Last week while surfing at Noosa I duck dived through a mass of jelly fish and got stung to bits. Everyone in the line up was saying how many more there are about at the moment. Another thing you see a lot of at Noosa are turtles. No suprise really, guess what they eat. The same week The Sunshine Coast Daily had this article 'Fears over large Tiger shark at Noosa' about a large, possibly Tiger shark that had been seen by sufers and swimmers at Noosa. No mention of aggression or 'monsters' or threatening behaviour. It turns out the shark seen was probably a mature female nearly 5m long and pregnant. Probably looking for food, they like turtles, notably not humans.
I know this because a few days later a 4.72m female tiger shark was found hooked on a drum line off Yaroomba beach (15k South of Noosa). It was the biggest the Government contracted 'shark catcher' had ever seen. How did they know she was pregnant? They killed her and cut her open.
'Swimmers frolic while Tiger caught' .
Not only is the act itself abhorrent, but the timbre of the article underlines the lengths 'journalists' will go to to try and sell copy. The Courier Mail ought to be ashamed of its self for its sensationalist gloating over a endangered species being slaughtered.
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