Wyn_Richards
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UPDATE: OCTOBER 2008
Recent attacks have been added to the collection, and a few changes of location have been made due to local information from the all knowing GE community. Sorry it took so long and thanks to everyone who helped!
A couple of things. Firstly, I have relocated the Fishery Bay 2005 site as requested by Ashley100456. However, I'm still not sure if this is the right spot. GE has no label for this small bay, and I can't seem to find it on any map. The vague info I found also refers to "Fisheries" Bay, so I'm not sure of the official name (or location). Anyone got any ideas?
Secondly, after reading Clifford Heath's comment I went about finding information on the attack on his uncle's mate. Sorry Clifford, but there doesn't seem to be any record of a fatal attack on the Mornington Peninsular in the early 1960's. Is there a chance that your uncle and his friend were competing in the surf carnival in 1956, where a John Wishart was tragically killed by a shark? But just because I can find no reference doesn't mean it didn't happen!
And the Global Shark Attack File link below appears to be dead. Does anyone know where it has gone?
Shark attacks in Australian waters by state. All officially recorded and unprovoked attacks from 1761 to 2008. Placemark information and guidance from the Global Shark Attack File at www.sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/GSAF5.xls More recent attack information from online media reports.
All research was done from the little available on the internet, so in most cases I have had to give my best “guesstimate” to the approximate location of the incident, where more detailed information was not available. Corrections and feedback welcome.<br>
I have excluded many recorded shark encounters including near misses, attacks on boats, sharks in aquaria, fishing mishaps, and incidents resulting in superficial injury. The red/blue icon represents fatal attacks, the blue/blue attacks resulting in injury. The three main species responsible for most attacks on humans in Australia are the…
(Great) White Shark (Carcharodon Carcharius)
Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas)
Because many more shark attacks have gone unreported, one shouldn’t draw too many conclusions from this collection. Shark encounters are roughly proportional to the number of people in the water, hence the great many recorded incidents around the major cities and towns. Currently, shark attack numbers have, statistically speaking, been increasing. This may be due to incresing numbers of people in the water. Recent attacks in northern NSW are probably related to the rapid development of towns like Byron Bay and Ballina, and we will likely see even more attacks in that area in the future.
Edited by WynRichards (10/20/08 11:01 PM)
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Noisette
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Interesting post Wyn, great research, I love the icons too  Are you from Australia? Have you had any "close contact" yourself? 
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heamit
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I second Noisette and give this 5 stars. Fascinating post! 
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Wyn_Richards
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Thanks Noisette. It took a long time so it's nice to hear people are appreciating it.
I spent most of my childhood summers on the beaches of Sydney and I've always been fascinated by sharks. I've never seen a dangerous one in the wild, but I did once have to cling to a buoy for 4 hours after a boating accident near Newcastle, and the next day the local fisherman caught a 6 metre Great White in the same stretch of water!! It sure gave me the Heebie Jeebies!!
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antbytes
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You should 'gearth' your bouy experience !
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abby2
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Fascinating & a great post!
However I think I'll go swimming in a pool from now on!
Edited by abby2 (01/11/07 07:10 PM)
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Wyn_Richards
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 Good Idea antbytes! I think I will  )
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conspiracytheory
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Brilliant Post! I live in Noosa and until now felt safe in the shallows picking my surf board out of the water!
Hells teeth!
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Irisphar
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Hi Wyn.... Well done on the effort you have put into research and detail on this post.... I was totally blown away by it.... I am new to Google Earth and the community posts and if yours is an example of the work people are putting in when posting then I look forward to a lot of long hours on here....
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Wyn_Richards
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Thanks Irisphar. Welcome to GE. Hope you have many happy hours scouring every nook and cranny of the globe!
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ankarli
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Interesting but I don't know if the Tourist Bureau really wants to publise this.
You've got a typo in the word Corrumbin, 1972. its spelt Currumbin.
Thanks,
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Wyn_Richards
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Recent attacks added and some placemarks modified due to forthcoming information.
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jtl71
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g'day
Just been looking at the shark attack locations stuff - great work!
A little more information that may assist you in regards to City Beach in Western Australia:
An account of the 1946 attack appears in the City of Perth SLSC history, and can be read at http://www.citysurf.asn.au/history/tales/shark.htm
From that account, and from what I've been told by some of the club's older members, the actual location of the 1946 attack was further north, at what is now called Floreat beach, somewhere near where the Floreat Surf Life Saving Club is now. That is, approximately 800 metres north of the currently marked location.
