Shark attack Bali: Will it happen to you?

Nick whaddya mean people seen sharks at the airport mate…..im a bit lost on that one, unless you mean the conning bastard of Customs as i suppose they are bleeding Sharks eh mate…he hee

Markk

Airport lefts is supposed to be a bit ’sharky’. Not that I know, the closest I’ve been to airport lefts is the Duty Free shop inside the airport.

Once I and Hengky dived at Gili Selang, the easternmost part of Bali, we met with school of 8 hammerhead sharks. We were quite nervous but they just swam passing us. In fact since then I dived there a lot but never seen any single hammerhead sharks. Read the trip story here http://www.kapalselam.org/trips1.html

I was chased by tiger shark will surfing in Kuta .Beware

Hi Nick,

I am in Hawaii at the moment but recieved an email from a friend saying a shark attacked occured at Uluwatu within the last something weeks of days.

We just had a shark attack in Maui.

Any information on this?

Thanks,

I saw many attacks in Bali is a dangerous place, people loser their limbs all the time, bodyboarding folks be aware you guys are like candy on does infested tiger shark water!

im a local here in bali, and im a surfer. yeah sharks are not uncommon in the deep waters around bali. but appart from divers and fisherman people dont usually see them. you do occasionally here of a surfer seeing a shark at the outer reef breaks, but all my life here ive never heard of anyone ever being attacked here.

hi!
Just buy tickets for bali at the end of january 08. Do u have good surf in this period ? What are the better things to do?

Have fun?

see u overthere may be,
bye

I have visited Bali some 18 times over 3 decades and have on one occasion only (Kuta beach) seen a huge shark early one morning. The water was very clear and at the base of a wave you could clearly see a very large shark some 12 feet or more long with the classic vertical bars swimming along the wave. I was with a group of people including several Balinese who saw this monster. I did not swim there for a couple of days.

I put it down as a tiger shark as I have dived on the outer barrier reef and been very close to one…the other time occurred some 20 kms out from Darwin harbour and a very large tiger shark took a vey keen interest in my boat….there is no mistaking tiger sharks.

The only other time I have seen sharks around Bali was during a wall dive off Menjangan Island on the north side of Bali…these were only smallish reef sharks about 4 feet in length and very timid. I have asked the local Balinese surfers about sharks and shark attacks but only got conflicting stories.

But I know what I saw that day!

Big Shark coming to Uluwatu,Great White…Watch Out.