14 Jan 2009.
OK, I came across this post today and my god, I was shocked. With all the noise about shark attacks in australian beaches in the last two weeks, here we have a situation where the kids were photographed enjoying their day goofing around in the sea. Do these aussie kids have no fear? Are the parents of these kids so irresponsible? Are they blind? Can they not see that a shark is looking to eat them? The kids seem so casual and unconcerned. So, who panics in the end?
Too close for comfort ... a great white shark circles learner surfers who are oblivious to the life-threatening danger that lurks just metres away.
Here is the rest of the article:
A SURF school owner has defended his failure to warn his class that a large shark was swimming close to teenagers on a popular New South Wales beach. This amazing photo shows the moment the shark, believed to be a 3m great white, surfaced at Blueys Beach on the Mid-North Coast, near Myall Lake on Sunday.
Here is the rest of the article:
A SURF school owner has defended his failure to warn his class that a large shark was swimming close to teenagers on a popular New South Wales beach. This amazing photo shows the moment the shark, believed to be a 3m great white, surfaced at Blueys Beach on the Mid-North Coast, near Myall Lake on Sunday.
Silvio Rodriguez was photographing other surfers near the surf school students about midday when he noticed a large shadow. "At first I thought it was weed, but I kept an eye on it then I saw the massive fin come up," Mr Rodriguez, 31, said.
"It was only maybe 30m away from the nearest learner surfer." Former professional surfer Gary Hughes, who runs Gary Hughes Surface School of Surf and Surf Consultancy, said he was aware of the shark and had been monitoring it. "I did not tell the students because they just would have worried," Mr Hughes, 50, said. "It was just having a cruise, it wasn't showing attack behaviour."
(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24910597-1242,00.html)
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