2023 saw five shark attacks in South Australia, four on surfers, three of them fatal. For a region far less densely populated by surfers than Australia’s East Coast, the cluster was hard to fathom.
Beloved surfer Tamayo Perry, 49, was solo surfing on Oahu’s North Shore in Hawaii last month when he was killed by a suspected resident Tiger Shark. His body was reportedly found on the island by local surfers with an arm and a leg missing. Then, Rage-sponsored freesurfer Kai Mckenzie, 23, lost his leg to a 3-meter Great White in Port Macquarie.
“With whites, none of the usual rules apply,” marine biologist Brinkley Davies told us. “They are stealth, attack predators and are often unpredictable. They’re like a bloody Volkswagen. They attack by stealth, so seeing one prior to an attack is incredibly rare. In many areas where great white sharks are found, such as South Australia, the underwater environment often consists of dark, weed-covered granite and rock. …