By David Nankervis A family stalked in their boat by a great white shark off Adelaide yesterday says they feared for swimmers at a nearby beach. The massive shark – one witness said it was longer than 5m – was seen as close as 1km from the West Lakes Shore beach by boaters aboard at least three vessels between 8.30am and 11.30am yesterday. Surf Life Saving SA was alerted a … [Read more...]
Large Shark Drags Surfer ‘Like Jet Ski’
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA A 51-year-old surfer has survived a close encounter with a large shark, which became tangled in his leg rope and dragged him like a "powerful jet ski" off the NSW north coast. Surf shop operator John Morgan said he was about 300 metres offshore at the northern NSW tourist town of Byron Bay when he suddenly found he was being dragged out to … [Read more...]
“My Close Encounter After a Lifelong Fear of Sharks”
One author's account of scuba diving with a ten-foot tiger shark in the Challenger Banks southwest of Bermuda. CHALLENGER BANKS, BERMUDA By: James Whitaker Sharing the water with a ten-foot Tiger shark was, for me, a terrifying and exhilarating privilege. I've had a lifelong interest in sharks that straddles a fine line between fear and fascination: It was fuelled … [Read more...]
Surfer Barely Avoids Shark Attack at Byron Bay
BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA Broad Beach surfer Ben Vining felt like a sitting duck after what he says was a shark knocked him from his board at Byron Bay. Mr. Vining has told of his ordeal in the surf at Tallows beach on Saturday, saying his board was carried off by a rip and he had to wait 15 seconds to catch a wave to shore while the shark watched him. The 29-year-old had … [Read more...]