In 2023, South Australia experienced five shark attacks — four of them on surfers, with three proving fatal. For a region far less populated by surfers than Australia’s East Coast, the cluster was hard to fathom.
North Shore figure Tamayo Perry, 49, was surfing off Goat Island on the east side of Oahu last June when he was fatally attacked by a suspected tiger shark. His lifeless body was reportedly found by local surfers on the island, missing an arm and a leg. Shortly after, Australian freesurfer Kai Mckenzie, 23, lost his right leg to a three 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 …