Speaking about shark phobias,this happened here yesterday!

[Spicoli]

Oh Damn Andre ....You trying to give me a Heart attack my Man?That really is some tragic and all to real news there.If you stop and think of the fear,You will never do anything.Its Instinct.........Thats a right good friend there but it sounds like the damage was done no matter what.Sad stuff & RIP to the dude who died doing what he loved,Hell of a way to guy.Had entire life ahead of him.Most of our Pleasures have surrounding risk's but you can not let them impede you from going forward.I consider myself very lucky...Two undertows in Long Beach and one at Crystal Pier In S.D.I was convinced I was dead for sure.....All the angle swimming was doing nothing.A couple brushes with the finned ones...A fatty of a sand shark (??) In Va Beach literally went under me.......I shit you not....Under my ass paddling out a long time ago and I thought for sure I was going to piss myself to death just by loosing so much Fluid.I was shook and doing some serious reevaluation of the recreational Interest Lol.We tried to get beyond a sand bar In Pensacola.......Might have been P.City and saw some fins slashing Ahead,breaking off,shooting forward and back.No thay were not Dophins .Call me a coward bro....F!!! that,Gotta love the Sandbars Lol.Let em' eat.Hey,I know they are there and understand the risk's........but I also respect the hell out of them

[Andre]

strange thing but true my mate paddled out into water in the north of western Australia ,down a cliff no towns near by just in the outback .
there was a guy surfing alone.My mate matt got to him and then saw a big shark go under the same fellow and he yelled shark.
The guy calmly said yeah its been here for a while now its usually here ,plenty of food for it around he doesnt even look at us.
So they stayed out.

Ive stayed out with a great white once at Flinders in Victoria but we were in very shallow water over kelp and reef and were litterally jumping off a rock to take off on . right on low tide so felt real safe as this thing was thicker through its gut than it was deep where we were, but this 3 foot fin went ripping past us about 60 feet out further in the deep . Two of us got it to ourselves as the rest went in.

We've had a pack of bronzies go under us near to there once too but we got out real fast as we couldnt count them there were so many.
Funny thing we walked back along the beach and a mate came in from the same break mentioned above , he had seen them too. We asked who was left out in the water and he said "Oh they're just lid riders fuk em I didnt say anything". !

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Yet another reason not to go to Australia. Andre you're a mad man

I'm one of those good swimmers who gets swept out to see never to be seen again. Last year I kept swimming out to some rocks a good way out because that's where all the little fishies were. It was shallow enough in parts to stand but there was deep gully between the rocks.

You know that moment when your brain freezes? I saw a baby shark swim through the gully. I immediatly ducked my head under the water to start swimming after it, in a split second I grabbed back on to the rocks and hauled my idiot out the water. The sensible side of the brain kicked quickly enough to realise it was swimming out to sea, I was in it's territory, it has a mouth full of sharp teeth and I was a long way off shore, maybe there was more of them. All that shit went through my brain in a split second.

[El Kabong]

Australia and California are just two places where it's like God said "Don't go there"

Australia: Sharks, deadly snakes, huge spiders, mostly desert, killer crocodiles, various other things that will kill you.


California: Earthquakes, mudslides, wild fires, typhoons, BIGGER Great White sharks, and bunch of fucking horrible liberals



Gee, I think I'll move there