Holidaying DJ icon Dave Clarke narrowly escaped being bitten in half this week, after a ‘dinosaur-huge’ suspected Great White shark attacked a swimmer close to Dave’s luxury hotel in Cape Town.
“A man got eaten by a shark yesterday, all the beaches are closed and people are being advised to only use tidal pools,” Dave confirmed, “The beast was apparently as big as a minivan and there were 19 further sightings, it’s a shame Rob Schneider (star of Jaws) died,” he added.
Following the incident, the normally unflappable and notoriously willful techno don admitted he’s following life guards orders to stay out of the water and has been constantly scanning the ocean for giant dorsal fins.
“Some of the towns here may have English derived names, but this isn't the English Channel, this is where wildlife is wild and Man isn't always the top predator,” Dave shuddered, “I’m off to the pool now, it’s safer,” he told Skrufff.
Zimbabwean swimmer Lloyd Skinner, 37, was attacked as he stood in waist-deep water 20 metres off shore at 4pm local time, Bloomberg reported.
"According to the witnesses, it was a very big shark, it was a very big one you know” Johan De Witt, an inspector of marine and coastal management told Cape Times [ITN] “They reckon it came all along the side of the catwalk, it swam all along the side there and they only saw it at the last minute.”
Another witness described the shark as ‘dinosaur huge’ in a post on Twitter immediately after the attack while another described how it ‘came from below and ‘ripped Mr Skinner apart’ (News24.com)
“The shark attacked him three times,” Ian Klopper from the National Sea Rescue Institute added, 'It didn’t bite him and let him go. It came back and carried on eating.' (Daily Mail)
All beaches were subsequently closed though some bathers ignored warnings, he said.
"There were a couple of people who wanted to take their usual morning swim, but we asked them to get out of the water,” Mr Klopper told South African portal News24.com.
“There is no safe depth for a shark attack - if they can swim in it, they can bite. An attack in knee-deep water has been recorded," he added.
Shark experts in Australia, meanwhile warned bathers to be careful in on the beaches of New South Wales predicting that up to 15 attacks could happen this season.
“Most people are in the wrong spot at the right time when they get bitten, but if you take precautions - by avoiding murky water at dusk and dawn, for example - you minimise the risk,” John West, the curator of the Australian Shark Attack File at Taronga Zoo told the Wentworth-Courier (http://tinyurl.com/yfhry2n) “The reality is, if you’re paranoid about shark attacks, you should avoid putting yourself in danger,” he added.
http://weblogs.vpro.nl/whitenoise/ Dave Clarke’s White Noise radio show)
http://tinyurl.com/ygunby4 (Great White sharks jumping in Cape Town)
http://tinyurl.com/ygmdqy7 (Shark attack on surfer, 2006 Youtube footage)
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