Fatal shark attack in FLA

**willywhit** · 02-04-2010, 12:35 PM

sad news
kitesurfer

http://www.wptv.com/content/news/mar...ZRimK0mRw.cspx
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**warthog** · 02-04-2010, 05:21 PM

Fuckin' Bull Sharks man. I wakeboard with them. Boat seems to keep them away. It is always in the back of my mind though.

RIP.

**Crampedon** · 02-04-2010, 10:58 PM

Another Vid
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749...harks-17981057

All the times I snapped a mast Wavesailing outside the reef here in Maui over the past 25 years I thought about it, but never saw one while swimming a broken rig in for multiple hours.

Big Vibes going out+++++++++RIP

Lost a good waterman
Stephen Schaefer

**Core Shot** · 02-05-2010, 12:11 AM

how does a shark eat a kitesurfer?

that is fucked up.

**willywhit** · 02-05-2010, 08:22 AM

what's really crazy is the lifeguard that pulled him in had been attacked by a shark back in '86.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/...lifeguard-dan/
I'm leery of kitesurfing spots like Chatham Light on Cape Cod or on the Ocean Side of Cape Hatteras. Big fat seals are an easy meal for sharks and big willy can resemble a seal in black rubber bobbing around getting back to my board.
Downwinders I just try to stay afloat.

http://www.justkiteit.com/2010/02/04...shark-attacks/

I've seen plenty of dolphins and the occasional big sunfish that look like a shark fin poking through the waves

.....sends chills

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article...ttack/19319621