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11 janvier 2006
Petit Extrait du journal d'hier
Voici un ptit article qu résume ce qui se passe dans la rivière où on fait du wake le week end... en gros, y a des requins dedans et pas 2 ou 3 qui se balladent... en plus ils se mettent dans l'eau bien foncée et là où y a pas de fond...
je vous laisse à la lecture de l'article... ca fait quand même un peu flipper...
Fishermen warn of shark peril
10.01.2006
By GORDON CLARK A BULL shark attack on the Sunshine Coast could be just a matter of time, with professional fishers saying our rivers, canals and lakes are becoming inundated with the aggressive man eaters.
Bull shark fisherman Jimmy Lindsay said he pulled 40 of them out of Lake Cooroibah in one morning about 10 days ago, the biggest about 1.6m, although he said he saw one that was well over 2m.
Tom Durbidge, who has been fishing the Maroochy River all his life, said he had seen as many as 50 bull sharks in a school in the river near Bli Bli.
Both men described the animals as “aggressive little mongrels”, Mr Durbidge saying even the small ones, around the 1m to 1.
25m mark, were capable of biting off your leg.
Mr Lindsay said the hot weather and recent heavy rain had sparked the animals into action.
“I’ve given up warning people about how many of them are around,” he said.
“I usually get between 800 and 1000 in a season (December to March) ... even the small ones are nasty beggars. You grab them by the tail and they can whip around and take your hand off ... I’ve been slashed by one.”
Speaking after former Burnside High student Sarah Kate Whiley was killed by a pack of up to three bull sharks off North Stradbroke Island on Saturday, Mr Lindsay said the animals were far more prevalent in shallow, murky water.
“You hardly find any in clear water, but muddy water as shallow as 60cm ... that’s where you’ll find them,” he said.
While he said most of his catch came from Lake Cooroibah and Lake Cootharaba, Mr Lindsay said he believed there was more chance of an attack in the Noosa River because there was less volume of water.
Pumicestone Passage is also believed to harbour large numbers of the feisty animals.
Bull sharks are believed to have been responsible for more human fatalities than great whites, quite possibly because of their unique tolerance to fresh water and their ability to stalk and attack prey in very shallow water.
Two fatal attacks in lakes on the Gold Coast in late 2002 and early 2003 were both attributed to bull sharks.
The last fatal shark attack on the Sunshine Coast was at Noosa in 1960, although Maroochydore’s Gary Grace had a miraculous escape from a great white attack while surfing off Alexandra Headland in 1976.
Underwater World marine biologist Sony Fischer said while all three man eaters, great whites, tiger sharks and bull sharks, were found in Sunshine Coast waters, bull sharks presented the biggest threat.
Fishermen warn of shark peril
10.01.2006
By GORDON CLARK A BULL shark attack on the Sunshine Coast could be just a matter of time, with professional fishers saying our rivers, canals and lakes are becoming inundated with the aggressive man eaters.
Bull shark fisherman Jimmy Lindsay said he pulled 40 of them out of Lake Cooroibah in one morning about 10 days ago, the biggest about 1.6m, although he said he saw one that was well over 2m.
Tom Durbidge, who has been fishing the Maroochy River all his life, said he had seen as many as 50 bull sharks in a school in the river near Bli Bli.
Both men described the animals as “aggressive little mongrels”, Mr Durbidge saying even the small ones, around the 1m to 1.
25m mark, were capable of biting off your leg.
Mr Lindsay said the hot weather and recent heavy rain had sparked the animals into action.
“I’ve given up warning people about how many of them are around,” he said.
“I usually get between 800 and 1000 in a season (December to March) ... even the small ones are nasty beggars. You grab them by the tail and they can whip around and take your hand off ... I’ve been slashed by one.”
Speaking after former Burnside High student Sarah Kate Whiley was killed by a pack of up to three bull sharks off North Stradbroke Island on Saturday, Mr Lindsay said the animals were far more prevalent in shallow, murky water.
“You hardly find any in clear water, but muddy water as shallow as 60cm ... that’s where you’ll find them,” he said.
While he said most of his catch came from Lake Cooroibah and Lake Cootharaba, Mr Lindsay said he believed there was more chance of an attack in the Noosa River because there was less volume of water.
Pumicestone Passage is also believed to harbour large numbers of the feisty animals.
Bull sharks are believed to have been responsible for more human fatalities than great whites, quite possibly because of their unique tolerance to fresh water and their ability to stalk and attack prey in very shallow water.
Two fatal attacks in lakes on the Gold Coast in late 2002 and early 2003 were both attributed to bull sharks.
The last fatal shark attack on the Sunshine Coast was at Noosa in 1960, although Maroochydore’s Gary Grace had a miraculous escape from a great white attack while surfing off Alexandra Headland in 1976.
Underwater World marine biologist Sony Fischer said while all three man eaters, great whites, tiger sharks and bull sharks, were found in Sunshine Coast waters, bull sharks presented the biggest threat. /https%3A%2F%2Fassets.over-blog.com%2Ft%2Fcedistic%2Fcamera.png)
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