OMG - How lucky is this Bloke?

[danlisa]

:o

An Australian diver fought his way out of the jaws of a great white shark after the creature "swallowed" his head and upper body.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/23/wshark123.xml

Sharks are beautiful creatures but they don't half scare the cr*p out of me.

[Konovalov]

We build them tough in Oz. :smug:

[snowsub]

Apparently he was worried when swimming to the surface that his face had been cut up and disfigured and that'd freak his son out who was on the boat :huh: .

There had been a current of very cold water flowing through the area where they were collecting abaloni and that's why they reakon the shark was there otherwise it'd have been too warm (being summer atm).

Lucky he had a arm free to gouge the sharks eye. :up:

And all he got was a few cuts and a headache.
(and if it was me brown underwear :p )

[Sea Demon]

I read somewhere that you Ozzie's have something like 15 shark attacks annually. That doesn't count Jellyfish stings or sea snake bites. Them's some dangerous waters down there. :huh:

[bookworm_020]

It's no safer on land, we have 8 of the top ten most venomous snakes, a couple of the worlds most dangerous spiders.:p

Now you know why the shark had no chance:lol:

Australia : not a place for wimps!

[baggygreen]

depends where you go for the waters but...

an example. living in canberra, we're 4 hours from sydney and 2 hours from the south coast. south coast we dont have to worry too much, get a few jellyfish n the odd tiger, couplea great whites... thats about it really.

sydney, where bookworms from, hell they get the works - more seacreatures than landcreatures (reverse is true in canberra) including bull sharks found 15 km up the parramatta river, in the fresh water....:doh:

[STEED]

It's no safer on land, we have 8 of the top ten most venomous snakes, a couple of the worlds most dangerous spiders.:p

Now you know why the shark had no chance:lol:

Australia : not a place for wimps!

Your not kidding there. :o

[Konovalov]

depends where you go for the waters but...

an example. living in canberra, we're 4 hours from sydney and 2 hours from the south coast. south coast we dont have to worry too much, get a few jellyfish n the odd tiger, couplea great whites... thats about it really.

sydney, where bookworms from, hell they get the works - more seacreatures than landcreatures (reverse is true in canberra) including bull sharks found 15 km up the parramatta river, in the fresh water....:doh:

I have lived in both Geelong, Melbourne, and Sydney. When I was a child living in Geelong our family would drive down to Torquay, Jan Juc, or Bell's Beach. I saw a shark whilst sitting on the back of my dad's sailboard. Apart from that I have never felt in danger once while at the beach be it south in Victoria or up in Sydney. We were taught as kids what were dangerous or just plain painful be they bluebottle jellyfish, coneshells, blue ringed octupus, sea urchins, stone fish, and so forth.

[STEED]

Speaking of sharks.

Rare primitive shark captured on film (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=431041&in_page_id=1965)

[Konovalov]

Yeah, I watched video footage of that from BBC this morning. Ugly critter isn't it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6290000/newsid_6294000/6294035.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm