Post by Ave on Jan 15, 2009 12:23:42 GMT -5
Story is a bout a 10 foot shark 3meters... for those metric peeps...
January 13, 2009
STORY: Great white circles learner surfers
A SURF school owner has defended his failure to warn his class that a large shark was swimming close to teenagers on a popular New South Wales beach.
A photographer captured the moment the shark, believed to be a 3m great white, surfaced at Blueys Beach on the state's mid-north coast, near Myall Lake on Sunday.
Silvio Rodriguez was photographing other surfers near the surf school students about midday when he noticed a large shadow.
"At first I thought it was weed, but I kept an eye on it then I saw the massive fin come up," Mr Rodriguez, 31, said.
"It was only maybe 30m away from the nearest learner surfer." Former professional surfer Gary Hughes, who runs Gary Hughes Surface School of Surf and Surf Consultancy, said he was aware of the shark and had been monitoring it.
"I did not tell the students because they just would have worried," Mr Hughes, 50, said.
"It was just having a cruise, it wasn't showing attack behaviour."
