Shark Attack Reunion Island

This is horrible god bless his family.

 

With you on that! Apparently there's been a few there lately. Bulls are the badasses.

 

It's the way I want to go out.

If I die out of the water, I told my wife to get my carcass on a boat, head out 2 miles and start chumming. She said it was probably against the law. THEN I suggested giving me a Viking Funeral, nope. Then I said to get a big aquarium, put me in it and have mourners throw in hungry blue fish. Looks like I'm just gpoing to get dirt thrown in my face.

 

theres a boat in sojersey that does cremation-ball tossing.
not that i'm trying to get rid of you.

 

yeah, I landed in Newark from SJO once. That's felt like an eternity.

 

More than just a few. 7 fatal and 20
Attacks in 2 years. Time to cull

 

The bulls there have associated humans to food, waves/swell = buffet. F-that

 

Tigers and bulls have been responsible for the attacks. They culled 45 tigers and 45 bulls last year, but I guess it didn't work.
They say there's 2 big reasons for the attacks.There's a 19 mile reserve on the west coast that cannot be fished. There's a ton of fish there, so the sharks moved in to feed on them. And there are fish farms on the west coast as well. So there's a ton of food, right on the beach, for the sharks.

 

Yes but based on alot of theories you hear from conservationists and fisheries managers, a good population of fish should actually prevent attacks on humans.
There are theories, such as the increase in GW attacks in West Oz, that lack of food and overfishing contributes to the sharks trying to find other prey, such as humans.
These bull sharks in Reunion seem to be onto something else though. I think they have actually learned that humans may be an easy food source. This is very troubling.
If those attacks were happening in the US say in NJ or Florida there would be an all our war on sharks here.
Poor kid, RIP

 

future headline: SURFERS BANNED FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.

 

Surfing is already banned in many areas of Reunion due to the sharks.

 

wouldn't it be cool that we fixed the oceans so well that sharks could muscle us?

 

In theory there should be less attacks with more food, but when they are supplying a food source in the same area that people are there will be more encounters. Which will equal more attacks.
With tiger sharks and large bull sharks the wounds are going to be severe.

 

also sheds light on one of our darker behaviors with respect to children and careers; i only
mean those who would hijack a childhood as opposed to taking their kid surfing.

 

Our three favorite tagged great white ladies, Mary Lee, Katharine and Genie
are all pinging off the Carolina coasts this week. Good thing they have ALL the great whites tagged so we know when it's safe! (insert sarcastic emoticon here)

 

Getfinban
www.finbansharksafe.com

 

That's a great point. We are very lucky to be able to track all he white sharks here on the east coast. As long as you check Ocearch you will know where every white is and can surf knowing you are safe.