© JoliSt. Leu, one of the most beautiful—and, because of sharks, deadly—places to surf in the world.
South African expat Davy Stolk, who runs a surf shop in Reunion, told Zig Zag Magazine that it was the first time anybody had surfed St. Leu in a month. The attacked surfer was paddling in through the channel when he was bit on the forearm. The wounds don't appear to have been life threatening. Local surfer Alain Courtois told us that a group of surfers were able to tie a leash around the victim's arm and get him safely to shore. No word yet on the severity of the injury.
It's the 18th attack in the last four years. Seven of those attacks were deadly.
attack and it is abnormal, and usually sharks are not animals very aggressive, that means this is a sign of something else. If they attack it can be maybe, I think, that they are on the surface of the water near population because the water is too warm? Or maybe because they are lost? (Or maybe because they don't like surfers...) But something is happening in the water, I think so. If it is too warm for sharks and they go up, what can be the reason? Is there something underwater that makes the water to hot for sharks?
Those are questions that I ask myself when I read that type of news...