Fancy a swim??.....sharks!!!

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Queensland beaches closed after shark frenzy
Sunday Feb 12 12:15 AEDT
Hundreds of sharks in a feeding frenzy forced the closure of two popular beaches on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Main Beach and Surfers Paradise Beach were closed as a kilometre-long school of bait fish lured sharks within 100 metres of the shore.

Gold Coast Surf Life Saving duty officer Sue Neil said the hammerhead and grey nurse sharks were up to 2.5 metres long.

"They are big enough to cause quite a lot of damage to any swimmers who get in their way," Ms Neil said.

She said it was uncommon to see large numbers of sharks at this time of the year near the Gold Coast.

Swimmers were also ordered out of the water after a single shark sighting at Bulcock Beach at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.


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Dus toch de komende tijd maar weer even in het eigen zwembadje duiken ter afkoeling?
 
Yep: was vandaag (zondag) aan het bodyboarden bij Main Beach en toen moesten we eruit. Schijnt dat gisteren (zaterdag) het strand ook al gesloten was. Je zag de scholen vissen ook wel zwemmen en de meeuwen erboven. Moet zeggen dat ik laatst bij Noosa Forest hetzelfde had maar toen kwamen er geen mensen in bootjes kwamen controleren of er ook haaien waren.

Maar even richting Surfers gereden en daar het water in gegaan; boven water was het ook nat (regen) dus dan kun je er net zo goed in gaan liggen nietwaar?
 
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Yep: was vandaag (zondag) aan het bodyboarden bij Main Beach en toen moesten we eruit. Schijnt dat gisteren (zaterdag) het strand ook al gesloten was. Je zag de scholen vissen ook wel zwemmen en de meeuwen erboven. Moet zeggen dat ik laatst bij Noosa Forest hetzelfde had maar toen kwamen er geen mensen in bootjes kwamen controleren of er ook haaien waren.

Maar even richting Surfers gereden en daar het water in gegaan; boven water was het ook nat (regen) [size=14pt]dus dan kun je er net zo goed in gaan liggen nietwaar?[/size]
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Als je de haaien wilt verwennen...wel ja

Toch maar bij dat plastice badje houden.
 
Hmm ja: zo terug lezend komt het een beetje suf over  :wink:
Aan de andere kant: in het verkeer gebeuren veel meer ongelukken dan door haaien. Moet je dan ook maar niet meer aan het verkeer deelnemen?

Maarre: ik ga alleen bij controlled beaches het water in hoor. Zag gisteren bij Main Beach nog genoeg mensen 200 meter van het afgesloten strand in het water liggen... Maar ja: het is ook geen doen om iedereen overal het water uit te krijgen
 
Hi
Is zag op het nieuws dat ze gewoon door gingen met
surfen, en je zag ze ook met hun boards tot tussen
de haaien. Het schijnt dat er zoveel vis zit dat een
shark attact heel klein is. Maar dit is er toch wel
om vragen of niet. Brrrr.
Trouwens ik heb gehoord dat er zelfs hier in de
river ook een soort shark rond zwemt maar die
kan zich voldoende voeden, ik vind het toch maar
eng. Wij laten onze honden hier zwemmen en
redelijk ver, straks, snap hond weg, iek.
Groetjes Sabine
 
He Jan KAters,


Hou je eigen er niet van als je wilt surfen.
Heerlijk toch over die golven, be free like a bird
Tijdens het surfen niet in je broek plassen, ik zag op national geographic dat dit haaien aantrok van kilometers ver.

:up:  :up:  :-D  :-D

Jack :evil:
 
Haha, heb ik ook gezien op national geographic, het  ( jong ) vrouwlijk geslacht loopt bovendien extra gevaar gedurende een bepaalde periode in de maand. :|
 
Australia second in shark attack risk - Tuesday Feb 14 18:49 AEDT

Australia is the world's second most likely country for a shark attack, an international study has found. Research by the University of Florida, which houses the International Shark Attack File, found Australia had a relatively high number of shark attacks last year and in 2004 and put the increase down to its rising population and greater tourist numbers.

However, the per capita rate of attacks had not risen over the past century.

Of the four fatalities worldwide in 2005, two were in Australia, one in Vanuatu and one in the United States.

"Compared with previous years, the number of attacks in Australia was relatively high, when there were 12, prompting some people to call for the installation of nets to barricade sharks from beaches," the centre's director George Burgess said.

"But the per capita rate of shark attacks has not risen over the past century, with apparent increases coinciding with a rise in population and Australia's growing attraction to tourists in recent decades."

The centre, which collects shark attack figures annually, tracked 38 attacks in the US, 10 in Australia, four in South Africa and one each in the Bahamas, St Martin, Mexico, Fiji, Vanuatu and South Korea last year.

The report found worldwide there were 58 shark attacks in 2005, down from 65 a year earlier, and fatalities dropped from seven in 2004.

According to Australian Shark Attack File figures to January this year, there have been 661 attacks in Australia since records were collected in 1791, of which 193 were fatal.

The latest death occurred when 21-year-old Brisbane woman Sarah Whiley was mauled by what were believed to be bull sharks while swimming at Amity Point on North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane on January 7.

The most recent non-fatal attack was on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on Monday, when an 18-year-old man was bitten on the foot while standing in less than 30cm of water.

That incident followed widespread beach closures on the Gold Coast at the weekend because of sharks.

Other recent fatalities include Jarrod Stehbens, 23, who was killed by a white pointer at Glenelg in Adelaide in August last year while collecting cuttlefish eggs for marine research, and Nick Peterson, 18, who died at West Beach in Adelaide in December 2004.

Others shark attack victims such as 18-year-old surfer Tom Burke, whose leg was savaged by a 1.8m bronze whaler off the Victorian coast in November, and Joshua Berris, 26, who fought off a 5m great white shark at Kangaroo Island in September, survived.

Australian Shark Attack File curator John West said with more people were using the water for recreation and a rise in tourism, there were more opportunities for Australians to encounter sharks.

"There's a lot more use of the water, a lot more people living around the water, and you would expect that there would be an increase in shark attacks and shark fatalities over that time," he said.

"But the reality is in Australia that the average is still about 1.2 deaths per year over the last 10, 20 or 50 years, and that hasn't increased with the extra use of the water.

"That may be due to overfishing of sharks, and some of those sharks you might have encountered are now no longer in the ocean."

Mr West said the odds of encountering a shark, let alone being bitten or killed by one, were "several million to one", with people more likely to die because of lightning strikes or bee stings.

"It's relatively safe in Australia given that we've got 27,000 kilometres of coastline," he said.


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