australian shows over the past 5 years and they are really the opposite in the way they react to things and their vocalizations. Very opposite from American.

That is very true R135.

Aussies don't do hysteria like Americans do.

We tend to withdraw in a sense in relation to witnessing something shocking. We go more quiet and understated.

It's like holding your breath after your first words and shock sets in.

Americans seem to want to put on a show to show how shocked they are at an event.

BTW, the jokes at this poor man's death are appalling. If nothing else, imagine if it were your loved one who suffered this fate.

You wouldn't be joking about what's on Ipods etc.

They are recreational fishermen R119. Lots of beaches here in Oz have rocky outcrops at either end and people fish off them for snapper, bream and other fish. According to the internet, it allows access to deeper water, where there are more fish, than fishing from the beach itself.

And it is also dangerous - quite a lot of people drown from being washed into the ocean from a particularly big wave hitting the rocks.

I'm the one who said upthread (lost the r number and not going back to check it) that they don't sound shocked or stunned. They don't, IMO, and I'm Australian, so I understand the difference in how we can come across in stressful situations, but these people did not sound shocked to me (one in the background might but the one filming did not). They seemed fascinated with what they were seeing, not shocked or stunned. The camera stays steady. No, he's not great at filming but if you watch other videos of someone being killed, they might drop the camera or it is shaking because their hands are shaking, he does none of that. The guy at the end was still just standing there with his fishing rod in his hand. Yes, their reactions were bizarre to me.

r138 I've never been in that situation, but I'm sure shock manifests itself in several ways, especially when you KNOW that you can do absolutely nothing to intervene. What were they supposed to have done - start to keen and scream? For all you know, they may have been saying a prayer for the poor victim.

I think their reactions are within the range of normal. This is called shock. It's likely the full impact of what happened only hit them hours later. The guy with the fishing rod is not being callous he's in a state of disbelief and he's processing it all. One of the fisherman later that evening said he was (by then) constantly vomiting. This is shock.

I don't know r138, maybe it just depends on the person. I saw my father's badly decomposing body (he was found in his home) a few months ago and my immediate reaction wasn't to scream or cry. It's hard to explain but, it was almost like I was "watching myself" from a distance and "not really there."

That said, I've been having severe migraines and occasional nausea ever since, and vomited a few days after.

My appetite is also shot to hell. Shock affects everyone differently.

Poor guy; RIP.

I live in LA and go out to the beach in a blue moon. I'll get my ankles wet and scoop up some salt water to put in my hair but that's it.

I prefer swimming in a pool.

I'm very sorry that happened to you. If you haven't already spoken to someone at length about your feelings after seeing that, please do so. Talking is a safe and healthy way to release the tension. You don't want to keep that sort of shock bottled up inside.

Australian news coverage is humane and commonsense. And this story is very disturbing.

R58 you dumb fat fuck

"What the fuck is wrong with everyone in that video? Their reactions are bizarre. It's like they're filming a shark kill a seal or something, not watching a person being killed before their eyes. Here's another still blurred video'

OMG YOU GUYS ARE HORRIBLE! OHHH, LOOK AT THIS ONE, TOO!

[quote] On the news this morning in Sydney they're saying it was a 4 metre Great White.

That’s amazing!

Whats shocking to me was how quick it was, one sec he was here and then he was dead. How horrible and terrifying

Wanna play?

[quote]So he died of natural causes.

May I quote you on that?

A dreadful, violent death that was mercifully quick. So quick, looky- loos were unable to record his death with a smart phone.

Yes, it's disgusting how many people are more than willing to stand there and video tape these things.

[quote] Humans may be less fatty

Not in Florida.

Apparently he was an organ donor.

R123 I live in Sydney by the beach. I surf. I do ocean swims (usually 2-3 km) a fair way out.

I see sharks occasionally while surfing but they’re usually grey nurses or hammerheads which, while they look fucking scary, are harmless to humans. I also see migrating whales and pods of dolphins and turtles and all types of fish.

The bottom line is that it’s their (fish including sharks) territory not mine. That’s a risk that I’m willing to take to experIence some incredible beauty.

The last fatal shark attack in Sydney was 60 years ago in less than one metre of water, 10km up the harbour from the ocean.

The odds are in our favour.

[quote] Also, it's always the morons who can't film correctly who witness these things.

Maybe you could cut them a little slack. Despite your high standards for cinematography, they weren't really expecting to watch someone get eaten to death that morning.

SCHWWWWIMMING!

So, serious questions, if sharks don't discern between a walrus or a seal and a swimmer or surfer in a black wet suit, why not wear a white wetsuit?

Is it a Labour Day thing? Because that's just silly.

I’d wear a white wetsuit or orca suit for swimming but the only options around here are black or navy.

And between November and May I don’t wear wetsuits at all, just a rashy for surfing.

I’d consider getting my next board in some stripey pattern but from below with the sun shining above, they all look black (i.e. like a seal) anyway.

Like this

I should deschign a new wetschuit! Oh my goodnessch!

