![]() Mr Ison punched the shark several times, and was left with serious bite marks on his arms and legs, and pieces of shark teeth lodged in his thighĮxperts are blaming a thriving ecosystem for the soaring number of sharks lurking along the coast of the region, according to the Daily Telegraph. ![]() * Sean Pollard, 23, loses both hands after a shark attack at Wylie Bay Beach, near Esperance, WA. * Daniel Smith, 18, of Mossman, is killed while fishing at Rudder Reef, off the coast of Port Douglas. * Jay Muscat, 17, is killed by a great white while spearfishing at Cheynes Beach near Albany, WA. * Sam Smith, 17, is bitten on the hand by a 1.5m shark at Mollymook Beach, about three and a half hours south of Sydney. * Japanese national Tadashi Nakahara, 41, is killed at Shelly Beach, near Ballina, in northern NSW. He suffers critical leg injuries but survives. * Matthew Lee, 32, is mauled by a suspected great white shark at Lighthouse Beach, near Ballina, in northern NSW. It is believed the man was diving with his daughter, who saw the attack and surfaced to fire a distress flare. * Man is killed while reportedly diving for scallops off Tasmania's east coast. * Craig Ison, 52, left fighting for his life with puncture wounds in his leg after a 4m great white shark attacked him while surfing in Evans Head, in northern NSW The immense apex predator was caught by a licensed fisherman known only as Matthew, who proudly posed beside the jaws of the dead animal he claims to have caught 22km's off the coastline weeks earlier. I punched it in the back', Fanning said, after he was rescued by a frantic emergency response team on jet-skis moments later.Īdding further fuel to the recent shark hysteria, a gigantic six-metre tiger shark was pictured in August hauled onto a fishing boat off the coast of Tweed Heads, on the Northern NSW coast. 'I just saw fin - I didn't see the teeth, I was waiting for some teeth to come at me as I was swimming. The nature of dangerous sharks hit close to home in June when the nation watched a beloved pro surfer, Mick Fanning, narrowly escape a shark attack on a live feed of the JBay Open finals in South Africa.įootage showed a huge dorsal fin appear besides Fanning, as a monstrous great white became tangled up in the leg-rope of his board, knocking him off and dragging him underwater. He says that initially he was mocked by colleagues and surfers, but after a spree of shark attacks locals are now asking him where to buy it 'Its sort of like an insurance policy, you don't know if its gonna work but it's better than sitting there looking like a seal in a completely black wetsuit.' He recalls spotting a massive fin dipping in the water 100 metres from him, the day after a great white was spotted at a neighbouring beach, saying, 'I wasn't planning on hanging around, even if I'm wearing the wettie'. He said that when the package arrived at his hostel, his work colleagues laughed at him, saying, 'you're going to look like an idiot'.Įleven unprovoked shark attacks on the NSW coastline later, he says everyone is now 'loving the wetsuit' and asking him where he bought it - including a tough crowd of local surfers. 'I was going to be surfing late in the evening, and by myself, so I thought why not?' Mr Agiannidis told Daily Mail Australia. ![]() Mr Agiannidis purchased his specialty wetsuit six months ago, shortly after picking up surfing. ![]() The research was first brought to public attention in a 2013 Tedtalk, with neurobiologist Nathan Hart from the University Of Western Australia saying the black and white stripes also mimicked various seasnakes and fish - animals that have successfully been able to repel sharks. Sharks have difficulty identifying colours but work well with tones and contrast, so the monotonous stripes disrupts their visual perception
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