A shark has assail and probably killed an Australian surfboarder in a uncommon but deadly confrontation . The victim , eyewitnesses claim , was attacked multiple fourth dimension before disappearing under the wave , which is extremely strange conduct .
The victim , 46 - year - former Simon Baccanello , was surfing on a pop beach at Walkers Rocks , part of the Lake Newland Conservation Park in South Australia , on Saturday May 13 when he was attacked . There were around 15 to 20 other citizenry in the water at the time , include Jaiden Miller , a fellow surfboarder , who subsequently told theAdvertiser , “ I saw his board tombstoning , which means he ’s underwater and his board ’s getting dragged under … trying to struggle his way back up to the aerofoil . ”
During the onrush , watcher lost sight of Baccanello in the water , but Miller observed that the shark was “ just thrashing around out the back ” , and that it had evidently rent go and hail back and draw him for a third time .
A search and rescue operation was launched soon after the attack , involving police helicopters and boats , as well as member of the local community . Unfortunately , the search was formally call off off before sundown that day . It was resume the following morning where efforts shifted to a land - base search along the beach .
On May 15 , the South Australia Police announced in astatementthat “ emergency service locate two items of involvement in sexual relation to the search for a miss surfboarder , presume deadened after a shark attack . ” The two aim included a art object of wetsuit material as well as a piece of music of blank polystyrene , thought to be from Baccanello ’s surfboard .
Shark onrush are extremely rare , and fatal single are rarer still . In 2022 , there were around57 sustain unprovokedattacks across the world , which was lower than the average for the last five year . Only nine of these flak resulted in fatalities , five of which were confirmed as unprovoked . Although there was an strange spike in the identification number of attacks in 2021 , the figures for 2022 seem to match wider long - term trend .
In most cases , it is surfers who encounter shark who are the ones most likely to be attacked . This is because sharksmistakesurfers for seal , their favored prey . It is an inauspicious coincidence that , view from below , a human on a surfboard has a similar shape to a seal .
In most cases , a stalk shark will lose interest once it realizes it is investigating a human rather than a seal , but sometimes they bear an exploratory insect bite to stop . This recite them that they are not dealing with their regular food for thought , so they abandon it and float away . But such bite can pull up stakes humans gravely spite , resulting inblood losswhich is the main cause of death when it come in toshark attacks .
Gavin Nalor , the Director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum , explained toLive Sciencethat the repeated onset on Baccanello was “ irregular ” conduct , “ but not unheard of ” .
" If the snack is motivated by predation or territoriality they can deliver an initial bite and then return to sting again ” .
Great clean sharks , for example , are ambush predatory animal who will deliver an initial snack from below and then back off while their prey bleed out and weakens . Then , they pass to eat up it off . as , shark postulate in a feeding fury with other sharks can become more strong-growing if they are vie for food .
Bull sharksare often cerebrate to be the most dangerous species of shark because they are aggressive and territorial , and incline to exist near highly populated area . They are even lie with to pretend upriver into rivers and tributaries .
Despite the inauspicious attack on Baccanello and the few others across the earthly concern , sharks have importantly more to reverence from humans than we do from them , due to excessivecommercial fishingand trophy hunting . In fact , you are statistically more likely to be killed by a lightning rap , train crash , or fireworks exhibit than you are by a shark .
The repute of these fascinating fauna meet greatly with the release ofJawsin 1975 , but last class Steven Spielberg told BBC’sDesert Island Discsthat he deeply regret how the film has inspired so much awe and hate .
“ I truly , and to this day , regret the decimation of the shark universe because of the book and the moving-picture show . ”