^^ The Liza schtick is just hilarious, R160!

Hang on, I meant “tired” - time to find some new material.

Hi Georgia!

R161 the Lizscha! troll is immune to shame, criticism, and snark. Most likely OCD and low intelligence. Be kind to the village idiot. His leaden, grim, wit free, typing of words is perfectly harmless. I would never say something mean about him.

Maneater was clearly on his waterproof iPod.

I'm glad you got it out. Really. Petty babies.

I mean: babiesch!

Anyone who dislikes the Liza Troll (or Trolls) has zero business being on Datalounge.

Whiny Australians thread policing. Well, I guess they learned something from the prison ship and passed it down through the generations. Impressive considering all the racism in their tiny minds.

They may have just got their phone out to record a shark but didn't realise someone was being eaten til it happened

R167 pretty much. Anytime a thread criticizes them in the littlest bit they come out of the woodwork.

When I came back from a family vacation (pre cellphone era) I was greeted with the news that my boyfriend had drowned. I was very calm, detached and quiet. Only later did I fall apart.

I have no idea how I would react going about my day then watching a person being eaten alive. It would be so surreal and unexpected, but I imagine I wouldn’t be hysterical just like these guys. They will feel the full weight of it later and it will probably be awful.

I'm a little ashamed to admit that I made a copy of the video to rewatch later after it is inevitably taken down.

I wish I had done that with the Penn snow shooting vid. Jimmmay.

Ilse Koch's home movies.

I spent all day distracted because I had to know what half was eaten. You automatically assume the bottom half but then you have that attack in Sth Africa where the shark leapt out of the water and ate the top half.

Turns out it was the bottom half after all - and some extras.

I feel better now.

I heard he was still screaming "Oh, my God! Oh My God!" after half his body was chomped off in the first attack.

But not for long.

You’re not very bright, are you, R167?

This one's not censored (NSFW). With a little biography attached.

The ocean is a cesspool- not a pool.

The shark that attacked this man wasn’t as friendly as Deep Blue.

[quote]I heard he was still screaming "Oh, my God! Oh My God!" after half his body was chomped off in the first attack.

Weird that he'd still believe in god after his lower half is bitten right off.

R167 Parochial Americans who nothing of the world beyond their mothers’ front yard. Which constitutes a large proportion of the DL.

Can you even swim? Have you even seen the ocean?

I’m thinking “no” on both counts.

^^^ Moving in mysterious ways??

R141 I’m really sorry about your dad and that you found him. That’s incredibly traumatic.

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Doubt there was time to record the attack. Killing machines. That shark was efficient, three huge bites and it was finished.

R166 Says the Liza troll. Be dead, cunt.

The guy narrating at R177 actually said "ax" instead of "ask"

He's blax! How dare you point that out, white fascist. That is how they talk.

[Quote] but then you have that attack in Sth Africa where the shark leapt out of the water and ate the top half.

WHAT??!!

Humans do "belong" in the sea. Anyone who says he don't, is a moron.

Having said that, entering the sea means accepting risks and accepting that creatures live there, like GIANT FUCKING SHARKS.

It was just outside of Cape Town a few years back R188 - there was also video footage of that but it disappeared pretty fast. I always wish I had saved a copy because it was pretty amazing.

R190 amazing and horrifying.

[quote]the jokes at this poor man's death are appalling. If nothing else, imagine if it were your loved one who suffered this fate. You wouldn't be joking about what's on Ipods etc.

First day on Datalounge? I should only be so lucky to die in a spectacular enough fashion to warrant my own DL thread asking what was on my iPod.

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What part of the body of the guy in Australia was left uneaten?

Will there be an open coffin?

To sharks, humans are sushi.

Sorry, but swimming out past others into deep, shark infested waters was not smart.

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Can I have his stuff?

There are compensations of living at Bondi...

When I took swimming lessons, I could never just float on the water. I'm envious of this guy being able to do it even after being dismembered.

Was he on IG?

R200, I was expecting a smoking hot guy in a SPEEDO.

Who will play Simon Nellist in the movie?

Any shirtless pics?

And you’re an expert in ocean swimming, R197?

There's a second video available. Won't post it, it's easily findable. It shows the body floating for a considerable while after the first attack. Totally naked, wet suit gone, with the legs missing, torso ending at the buttocks. So the shock most have rendered him unconscious. The shark then returns.

Oh no.

R192 You'll probably get incurable aids and die a gruesome death. No worries, cuntbread.

Why can’t Australians talk right?

[quote]You'll probably get incurable aids and die a gruesome death. No worries, cuntbread.

And we're appalling?

All white wetsuits get dirty looking immediately, and it causes the light to bounce back into your eyes. There is a striped suit that is supposed to fool the shark's eyes, but nobody wants to look like zebras.

R212, They might now.

He needed an invisible wetsuit =

The only thing Great Whites are scared of are orcas. You need to go surfing or diving with a recording of orcas. A pod of orcas would have got revenge for that guy.

But wouldn't an orca attack a human?

