Now it's Sharks

[Irish Rover]

Three sailors rescued from shark-bitten catamaran off Australia

 

[ctva]

Links not working for me.

 

[Irish Rover]

Links not working for me.

I think it's fixed now.

 

[colind3782]

I found in Australia that everything is trying to kill you. Which species will it be today?

 

[ridgy]

I've never seen an ocean going, or in fact any going, inflatable sailing catamaran. Anyone?

 

[ctva]

Must have been a Ukrainian trained shark.

Makes the west coast of Scotland more appealing (except Shetlands orcas).

 

[scottie]

Kayaker reports being circled by very large shark oh east coast of Scotland

inquisitive basking shark according to daily record

 

[boomerangben]

We had a basking shark pull along side us off Barra. Amazing experience. Very privileged

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I found in Australia that everything is trying to kill you. Which species will it be today?

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote a wonderful scene where someone (Death, I think) asks for a list of the deadly creatures in the Discworld analogue of Australia, and is nearly crushed by the pile of books that appears. He then asks for a list of the harmless creatures, and gets a single sheet of paper which says "Some of the sheep"!

 

[Supine Being]

There was an update to this. It was a cookie cutter shark, apparently: Pencils with teeth: meet the tiny cookiecutter shark that attacked a catamaran off Cairns

Now the only mystery about this story is why anyone would sail offshore on an inflatable catamaran.

 

[Slowtack]

Floridians of course...