Surfer bitten in half
By Richard Shears, Daily Mail, in Sydney

A surfer was bitten in half after losing a desperate fight for his life with two Great White sharks.


Brad Smith, 29, was surfing off the Western Australian coast when a huge shark 'as wide as a car' lunged out of the water and snapped his board in half.

Mr Smith's friends could only watch in horror as he fell into the sea and another of the enormous creatures moved in on him. Experts said it was almost as if they had ambushed him.

The surfer lashed out with his fists to try to keep the sharks at bay as they came at him repeatedly. But after just 45 seconds he disappeared beneath the surface - and the water turned red.

When his body floated back up, his friends risked their own lives to go out and drag it back to shore.

Yesterday they were too upset to describe his injuries, but another surfer at Left Handers Beach near the resort of Gracetown said he had been warned: 'Don't go in there, someone's been bitten in half by a shark.'

Another surfer Cameron Rowe, 17, said: 'There was nothing we could do to help him. At first I saw one shark and thought it was one of the usual ones you see swimming-around, reef sharks, which don't cause you any trouble.

'But these things were massive. When the first one came up a bit I could see its fin and it was almost a yard high.

'When it came out of the water with Brad still fighting it, I could see its body was about the width of a car and its open jaws were as wide as a man's arm.

'What happened then just ended up in a terrible feeding frenzy. It was awful.'

One of Mr Smith's friends, Mitch Campbell, said: 'It was the worst thing I have seen. There was so much confusion out there it was impossible to tell which shark was attacking, but they kept coming at him time and time again.

'You could see Brad trying to whack at them to keep them away.

'We were shouting out, "Swim for your life, mate! Swim for your life!" But he obviously didn't have a chance. They were massive.

'He put up such a brave fight. He was punching away and there was water and blood everywhere.'

Police have collected Mr Smith's surfboard, snapped in half by the razor-sharp teeth of one of the sharks. Throughout yesterday-marksmen in a flotilla of boats, aided by police in a helicopter, searched for the killers, to no avail.

The failure to locate the maneaters has sent fear along the West Australian coast.

'If we find them, we have the authority to kill them,' said fisheries officer Tony Cappelluti. Great Whites are a protected species - unless one kills a human.

'If they've tasted human blood, then they'll remain a problem until we've tracked them down,' he added.

Shark expert Sasha Thompson, from the Aquarium of Western Australia, said witness reports suggested the sharks were Great Whites, the most feared of all marine creatures and the species featured in the film Jaws.

'Judging by the size, the area they were swimming in and the power of the jaws, I'd say they were Great Whites,' she said.

She said it was impossible to know what triggered the attack, but added: 'It is whale migration season and that might have something to do with it.'

Great Whites are known to spend time on Western Australia's southern coast in winter before moving north to hunt whales returning to southern waters.

Another marine expert, Mike Roennfeldt, said he was surprised at the nature of the ambush-style attack.

'Generally sharks are solo hunters,' he said. 'It's unusual - unheard of, in fact - for one Great White to knock a guy off his surfboard and then for another to attack, which seems to have happened here.'

It was the second fatal attack in West Australian waters in less than four years.

In November 2000, 49-year-old swimmer Ken Crew died from massive bleeding after one of his legs was bitten off in shallow water just north of Perth's popular Cottesloe Beach.

Yeah.. read about it a few days ago in the newspaper.

Weird. Poor bastard. Two sharks.

Maybe they're finally starting to get a little angry after a hundred years of us continually pouring chemicals, shit, & general death-effluant into their home.

That, or Emu Bitter.

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this is the link for the guy who was in this article, but there is no body part pics.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004320285,00.html

That's a fucking hilarious avatar you've got there.

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One shark was circling him - it didn't attack. That's what I read.

maybe theyre the sharks they used to shoot deep blue sea and now theyre pissed cuz they didnt get any royalties.

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Thats fucked up.

Oh, and your signature? What he says is "I don't know you, thats my purse *kick to the nads*" - Bobby Hill

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HAhaha that episode was hilarious.

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Haha, yeah, definately one of my favorites.

see, this article proves why I don't like going to the beach. heh. But then again, there are different reasons as well.

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sucks, but shit happens. his brother called upon the autorithy's to NOT kill the shark, because his bro died doing what he liked best.

thats pretty cool of that brother.

Ho hum. Another day, another vicious Australian animal. In our show next week, some moron Polish tourist will get eaten by a crocodile.

