Famous Last Words: “Every surfer, fisherman and diver has far more chance of being killed by bees, drunk drivers, teenage car thieves and lightning.”

These words were recently posted on the Western Angler website by a guy now known in the media as Brian Guest.  Mr. Guest is currently the subject of a large search taking place in the ocean waters off the coast of Australia where it is feared that he was recently eaten by a Great White shark.  The same shark is also being blamed for harassing a couple of kayakers in the area just off of Sydney’s Long Reef.

Mr. Guest was snorkeling with his son when the incident occured.  Here’s more information from Australia’s The Age:

Mr Guest, 51, and his son, Daniel, 24, were diving for crabs off their local beach near Rockingham, 30 kilometres south of Perth, when the former suddenly disappeared about 7am.

Daniel had heard his father cry out and had seen the shark and a “heap of blood” in the water.

“Something very traumatic and pretty violent has happened there and we are treating it as a probable shark attack,” acting police inspector Mark Valentine said.

Brian Guest had been a big advocate of protecting sharks from hunting.  The quote used in the title of this post was his thoughts on the idea of being attacked by a shark while in the ocean.  Some things should just be left unsaid…

To read the complete story, please make the jump over to Australia’s The Age.

Shark Attack on a Sea Kayak

No, this isn’t a reference to a new Dr. Seuss book–this is actually a true story. 

On July 21, Dan Prather was out doing a little fishing on his sea kayak along with 16 other people.  They happened to be fishing a remote island about a mile south of San Francisco.

Suddenly Dan was in the water.  He surfaced to find the front end of his sea kayak lodged in the mouth of what he thinks was a Great White…so what does Dan do?  He climbs right back on his Kayak…then falls back off once again.

Dan finally makes it back on to his Kayak for the second time, and it seemingly scares the shark away.

This is a great story coming by way of Canoe and Kayak Magazine.

When Dan finally high-tailed it back to shore (the shark had punctured a small hole in the front end of the kayak)..a fellow fisherman asked him if he had any luck fishing, he said, “Yeah, caught a shark…”

Swing on over and read this interesting and ARTICLE.  I think that this is one fishing trip where I would have been glad to get the smallest catch.