When you play a round of golf you have to contend with sand traps, water hazards, the rough and your own poor swing. One thing you normally don't have to think about are sharks falling from the sky.
If you’re like us, then you too have a love/hate relationship with sharks, aka “the assassins of the sea.” We’re utterly terrified of them, but we can’t help but watch when they rampage a shore and snack on some unfortunate swimmers. Hollywood shares our love/hatred of sharks — namely, they love the money they make for them and hate them enough to kill them off in multiple gory ways (impalement, explosion, electrocution).
Australia is the home of many, if not most, of the world's majority of poisonous animals. Many of those are aquatic. The latest animal wreaking havoc in Australia seems to be a shark that is attacking people. It's latest victim is an American working and living in Perth.
Golfers in Australia are pretty used to having the sharks around but visiting golfers are quite surprised. The water hazard at a golf course was flooded sometime back and the sharks washed in and remained stranded, but they don't seem to mind.
Last time we checked, golf was supposed to be relaxing. But at a golf course in Australia, the links are now home to the stuff of nightmares: a school of bull sharks.
I first heard this story from my mom while she was in Galveston Saturday getting ready to leave on the Rudy Cruise. A dad and son out fishing in a kayak in Galveston ended up catching a black tip shark almost as big as the kayak.
You may not think a dead shark, much less 300 of them is a big deal. However, it is a really big deal when the fishing vessel they were found on was 20 miles inside a National Park. It is illegal to fish National Park waters, therefore the 30 fisherman on the boat have been arrested and face criminal charges.
One pooch recently proved he’s alpha dog material by driving away a shark in the waters near One Arm Point, a remote community in western Australia. Good boy!
In a YouTube video featured on ‘Today,’ the dog can be seen paddling contentedly through the ocean while two sharks lurk beneath the surf. It’s difficult to gauge the size of the fish, but they certainly appear to be large. The dog showed no fear, however, and dove beneath the waves to deliver a bite to one of them.
