Sharks 16.11.2004
By Wendell Roelf
An eyewitness to a presumed Great White shark attack along the False Bay coastline on Monday morning described how the shark circled its prey and tore into an elderly female bather.
"All that was left was a little red bathing cap," said False Bay Yacht Club rear commodore Paul Dennett, who witnessed the attack from his home, about 100m from where the bloodied water was dissipating.
Dennett said that at about 7am he saw a lot of thrashing in the water, about 20m off the shoreline of Fish Hoek Beach.
He went outside and saw the shark attacking something, which he initially suspected was a seal.
This was the headline of yesterday's and today's news. We wanted to go to the Fish Hoek beach in Sunday but after all where too lazy and then yesterday morning this exident happened. This beach apparently was closed already three days because of the presence of the Great Wites but people were still bathing there. This woman was bathing there for last 17 years. This is 4th incident of shark attack for the last two years. There was no such statistic for 30 years befor that. Sharks are becoming really dangerous. Some people think that it's because turist attraction - cage diving, played it's role and sharks assosiate humans with food, but I personally think that the real reason is mutation of the sharks, and changing of their taists.