There's a video up on twitter. A few days ago, two teenagers were swimming in a bay in New Zealand. Two orcas swim by them, check them out and then swim on. There's never been a recorded attack by an orca on a human in the wild. Attacks by orcas caged in Seaworld shows demonstrate how orca mentality is changed by captivity.

[quote]Do not go in the water in Australia. It's not difficult.

I'm not so sure the land is any safer. Giant fucking insects.

And more venomous snakes than any other continent.

Look at vid from R125

Some perspective from someone who I swim with most days of the week.

The reader comments are also valuable for the many people on this thread pontificating on something about which they know nothing.

As always, on the DL.

[quote] about which they know nothing

It's rare to meet Dataloungers who care about avoiding prepositions at the end of a sentence.

Well, thank you, R222! I do try.

If Great Whites only bite humans by mistake, the shark wouldn't have come back to gobble him up.

Oh it came back and it definitely did not leave much bobbing in the surf for the gulls.

The gulls were almost the creepiest part of it. Desperate to get a little bit of manflesh for dinner.

The gulls were disturbing because they're a regular part of our environment that can be annoying, but not a threat. But then a freak encounter with a shark reduces the human to meat and the gulls just want a piece. Scary and chilling.

Yep I agree - the great white coming back to finish him off went against all the “they only bite us by accident” tropes.

Yeah I'm never swimming in an ocean again.

This is now about trans.

Well, at least Tia is a girl and female sharks are much bigger than the males.

Tia is such a pretty name for her too.

Having said that, I was back in the ocean this morning, R229.

R233 Were you wearing black?

r228 /r223 I used to go to the beach when i was a kid growing up in Southern California. About 10 years ago, I moved to Northern CA and soon had a boyfriend who was an avid surfer. As I had been a boogie-boarder as a kid, he encouraged me to take it up again while he was surfing. I got the wetsuit and everything. I was a little concerned because some of the time he would surf near a river outlet where salmon would come into the ocean and sharks were sometimes known to hang out. Yes, there had been several attacks on surfers in the past years (i don't think any deaths). I shook off my fears and went out a couple times (I really sucked after all these years). The last time I went out, i got caught in a rip tide which kept pulling me farther out toward the danger zone near the river outlet where the salmon came from and all i could think of was the sharks. I had fins and kicked like hell to try to get out of the rip. i was so panicked. it took me about 10 minutes of frenzied kicking to get out and get back to shore.

That was it; that was it for me with boogie boarding. I had a new respect for the ocean (not that i'd never been caught in a rip when i was a kid but it was SoCal, barely any waves and the rips aren't bad. I'm not saying i will never swim in the ocean again, but it's going to be waist high at best.

Swimming pool sales in Australia will be spiking.

I used to be scared of swimming in the pool after watching Jaws as a kid lol

R234 Pink fluoro budgy smugglers, as you asked, R234.

Sea temp was 25c this morning - steamer not required.

Far left loons in Sydney are trying to be socially responsible by calling this a "shark bite incident" so as not to demonise sharks.

Yes most nasty interactions with with sharks are stray bites. This was not one of those. He was totally dismembered and eaten.

It’s the sharks’ territory, not ours. We take the risk every time we jump in the water. There is nothing to be gained from killing the shark (if indeed it could be identified as the one that ate the unfortunate bloke).

Sixty years since the last fatal attack in Sydney - those are odds that most of us are willing to take.

[quote] (if indeed it could be identified as the one that ate the unfortunate bloke).

Do sharks masticate and digest human leg bones?

There is no mainstream call to kill the shark.

No one believes the myth that it's now got a taste for human blood and will return to kill again. This scare story never comes to fruition.

Plus past experience tells us they NEVER find the shark again in these situations. It is long gone.

R241 I have no idea but first you’d have to kill the shark to find out.

Great whites travel long distances - it’s unlikely that this one is lurking around Little Bay waiting for dessert.

Totally agree R240. Having grown up in the country the ocean has always felt a bit alien and threatening to me so I'm never going to be an 'ocean swimmer' but as you say, it is their domain. I just never go out too far.

Years ago I got 'stranded' out in Port Stephens during the first and only time I tried water-skiing. I was the last of a group of friends to have a go and managed to stay upright for a while before falling off/in. It was an overcast and slightly chilly day so the boat went back to get the person who'd been starting us off in waist-deep water, with the skipper saying they'd then come back and I could have another go. So I floated there, my white ski-clad legs dangling down into the deep water and after a while starting thinking 'They're taking a long time to come back ...'.

They weren't so far away that I couldn't see what was happening over at the shore and to my 'Oh fuck no!' dismay I saw the crew and my mates all start using skis to paddle the boat over to a nearby dock. The boat had broken down. I made my way back by dragging my arms through the water but it felt like it was taking forever to get close to them and the overcast day made every triangular wavelet look like a dark dorsal fin.

