The quad fins are backwards?
Many years ago I was surfing and a 6 foot maybe slightly bigger tiger shark was swimming under me just ahead of me. I was on a 5’ fish and sure as hell didn’t want to prone out but the wave closes out and the board didn’t have a leash. I rode the wave as far as I could standing and just before it closed out the shark did a 180 degree turn and disappeared. I paddled around a bit and told everyone I saw about it including a girl on a boogey board then I went in. If I had a leash, I might have stayed out, but I didn’t want to be swimming with a tiger shark nearby. After I got in I went over to the lifeguard and asked if he saw the shark. He said he just saw a dark spot and thought it was my shadow. I told him it was a tiger shark and scared the shit out of me. Then the girl came over to the lifeguard stand and complained, says she thought I was trying to get her to go in because I was hitting on her. So much for trying to help people.
Funny story - no good deed goes unpunished! :-)
I’ve seen video of magnetic pulses turning sharks away. Whatever they used certainly worked but can’t quantify the strength or amount of magnets used. I also have been toying with the idea of taking the magnetic ribbons like refridgerator magnets and cutting them out to resemble a man o’ war or other jellyfish and inlay them into the foam right before laminating. They say that the pattern is a deterrant and coupled with a magnetic field there “may” be potential. Simply musings at this point.
One of the articles that I scanned through mentioned that the electrical range of the lorenza ampulini is only 24 inches max. I looked for more info on the range that lorenza amulini work but couldn’t find much more…
If a charging GWS gets to within 24" of you, you’re gonna get hit.
“They say that the pattern is a deterrant and coupled with a magnetic field there “may” be potential. Simply musings at this point.”
There may be something to that. Of course around here, the pervs are likely to ‘read’ in to it and see something obscene… they know who they are:
I downloaded a couple of images of the underside of Orcas. I figure that sharks don’t like Orcas, but maybe they’d go after an Orca the size of a shortboard, so I haven’t bothered trying to put that design on any of my boards.
I always get a kick out of these type of posts. Why would any animal have a sense that would relay electrical fields (in miniscule amps) to the brain? Just imagine if you just bit into a big bunch of muscle out of an elephant seal for a snack. (Read ambush predator) You avoided being bit (which could be fatal if the seal damaged you severely) or have an eye removed by a claw on a flipper, Now you are going back for the dinner. How are you going to find the carcass? Electrical fields of living tissue. So you are going to wear a bracelet that puts off an electrical field via magnets, similar to living tissue. Smart!! Back in the day with Dr. Don Neilson at Cal State Long Beach we videoed the first recorded instance of great whites in Pacific waters biting the back of boats. Why? The boats were putting out an electric field thru the ground on the electric system of the boat, upsetting the orientation of the shark’s senses of the field! When we removed the ground cable from the batteries, the sharks stopped biting the transom. Not rocket science, just good observation. I would agree with… warthaug if you see a fin, get out of the water. If you are surfing in a sharky area, you are taking your chances. Shark attack victims will tell you, its not the one you see….
Oh, by the way, these whites are probably teenagers who are just figuring out whats edible up the chain from fish… not tigers, they bite, & bite, & eat, & eat.& eat… (for you Bernie! LOL)
I have a Crowd-ban,
They totally work.
No crowd last week when I surfed.
Or maybe it was because it was flat.
HEHE.
photo taken this week just off Point Loma/Sunset Cliffs… we normally have lots of whales in January, but this is unusual.
A good friend in Ballinas AUS just had to go to officially identify the body of his friend Tadashi who died as a result of a shark attack . I posted in this thread because of the referance to the Fin Ban story , sharks are everywhere , please dont count on a rubber band for protection from a fish that is large enough to rip your legs off , nobody that has been in the water and has seen a shark attack would give any credence to the Fin Ban bullshit . If you see a shark , get out of the water , then there will always be another day and another wave .
Apparently there has been increased shark activity in the area , another surfer was attacked a week befor and the local surfers have claimed that sharks have been bumping their boards , a good indication that you should get out of the water .
Actually, the news segment I saw stated that a surfer had been attacked at Byron Bay (35km up the coast) 24 hours before the fatal Ballina attack. Apparently the guy from Byron suffered a few punture wounds, but is recovering in hospital.
Sorry for your friends loss…
as for finban…my friend does know what it is like…
his name is shannon ainslie…the south african surfer
who was attacked by two great whites on the same wave…
he did testing on the finban …in South Africa…on great whites …with success …
he won’t go surfing without wearing them.
Most definitely. If you get bumped, it means the shark is getting curious about you and the next stage could be a bite. When I lived on the EC and got bumped, I always got out. See a fin, I’d just wait quietly or paddle somewhere else. They’re always around, just not always interested in you.
Yeah the guy who got bit the day before survived, i live at the next town south of Ballina, and there have been slot of big mature sized sharks around lately. A few of my mates saw that fatal attack happen. Very sad.
My condolences to the surfer who lost his limbs. That is sad news.
But read what this Helicopter operator in Au says:
helicopter operator says sharks are now so prevalent off the Newcastle coast he is guaranteed to see one every time he flies.
Newcastle and Lake Macquarie beaches have been closed on a number of occasions this summer, including for a 10-day stretch because of shark sightings in the area.
Aerial shark spotter Steve Bazic said great whites have become more common, since being placed on the endangered species list.
“And we’re seeing more and more of them, and I don’t think it is anything other than they are breeding up,” he said.
"And we’ve seen increasing numbers now for the last seven or eight years.
"They’re becoming ever increasing with the whites in particular, and we see them all the way through from juvenile to adult size.
“I can guarantee you, if we take you up to Hawks Nest, it’s our fall back position - you will see them up there at any time.”
Mr Bazic said he is not surprised to hear of another fatal shark attack off the state’s north coast yesterday.
41-year-old Tadashi Nakahara could not be revived by paramedics after losing both legs in an attack while surfing off Shelley Beach, near Ballina.
Mr Bazic said what he has seen in recent years is enough to keep him out of the water.
He said he is surprised there has not been a fatal attack in local waters.
“No, the bath’s a pretty good choice for me,” he said.
"I wouldn’t swim on the beaches here.
"I was expecting this years ago, like three, four, five years ago, with the numbers of sharks we saw then.
"I reckon they’ve doubled since then, easily.
"With the amount of sightings and now the amount of bites we are getting.
"So no, I wouldn’t swim on the beach myself, but that is only my forlorn little opinion.
“There are a lot of people out there who love the water, and we are a swimming nation.”
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was he using ifn ban during the 2- shark attack? what makes it a success? i mean if everytime he went out surfing, and others were out too and neither he nor anybody else got attacked, does that mean it was successful?