I feel the same fear. I sympathise. But those stats are amazingly reassuring.
I swam yesterday down from our house where in January, a chap was bitten by a Port Jackson shark in water that wasn't that deep, but he was perhaps unwise.
We had seriously stirred up water that week from a big swell. The PJ sharks feed on the stingrays and skates along the beach and it is assumed that this chap swam in the unclear water and stepped on a juvenile shark who was scouting the shallows for rays. It arched back in defence when he trod down and he ended up with some pretty nasty teethmarks through his ankle and had to go to hospital.
But when I swam, it was as clear as glass and not a sign of ray, skate or shark.
One picks one's times and I didn't tempt fate.
PS: the water has chilled quite a lot in the last two weeks...
I feel the same fear. I sympathise. But those stats are amazingly reassuring.
I swam yesterday down from our house where in January, a chap was bitten by a Port Jackson shark in water that wasn't that deep, but he was perhaps unwise.
We had seriously stirred up water that week from a big swell. The PJ sharks feed on the stingrays and skates along the beach and it is assumed that this chap swam in the unclear water and stepped on a juvenile shark who was scouting the shallows for rays. It arched back in defence when he trod down and he ended up with some pretty nasty teethmarks through his ankle and had to go to hospital.
But when I swam, it was as clear as glass and not a sign of ray, skate or shark.
One picks one's times and I didn't tempt fate.
PS: the water has chilled quite a lot in the last two weeks...