Surfer Fergal Smith catches a 'tube' completely unaware he is sharing the wave with a Great White Shark
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
This is the adrenaline-pumping moment surfer Fergal Smith catches a ‘tube’ completely unaware he is sharing the wave with a Great White shark.
Mr Smith, 21, from Ireland was surfing two miles off the coast of Perth in Western Australia when he found himself just a few feet from the 500-pound monster.
The holidaymaker only realized his close encounter when photographer Phil Gallagher showed him the photo of the shark lurking under the water in front of Mr. Smith’s surfboard.
Australia’s Surfing Life magazine has awarded the Irishman ‘Euro surf-dude of the month’. ‘Just imagine being in the barrel and looking at a massive shark like you’re at the bloody aquarium or something,’ the magazine’s website said.
Since 1876 the Great White shark has been responsible for 65 deaths, and 242 recorded non-fatal attacks worldwide. Australia has had the most fatal Great White Shark attacks in the world, with 27 deaths – the most recent in 2005.
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lets see you hang out with that shark then, if you think about it, theyre more dangerous because not many if any people survive encounters with sharks. Yet people encounter hundreds of peopls a month for theyre entire life and remain unharmed, its a numbers game, but sharks rely on instinct alone there for making them dangerous monsters
that's a bottlenose dolphin, not a shark
sik wave and congrats on surfing with a shark… cant wait for the day im privliaged enuff to surf wid a great white and able to walk away from it, memory tht would last foreva
hi i am a fan of the great white sharks i like seEing the movies of sharks i also seen all the movies of jaws and about sharks
How's this.
Go to youtube and search “shark takes woman's leg”.
Then go to Google and search “Lloyd Skinner, Fish Hoek South Africa”.
It may be exceedingly rare, but there is little doubt that White sharks are menacingly deadly towards their prey and monstrous in size. Off the top of my head I believe someone who witnessed the Skinner fatality said the shark was “dinosaur huge”. I had the pleasure to dive with White sharks off Guadalupe Island and it was quite clear to me that these creatures are incapable of mercy, incapable of empathy and have evolved to complete what time has allowed.
Sometimes we find ourselves in their jaws. But even that is alright. It makes them all the more mysterious.
…and much-much more sharks.
They call this great animal a “monster” and a killer. 65 recorded deaths since 1876? even if it was 4 times that number we “civilized” human beings kill more humans across the world in less than 1 month, I am pretty sure.
omg i can see it so kool
Quite a story, Jamie! Do you have any pictures or other details of your story that you'd like to share?
Quite a story, Jamie! Do you have any pictures or other details of your story that you'd like to share?
absolutely bloody brillian!!!!
i love sharks they are so mastyeriuse i have a chunk ripped out off the left side of my hip after my encounter with a 500 kilo great white shark i was lucky because it was only a baby i went under 18 operations to have 17 teeth removed from my hip from the great white shark i have them in a tin under my bed even though i could of died i still wont to now more from these wild creature i love them
My mistake. That is really a shark. If you click the image and in the bottom right you can zoom and it is proof it is a shark. =) Thanks for seeing this post! (If you did…)
Wow thats a good picture but still it might be a dolphin just by mistake you might think its a shark unless you “KNOW” it is.
Thats crazy to still be in the water knowing that you could have your head or any limb taken off without notice. Awsome Pic though!
the most recent was christmas 2008 in port kennedy western australia
Thats a dolphin! fake!
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Its a dolphin!
Its a dolphin!
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