Shark Attack in Fish Hoek

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It was Zimbabwean agents in a mini submersible :erm:
 
SA shark attack stats since 1905 up to 2008 ( add 1 for Western Cape and I believe 1 for Eastern Cape )

Natal

Total attacks 91
Fatal 27
Last fatality 1999

Eastern Cape

Total attacks 82
Fatal 6
Last fatality 1988

Western Cape

Total attacks 39
Fatal 8
Last fatality 2004

Certainly a greater % of Western Cape attacks prove fatal.

10 years since the last fatal attack in KZN is quite surprising.
 
Sharks can't come close to shore because of the sewage :o
 
3G4me said:
What surprises me (like with the granny in 2004) is he was swimming 20 metres out of the beach. Great whites don't like shallow water.
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The article I read said 100 meters.
 
daveza said:
SA shark attack stats since 1905 up to 2008 ( add 1 for Western Cape and I believe 1 for Eastern Cape )

Natal

Total attacks 91
Fatal 27
Last fatality 1999

Eastern Cape

Total attacks 82
Fatal 6
Last fatality 1988

Western Cape

Total attacks 39
Fatal 8
Last fatality 2004

Certainly a greater % of Western Cape attacks prove fatal.

10 years since the last fatal attack in KZN is quite surprising.
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There are three recent shark attack related fatalities at the Wild Coast. Two happened last year between Jan and March and another one this month I heard.
 
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@Davesa , what link were you using for those stats?

reason i ask, is they seem quite low for the lengthly period you mentioned from 1905 -2008, the following is from a much smaller period of 1990 - 2008

Number of unprovoked shark attacks in South African waters, 1990-2008
("Cape" refers to the Eastern and Western Cape provinces;
No incidents have been reported from the Northern Cape)

Cape KwaZulu-Natal
Total Fatal Total Fatal At protected beaches
1990 4 1 0 0 0
1991 2 0 1 0 1*
1992 1 0 2 0 0
1993 4 0 2 0 0
1994 9 1 0 0 0
1995 3 0 1 1 0
1996 3 0 1 0 0
1997 5 2 0 0 0
1998 15 1 0 0 0
1999 8 1 1 0 1**
2000 4 0 1 0 0
2001 3 0 1 0 1***
2002 3 0 4 0 0
2003 4 1 2 0 0
2004 6 2 0 0 0
2005 7 1 0 0 0
2006 5 0 1 0 0
2007 4 1 1 0 0
2008 3 1 1 0 0

Total 93 12 19 1 3
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http://www.shark.co.za/attack2.htm

sorry table doesnt past well
 
Bruce Corby died in 1994 at Nahoon Reef in East London. Your stats are wrong.
 
Saw that tweet yesterday, didnt think much of it until I heard it on the news, apparently this thing is almost 5-6 meters! swimmers near by (15m) saw his leg floating, jeez....
 
D3x said:
Bruce Corby died in 1994 at Nahoon Reef in East London. Your stats are wrong.
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Huh, no they are correct. The table lists one fatal death in 1994 for the Cape. Everything south of KZN up to the West Coast is classified as Cape.

Look at this page, http://www.shark.co.za/attack.htm take note of the map colour and the table colour.
 
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...tter_User_Reports_Death_Of_Zimbabwean_Tourist

Mr Skinner from Harare, Zimbabwe, had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and had been holidaying in South Africa.
His girlfriend, who witnessed the attack, is being given trauma counselling.
The attack prompted the closure of several beaches.
Meanwhile, shark researchers took to the water to try to hunt down the shark.
"Eyewitness accounts ... certainly indicate that the gentleman was killed almost instantly," said Gregg Oelofse of Cape Town's environmental services.
It is the second deadly shark attack in the area in less than a month.
Eight sharks were sighted near Fish Hoek last week by the city's Shark Spotters programme, which has recorded 570 sightings over six years.
Last year, South Africa had six shark attacks, four of them fatal, said Mike Anderson-Reade of the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board.
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Second deadly attack in a month ??

Did we have 4 fatal attacks last year ?
 
We have been able to ascertain that a large school of fish was in the close vicinity to Mr Skinner and we are of the opinion that this school of fish is an important factor in drawing the shark into the area.
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How would they have done this? By their own admission, visibility at the time was zilch. Are they just repeating the common theory put forth by researchers to explain the rationale for the attack? If so it's speculation and in actuality they haven't been able to ascertain anything but one fish- the bloody shark, never mind a school of fish. Or am I missing something.
 
Hosehead said:
How would they have done this? By their own admission, visibility at the time was zilch.
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Normally a school of fish is not spotted by seeing the fish themselves, but rather by the birds feeding on them.

The fact is that nobody knows why the shark did what it did. The blame is being spread everywhere (shark dive chumming, fish, etc). Sharks were in False Bay long before the people were.
 
I wonder if it is the same Skinner that used to grace this forum not so long ago.
 
MrHands said:
Sharks were in False Bay long before the people were.
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True but even the veteran Argus Columnists who grew up together in Fish hoek and still live in the south - Dave Abrahams and David Biggs remember 30 years ago swimming without a care in the world. Now they won't even go in the water. So something has changed. Biggs mentioned this in his column.
 
MrHands said:
Sharks were in False Bay long before the people were.
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Yes, but what did they do with it? No roads, no infrastructure, no civilisation. At least the white man came and brought culture and technology with him! :)
 
Garyvdh said:
Yes, but what did they do with it? No roads, no infrastructure, no civilisation. At least the white man came and brought culture and technology with him! :)
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and speed boats and shark cage diving and chumming and the best import of all....THE OTHER WHITE MEAT.
 
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