A guy holidaying in Australia has just survived a shark attack after poking the shark in the eye.
I love swimming in the sea but if I went to Australia, I think I'd prefer the pool. Have any of you swam off the coast of Oz? Do they have safe zones?
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Missy Jem wrote: A guy holidaying in Australia has just survived a shark attack after poking the shark in the eye.
I love swimming in the sea but if I went to Australia, I think I'd prefer the pool. Have any of you swam off the coast of Oz? Do they have safe zones?
Ouch!
I hope to do the Barrier Reef at the end of the year sharks or no sharks. CHeers!
Steve One wrote: If someone poked me in the eye,i'd fucking bite them. What did he expect?
Good point. However, the shark attacked him then he poked it in the eye and the shark said I've had enough of that shit I aint going blind for any meal...
Don't believe the hype, kids.
Divide the number of people swimming at beaches here each year by the number of shark attacks and you'll realise that you've got more chance of being killed by a cork flying off a champagne bottle popped by Freddie Flintoff.
Well, almost.
:\pimp3:
And only count the "attacks" where the poor creature wasn't responding to some cunt, coming into it's "house" and poking it in the eye.
NOOLigan wrote: most people who go swimming in the sea here live.
Is THAT it or is there another HERE?
NOOLigan wrote: most people who go swimming in the sea here live.
Guess so, since its kinda hard swimming if you're a dead corpse.........That would be one strange mortuary package; Australia vacation before burial. They just push out to sea with an inflatable lounge chair, tropical drink with an umbrella in the cup holder.
depthcharge wrote: Don't believe the hype, kids.
Divide the number of people swimming at beaches here each year by the number of shark attacks and you'll realise that you've got more chance of being killed by a cork flying off a champagne bottle popped by Freddie Flintoff.
Well, almost.
:\pimp3:
LOL
Fuck me, we can't even beat the Kiwi's now :(
Last time I went swimming off an Aussie beach was Christmas Day morning at St Kilda and it was so fuckin' cold that no self respecting shark would have been anywhere near the place 
Leggy D wrote: Last time I went swimming off an Aussie beach was Christmas Day morning at St Kilda and it was so fuckin' cold that no self respecting shark would have been anywhere near the place
yeh, apparently it was the coldest christmas ever down there. At my brother's we had hail and snow down to 800 meters on the nearby mountains.
It did warm up after that.
The water around Vic and SA beaches is too cold for my tastes anyway. I did manage a few swims at Phippip Island though. Our beaches are much warmer.
A much bigger danger than sharks is drowning and getting caught in a rip.
Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
Why is that?
read the line above.
btw white pointers on beaches are safe. 
NOOLigan wrote:
Leggy D wrote: A much bigger danger than sharks is drowning and getting caught in a rip.
Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
NOOLigan wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
Why is that?
read the line above.
Yeah, but it seems that if you can swim, then you're generally not in danger of drowning, and thus wouldn't need to stay in waters in which you can stand. On the other hand, if the problem is rip currents, you'll still drown, because if you're in deep enough water, the rip current will pull you out even if you can stand.
btw white pointers on beaches are safe.
Boatraceface wrote: He's calling you a non-swimmer Ron.
Crikey.
At least I didn't call him a floater. 
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
Leggy D wrote: A much bigger danger than sharks is drowning and getting caught in a rip.
Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
NOOLigan wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
Why is that?
read the line above.
Yeah, but it seems that if you can swim, then you're generally not in danger of drowning, and thus wouldn't need to stay in waters in which you can stand. On the other hand, if the problem is rip currents, you'll still drown, because if you're in deep enough water, the rip current will pull you out even if you can stand.
btw white pointers on beaches are safe.
we have waves and currents. I remember a time at the Gold Coast where it took me an hour to get back to shore.
as for white pointers, check here.
No,that would be being daft Commie.
Maybe a poll for floaters and non-swimmers is the way to find out?
NOOLigan wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
Leggy D wrote: A much bigger danger than sharks is drowning and getting caught in a rip.
Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
NOOLigan wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
Why is that?
read the line above.
Yeah, but it seems that if you can swim, then you're generally not in danger of drowning, and thus wouldn't need to stay in waters in which you can stand. On the other hand, if the problem is rip currents, you'll still drown, because if you're in deep enough water, the rip current will pull you out even if you can stand.
btw white pointers on beaches are safe.
we have waves and currents. I remember a time at the Gold Coast where it took me an hour to get back to shore.
as for white pointers, check here.
Did you wade back ?
