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Australia shark attacks: Second person killed
BBC World News ^ | 6-5-2016 | BBC

Posted on 06/05/2016 11:26:44 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse

A woman has been killed by a shark off the west coast of Australia, the second such death there in less than a week.

Police say she was diving in waters near the city of Perth with a man when she was attacked.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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it is amazing to me how Australians , or people anywhere that there is confirmed aggressive shark activity going on , continue to go into the ocean as if no danger is present .How great is their obsession with entering the domain of non terrestrial creatures ? How oblivious to the fact that when white sharks are involved we are part of their food resources . It's like intentionally going for a walk in the Sundarbans forest knowing it is infested with tigers that eat humans . Why go diving 2.5 kms off the coast when you know whiteys are around ? It's insane
1 posted on 06/05/2016 11:26:44 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

The west coast of Australia has become quite dangerous in recent years.


2 posted on 06/05/2016 11:27:41 AM PDT by NRx
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To: LeoWindhorse

Australia needs to ban sharks.


3 posted on 06/05/2016 11:28:33 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm actually going back to school. I kinda don't believe it.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Great White Sharks are protected. If they are not hunted or caught by fishermen, there is going to be a lot
more sharks! Duh!


4 posted on 06/05/2016 11:33:11 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: wastedyears

Simply install signs declaring “SHARK FREE ZONES”. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s because of glow bull warming.


5 posted on 06/05/2016 11:34:04 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

We’d only need to exterminate four or five species of sharks and there would never be another attack on a human. There would still be 295 species of the ****ing things for “scientists” to “study”......


6 posted on 06/05/2016 11:39:33 AM PDT by ganeemead
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Haha - calm down - more people are killed by dogs than Great Whites


7 posted on 06/05/2016 11:40:00 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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Dogshark.

8 posted on 06/05/2016 11:43:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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These folks are sure doing their part in culling the herds. 5,000-10,000 shark fins on roof drying, for soup.


9 posted on 06/05/2016 11:43:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement." - RR)
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“Simply install signs declaring “SHARK FREE ZONES”.”

This could work!


10 posted on 06/05/2016 11:48:43 AM PDT by Dirt for sale (QS)
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To: carriage_hill

Wow, I bet the breeze around there is pungent.


11 posted on 06/05/2016 11:52:02 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: LeoWindhorse

Sharks are angry about climate change.


12 posted on 06/05/2016 11:52:05 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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I’d understood that many Australian public beaches have shark fencing to keep them out and protect swimmers, but you were on your own outside of those.


13 posted on 06/05/2016 11:54:55 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Their not black assult sharks so they should be ok


14 posted on 06/05/2016 12:06:15 PM PDT by Iron head mike (Dirty deeds done dirt cheap)
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To: carriage_hill

That is against the law now. Sharks have to be brought in with all their fins intact. And they still can’t sell them. At least in the US. There is probably not one White Shark fin there.

PS. It must smell lovely around there! lol


15 posted on 06/05/2016 12:06:35 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

willful suspension of reasonable cautions


16 posted on 06/05/2016 12:20:29 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: ganeemead

Environmentalists value beasts over humans.


17 posted on 06/05/2016 1:15:19 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Sharks were peaceful vegetarians until manmade globull warming
forced them to organize their communities to attack other creatures.


18 posted on 06/05/2016 1:31:57 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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Heh, can you imagine the swarms of flies hovering over that roof? Whew!


19 posted on 06/05/2016 1:48:10 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement." - RR)
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To: LeoWindhorse

“People are friends, not food.”


20 posted on 06/05/2016 1:51:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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