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Did those two friends manage to capture this on film?!?!?! Please say yes...

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Yeah that would be pretty cool to see. All bloody and stuff.

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I just want to see the size of the fuckers.

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that wud be so hostile! blood just filling the sea.. and everything

that story.. wow... fuck ever going back into the water.

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I just watched something on The Discovery channel awhile ago that shows possible proof that Whites hunt in packs like wolfs. They put tracking devices on like 10 sharks and very soon they where all stradegically lined up along the coast line in a manner that anything swimming out would get eatin.

Too bad for that guy though..at least he put up a fight. Remember, the sharks most sensitive nerves are in his nose, so if your ever attacked; punch him in the nose.

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If they got any pictures or film you can expect to see it popping up everywhere soon. I wonder how it looked seeing a little guy punching a shark as large as a car while another one munches on his other side.

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Lol that one was just on.

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that's very interesting, because in the Simpsons, the dolphins took over the land 'cause they were pissed off at the humans!

do you think that this is an omen?

do you think this could be a beginning of a "Planet of the Sharks"?

Do i think it's time to panic? Yes I do.

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lay off the caffine brown boy

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[QUOTE=atifman]that's very interesting, because in the Simpsons, the dolphins took over the land 'cause they were pissed off at the humans!
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damn i havnt seen this episode

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I saw this in TV this week. poor surfer. White sharks can be like monsters.

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Human is on a Great White sharks food menu. Thats how they see us; as food, but not many sharks see us that way. Most mistake us for something else or just bit to see what we are ( since they have hands to feel with ), especialy if they have never seen us before.

US Navy Seals gave me training on how to survive a shark attack. Most times you will never see the first attack coming and it is normally a test bite for the shark so hopefully you are not hurt to badly and can fight back. If the shark plans on eating you it will come back for the second attack fast, so curl into a ball so that it can't get a good bite hold on you, because if you get pulled under water your doomed. I thought this step made you just more bite sized myself When the shark gets close to biting you it closes its eyes, so if you can fight back this is the time. Hit or stab, if you have a knife, the shark in the nose or eye and he will leave. Pray no other sharks try to attack you, stop your bleeding wounds, and hope not to die.

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how many people have survived using those tips?

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Im gonna take a guess and say NONE.

This shark was the size of a car, with a mount as wide as a human arm... curlying into a ball isent gonna do shit.

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Haha! Yeah, that's why I was thinking "bite sized" when they told my that. I don't think it would help much either, but I do understand that if they pull you under the water your fucked because you can't fight as well and might drown first.

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i think either way your fucked, if its hungry your gonna die.....

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Yup, the odds are against you. It's their world in the sea, but I'm not going down without biting back atleast.

Maybe if they swallow me whole when I curl into a ball I can cut my way out if I have a knife?????? Maybe?

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for now at least



naw man, it isn't a fucking whale.
you're not geppetto.
and i'm not pinocchio.
except my wang does the same thing his nose does, when i'm looking at some good-ass porn. and that ain't a lie

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Why put up a fight?? Id die with my dick in my hand... why die struggling

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Not sure. I guess it is in my nature to live or die trying.

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This isn't related, but it's also a recent violent news story
Some guy from England shoots himself in the crotch:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5431787/

damn that sucks. he shoots his man junk with a *sawed-off* shotgun, and now he's probably gonna go to jail.

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Haha! That was in the newspapers over here. He and a friend had an argument in a pub (probably over who got the last pork scratching) and he went home to get his gun with the intention of shooting his friend. Lo and behold, the incredibly imbecilic buffoon decided to put a gun down his pants while inebriated half-way to Pluto! People that stupid deserve to go to jail, if you ask me.

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was it caught on video??

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He should have used the safety on the gun, but like you said, he was drunk. Firearms and boos never go well together.

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I find it rather odd...as humans are so very very rarely actually EATEN by a shark. Most of the time the "test bite" snaps a limb off and they either drowned or die from blood loss. Sharks don't like the taste of humans.

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Yeah, there is to much iron in human blood. It taste like bitter metal to most sharks I guess, but some great whites seem to like it.

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if you were starving im sure it wouldnt matter

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“He still feels quite severe pain,”

“He had it shoved down his trousers,” Hatton said. “After the shotgun had discharged he placed it in a rubbish bin and crawled back to his home.”

LMAO, It would be better to die.

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