She used camera to beat off shark !

[bob cole]

MOTHER BEAT SHARK WITH CAMERA...
By Liza Kappelle
May 18, 2007
from: AAP

Becky Cooke, a 38-year-old mother of five, was attacked Wednesday by a shark on a West Australian reef but beat it off with a camera she had in her hands. She said that all she could think of was hitting it before it could savage her teenage son wading alongside or the three-year-old on her hip.

She had her heel and calf lacerated by the shark as she waded across a coral reef with two of her sons at remote Warra Beach, south of Coral Bay.

"I had my camera in my hand and Ethan on my hip, I started hitting it with my camera and shaking my leg trying to get it off.

"It let go, I took a couple of steps and fell into the water because my leg was pretty bad.
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[vrgard]

Sounds like a good argument for carrying a good, old-fashioned metal camera rather than a modern plastic marvel!

-Randy

[rover]

You have to assume she was not lugging a Nikon F, but I am not thinking a Powershot would do the trick here.

[Ash]

It must have been a big camera or the shark small.


if she had an old speed graphic or russian SLR she would have been selling shark meat from the barbie que not laying in hopsicle ;)

[NickTrop]

I think I could beat off Gamera (giant flying fire-breathing space turtle/friend to all children) with my Yashica Lynx 14e.

[Keith]

Good to see you guys are keeping up on our Oz news .... this remind me why I prefer rivers and lakes to the ocean! :eek:

I don't know if I'd be beating off a shark with my beloved M2 ... I could get by wihout a leg ... but all that salt water in the Leica ... hmmm!:rolleyes:

Here's a link for the details ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1927159.htm

[jmilkins]

....mate....mate...that was soft. she shoulda finished the bugger off an' ended up with a lifetime supply of sharkskin covering.;)

[michaelging]

THAT is why I always swim in the ocean wth a 8x10 deardorf

[Keith]

....mate....mate...that was soft. she shoulda finished the bugger off an' ended up with a lifetime supply of sharkskin covering.;)

Now real irony ... would have been if she'd beaten it sensless with a IIIc ... 'sharkskin' model of course!

[shadowfox]

Good to see you guys are keeping up on our Oz news .... this remind me why I prefer rivers and lakes to the ocean! :eek:


... so that you can beat up crocodiles instead of sharks ?? :D

This seals it, I'm packing my OM-1 to beach vacations from now on, it has some dubious dents on it already anyways :p

[Xmas]

Keith

Why dod not not convert your lizard to skin, you coulda covered all your cameras.

Neol

[SteveM(PA)]

Now real irony ... would have been if she'd beaten it sensless with a IIIc ... 'sharkskin' model of course!

Add a Canon 135 and little Jabberjaws would have been cursing the whole concept of LTM compatability. :)

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=27891&d=1149263162

[BillBingham2]

Makes me want to trade in my cheap plastic AF for a Nikonos III. That's a camera you can beat a shark back with, SOLID and on a strong strap!!!

Happens to have a great Nikkor 35/2.5 on her too!

B2 (;->

[rolleistef]

On photoethnography, the guy who runs the site (don't remember his name) pinpointed the fact that you could easly stunt someone with a Pentax 6x7... do you think it would work with a shark?