Whilst swimming in South Australia from West Lakes to Semaphore <br />Stay in the shallow waters don't swim far from the shore <br />A young man taken by white pointer sharks there a couple of weeks ago <br />And though his end was painful 'twas not painful and slow. <br /> <br />He had been water skiing behind a boat a victim of circumstance <br />In the wrong place at the wrong time he did not stand a chance <br />For sharks are powerful predators their razor sharp teeth tear flesh and big bones crack <br />And few have lived to tell the story of a white pointer attack. <br /> <br />The man was in his early twenties so young for one to die <br />In the sunlit southern ocean doing what he did enjoy <br />To his broken hearted friends and family his death a tragic loss <br />And in their time of sorrow so heavy is their cross. <br /> <br />'Tis said by those with marine life knowledge that humans not shark's favourite meal <br />Perhaps the big white pointer mistook him for a seal <br />But what a shark bites into a shark will try to eat <br />They've been known to swallow plastic and rubber in their hunger for meat. <br /> <br />The next time you go water skiing, surfing or swimming in shallow waters stay <br />Do not venture in deep waters big sharks on you might prey <br />Like the poor bloke in South Australia a chance he did not stand <br />Two big white pointers claimed him three hundred metres out from land.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shark-attack-victim/
