surfs, seeing two sharks? To have two sharks
come up and ... I’ve encountered both sharks
really, and both were certainly inquisitive as
to what I was - both wanted to see if I was
something to eat or not.
“
It sort of looked at me, and
I looked at it ... it turned its
head a little and then decided
to leave - Mike Hoile
“It sort of looked at me, and I looked at it, and
like a snake deciding to stay and fight or to
leave a confrontation, it turned its head a little
and then decided to leave. By then I wasn’t
hanging around to see what it did either and I
went straight in.”
Putting the impacts, nightmares and the
memories aside, neither of these blokes hold
any animosity or anger towards sharks, even
the ones that came for them. Fanning weighed
in after his 60 Minutes appearance telling the
Nine Network his stance on the idea of culling “Look it’s a very delicate subject, you know,
we’re in their domain - that’s pretty much
it. If you walk into a lion’s den, that’s their
ground. I think to go out, chase ‘em down and
shoot them, or kill them or whatever - it’s not
something that I would ever condone to do ...
we’re in their domain.
“I grew up surfing Ballina, that’s the beach right
there. I surfed it many times as a little kid but
in saying that, there’s more people in the world
from when there was say ten, twenty, fifty years
ago, there’s more people in the ocean, there’s
more surfers in the ocean, more swimmers
and, there’s less fish ... so, they’re gonna eat
something.
“You know, there’s gonna be more (attacks) for
sure, it’s just one of those things, and you have