The shark is also described as a blue whaler.
We still have the teeth at the club, and somewhere we have a block mounted newspaper article about the event - I'll have to have a look and see if that gives any more information.
Secondly, you have one labelled "City Beach 2006" - this is in fact the same as the one labelled "Three Mile Reef, 2006" (although I notice the victim's name is slightly different in each). The Three Mile Reef location is the accurate one (if you want to be right on the spot, I obtained the exact coordinates from the Water Police at the time - 31°57'2.04"S, 115°40'55.08"E).
That attack was widely reported as taking place "off City Beach" - mainly because that was where he was brought ashore to meet the ambulance. The media, as always, were keen to create an impression that everyone at the beach was in imminent danger of being eaten - see http://www.citysurf.asn.au/history/news/060116_shark_attack.htm
Third, the fatal attack at Cottesloe in 2000 occurred right in front of the North Cottesloe SLSC, 800 metres north of the marked location, and right on the shore.
And finally, I noticed a typo in Rottnest Island 1965 - you have it as "Rottnest Isnad"!
Hope this helps and keep up the good work!
jeff...
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Wyn_Richards
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Thanks Jeff,
I've been meaning to do a tidyup of the collection, and when I do (time permitting), I'll definately make the changes you suggest.
Thanks for your interest!
Wyn
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leightonbeach
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Good afternoon Jeff,
The reason City has the shark teeth in the club is because the shark that attacked the sailor costing him his leg also attack the City Surf Boat.
The senior crew was training when the attack took place so they took off after the shark (which was a tiger shark) in an attempt to harpoon it, we had harpoon in surf boats in those days. During the chase the shark tured and attacked the boat. The attack was so vigerious that the sweep had to sit down as he was afraid he would fall into the water. After the attack the crew returned to shore and found 5 teeth in the bottom of the boat.
2 hours latter the junior crew was training when the same shark returned to the beach (it could be identfied by a mark on it's nose) so the junior crew took off after the shark. The shark lept from the water into the surf boat. The junior crew lept from the boat into the water. The shark lept out of the boat back into the water. The junior crew lept from the boat back into the boat and rowed ashore.
The surf boat involved was a double ended clinker boat so with a full crew it weighted in excess of half a ton.
My source is a member of that junior boat crew (now dead) who I was on the old Board of Examiners with in the 1970's. If you are too young to know what the board of examiners was ask some of your older members at least older than 50.
When Jaws opened in Perth I sat next the survivour of that attack as I was a guest, like him, because I had survived an interesting encounter with a great white in 1967. Half way through the show he said, " I can't take any more of this s&@t" and he and his wife walked out of the show.
Best wishes,
David.
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Ashley100456
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I am new to this , A comment though, You have Fishery Bay 2005 in the wrong spot , can you please change it.
Cheers
Ashley
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CliffordHeath
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Wyn, found your research while perusing photos on Google Earth and Panoramio around Sorrento and Portsea, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, where I holiday. My uncle was a top body-surfer, but stopped after an encounter with a Great White at Portsea around 1963/1964 I believe. He was out the back with his close friend (can't remember the name now) and the shark brushed past him, stripping skin off his leg with its bony hide, and took his friend. Pete was so shocked he swam ashore, walked right past the guy's wife on the beach, and drove home to Melbourne, not speaking to anyone for three days. The shark was later caught and the bones of his friend were verified in its belly. The jawbone of the shark was in the Sorrento Aquarium until it closed down a couple of years ago. Uncle Pete never went back in the sea. In fact it was fifteen years before be even went out in a boat again. He just turned 75 last month, and both his brothers still swim in the surf, as I do. I can probably get more details if you want... though it's probably still too painful to ask Pete.
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divervan
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not sure how this works! but as a pro-diver in the ptmac donnell area for many years have noticed that your peg re shark attack is situated at cape northumberland (shelly beach) and if it occured at cape doughlas that should be about 9 km to the west n west . at about 38,01,11.43s 140,34,07,60e. Bit picky i know but.
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Cliffy51
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Hi Wyn,
Your shark reports is very cool,however I regret to inform you that Pialba Beach is not where you have it. I live locally and the points I'm about to give you are not GPS but from GE.
You have location 25deg.15.33.16S and 152deg 44.19.34E the following are more accurate 25deg 16.38.63S and 152deg50.24.17E. If you fly to "Main St,Pialba in GE then go straight down to the beach, there you have it..
Kind Regards
Cliff
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Markus1177
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Very interesting post, thank you!
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