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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Shark attack

Search under way after shark attacks diver. :

"A major search is under way in the waters off an Adelaide beach this evening for a man who has been taken by a shark.

The man was diving with three others when he was attacked two kilometres off Glenelg Beach, just after 4:00pm ACST."

Has the world gone mad or what? Are we out of control or what? Am I going to get blogger depression or not because how long can the insanity last and how much is too much and when are we going to be able to get a grip? This is not the time of year for shark attacks. It's our second one now after the one in December. Same spot. There's an artificial tyre reef which divers like and there's also recreational fishing that far off our coast too. We do not know who it is because the family has to have a chance to come to terms with it all. Divers have been saying that our waters are noticeably missing the bigger fish and over the years the number of fish has depleted. So maybe these shark attacks are also brought on by the fact we have over fished our waters commercially. The sharks don't have enough food and are cruising the coast. Fishermen have known they have been around there. We really have to look at what's going on. The states where they have been putting shark nets up they have been catching whales and having to rescue them. We have made some changes to our fishing laws but I think we need to look at some interim measures and divers are going to have to be mighty careful.

Sad, sad, sad. It was a marine biology trip.

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