When I got close enough to hear them the skipper shouted out 'That's right mate. Keep making your way over like that. And try not to splash too much'. I didn't think much of that last comment at the time but have thought about it since, especially once I learned that Port Stephens is known as a place where juvenile great whites gather. I got back on-board, they got the boat fixed, and the skipper said 'Ya wanna have another go?. 'Nah, I'm right' I said. Long story I know, and a non-story too since nothing actually happened, but for a country kid who never felt 100% comfortable treading water in salt water, it was an experience I don't want to repeat.

Sharks both fascinate and frighten me. I did that tank dive at Ocean World in Manly once, but they are just grey nurses and while big, are harmless, at least to us. And I saw a reef shark while snorkelling in Queensland and that was cool. But when it comes to the 'big three' most implicated in attacks, I'll stay in the shallows and hope they stick to the depths.

[quote] I have no idea but first you’d have to kill the shark to find out

This story about the vomiting shark confirmed my decision to NEVER paint my skin.

This shark vomiting occurred about 3 miles away from where the other shark was masticating.

R244 great story!

Interestingly I am sitting on my balcony right now looking at Manly Ocean World (or where it used to be).

I totally get where you are coming from - I do a lot of ocean swims each year and it’s only once I’ve finished that I think about sharks. I’m big on denial.

I love the ocean and would hate not to have access to it.

Still waiting for a shirtless pic of the hunky deceased.

I wonder if humans are like truffles, Petrossian Beluga caviar, or Wagyu beef for sharks.

I expect most of taste like an alleged "prime rib" on a Circus Circus buffet.

^^most of us

The experts always say sharks don't prefer us because we are boney and lacking in a lot of fat, compared to marine mammals like seals. But then they also eat sea turtles which I'm sure aren't exactly soft or juicy.

I'm sure the victim involuntarily shit out of fear, which provided a dressing for the shark's meal.

Paramedics said he sustained horrific injuries. How much of his body were they still able fish out of the water?

Thanks R246. I get where you are coming from with the denial thing - a couple of friends of mine down the south coast swim every day in one of the rock pools but a few years back decided to do the Bondi to Bronte swim which meant training out in the open ocean. 'I couldn't do that' I said. 'Don't you think about sharks the whole time?', knowing I certainly would. 'No', one of them replied. 'Sometimes I start wondering about what might be down there but I just push the thought away or I'd freak myself out and never do it'.

With the Ocean World dive we entered the main tank by going over the edge of a small side pool. As we were gathered there about to do that a big shark came to the surface and was swimming around with its dorsal fin slicing through the water and it seemed to go against every instinct to willingly put yourself into the water with it. But like I said they were grey nurses and we just swam to the bottom and sat there while everything in the tank swam around and above us. There were about six of us 'divers' and two instructors and they each had poles that they would use to give the sharks a gentle push away if one came too close so it wasn't at all scary despite my shark phobia.

I've also not let it stop me doing things like snorkelling in Qld and Indonesia but there is always a big dark shape looming out of the blue water lurking in the back of my mind. Most of us have our phobias and sharks is mine.

Do you remember/know the story of the Lonergans, that American couple that the dive boat left behind up off Port Douglas? I remember thinking that was a nightmare scenario when it happened. They made a movie called 'Open Water' about it though moved the setting to the Bahamas. Good movie, horrible inspiration.

Yes...it's pretty much "horrific" when the entire lower half of your body is chomped/eaten by a shark (and apparently the shark came back for more!). from what i've heard, there was a little bit of torso and head left. but i don't know...i didn't see the unedited vid and i'm not looking for it.

I remember the adverts for Open Water r254 and vowed to never see it. At that point, i just wanted to be able to go into the ocean without worrying i was going to be chomped on from below. Nope.

Is that a phobia, R254? I feel like people with phobias don't repeatedly seek to spend time in close proximity to the thing or situation they're phobic about.

Another friend of mine has the same attitude as you re Open Water R246. He goes out fishing whenever he can - off Sydney, a few times up in the Gulf - and he refused to see it too. He reckons that if the boat he's on ever sinks the last thing he wants is that movie replaying in his head.

Dunno R257. You're probably right - I guess it's more a fear than a phobia really since I will snorkel, swim in the sea etc. And I've not let it stop me doing those things cause I know that the odds against a shark encounter are heavily in my favour. But you'll never find me swimming in the harbour or the Georges or Hawkesbury Rivers - fucking bull sharks.

I was reading about this attack on some news site the other day and a marine biologist said that this sounded like 'a particularly nasty shark' since the repeated strikes and basically consuming the poor guy was so unlike most great white incidents. The same article said you have more chance of being killed by a kangaroo, which I think must be bullshit. I've heard of dogs being killed (disembowelled) by kangaroos, but never a person. So there's another thing to be wary of in our sunburned country.

Darwin Award Winner 2022

A particularly nasty shark or a particularly hungry one.

Ugh, I'm jelly

I snorkeled in Kauai and the Big Island and never really worried about sharks. I don't think i would have if i thought being chomped in half would have been that outcome.

R24 uhh hammerheads most definitely attack and kill people…

Sorry that was for R154

I don't think the video is clear enough to see which part the shark took first and what part it left. You just see a lot of blood which could also have been a seal.

