Runner and all religious people...Question?.....Didnt god make all the creatures?....well whats your problem in living with all of them?

The book missed that one:)

They say commonsense is hard to find now days...

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Poirot

As you know Cottesloe is to Perth what Bondi is to Sydney. I swam there 2 days after the last death. It was certainly hard to believe the great white had come so close however its not the first time. Tourism will be totally shot if the deaths continue. Certainly one of Perth's major attractions is having a swim for up to 9 or 10 months of the year.

runner,

There's nothing to say that this behaviour will continue indefinitely - that sharks will be more commonly encountered close to shore in the long term.

Re: Cottesloe....we lived five hundred metres up the road from that beach in the early to mid seventies. I practically lived at the beach when I was that age - in all those years I can't recall any shark alarms while I was in the water.

"There's nothing to say that this behaviour will continue indefinitely.....and both of you are quite correct:)...its just the bigger picture thing.

Be at peace:)

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rechtub commented:

"I have fished in many areas, in some places the crocks are flighty, while in others they are bold.

The feeding of them and making them jump is the biggest worry."

My wife and myself both worked for a tour operator out of Darwin and one attraction that concerned me was the Adelaide River Jumping Crocs.

I, like you, believed that the practice of teaching crocs to leap out of the water after food was utter stupidity and would lead to the death of some unfortunate fisherman reeling in a barra. It has never happened and croc experts put it down to the rather dumb reptile possessing just enough intelligence to recognize and differentiate between the engine sounds of different boats.

A mate and myself tested this theory in a tinny on numerous occasions by fishing close to the area that the Adelaide River Queen stopped to feed the crocs - the beasties never made a move until the larger vessel entered the area.

diesel

the beasties never made a move until the larger vessel entered the area.
diesel,
that just proves the point that the wild predators are successfully being conditioned. The jumping crocs are deliberately taught albeit by exceptionally stupid people. The Great Whites are being conditioned unwittingly by the increasing number of surfers encroaching in more remote locations. Just you wait for the first youtube clip of a tourist being snapped off a boat by a jumping croc. It'll go viral in 5 minutes.