Shark Mauls Teenage Sydney Surfer
Justin Cote
- March 02 2009
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Do these damn Aussie sharks have nothing better to eat than surfers and divers? While I’m all for the preservation of these great creatures, it’s a little tough to stick up for them when a kid surfing with his old man gets chewed on.
As reported on www.dailymail.co.uk:
“A shark badly injured a 15-year-old boy while he was surfing with his father off a Sydney beach yesterday.
Andrew Lindop was surfing with his father Charles at North Avalon beach when he became the third shark attack victim in the area in as many weeks. In one of the previous attacks a navy diver lost an arm and a leg.
Marine experts believe environmental protection in the Sydney harbour area has created a cleaner environment which is attracting sharks closer to shore as they chase fish.
The teenager was flown by helicopter to hospital to be treated for leg injuries.
Police said the bites ‘cut through to the bone’ but the teenager did not appear to have sustained any fractures.”
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March 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
So the shark just nibbled on the kid then. But still, if there’s too many sharks around the are, just cut their fins off for sharksfin. It’s ok to protect them if they’re endangered. But if humans would be endangered because of them then that’s a different story.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 am
We are far from being endangered due to shark attacks. Man (read commercial fisherman) pull up more sharks in year in their trawling nets than have ever attacked man in history. Not trying to get all Green Peace-y on you, but its a fact that shark populations have shrunk in years due to over fishing. And yes in Asia, they tend to haul em up in a net, lop off their fins and throw them back into the sea.
But I still don’t want to see one coming up from below at me either…