“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.”
Watch for this happening in Southern California. We had a shark attack last week off of Corona del Mar, Newport Beach. Great Whites are being encouraged to repopulate the SoCal coast after more than a half century of absence.
The loonies in the marine biology business think that this is just grand, and now that the sharks are getting up to the 9ft stage they are going to love it too. Lots of food, and it comes wrapped in wetsuits.
They’re going to have to rename the Balboa peninsula to Amity and play the Jaws theme down at the Wedge. Great fun, can’t wait to see the show go on.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-717680—.html
Great White Sharks.....the friendly WalMart greeters of the sea.
I guess those shark camouflage wetsuits and boards will start to come in handy, if they work. There are at least two different types. One strategy is more along the lines of classic camo, various shades of blue designed to break up the visual of the board and the surfer so that they blend into the ocean. The other is more of a masquerade, as a species that is poisonous or attacks sharks, such as a killer whale, with black and white graphics.