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Divers stunned by double shark attack
ABC News Australia ^ | Fri Feb 18, 2011 | ABC News

Posted on 02/18/2011 3:49:24 PM PST by Capt. Tom

Colleagues of an abalone diver who was taken by two great white sharks off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula yesterday say they are shocked by the attack.

Aircraft and boats with police and fisheries staff on board searched for the body of diver Peter Clarkson, who was stalked and attacked as he surfaced from a dive near Coffin Bay at the peninsula's southern tip.

But wild weather forced them to call off the search.

The skipper of the abalone boat witnessed the attack and police said he was still suffering from "significant shock".

Mr Clarkson, 49, grew up in Adelaide and had also lived at Esperance in Western Australia.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: shark; sharkattack; whiteshark
Apparently the diver though he was safe using an electronic device to repel sharks. These devices have failed before.- tom
1 posted on 02/18/2011 3:49:28 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

Sharks on a diet and decided to share an entree?


2 posted on 02/18/2011 4:03:09 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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Maybe it didn’t quite. Sharks aren’t normally coöperative hunters...


3 posted on 02/18/2011 4:03:12 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 759 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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shocked by the attack...

The Great Australian Bight is one of the few places in the world where great white sharks are regularly encountered.

I don't understand how these divers could be "shocked."

4 posted on 02/18/2011 4:06:27 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: SeaHawkFan

Sharks doing what sharks do.


5 posted on 02/18/2011 4:08:20 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: Capt. Tom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQfBGrfIaMc


6 posted on 02/18/2011 4:10:11 PM PST by PLMerite (Thanks for fixing the clock.)
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When one voluntarily decides to enter an environment where one occupies a lower position on the food chain,one can reasonably expect the possibility of becoming food


7 posted on 02/18/2011 4:32:11 PM PST by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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Almost like being shocked that a western female was gang-raped in Cairo.


8 posted on 02/18/2011 4:39:49 PM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: SeaHawkFan

And they’re searching for what? Shark turds?


9 posted on 02/18/2011 4:49:32 PM PST by ScoochDude
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The enviro-Nazis score again:

"I've been predicting this is going to get worse and worse for quite some time because since they actually turned around and protected the sharks and secondly on top of that ... [there are] not very many shark fishermen around any more," he said.

"Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s ... we used to catch the odd pointer you know at least once a month and keep our beaches pretty safe.

"But since they have been protected I reckon there would be, or there is, a lot more sharks around."

I think there should be a perennial open season on sharks within a certain number of miles of a coastal area inhabited by humans. Just as we wouldn't tolerate grizzlies or lions living among humans, we shouldn't tolerate sharks either.

10 posted on 02/18/2011 4:57:54 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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To: null and void
They have had trouble before with persons wearing the electronic devices to repel sharks and then getting killed by sharks. A few years back an Australian swimmer died after being attacked while wearing the device.

Another person was killed besides the swimmer and diver and there was this in the Australian newspapers about the third death.

An inquest heard yesterday the Shark Shield surf model was activated on a float carrying bait when the 3.6m female shark approached. Rather than being deterred by the device, the shark, under the gaze of the Natal Sharks Board, bit into it.

South Australian Deputy State Coroner Tony Schapel yesterday heard of the test failure during the inquest into the death of Jarrod Stehbens, who was taken by a great white shark while diving off Glenelg in South Australia in 2005.

I guess more work will have to be done on this device.
Back to the drawing boards.- tom

11 posted on 02/18/2011 5:16:18 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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What we have here is an eating machine.


12 posted on 02/18/2011 5:20:48 PM PST by Delta 21
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So these devices are turning out to be more like “dinner bells”!


13 posted on 02/18/2011 5:34:05 PM PST by mdmathis6 (Applied Christianity;a study in spiritual fiber optics connecting God's love to man!)
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*shark approached. Rather than being deterred by the device, the shark... bit into it."

Cat to electric can opener syndrome? A dinner bell of sorts?

14 posted on 02/18/2011 6:43:29 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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I was a kid during WWII and remember one of the pilots say that they had a special dye they used when they ditched. It was a brilliant orange that was supposed to make them easier to spot as well as repel sharks. It didn’t seem to work for the latter. The pilots ended up calling the the color “yum-yum yellow”.


15 posted on 02/18/2011 6:52:40 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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Cat to electric can opener syndrome? A dinner bell of sorts?

We had one of the first shark attractors made. The claims were it could bring sharks in from hundreds of yards away. What I noticed was that was not true, and that the sharks that came to the boat by us chumming them in had to be withing a few feet of the device to show any interest in the electrical device.

People make claims about products to sell them, and those products should be tested in the real world like the device that got bit in that study.I doubt before the Inquiry that info on the device failure was common knowledge.

This is a life or death matter, and not whether one product cleans better than another. - Tom.

16 posted on 02/18/2011 7:07:56 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Oatka
I was a kid during WWII and remember one of the pilots say that they had a special dye they used when they ditched.

That was copper acetate, and they found out in later studies it was just a morale booster, it didn't work as claimed.

We might be at that stage with today's alleged electrical shark repelling devices. - Tom

17 posted on 02/18/2011 7:22:51 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: ScoochDude
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/21/3144004.htm

No remains found from shark victim

A search has ended near Coffin Bay in South Australia for remains of shark attack victim, Peter Clarkson. His skipper Howard Rodd saw the abalone diver taken by two sharks last Thursday as he was surfacing near Perforated Island.

Police are investigating if Mr Clarkson was wearing a shark shield safety device at the time of the attack. It emits an electrical wave to deter sharks.

The victim's friend Don Morrison has no doubt.

"I guarantee he would have been wearing it. I think he checked it was working all the time. I'm pretty sure he would have been wearing it," he said.

18 posted on 02/20/2011 6:36:06 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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