Sometimes it really isn't safe to go in the water.

**Pondlife** · 29 September 2011, 08:16

It's got "Darwin award" written all over it if he snuffs it.

**TimberWolf** · 29 September 2011, 08:22

"I shouted to a man standing near the shore taking pictures to go and help the victim."

http://www.iol.co.za/mercury/shark-a...mmer-1.1147046

**Arturo Bassick** · 29 September 2011, 08:38

He can not possibly be a real accountant! Sharks don't attack accountants (or agents) out of professional courtesy!

**wobbegong** · 29 September 2011, 08:43

I've never understood why, after these events, the shark invariably gets hunted and killed. It's in it's own environment, doing what sharks have been doing for millions of years.

**Arturo Bassick** · 29 September 2011, 08:46

Originally posted by wobbegong View Post

I've never understood why, after these events, the shark invariably gets hunted and killed. It's in it's own environment, doing what sharks have been doing for millions of years.

Theory is that once it becomes a man eater it will actively hunt humans which is not normal behaviour, thus that individual becomes a threat. There is a possibility that other sharks will "learn" this behaviour. Better to remove that one than have a demand to kill all.

**northernladuk** · 29 September 2011, 09:26

He was stabilised at the scene and then airlifted to Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in a critical condition

With two bricks under one leg and only one brick under the other?

**PAH** · 29 September 2011, 09:44

South Africa shark attack: Michael Cohen fights for life after Great White bites off legs | Mail Online

The 43-year-old is said to have swum regularly at Fish Hoek beach, notorious for Great White sightings, even telling fellow beachgoers: ‘If a shark takes me, then blame me, not the shark.’

Witnesses said he parked his car and then walked right past a flag indicating that the beach was closed.

At least two people warned him that a shark had been seen, but he strode into the water anyway.

There's no telling some people.

Maybe he read the same book as I did that mentioned that there's more chance of being killed by a falling coconut than by a shark, citing 150 deaths per year by coconut and 10 by shark.

The odds change a bit when a shark has been sighted and warning flags abound though. No coconut trees on the beach either according to reports. i.e. they don't mention any.

**Arturo Bassick** · 29 September 2011, 09:47

Originally posted by PAH View Post

South Africa shark attack: Michael Cohen fights for life after Great White bites off legs | Mail Online

There's no telling some people.

Maybe he read the same book as I did that mentioned that there's more chance of being killed by a falling coconut than by a shark, citing 150 deaths per year by coconut and 10 by shark.

The odds change a bit when a shark has been sighted and warning flags abound though. No coconut trees on the beach either according to reports. i.e. they don't mention any.

He hasn't got a leg to stand on then has he!

Too soon?

IGMC

**PAH** · 29 September 2011, 10:23

If he survives then he's been lucky. Lack of legs isn't that debilitating these days, providing he can use those spring things like that athlete competed with recently.

He can also get some flipper attachments for when he's feeling brave enough to go back in the water.

Sometimes it really isn't safe to go in the water.