Residents of Ballina in unique South Wales are baffled by a sudden spike in shark attacks along the coast and searching for hi-tech,ecofriendly ways to stop themDarren Rogers’s living room is full of surfboards, but it is all he can attain to find back in the water. The first time he tried, and 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 great 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 attain occupy vivid images of his injuries but because I was so close to his face,his eyes are the things that find me … just wishing I could make him alive again”, he says.
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Source: theguardian.com