A couple of years ago I was in Jbay for the comp and spent a lot of time with Mick talking about the abundance of the creatures of the deep along the African coast line. We opted for the worlds largest bungey over cage diving with sharks and also stayed on a "soon to be open" game park for a photo shoot. The whole time we were joking about some large African animal hunting us. Then last night things got pretty f#$ken real! This image sums up every surfers worst nightmare. #gomick

I reckon thats almost certainly a white from the colour, the shape of the dorsal fin and the shape of the caudal fin which as others have seen has been mistaken for a dorsal fin. Timburleigh has it nailed, though I cant quite see it being a 21-footer. But it had to be at least 12ft, maybe bigger. They simply don't miss if they have you in the crosshairs.

20 years ago a mate and I paddled out at jbay in the dark, thinking the sun was about to come up. That was possibly the scariest 20 minutes of my life, just waiting out the back, 4ft, cold, alone, water lapping in the darkness and wishing for dim grey light starting up. Too dark to paddle back in with the rocks like they are.

A good response to it on the ABC website from Surfrider Chair Brendan donoghoe...can't find it again though.

11/10 to mick.

Not sure if this should go here.. or on the 'Another crap idea' post..

DavidJohn said..
Not sure if this should go here.. or on the 'Another crap idea' post..

If it wasn't for the life guard they might have made the Darwin Awards. Unbelievable...

DavidJohn said..
Not sure if this should go here.. or on the 'Another crap idea' post..

Can't argue.
- They made it back in safely...

Cobra said..

Cobra when your watching that clip and you look over at your avatar do you wonder if some how you could be related

That just cracked me up sorry..

#t=953

colas said..
I was wondering: if sharks panic when encountering a leash, maybe an anti-shark device could be some leash-like appendages floating around?

Hahaha they don't get to worried by kelp

stimo said..
just heard a swimmer was taken in J Bay today thats no good it sort of shows how lucky MF was

Can't find anything on that? A swimmer was taken in 2013 but there is no other mention of swimmer being taken today/yesterday?

Slack said..

PeterP said..

stimo said..
just heard a swimmer was taken in J Bay today thats no good it sort of shows how lucky MF was

Can't find anything on that? A swimmer was taken in 2013 but there is no other mention of swimmer being taken today/yesterday?

www.jbaynews.com/2013-10-11/fatal-shark-attack-in-jeffreys-bay

sounds like pretty close to same location as MF my condolescencs to the famly no good

well looks like a diver in Tassie was taken by a big white which according to reports had been cruising the area for a week


seems like this is happening a lot more the last few years.

its a worry

teatrea said..
Could be an increase in shark numbers due to whale populations recovering , although great whites are not prolific breeders , i think it just may be a case of more and more people taking up aquatic activities.

im not so sure . yes more whales. more great whites- both protected.

pretty sure this shark wasn't checking the area for whales.

there were minor incidents or close sightings of this shark. chased a couple of other divers out too the day or so before


me, I reckon more gws around but less food around and they are tending to out source

its time for the government to get these personal devices up and running.

its the only way to please everyone

tightlines said..
Although it has todays date at the top it has 2013 further down?

Yes - it happened 2 years ago 2-300meters further down from where Mick Fanning was boxing last week...