You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
-Short Attention Span Theater-
Surfer bitten in half by really big sharks
2004-07-12
Hat tip Drudge.
A surfer was bitten in half after losing a desperate fight for his life with two Great White sharks. Brad Smith, 29, was surfing off the Western Australian coast when a huge shark 'as wide as a car' lunged out of the water and snapped his board in half. Mr Smith's friends could only watch in horror as he fell into the sea and another of the enormous creatures moved in on him. Experts said it was almost as if they had ambushed him.
Islamofascist sharks?
The surfer lashed out with his fists to try to keep the sharks at bay as they came at him repeatedly. But after just 45 seconds he disappeared beneath the surface - and the water turned red. When his body floated back up, his friends risked their own lives to go out and drag it back to shore. Yesterday they were too upset to describe his injuries, but another surfer at Left Handers Beach near the resort of Gracetown said he had been warned: 'Don't go in there, someone's been bitten in half by a shark dude.'
That would do it for me.
Another surfer Cameron Rowe, 17, said: 'There was nothing we could do to help him. At first I saw one shark and thought it was one of the usual ones you see swimming-around, reef sharks, which don't cause you any trouble. But these things were massive. When the first one came up a bit I could see its fin and it was almost a yard high. When it came out of the water with Brad still fighting it, I could see its body was about the width of a car and its open jaws were as wide as a man's arm. What happened then just ended up in a terrible feeding frenzy. It was awful.'
Posted by:Steve White

#25  that in good post mojo. :)
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-07-12 8:31:26 PM  

#24  Extreme Surfing has a nice ring to it might just work too.oh yea GO Gators:)
Posted by: djohn66   2004-07-12 7:44:29 PM  

#23  "Civilization stops at the waterline

What? Dammit we need a program! Git fat Teddy on it!
Posted by: L Bones Johnson   2004-07-12 5:42:39 PM  

#22  "Civilization stops at the waterline. After that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top, either."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, "The Great Shark Hunt"
Posted by: mojo   2004-07-12 4:30:57 PM  

#21  "What were some of the others from this classic bit?"

Half a gram! (From the Richard Prior episode.)
Posted by: CiT   2004-07-12 4:06:33 PM  

#20  During the original "Jaws" movie, my brother's friend shouted "I'm not half the man I used to be!" when Quint gets bitten in half. Sorry it happened to an Aussie, though. Here's my reverse Michael Moore impression -- Why did these sharks attack an Australian ally? Don't they know that the French are the perfidous @ssholes who didn't support us in Iraq and elsewhere?
Posted by: Tibor   2004-07-12 3:20:24 PM  

#19  and swimsuits are bad for the alimentary tracks of the sharks. Surf nude
Posted by: Frank G   2004-07-12 3:20:15 PM  

#18  "I'm really just a dolphin..."
Posted by: eLarson   2004-07-12 3:19:00 PM  

#17  Make the boards edible.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-07-12 2:59:43 PM  

#16  Australia's missing the big picture.Leave the sharks alone and simply advertise,X-TREME SURFING.The idiots will still surf,the bloodthirst crowd will fill the beaches to see if sharks believe in catch-and-release.PETA would probably still protest,demanding the boards be edible,but you can't please everyone.
Posted by: Stephen   2004-07-12 2:38:10 PM  

#15  Just a clever way to promote Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. Kicks off on July 25th with "Primal Scream".
Posted by: Steve   2004-07-12 2:32:54 PM  

#14  "Candygram"
Posted by: FlameBait93268   2004-07-12 2:12:16 PM  

#13  *Jehovah's Witnesses*
*Mormons*
*florist*
*pizza*

What were some of the others from this classic bit?
Posted by: .com   2004-07-12 2:07:35 PM  

#12  Shipman-
*very soft voice*Landshark....


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-07-12 2:05:39 PM  

#11  Hmmmm.... Evolutino. Land Sharks anyone?

Speaking of Gainesville, it's got Tlh beat all to hell on tractor parking.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-07-12 1:47:53 PM  

#10  SMcG - Oh no, they love us!

Surfer + Board = Shark Nachos.
Posted by: .com   2004-07-12 1:46:21 PM  

#9  Sharks - why do they hate us?
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2004-07-12 1:43:52 PM  

#8  Someone say Florida Gators?
Posted by: Dragon Fly   2004-07-12 1:29:49 PM  

#7  I like All God's Creatures, too, Mucky.
Posted by: .com   2004-07-12 1:25:23 PM  

#6  boo hoo fuking hoo. they are can still go to the beach. they are just have to know there risks. the box jellyfish is kill more peples on australian beaches than sharks. are you going kill all the animals in the ocean just so you are can go swimming? are you kill all the polar and kodiak bears in alaska so it is make safer hiking? that in not right. why arent we kill all the gators in florida to.
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-07-12 1:21:57 PM  

#5  My mom and dad winter in FLA. They were on the beach near St. Armand's Square in Sarasota.

Mom was eating a hot dog, 1 bird attacked her by hitting her on her head and another swooped in to try to get the hot dog, but she held onto it.

They figured it out, why wouldn't sharks?
Posted by: Anonymous2U   2004-07-12 1:18:00 PM  

#4  from an economic standpoint they should be killed..it will ruin the beach economy..didn't anyone see jaws...
Posted by: Dan   2004-07-12 1:12:18 PM  

#3  What, no pics? RIP-OFF!
Posted by: Chris W.   2004-07-12 1:02:34 PM  

#2  I'm with muck4doo on this one. Unless the sharks are edible, they should be left alone.
Posted by: Bulldog   2004-07-12 12:40:43 PM  

#1  'You could see Brad trying to whack at them to keep them away. We were shouting out, "Swim for your life, mate! Swim for your life!"

it in kind of hard swim with no legs. they are shuldnt kill the sharks. first how are they know they killing the right one? if you are go in the sharks teritory you shuld know you risk you life. ima place the blame the surfer. the sharks arent wander onto the land did they?
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-07-12 12:35:19 PM  

00:00