62mac said...
Whats the distance between all three attacks?
This list does not include the past few months so add 3 to this.FAAARK
Recent WA Shark Attacks October 1997: Former St Kilda footballer Brian Sierakowski and friend Barney Hanrahan escaped when a 5m white pointer attacked their double surf-ski 150m off Cottesloe.
October 2000: Greg Pickering, 47, a professional diver from Ocean Reef, was mauled by a 1.5m bronze whaler 9km off Cervantes.
FATAL: November 2000: Businessman Ken Crew, 48, was killed by a 4m white pointer in waist-deep water at North Cottesloe.
February 2001: A 5m white pointer leapt out of the water off Albany and clamped its jaws around an outboard motor as Don and Margaret Stubbs watched in horror.
January 2004: Allan Oppert was attacked while diving for lobster 24km offshore in Binningup, north of Bunbury. He survived, despite being bitten 11 times below the knees.
June 2004: Surfer Tom O'Brien, 17, was bitten on a foot by a bronze whaler off Bunbury's Back Beach.
FATAL: July 2004: Carpenter Brad Smith, 29, was attacked and killed by two sharks while surfing off Gracetown.
FATAL: March 2005: A 6m white pointer killed boat skipper Geoffrey Brazier, 26, while he snorkelled off the Abrolhos Islands.
September 2005: Surfer Brad Satchell scared off a 1.3m shark by punching it on the nose as it lined up to attack him 150m off Scarborough.
January 2006: Diver Bernie Williams was attacked by a 3.5m white pointer about 5km off City Beach. He received only minor wounds to his arms
and said a mate's electronic shark deterrent saved his life. December 2006: 15-year-old Zac Golebiowski from South Australia loses a leg in a shark attack east of Esperance. He was attacked by a 4.5m white pointer.
May 2007: Ellenbrook mother-of-five Becky Cooke had her foot torn to pieces by a reef shark near Coral Bay while holding her toddler in 30cm of water.
July 2007: Scotch College College student Angus Chapman, 15, was attacked by a 1.5m bronze whaler in chest-deep water in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
November 2007: A man survives a shark attack off the Kimberley coast.
FATAL: December 2008: Port Kennedy fisherman Brian Guest, 51, taken by a giant white pointer while snorkelling for crabs in about 5m of water near his beachside home.
June 2010: Walpole man Mick Bedford survives being mauled on the leg by a large shark off Conspicuous Cliff Beach, 15km east of Walpole.
FATAL: August 2010: Nicholas Edwards, 31, fatally mauled at Gracetown, near Margaret River.
October 30, 2010: Elyse Frankcom, 19, attacked while snorkelling off Garden Island
3 Attacks 2004
2 Attacks 2005
2 Attacks 2006
3 Attacks 2007
3 Attacks 2010
3 Attacks 2011 (all Fatal)
Not good......going by those averages you can expect another 3 next year.
Sharks are known to pick of the stragglers.Poor bugger , diving alone is a risky business.
Seems the toothy ones are a tad hungrier this year.
