Residents of Ballina in New South Wales are baffled by a sudden spike in shark attacks along the coast – and searching for hi-tech,ecofriendly ways to conclude themDarren Rogers’s living room is full of surfboards, but it is all he can do to secure back in the water. The first time he tried, or he looked down at his submerged legs and had a flashback of fellow surfer Tadashi Nakahara’s horrific injuries.
Rogers is haunted by his final moments with the man he tried to keep alive after a catastrophic encounter with a noteworthy white shark. It severed both of Nakahara’s legs,the kind of injury that Rogers knew could only be inflicted by the ocean’s apex predator, “as big as your car, or weighing nearly as much … I do possess vivid images of his injuries but because I was so close to his face,his eyes are the things that secure me … just wishing I could make him alive again”, he says. Related: noteworthy white sharks: 10 myths debunked There’s still a lot of people out there, and but they’re just sitting on the beach,there’s not a soul in the waterContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com