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Synful
16-02-2007, 07:47 AM
Morning all,

Just read this on ABC.net.au and thought it was an interesting story :-/

"An Eyre Peninsula man is the talk of the town after catching a bronze whaler shark in his hands and wrestling it up onto a jetty.

Phillip Kerkhof from Louth Bay was at the local jetty when the 1.3-metre shark began chasing squid lures."

Makes me wonder how lucky he was, jumping into the water and wrestling a bronze whaler...

At least he admits to being drunk when he did it, which probably contributes about another 90% of luck. :)

The full story on ABC is here (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1849109.htm).

VoodooChile78
16-02-2007, 08:20 AM
What a bl00dy idiot! Could've turned out a different story...

Kleyny
16-02-2007, 09:34 AM
there will probably be a movie about him now.
sharkdundrunk;D ;D ;D ;D

neil

el_carpo
16-02-2007, 01:03 PM
Famous last words: "Hold my beer and watch this!"

ffejsmada
16-02-2007, 01:39 PM
He'd be the sort of clown that would throw his empty stubbies back in the water!!

zigfreed
16-02-2007, 02:50 PM
Lucky the shark was'nt drunk too...........who knows what may have happened::)

snelly1971
16-02-2007, 04:31 PM
I give him one thing.....stupid or not...got a lot of guts....

2DKnBJ
16-02-2007, 09:28 PM
Like they say "Some mothers do hav'em"
Friggin' idiot is lucky to be alive.

Cheers Dazza

Fish Guts
16-02-2007, 10:37 PM
oh turn it up boys. this guy is a living legend.



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EYRE Peninsula man Phillip Kerkhof has wrestled a 1.3m shark - and lived to tell the tale with barely a scratch on him.
On Monday night, after "quite a few vodkas", the 42-year-old bricklayer from Louth Bay, near Port Lincoln, thought it would be a good idea to jump in the ocean and wrestle with a 1.3m bronze whaler shark that had been spotted "hanging around". He caught the shark with his bare hands, dragging it onto the Louth Bay jetty to the cheers of other fishermen. The only damage was to his jean, which received a few nips. But rather than keep hold of his "trophy shark" as a memento, Mr Kerkhof skinned and gutted it, and has been eating it all week. "I've got 10 or a dozen real good feeds from it, and I've still got a fair bit of him in the freezer to last me a while," he said. Mr Kerkhof admits his actions were not very clever and "wouldn't recommend anyone try it". "It's amazing what vodka does to you, but when I woke up the next morning I thought it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do," he said.
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Barehanded ... SA bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof, who "after quite a few vodkas"
jumped into the water and wrestled a 1.3m shark onto the shore, says in
retrospect it wasn't the "smartest thing to do"

TinarooTriumph
16-02-2007, 10:51 PM
What a champ!

disorderly
16-02-2007, 11:03 PM
Geez some of you blokes got stuck into the poor guy without knowing the full story.
As it turns out the poor fella was just really hungry....

Fish Guts
16-02-2007, 11:50 PM
vote |1| shark wrestler for pm

Mattg68
17-02-2007, 02:44 AM
i saw this bloke on the news tonight & he looked like he was still pissed. But please don't talk him up about having guts, he was loaded up on Vodka & decided to play the 'hero' in front of a jetty full of people (truth be known he probably fell in, lol) & the shark was barely big ehough to swallow your fist, but hey, give it two weeks & it'll be 8 foot & he will be jumping onto it's back ala TARZAN with a blade in his teeth. Headline sounds great though....

MAN WRESTLES BRONZE WHALER .........whoahhhhhhh.


one word.................... TOOL!

Fish Guts
17-02-2007, 03:22 AM
vote |1| shark wrestler for pm

el_carpo
17-02-2007, 03:41 AM
Just for kicks, I Googled "shark wrestling." I found these pics of a South African scientist attaching a tracking tag to great whites. The guy who wrestled in that whaler could have a career as a scientist! Who'd-a-thunkit?

There's got to be an easier way to make a living.:o

big_dave
17-02-2007, 07:03 AM
Now theres a pair of idiots

Kleyny
17-02-2007, 08:04 AM
el_carpo you forgot to put MAD infront of scientist.

neil

Deiter
17-02-2007, 08:45 AM
good on him, thats one to tell the grand kids about.

I can't believe some of the ppl bagging him. what, never done something with a gutfull that you wouldn't have done otherwise????

not like he was gonna hurt anyone but himself.
great memories are created

Poodroo
17-02-2007, 09:13 AM
Oh no his jeans got ripped. Has anyone told that guy that you can actually buy shark already cleaned and filleted(cheaper than a new pair of jeans)? Would have to be a safer way to get a feed. Hats off to him though. Regardless of how drunk I could manage to get I think I would still have enough sense not to wrestle a shark. There are some certain survival skills that I have learned over the years which stop me from doing things on the brink of stupidity.::)

Poodroo

blaze
17-02-2007, 10:45 AM
probable safer than riding crazey bloody bulls and Ive done that, hats off to him.
cheers
blaze

tigermullet
17-02-2007, 11:33 AM
probable safer than riding crazey bloody bulls and Ive done that, hats off to him.
cheers
blaze

Yep - I agree those bulls are much more dangerous than a small shark. They are not just happy throwing the riders but seem to enjoy jumping all over them as well.

And let's get real, this was a 1.3 metre bronze which is just about 4 feet 3 inches long, in old, proper measurement. That might be just about big enough to take out part of the calf muscle or knee cap you if you were swimming and the shark made a very determined attack but dragging it backwards by the tail in shallow water would not be particularly dangerous. It certainly wasn't Jaws III or IV.

I think that he was just having a bit of fun - pissed and clowning around - but fun all the same. Not much fun for the shark though. It would really wreck your day ending up filleted and on the dinner plate;D

disorderly
17-02-2007, 12:45 PM
Man,this is getting all blown out of proportion.
I,m just looking at a photo in the paper of this Great White Hunter and his shark.
What a pathetic,scrawny little critter it is.
And what a bunch of BS this excerpt from the accompanying story is"...was the toast of his town and has a freezer full of shark meat...".
Must be the worlds smallest freezer.
I cant help but laugh at the typical media beatup.

cheers Scott

get wet
17-02-2007, 03:04 PM
got this last year and i was sober lol1699

DICER
18-02-2007, 12:30 AM
corr blimey - a new steve irwin

Synful
18-02-2007, 01:44 PM
Just for kicks, I Googled "shark wrestling." I found these pics of a South African scientist attaching a tracking tag to great whites. The guy who wrestled in that whaler could have a career as a scientist! Who'd-a-thunkit?

There's got to be an easier way to make a living.:o

Bugger that !!!

I've always said that I'd like to do the trip on South Aus where you go into a shark cage and they berley up the GW's with guts and blood; there's no way that I would do what these guys in the photos are doing though.

Looks like it's a bit too easy for the shark to grab hold of you for my money....

Pistol_P
18-02-2007, 02:38 PM
Well I suppose if all is fair they will hunt the man down and kill him.....

Thats what they do if a shark attacks someone dont they...;)

Shanoss
18-02-2007, 05:26 PM
The wlole episode is pretty funny and fairly harmless. It's not like he threw his kid in the water. Lighten up fellas

Toddy_again
18-02-2007, 05:45 PM
Hahahaha..:D


Toddy

84mick
18-02-2007, 07:56 PM
What a blood idiot! theres no way I would jump off a jetty at night even with out a shark around! Thats crazy.

Mick.

moondancer
20-02-2007, 10:06 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmm.............stupidity is a very close cousin with luck...and undertakers! L