Posted on 02/28/2025 10:26:43 AM PST by nickcarraway
Police have revealed missing fisherman Paul Barning was entangled in his own fishing line and not wearing a life jacket when he fell overboard during a fishing competition on Sunday. The 58-year-old was pulled into the water about 1pm on Sunday while taking part in the Game Fishing Association state tournament off the Port Stephens coast near Newcastle, sparking a major search effort.
In a press conference on Monday afternoon, NSW Police Superintendent Joe McNulty said police believed the vessel was reeling in a mako shark when Mr Barning became entangled in the fishing line. “After the entanglement we believe the shark has submerged, pulling the man into that water,” he said. “We believe the shark was quite large.
“Their vessel was only 6.8m in length.” Superintendent McNulty said the outcome may have been different if the experienced fisherman had been wearing a life jacket. “Tragically, that might have assisted in his recovery if he’d had a life jacket on,” he said. "Unfortunately, at this time, he has not been recovered.”
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Sad.
Bet he got tangled in the line and the shark dove deep.
In Newcastle the shark fishes you?
Too soon?
Australia. Everything tries to kill you.
Note to self:
When fishing do not get entangled in your fishing gear.
Carry a knife at all times.
I’m safe then. in Florida not EVERY thing wants to kill you. mostly just the snakes, alligators, certain lizards, spiders, wild animals, many, MANY plants, lots of other insects that can inject and infect, bunches of infectious diseases that demand IMMEDIATE attention....and brainless liberals who want you dead IF you resist. well...NOT Australia, but close.
we’re gonna need a bigger boat
when life imitates art you get “JAWS”. apparently a new England shark wasn’t happy about their racist( animalist?) depiction in jaws and decided to join the “transgenderists of violence” crowd as an outlier. who knew they were so “shallow”?
I'll never wear a life jacket.
Was he missing before the shark got him, or before?
One of my best friends that I grew up with and known since we were both 4 years old was a commercial fisherman, now a tugboat captain.
“Always have a knife on you to cut a line, it might save your life someday”, was what he told me.
When I was deep-sea fishing I always wore a harness and made sure that the harness was strapped to the fighting chair. There are even videos on You Tube of people being dragged overboard by huge fish because they did NOT have the harness NOR the fighting chair. Stupid is as stupid does.
That’s why we always carried a rifle in the boat when shark fishing. Makes it a lot easier to get a big shark into the boat when they are dead.
You shoot the air cylinder the shark has in it’s mouth and blow up the shark.
Kinda messy but fun.
I used to go shark fishing in the Atlantic with a group of five crazy Italians that were all merchant seaman. Crazy was an understatement. I was the only non immigrant, but they treated me like a brother as I kept them out of jail and won a big tax court case for them.
The biggest shark we landed was a 10 ft Hammerhead.
We hooked onto something that towed our boat for quite a while and broke 300 lb test fishing line with steel leader. We joked that we snagged a submarine. 😁
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