NOOLigan wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
Leggy D wrote: A much bigger danger than sharks is drowning and getting caught in a rip.
Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
NOOLigan wrote:
Comrade Shampanyov wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: Tip: at Oz beaches never go out further than you can stand.
Why is that?
read the line above.
Yeah, but it seems that if you can swim, then you're generally not in danger of drowning, and thus wouldn't need to stay in waters in which you can stand. On the other hand, if the problem is rip currents, you'll still drown, because if you're in deep enough water, the rip current will pull you out even if you can stand.
btw white pointers on beaches are safe.
we have waves and currents. I remember a time at the Gold Coast where it took me an hour to get back to shore.
as for white pointers, check here.
You wanna try carrick-a-reed rope bridge up near the Giant's causeway. Currents can do 35 knots between the mainland and the island, the water is so clear that what looks like 6 inches is about 15 feet.....and it takes 1 hour 45 mins to get a liveboat there....your body will be in Scotlan by then.
Then there's Strangford Lough (east coast. head east about 10 miles from belfast on a map and down about 6, you cannot miss the fucker, it's the water behind bit hanging off the right hand side of Ireland) , a veritable inland sea which floods and drains trough a channel you could throw a stone accross.....there are also numerous choke point along it's length....at the ferry crossing between Portaferry and Strangford village, the ferry on it's up-stream leg, actuall goes sideways and often backwards, and has to keep it's engines running while loading to keep it at the jetty.
NOOLigan wrote:
we have waves and currents. I remember a time at the Gold Coast where it took me an hour to get back to shore.
That's why you're suppose to swim perpendicular to the current, then swim in!!!!
EdelBrock wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
we have waves and currents. I remember a time at the Gold Coast where it took me an hour to get back to shore.
That's why you're suppose to swim perpendicular to the current, then swim in!!!!
trust me. I did that.
ah yes you are also supposed to swim between the flags.
Have never seen a shark at an Adelaide beach in my life. Once had a dolphin swim within a couple of metres of me though. Our metropolitan beaches are patrolled so there would be warnings of any sharks in the vicinity. Most people have problems in the more isolated areas, particularly where they go surfing.
Do remember a lot of people getting very angry at Bondi once when someone let a dog in the water there ... aren't they supposed to attract sharks into shore or something?? Possibly they give off a more powerful scent or their paddling creates more vibrations, am sure there was some science behind it?
El Jarvo wrote: Do remember a lot of people getting very angry at Bondi once when someone let a dog in the water there ... aren't they supposed to attract sharks into shore or something?? Possibly they give off a more powerful scent or their paddling creates more vibrations, am sure there was some science behind it?
Have never heard of dogs attracting sharks. I've seen a fair few dogs swimming a the beaches I've been to.
Barnette wrote: I've seen a fair few dogs swimming a the beaches I've been to.
That's no way to talk about Aussie women! 
Missy Jem wrote: A guy holidaying in Australia has just survived a shark attack after poking the shark in the eye.
I love swimming in the sea but if I went to Australia, I think I'd prefer the pool. Have any of you swam off the coast of Oz? Do they have safe zones?
Swam of Bondi beach and Manly just outside Sydney, 2 years ago no problems went out a bit far on a couple of occasions and then the JAWS music kicks in and you tend to get back to the beach real quick but shark nets do protect the beaches.
Barnette wrote:
El Jarvo wrote: Do remember a lot of people getting very angry at Bondi once when someone let a dog in the water there ... aren't they supposed to attract sharks into shore or something?? Possibly they give off a more powerful scent or their paddling creates more vibrations, am sure there was some science behind it?
Have never heard of dogs attracting sharks. I've seen a fair few dogs swimming a the beaches I've been to.
I've heard rumors that dogs' frantic, splashing movements sound more like a wounded fish or seal, hence why they might attract sharks. Not sure if it's a proven fact, though.
Ive known 3 people who have died because of Shark attacks on Australian beaches.
Thats 3 people out of the guestimated 1 million people who swim our beaches every day.
So in all fairness to the sharks, and the effects of Global Warming pushing them closer to the coast , they have to eat something.
Its really your own fault for making the environment as fucked as it is. (if you do get eaten).
Sorry for being so brutally honest, but if youre really worried about swimming on the beaches here, then dont, but i still go out for a swim and a surf every week.
They've got these things in England called "Chavs" if you poke them in the eye they'll stab you, nick your mobile phone and still have the audacity to wear dark coloured shell suits.
Do you think they're as dangerous as sharks ?
PS you don't have to go swimming to meet them either.
Cheers
