Shark Bites Surfer’s Hand in Australia!
A man was attacked by a shark while surfing on North Avoca Beach this evening, the surf lifesaving club says. The victim was a 28-year-old man who lived near the beach, according to Rick Parsons, president of the North Avoca Surf Lifesaving Club.
Mr Parsons speculated that it could have been a bronze whaler, which was recently sighted at nearby Terrigal Beach. He said the attack was extremely uncommon. “I’ve never known of a shark attack on North Avoca and I’ve been involved with the surf club for the past 20 years,” he said.
The man reported feeling his hand pulled under his board while he was in shallow surf about 8pm. Paramedics treated the man for a 5cm puncture wound to his forearm and another wound to his wrist. He was taken to Gosford hospital in a stable condition. A hospital spokesman said the man would be kept overnight for observation.
Witnesses reported the man saying that the shark was brown and about as long as his surfboard.
The Westpac Life Saver Helicopter said it will patrol the beach tomorrow at 6.30am to search for the shark.
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Let me place my understanding of sharks and place it on your eyelashes.
Sharks are agents of an unspeakably dark ecological niche and, as such, we must begin our analysis from what is– not what is “best” to rehabilitate their public image in a fleeting attempt to “save the planet.”
I think every shark enthusiast, every self-described shark expert, every student of sociobiology, must hold the Natural Law of survival of the fittest face to face. It is neither good nor bad that Tiger sharks are such indiscriminate killers- it is their express purpose to remove the sick and injured from the marine ecosystem.
Pity for the stranded human in the open ocean, to feel that bump in the night beneath them.
As the shark completes what time will allow.
We need not pass judgement on the shark this, but to ascribe such human predation in exculpatory terms is perhaps even greater folly insofar that a learned mind is willing to subvert empirical knowledge for the mere convenience of a more palatable, if not desirable, reality.
Tell me this, greenie weenie.
Why is a strong desire for conservation and a dispassionate acceptance of the shark’s man-eating propensities mutually exclusive?
(cricket, cricket)
Groupthink, in nearly any form, is undesirable. Maybe in a hot tub full of playboy playmates, but uncritically adopting faulty thinking that contravenes common sense- much less the known science of how infallible the shark’s perceptive faculties are- it is enough to make Lamark roll over in his grave.
Where, where.
Where are those lost malarial visions that Wallace had, knowing that there is a form, union and plan- and that survival of the fittest is the thread that weaves it together- a thread beyond description.
Talking about Jaws, media-hype and bee sting mortality rates?
Sounds more like the human condition.
The shark itself is amoral and persistent, a terror to all that comes in its path-
Its wrath undone in the coil of the gene.
Rarely seen from above, as it strikes from below.
When it grabs and shakes with the weight of the seas
…you’ll know.
[drifitng alone, out at sea]
I just turned 38- (enter Swingers voice) “Nikki! that’s great!”
have you been alive the whole time I often ask myself
as I drift in an out of a worldspace better left unsaid
I have no use for drifters and charlatans
better to adhere to the source
born before all the stars are dead
As I find myself alone
in the deep blue sea
drifting yes, but spinning
in and out of a tidal pull
of emotions undone
just beginning
to unfold like waves lull
one glance back
towards setting sun
so I start swimming
towards that invisible ship
I see the next day
mirage, mirage
all the way
“don’t leave us!”
they say
ambush from below
from white and grey
solitary no more
these wanderers
gorge
both night and day