I saw a torso bobbing head-down.

Err, face-down

WARNING: GRAPHIC

There is a second video which shows the shark apparently feeding off in the background, then in the foreground you see what looks like a toro with a head, face down in the water, with the legs missing and apparently one or both arms gone. The shark then comes back and takes the torso under water. Nothing further is seen.

Undisclosed remains were recovered and they're still looking.

At least it seemed quick for him. I feel bad for those watching and couldn't do a thing for him, it was so quick. What a horrific thing to witness, like watching someone being decapitated or drawn and quartered. This is why i don't watch horror movies, i just can't even imagine how bad this is.

He would have been unconscious within a few minutes. I hope.

Have there been any comments from his fiancee and/or family?

Not officially. There are quotes in the UK press from alleged (unnamed) friends of the family saying how upset they naturally are. His mum supposedly said she can't believe he survived two tours of Afghanistan only to die this way.

Part of the reason that people are obsessed with this, is because it's the ultimate reality check. Modern people live in such an insulted state, mostly protected from nature and certainly protected from the predation that is a reality for most living things, and was a reality for our ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years. We get above our station because of our insulated and cerebral lives and forget what we are. When we see this shark attack we are reminded.

274 i completely agree with you. We think we can kill anything/anywhere but the truth is, we can get chomped by a number of sea/land creatures. it's scary. i stopped swimming over 10 years ago was a big part of why. we are not as fearful as we think we are.

Article from Australia's ABC about how quickly the video went viral around the world.

I have not seen any of the video footage and do not intend to.

God, he was cute.

An animal lover too.

Stay away from Australia if you know what is good for you. See what they've done to Novak Djoković.

He was just a regular guy.

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Mary! at R270 is triggered. Oh NO!

How distasteful!

R279 I hope you are being sarcastic.

Obviously the shark is from a wealthy family and was just allowed to run wild when young. Honestly, taking one bite of a perfectly good meal and leaving the rest. I mean, I can see bad behaviour like that happening in Darwin. But in Sydney? It's a symptom of poor parental discipline!

[quote]Obviously the shark is from a wealthy family and was just allowed to run wild when young. Honestly, taking one bite of a perfectly good meal and leaving the rest. I mean, I can see bad behaviour like that happening in Darwin. But in Sydney? It's a symptom of poor parental discipline!

This *was* a particularly NASTY shark!

How do the survivors of these tragedies ever put it out of their minds?

I watch a lot of shark docs. I find them fascinating and terrifying though I do think they a get a bad rap for the most part. I've heard several shark experts claim that sharks don't seem to particularly like the way we taste and most bites are exploratory and dangerous for us, unfortunately. They don't have hands so what else are they going to do? They also have more going on thinking wise then we have previously thought. Maybe this was just an asshole shark in a bad mood that day or really hungry and sick.

Like how could a shark know they don't like how we taste until it tasted us or is there like a shark version of Zagats or Bon Appetit? And how do they determine that anyway? Do they give the sharks a comment card to fill out?

Bite, back off and swim off R289.

Such a waste.

I read the victim was in the Royal Air Force.

So, this is just another example of the Sharks vs. the Jets

He survived two tours in Afghanistan, only to be taken out by a fish.

[quote] Plus past experience tells us they NEVER find the shark again in these situations. It is long gone.

Can a shark digest a human? I would imagine that shark will either die or suffer serious damage to its digestive tract from those bones. Even vomiting the bones will cause damage. Also, humans are not a part of its natural diet so all the foreign toxins will kill it. Either way that shark is in its sad final days.

r294, I don't think that there are such things as boneless seals, dolphins or penguins. Regular harbor seals average 5'7" and weight 250 lbs.

Love it, r292!

🎶 I want to be in Australia! 🙂

Fish off the rocks in Australia! 🎣

Great Whites swim free in Australia! 🦈

Screams will sound like glossolalia! 😱

[quote] humans are not a part of its natural diet so all the foreign toxins will kill it

Mary!

Yes, r295, but those are bones of an aquatic species. Not a large animal that has developed necessary bone size and density to walk upright and live exclusively on land.

I am not a "Mary!", r297, I am just a God-fearing Christian attempting to assert man's privileged position amongst God's creations, and suggesting that the shark will suffer divine retribution for upsetting the natural order.

Well, R299, your godless Darwinism at R298 says otherwise.

r298, Most aquatic mammals studied exhibited significantly higher limb-bone density than did the terrestrial mammals"

^^^^ B*tch, you know what you can do with your so-called "science," I only listen to Jesus!!!

My ex-bro-in-law was boating in the Gulf of Mexico. He ran out of gas. As he was fairly close to the dock, he jumped in the water and swam for the dock. Suddenly he heard people on the dock screaming bloody murder at him though he couldn't make out what they were saying. He thought they were mad about him abandoning his boat. When he got to the dock they told him there was a hammerhead at least 8 ft long swimming right beside him. He thought it was a good thing he didn't know. He would have freaked out and probably started swimming more erratically.

