The Aussies and Californians should enjoy these. I was just searching the web to scare me and actually found a bunch of cool pics including Great White Sharks Breaching.
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We used to check each other's feet while surfing since we were too scared to check ourselves. The water is so cold that you can't feel them and if a shark was to bite them off you'd probably only feel a small tug.
Worst was when a seal was in the water. Or those damn jellyfish.
I've gotten pretty lucky. I've had the entire front of my board, along with my hands and arms covered, and it didn't sting. Really gross though. Stepping on them is worse.
No, I only surf with a wetsuit and rashguard on. I body boarded one weekend with nothing on but trunks and I got a staff infection. I'm not repeating that mistake.
The only reason I could do that was because the water was 80 in Hermosa Beach (Southern CA).
The first time I tried body boarding I was at Stinson Beach (Northern CA) and I went in with no wet suit on. I literally froze up and collapsed in the water since it was so cold. My friends had to drag me out.
There was a great White caught off the South Aust coast a while back, it was 5m long (about 15 feet), and it had a bite mark on the side of it, scientists worked out it had been bitten by a 8m Shark (24feet), its not so much the length of a shark thats impressive but the girth, a 8m Great White would be about the diameter of a VW beetle
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