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Shark Attack by Dean Inggs |
The day ended with a very nasty attack on one of our crew when a 4.5m
white had 3 full charges at him before we could get the boat to him.
On the way to pick him up I saw the whole back half of the shark come clear out the water thrashing it's tail as you would see
on the Discovery channel !
He managed to get away with just some teeth marks in his fins and
a bruised ego, extremely lucky.
Vis was around 8m and the temp was 15.5 deg. The shark in no way made a "mistake" of his
identity,2 of the divers were very near each other and Kevin was probably 30m off, so the shark definitely singled him out displaying pure hunting behavior and attacked from
below in his "blind spot".
Perhaps you could put a short story on the website to make other guys more aware and to
dive more carefully as we will in future, as it was a serious reality check for us as to the possible dangers and the attitude that this type of thing always happens to someone
else. The Great White's numbers are definitely on the increase.

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