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I was at Bondi today and it was full of people bobbing around waiting to be savaged.

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Is that you, Babs Johnson?

What's next? ADVOCATE CANNIBALISM! EAT SHIT!

[quote] Moralistic and hypocritical

R304 That woke TV company is the acme of moralistic preaching to the Hoi-polloi.

His poor cat must miss him.

He's not half the man he used to be.

R312 Totally wanna lick your filthy taint for ten hrs. Hilarious.

If it was in the US you know the great white would get away with a slap on the fin.

The US, Aus, UK and South Africa all have terrible oceans for swimming. If it's not low sea temps, it's rough sea or sharks.

Best places for ocean swimming from experience:

1. Vilamendhoo and Angaga islands, Maldives

2. Kefalonia, Greece.

3. Cala Galdana, Menorca.

4. Olu Deniz, Turkey.

Even though it doesn’t get the waves, my favorite beaches have been in the Mediterranean…which also has fewer sharks. Beaches on the Adriatic Sea are also nice, but the Aegean Sea had too many urchins and other critters.

I just watched the video. That's his torso floating ass cheeks up right? I guess the shark took his legs first then it looks like it comes back. Was anything left of him?

But the shark came back...the very next day. They thought he was a goner but he just couldn't stay away.

[quote]He's not half the man he used to be.

Creep.

That video is the same, nothing to be seen. That shark was too quick. Thankfully for the victim, disappointingly for a rubbernecker like me. That beach is astonishingly beautiful.

R320 there is a video out there that has way too much to be seen, trust me.

R320 Little Bay is a very pretty beach - no surf as it’s pretty much circular with a reef blocking the ocean side.

I didn't realise there were two videos - the one I saw had the shark attack (nothing to see) spliced together with the "armless torso" video with the sharks returning at the end.

I wonder how much was left after that. Too bad - looks like he has a nice arse (for a while).

🎶 Yesterday

I was fishing off those rocks you see.

Now I'm half the man I used to be. **

Oh, a Great White got most of me!

Why he had to bite,

I don't know---I looked a seal?

I fell in his path, caught his wrath,

And was his me-e-e-al!

Yesterday.... 🎶

** Tip o' the hat to r312!

Sharksl bite down onto the limb, which is typically attached to a deceased individual.

The shark will bite off the limb and spiral down to shred the flesh from the bone."

[quote]there is a video out there that has way too much to be seen, trust me.

Describe, please? How would someone have gotten more graphic video if they weren't closer to the body than the first cameraman and the shark had come back to finish the dude off? Was it footage taken from the rescue boat or something? (or recovery boat in this case)

And please nobody link to it here...I don't have asbestos eyeballs when it comes to that kind of shit.

[quote] that kind of shit.

Please, R326. none of that.

“Describe please”, R326? If you don’t have asbestos eyeballs and don’t want to see a link then I’m puzzled about why you would want more detail. But whatever…

What I saw had no pixelation, no censoring and was filmed from a different perspective to any of the videos posted above.

One of the posters above asked if what they were looking at was the torso and “it looks like the shark came back”.

The version that I saw on Twitter was completely unequivocal on both counts.

If you want more detail then I suggest that you’re being a little disingenuous with your “no asbestos eyeballs” disclaimer.

R328 Go on…

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R328 You realize there's a difference between hearing about something second hand and seeing it with your own eyes, right? There are some things I can't unsee but I can hear about them and be just fine. I can't believe I'm even having to explain this.

JFGI R331.

I can’t believe that I’m even having to explain this.

R326, no one has any idea which video you saw, no one can answer your (somewhat hysterical) question.

There are three videos: the one on news sites which is blurred out, then two videos from a different person on the same cliff, the first part showing a swimmer splashing around and blood and a shark fin, the second one is the one I think you saw, where it's mostly just a torso bobbing around but a shark comes back.

Now stop pestering people about this.

I wouldn't have needed to "pester" anyone had they not come on here and teased us with vague hints at what they saw. "Trust me!"

If you didn’t want to see the video anyway, why the massive tantrum, R334?

Go pour yourself another tumbler from your box of wine.

And stop sticking your lower lip out - it’s undignified.

Can you both please, very kindly, shut the ever-loving fuck UP already?

Ten bucks says you're both the same lonely person trolling for attention by playing both sides of an argument.

[quote]Australia and the US have hellish oceans for swimming. Sharks, jellies, rough seas. Head to the Maldives if you want calm, shark free swims in warm turquoise water.

Some of us just want to head down to the beach, not take a trip to the Maldives.

R337 also cheaper.

You cunts are full of cunt crap. There is no video where you can see anything that is really going on. A few waves doesn't mean fuck all.

Being a skeptic, I Googled about the Maldives and sharks. And whattaya know! No record of shark attacks! Plenty of varieties of sharks, but no GWs or bullsharks.

Can one of you sickos post the unedited version that shows him being eaten? Thanks in advance.

