Far more people are killed through the reckless and concious decisions of their fellow drivers than sharks. Who cares. Suggesting it then being called out could lead to self reflection. I do quite a bit of surfing up at Fingal so in some ways I’m happy to wait this thing out. All of the other locals I speak to are in a similar mindset and have had a decent break from that stretch for a while. Yeah I dunno,I'm scared shitless every solo surf for30 years&yet nothings happened. Predate on the plague of NewZealand fur seals? Coastalwatch's thoughts are with the victim's family, as well as the communities of Tugun and Kingscliff. The fisherman say they used to be able to keep things in control back in the day, now they cannot. https://www.smh.com.au/national/high-rise-shark-hunter-warns-of-danger-2... https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/beaches-and-fishing/gold-... https://www.facebook.com/9NewsGoldCoast/videos/shark-warning/35656879847... https://www.mundialintercambio.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bo... https://bondgoldcoastnews.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/shark.jpg. Now that people have some of the facts perhaps they'd like to look a bit deeper and make some informed decisions about how best to deal with the risks. Every time I've seen one up there (from safety of beach) it was cruising in a fairly straight line north-south/south-north right along where waves start breaking (including one that morning!). I've had a couple of encounters in my surfing life but not seeing anything was the one that scared me the most and probably the only time i've ever paddled in.". Also wakes you up if you were a bit groggy. Imagine the reaction if child got taken at a nippers carnival or a toursit being taken at Surfers. And I am talking historically here too, as I'm sure as we move to a situation where there is either constant surveillance at popular beaches or near-instant drone deployment the gap between "surfer said it was X species" to "the drone confirmed X species 3 minutes within the same beach compartment after incident occurred" will close considerably. Agree middle aged surfers, plenty of us to go around. Sounds like a bad situation up there. Are depleted stocks in the open ocean occurring? “The shark circled them for a period of time while they brought the gentleman into shore. How a design conceived in a Dutch laboratory became one of Australia's greatest beachbreaks. Sense of security is about all he would get from a magnetic repellant unfortunately according to this article:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120439/. But if you have something other than a hunch I'd love to hear it. Surfstitch Surf Check - the official Coastalwatch Android app for Australian surfing and coastal conditions. And a whole heap of very compelling evidence from a range of credible sources that white sharks are behind the majority of these incidents. Gain a deeper understanding into how wave models work and how to read them. “I’m Going To Bring All My Passion and Competitive Juices To This”, More People in the Water, More Encounters of the Unplanned Kind, Few things go together as well as surfing and camping, And all the hilarious things that happen round the campfire, The Brown Brothers have something radical in store, From the pages of the latest Surfing World, Wayne Lynch reflects.