Shark death

[DJ]

http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/sh ... 0804.shtml

Grim, imagine being the guy who recovered his headless body....

[swordie]

Shit, I went to Westport Beach the first time I was in Ca.

No surf but I did have a quick swim

[thedeadly]

California's last fatal shark attack was in August 2003 when a woman

swimming with seals

was attacked close to a beach in southern California.

Doh !!

a good reason for having spongies about - with their fins they look more seal like - lol

[Grizzly]

Swimming with seals? Man. This is going to sound harsh, but it's her own damn fault a shark got her...

[thedeadly]

i had a seal swim right underneath me the week before Alex when the sun was shining and the water was crystal clear - i just saw this dark shape glide underneath me and i was in a mad panic trying to match the silhouette against anything in my memory and coming up with nothing - then it popped its whiskery head up about 10m away

[Grizzly]

He he he - that's given me the mad idea of Terminator vision, flashing up lots of different sillhouettes before flashing (in red, of course)
"No Match Found....Initiate panic routine....purge bowel...." and so on...

You rinse that wetsuit well, huh?

[thedeadly]

i must admit i was getting very ready for a quick shorebound paddle - i think the seal was actualy laughing when it came up !!!!!

[DJ]

I had the same sort of experience with a dolphin fin coming up behind me while surfing in Byron Bay, didn't help that the aussie surfer next to me had seen it first and mentioned that a diver had been taken round the corner the week before just as I saw the fin - thank god for surfing in boardies, i'd have hated the clean up job on a wetsuit...