Posted on 01/07/2025 9:02:43 AM PST by Red Badger
A five-day search for the remains of a beloved surfer killed in a shark attack at a notorious hotpot while visiting family over Christmas has been called off.
Lance Appleby, 28, was mauled by a suspected great white shark at The Granites on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula on Thursday night.
His body is yet to be recovered at the same beach where another surfer was mauled to death by a great white a year ago.
Authorities called off the extensive search for Mr Appleby's body on Sunday.
'Police with the assistance of SES, CFS, Council members including the mayor, and locals have searched the area over the past four days but sadly have not yet located his body,' a police statement read.
'Police would like to thank all those who assisted during the tragic incident. A report will be prepared for the State Coroner.'
The news was a blow to Mr Appleby's family, who are locals to the Eyre Peninsula - an area known for high shark activity.
Just hours before Mr Appleby was attacked, a fisherman alerted locals on social media to watch out for an 'aggressive' great white at Granite Beach.
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Everything in the ocean is food. Unless you’re a pod of orcas there’s no reason to be in it.
Franklin Graham said it on one of his commercials. “The lion will lay down with the lamb”.
I’ll stay on the beach.
I used to be an avid body surfer. I’m a strong swimmer (swim teacher, former deep water guard, guard trainer, etc.) so I felt I was pretty safe in the ocean... until an undertow nearly swept me out into the atlantic.
I kept my wits about me, swam crosswise to get out of the current, and then, like an idiot, took one final wave back into shore, head in the barrel the entire time. It was glorious.
But, as I walked back to where my daughter and I had put our stuff, I realized, I had too much to lose to keep it up.
I swim in an olympic pool nearby, and when I go to the beach, I sit under a lovely umbrella and listen to my audiobooks.
No more open water for me.
I’ll go a step further: there are too many animals in Australia that want to eat me, so I have no plans to visit Australia.
close call- glad it turned out good- we were always taughtr that if we got caught in undertow to swim cross it, never agaisnt it- i was never a big ocean person- in maine, warm ocean is abotu 60 degrees or so- not warm at all- infact it’s very painful most of the time-
When I was a teenager I had to pull my kid sister’s friend out of a rip tide at Jax beach. I was a very strong swimmer and dragging that kid cross current got very scary. We ended up coming out about two hundred yards from where we started. People have no idea of the strength of undertow.
Scorpions and red ants in Texas keep a safe distance from me. They aren’t trying to eat me, either.
When you enter the ocean, you become part of the food chain.
You are always part of the food chain. Just not at the top................
LOL!!!
They need Roy Scheider. And that boat captain guy.
Quinn.
I was with a group of surfers in New Jersey when one guy 20 feet away got bumped by a very large shark. Probably a Bull Shark. My board collected dust in the garage for 25 years until I sold it on Craigs List a couple of years ago.
WE ain’t the top of the chain in the ocean. Sharks gotta eat too.
They both be dead, Jim!.................
Nice seal colored wet suit.
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