Think about it. Not even Spielberg could put a graphic shark attack on film without some underwater footage,

Never mind, just saw it on reddit.

May she Rest in pieces. In the shark's stomach.

Speaking of shark attacks, has anyone seen that recent movie, The Requin starring Alicia Silverstone. It's so bad that it's hilarious. It has awful over acting, terrible cgi and stock footage of shark attacks in it. Looks like it was done with a $5 budget. Oh and they tried to class it up with a French title even though it's set in Thailand.

Even the shitty footage of this attack would be good enough for these filmmakers.

Feral sharks are dangerous.

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There is now an alleged gruesome still photo of what was left of Simon in circulation, no legs or arms.

But the photo shows his wetsuit still on his torso when his bare back can be seen floating in the water after the attack.

I just saw it on Reddit and there is a 2nd video as a poster upthread stated that is extremely graphic. I don't want to be the person who shares that, sorry. Though it's a horrific reminder they we are in fact prey in certain environments.

Also that water looked treacherous and uninviting. I know he was training for a competition but he was in hostile waters. Don't get why anyone would want to swim there with the rocks and choppy water.

It sounds like the shark is the real Victim in all of this

[quote]There is now an alleged gruesome still photo of what was left of Simon in circulation, no legs or arms.

Does anyone have a link to it? I am looking on reddit but can't find one.

I don't understand why people online are freaking out that people want to see these videos. It's human nature to be curious. If I were the victim I wouldn't be giving a shit and if I were family, i would expect people would want to see it too (just not me).

I goofed up my song parodies! I thought the victim was a fallen rock fisherman, but no; he was a swimmer near the fishing, aka, bait!

R326 see R349

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Don't go into water above your knees.

Here, r355. Just settle for a horrific retelling of the deadliest shark attack in history from a survivor of the ordeal.

This shark murder happened three miles away from a place called Coo-gee, where Natalie Portman is staying with her beau Mr Millipede.

Sharks are not to be trifled with.

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R358 it’s “Coogee” and she’s not.

The Jewish actress has fled Sydney.

r362, I'm surprised it affected her that deeply.

[quote] The Jewish actress

R362 How good of The Jewish Times to remind us that this actress is Jewish.

Right - so she moved out six months ago from her house 25km from where the attack happened.

In other words, you’re full of shit, R358.

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R362 got eaten by a shark too. Damn, not a good day for being black.

This is how the blacks would handle a great white! Give em the royal beats, bitches.

His fiancee is Asian. DL you're slipping.

Yes, R369, we noticed.

And they live(d) in a tower block nicknamed 'New Hong Kong".

If swimmers in dark colored wetsuits are mistaken by sharks because of them resembling seals, is there a reason wetsuits can't be made in bright colors instead?

R345 I saw the trailer and thought it looked ridiculous. Nothing will ever beat Deep Blue Sea. But 47 Metres Down Uncaged was so over the top 🤣 Alot of nepotism going on in that sequel.

They never should have pulled the video. EVERYONE should see it to see the true reality of the ocean. Hiding reality never did anyone any good. Arent we adults ? Or do the wizards behind the curtains decide for us ?

r346, aren't all sharks in the ocean "feral"???

Upon further consideration and in consultation with some other people that i speak to in the neighbourhood, I've decided to share the fucking gruesome link to the 2nd video as referenced in my original post.

I do this only to illustrate the fact that we are very much prey in still so many settings and that this is the cold reality of nature, may this poor man RIP.

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.

I don't dare look.

Nothing to be seen, literally. The water was choppy and that shark had finished off the victim before anyone could record his death.

You sound disappointed, R377.

I am. A fucking ghoul and have a rubberneck.

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Are there too many ghouls to court!

Ghastly!

R375 There was no need or excuse to post the gruesome video of the poor man's death.

It reminds me of another person who watched it ten times(why would you watch such a thing ten times?)

The person did not realise the man being killed by the shark was his close friend.

At that stage the victim had not been identified. Imagine now having that image imprinted in your brain.

Be careful what you glorify in.

MARY!

THAT'S what all of the "trust me" bullshit was about, R375?? I'd already seen that footage!

I saw that part with the torso already. I haven’t seen the unblurred beginning part of the sharks first strike.

Unblurred first video

I guarantee you that the fiancee will have a five to six figure offer on the table now for a TV interview, probably 60 Minutes.

Just google Australian shark attack reddit and click on the thread that comes up. People have posted a link to the video in the comments.

" A person just got eaten by a great white". past tense. By the time the other people on the beach picked up their mobile phone to record, the shark had completed it's task. The quote gruesome unquote video recording shows crashing waves and beneath the waves, a bloodspout. This shark was too quick to be recorded and I don't know why others are lying about what is recorded in the video.

That wasnt as bad as i thought it would be, his legs maybe hanging down. Dont go in the ocean.! I was in the gulf by tampa and from the SHORE i could see fish that were about two feet long, i thought if the fish are that big right by the shore then what the heck is out there deeper. I havent went in the ocean since.

