This is the Friends of History Debating Society, I'm John Batcheter, a national tragedy that was covered very carefully here in the United States because it's rare that a great white shark takes on a swimmer or a surfer and it's even more rare when that surfer dies. What happened Jeremy? Well John this happened in South Australia

approximately 160 kilometers west of Adelaide and it's a relatively remote

part of the top particular which is a peninsula in Australia, which is mostly rural areas,

has a lot of coastline, a lot of beach line,

and it's basically a place where you don't get a lot of people,

not even a lot of tourists.

And what unfortunately happened this week was in one rural community at a very isolated beach, a poor old surfer there who was just surfing with his mates, a 15 year old, was taken by a shot and killed. So sadly this is something that is relatively

rare still in South Australia but still does occur. But the problem is that it's

occurring with more frequency. So this was actually the third sharp attack in 18 months and

the craziest part was this swimmer, the 15 year old kid, he was fairly close to shore

within 50 to 100 meters witnesses are saying. so what we've seen is we've seen

what's believed to be a great white sharp based on the witness testimony and the

injuries to the body very close to shore so we're kind of reeling in some ways about this because I

grew up in South Australia. I remember the shaft warnings and do remember the

sporadic shark attacks. But John, this is a tragedy not only because a 15 year old lost his life but also it's an

unpredictable attack the sharks seem to be more aggressive and for whatever reason

attack this poor boy on his surfboard so it's really is a tragedy and that sadly it's

something that we can explain soon enough. I've done coverage of Great Whites off of

California and off of New England, especially in the Nantucket and Cape Cod region.

And what I learned is that Great White Sharks don't want to mess with humans.

That's bad news. There's nothing there

for them. However, they do feed on seals, especially the seals of New England and

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