LiQUiFY Magazine August September 2015 | Page 44

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