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Maui shark attack
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This is the view from chandlers house on NorthShore
Incidents List
This list and the accompanying graphics do not include encounters in which a shark does not actually bite a person or board (e.g. person grazed by a shark), nor incidents classified by the International Shark Attack File as boat attacks, scavenge, or doubtful. A few incidents were possible shark...
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I didn't realize HI got as many shark attacks as they do. This link above is pretty nuts. Some of the ones on the list are fatal like Tamayo and some the body was never recovered. I guess they got some serious local enforcers.
I was working on my mooring line outside Mala. Adjusting chains. Focused on untangling them, grinding them as slime lifted off the metal and floated vicariously into the medium. About 15-20 feet away from my boat. I went underwater and turned around away from the work in front of me to see a10 foot Tiger under my keel. Ive always wanted to see one in the wild. Like a Mountain Lion. Until you don't want to see it anymore. It was so big, bigger than me, it appeared to move differently from the smaller white and black tip sharks I had seen. Like a Monitor lizard I saw in Thailand. Its movements more dramatic and longer. Not like a wiggle but a soft swerve. And it flowed with seemingly little effort eyeing me from 20 feet away. Its shovel head snout receiving its tangled electrolysis message that the jig was up and she was spotted as she was attempting to come at me from behind. “GO!!” I found myself pulling water and flying towards the shark and the transom of my sailboat Olivia, with her cheap spindly aluminum ladder my ascension out of this peril. I was wearing Churchills. Blue with yellow tips. Inviting. I dont know how I got up but I found myself sitting on the transom slightly twisted due to you cant climb a ladder in swim fins and one foot still on the water. I was frozen. I clenched a fist and stared at my foot dangling like a blue and yellow mango, ripe and ready for picking, thinking that somehow I was gonna punch the nose of the beast when it came for it. I heard the water slap as the shark emerged on the Starboard side… floating, robbed of its prey. Seemingly curious and unafraid.
I had paddled out to my boat about a 1/4 mile on my stand up board. I called a friend and waited about an hour before paddling in promising myself not to fall.
When paddling out Earlier that day I had noticed turtles stacking on top of each other Three deep. I thought it odd and not a mating ritual but didnt think much of it. Sign posts up ahead.
I had paddled out to my boat about a 1/4 mile on my stand up board. I called a friend and waited about an hour before paddling in promising myself not to fall.
When paddling out Earlier that day I had noticed turtles stacking on top of each other Three deep. I thought it odd and not a mating ritual but didnt think much of it. Sign posts up ahead.
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I used to wear a shark bandz but I knew it wouldn't deter a big great white, or tiger charging at full speed. If look at some of the videos of a tiger and gw in attack mode I don't think anything is going to stop it. My hope was that it might deter a curious one, probably wishful thinking
I was at a birthday gathering at a nearby beach yesterday with lots of people who live around there. I mentioned the Shark Bandz rumor and several said they'd heard the same. An addition bit of rumor they'd heard is he had one on his wrist and one on the leg that wasn't bit...
So do they not work cuz he got bit, or did it prevent the shark from biting the leg it was on? Sounds like you need a tip to tail suit made of Shark Bandz material.
I feel for the surfer and that easily could've been a lot of us.. surfing dawn patrol, near some runoff, etc. Yeah that's pretty much my every session... a lot of spots I surf are far offshore and getting back in after an attack is probably not gonna happen.
Current seasonal migration time aside, there seem to be more tigers around the past few years. I know a state marine biologist who's field is not sharks, but monk seals and turtles. She said there are definitely more turtles across Hawaii now than in a long time (due to the protections put in place for them in the late 70's: takes 35-40 years for them to start reproducing, so now we're on that 2nd generation of turtles reproducing). So yeah more turtles, more sharks.
Fridays maui attack will be interesting to see if he was for sure wearing bandz: how many and where. Not for some morbid fascination, but for some real life risk mitigation assessment.
I often wear a hat/hooded rashie, sometimes a float vest, old as fuck ripped boardies, so clearly IDGAF about fashion, so I'm not opposed to wearing a sharkbandz or two...or three
It'd just be nice to know if they worked or not on the kinds of sharks we're most interested in not getting bit by here (tigers).Having seen big guys cruise...theyre massive.. I really doubt that even a couple of small magnets have an impact at all on bigger "indiscriminate" feeders.
I want to believe though....
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I know a surfer here from Reunion. He went home for a visit a while back and said most everyone he knew was using that electrode deal and that it had made those spots that got unsurfable due to so many shark attacks, surfable once again. I think it was bulls not tigers that were the issue there but I could be wrong. Either way, I believe those species are more similar to each other in the way they investigate/attack that a GWS (with bulls actually way more aggressive than tigers).
The reunion anecdote was a pretty good testimonial (if true) but obviously that tech is a bigger commitment than bandz.
All this electromagnetic tech always has me wondering if they actually attract in sharks to a disturbance and then you hope it repels them. Ive heard that in Oz guys will call you out of the water if youre wearing sharkbandz for the above reason: you may be ringing the dinner bell and not everyone around you is wearing that tech.
Back to painting zebra stripes on the bottom of the board? Go to law school (what's that joke about sharks not eating their own
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Aussies are only alive from the neck down. No they won’t attract sharks.I know a surfer here from Reunion. He went home for a visit a while back and said most everyone he knew was using that electrode deal and that it had made those spots that got unsurfable due to so many shark attacks, surfable once again. I think it was bulls not tigers that were the issue there but I could be wrong. Either way, I believe those species are more similar to each other in the way they investigate/attack that a GWS (with bulls actually way more aggressive than tigers).
The reunion anecdote was a pretty good testimonial (if true) but obviously that tech is a bigger commitment than bandz.
All this electromagnetic tech always has me wondering if they actually attract in sharks to a disturbance and then you hope it repels them. Ive heard that in Oz guys will call you out of the water if youre wearing sharkbandz for the above reason: you may be ringing the dinner bell and not everyone around you is wearing that tech.
Back to painting zebra stripes on the bottom of the board? Go to law school (what's that joke about sharks not eating their own
I was surfing Flags on Kauai solo when a rather large tiger shark came right up to me and then circled around a couple of times before swimming away.
It was clear that it had identified that I was a taliban fanatic christian and decided it wasn't worth it so he went on his way. Good thing I was wearing my custom BH Sharkbanz or it could have gone a different way quickly.
Anyone on the Pineapple Express know if this dude was in fact wearing a Sharkbanz when he was attacked?
Nothing I've seen in local media has mentioned that. I'm not a social media guy so can't speak to what's been said there.
I am pretty interested in finding that out myself.
Please lets all use good soap and surf with the dolphins because sharks attack dirty people check debit reciepts for soap
Not a bad vid with discussion of the science behind it, and more Hawaii focused
Thanks for sharing! If you're using this product, especially the leash version, it's important not to leave it in your vehicle. In hot weather, temperatures inside a car can reach as high as 160–200°F, and prolonged exposure to heat above 160°F can permanently damage the product's effectiveness.
If the Maui shark attack survivor was wearing a Sharkbanz during the incident, it would make me far less likely to consider the product in the future.