Shark Attack Perth

It's Snake Pliskin said:

Here's a list of islands in the Indian Ocean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Indian_Ocean

Chops let's explore them together.

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IFocus said:

Hasn't listed Rottnest Island

Snake is this the great white you are talking about seems to have deliberately missed all the islands

http://www.whitesharktrust.org/migration.html

Not surprised by the feat WA is well known to the South Africans

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it may have used visual stimuli, perhaps in the form of celestial cues, as an important navigational mechanism in addition to, or instead of following gradients in earth’s magnetic field as commonly accepted for sharks.

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It's Snake Pliskin said:

That is the lady. I didn't see that site before but I read it in a paper somewhere. Apparently it guided itself by stars and the magnetic field I remember reading.
This is from the site in your link:

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Bushman said:

Yikes - it is dangerous snorkelling in WA. No new thread on 'Boat Attack' though? 'Jaws' has a lot to answer for.


Snorkeller dies after being hit by boat
December 31, 2008 - 12:07PM

A 25-year-old Perth man was killed by a high-speed tourist boat while snorkelling near Shark Bay in Western Australia's north, police say.

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Shark researcher Terry Peake, who established the Shark Research Institute of Australia, agreed that the ban on killing great whites had helped their numbers.

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The incident took place in Sydney, Australia, on the same day that Brian Guest, of Perth, was killed by a shark on the other side of the country.

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One of the group was even knocked into the water by the shark, and was forced to tread water while the man-eating creature circled him for a minute.

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