R390 There is another video where the limbless torso pops up and bobs among the waves, head still attached, face-down. Its not exactly light fare.

I agree with the poster above. That did not look like a beach. That looked like choppy, rugged terrain. Maybe being a diver he had become desensitized to the dangers of the water because not many people in their right mind would take a dip in that.

I surf where juvenile GW and pods of dolphins hang out. When people ask me about shark attacks (and this child was traumatized by, "Jaws"), I reply, "How often do you hear about fatal car crashes or dog attacks vs shark attacks?" I also use that argument with people who are afraid of flying in planes.

Between the virtue signaling cunts calling this undignified / glorification AND the psychopaths who seem disappointed by the lack of gore in my post, fuck all of you. I posted it because it's human nature to want to see such a rarity occur and be recorded in real time, something that almost never happens, and for reasons already articulated in my r375 post.

The whole video is a nothing burger, you cannot see fuck all. Who cares.

r394 i hear about fatal car crashes ALL the time (like almost daily), TONS of dog attacks (even some fatal). I think surfing where GW juveniles hang out is tempting fate. Honestly, I'm glad you're sure in your decisions but I think you're probably in the minority and if it was my family member who was doing that, I'd probably spend a good deal of time convincing them to GO ELSEWHERE TO SURF. Pretty sure there are plenty of choices.

FYI r397, GW juveniles jaws aren't fully developed, so it's less likely that they'll attack humans. I don't know why, but there hasn't been any attacks since 2000, but there have been attacks at the beaches immediately north and south of it (where I also surf) -perhaps that's where the adult sharks hang out. Pretty much the whole coast of California is rife with GW sharks, so there's no escaping them.

I should amend the above post- there wasn't an attack in 2000, that's just when they started chronicling them on a particular website.

R393 he swam that stretch of coast every day - the choppiness wouldn’t have been a concern and he would obviously be very familiar with the location. I’m an ocean swimmer - when ever I compete (there are races here most weekends between October and April) I always hope for beautiful calm conditions but that rarely happens.

When the sun shines and the water is flat beyond the breakers it can be a sublime experience. Still hard work, though!

375 i appreciate your post. Reality is always better than denying. I didnt understand why it was blurred out. Thank you .

The guy was preparing for a swim event where the swimmers swim from one beach, around the coastline to the next corresponding beach. Malabar to Little Bay.

That's why it looked odd for someone to be swimming in choppy waters and near dangerous rocky terrain. The stretch that he was swimming would not have been all that long as he would started to head into the shallower corresponding much calmer beach water around the corner.

Still i cant fathom swimming out there in such deep and dangerous water.

I've swum at Little Bay many times.

It's a sandy beach that's hugely popular with families and all sorts of regular beach users, set in a small bay with rocky outcrops slightly further out as you head in the direction of the bay opening. That rocky part was the area where was eaten. It was not some wildly dangerous, rough and inappropriate place to swim. It was probably a 10-15 minute direct swim from a sandy family beach.

[quote]It was not some wildly dangerous, rough and inappropriate place to swim.

Was this area, by chance, in the water?

^And is this water located in Australia?

r398/r3911 i am r235. I live in NorCal and I don't get into the water because there are known sharks in all of the waters around Sonoma County. Surfers around here have a bit of an adrenaline junky/death wish/dick swinging by surfing near the mouths of rivers where the salmon come from. Fuck that noise.

Oh and the most recent shark attack here was in Oct of last year. Surfer was severely injured.

"This area is part of what is known as the "Red Triangle" and are where there is a high concentration of Great White Sharks. The triangle area is bounded by Bodega Bay, Big Sur and the Farallon Islands and nearly half of the recorded white shark attacks on humans occur in this area with over 80% recorded shark fatalities are north of Point Conception."

^^Sorry that was meant for r398/399

Thank you r387.

Guess the person recording the video moved his recorder to see the attack with his own eyes, so the moment by moment attack is, in fact, not entirely recorded in any form.

Shark attacks may be rare but when they do happen, they are so terrifying it makes up for when they don't happen. Its still a gamble, and they happen more than we hear. This guy was eaten alive in broad daylight. No thanks.

The problem was he was too delicious. Put Roseanne out there and no shark would go near.

Bites happen everywhere. So do kills. Lots in the U.S. - East and West Coast.

I'll bet the shark feels guilty now.

This is actual footage of the shark right now

Yes, Sonoma County here. I've heard of a LOT of shark attacks in Florida, very shallow water, over the years. Disprove me. Isn't this what "Shark Week" is all about?!

[QUOTE] I havent went in the ocean since.

Fuck off, you illiterate bitch.

R415 could you please come and join some of my local Facebook groups that I’m obliged to follow for political reasons. They have so many contributing posters who would benefit from your guidance.

I used to live at Little Bay before I went to California. I never went swimming at the beach because I like a very sandy beach. Fun fact Little Bay was the only beach where you couldn’t burn your feet on hot sand because asbestos was dumped there! It also used to have a hospital Prince Henry which was at one time for contagious diseases.