Diana Nyad Are You Friggin Crazy?

Call me crazy but swimming from Florida to Cuba without a shark cage or a bottle of whiskey is sheer madness I say, madness. 62 year old Diana Nyad, the endurance swimming legend, is attempting to break the world record by swimming 103miles (166km) in shark and jellyfish infested waters. Did I happen to mention she swims at night when all the nasty creatures come out to play? So far Nyad has been stung 4 times by vicious box jellyfish despite having a specially designed sting-proof wetsuit. At one stage she was forced to do backstroke to stop them stinging her face. Fortunately during the day the jellyfish disperse but then the sharks come out to play. If all goes to plan it should take Nyad 60 hours  to complete this crazy adventure.

Psst Seriously? If I had to swim from Florida to Cuba at night, in shark and jellyfish infested waters I would have made it in 3 minutes 23 seconds.

Sharks Are Bogans

That's what I think of Bieber!

I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing but evidently great white sharks love AC/DC. They especially love You Shook Me All Night Long according to a tourism operator Matt Waller, who runs Adventure Bay Charter. He uses AC/DC songs to attract the sharks for his cage-diving business. Hmm, are you sure it isn’t the nice juicy tourist floating in a flimsy cage that isn’t attracting them?

Psst OK, that’s all fine and dandy but I want to know what music scares the friggin things AWAY!!!!

I Got A Bone To Pick With You!

Do I look like a friggin spy?

A sorry assed vulture has got himself arrested in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of being a  Mossad spy. Oh boy, the bird unfortunately was wearing a transmitter and had a leg tag with the words “Tel Aviv University” clearly marked on it. Awkward. Hmm, this latest bungle comes hot on the heels of Egypt suggesting Israel’s foreign intelligence agency was behind a series of shark attacks in the Red Sea. Yep, some conspiracy theorists believe the Mossad threw deadly sharks into the sea to scare off tourists last month.

When Nature Calls

Boxing Day specials

You know when god is messing with you when temperatures soar to over 104 degrees (40 Celsius) and everyone flocks to the beach only to be told to get the hell out of the water …SHARKS!!!!! Welcome to Western Australia.

Alan, Alan, Alan, Alan …

OK Loons, I stumbled across this silly friggin marmot (an enormous over sized squirrel) and a school of sharks by accident. Friggin wildlife…sheez!!!!

At Least My Ankles Will Be Spared!

Should have worn it on my friggin wrist!

Hands up who wants to test this? A company in Florida have developed a shark repellent anklet which is made up of a series of magnets (oh and some pretty beads to make it look cool). Bob Millings of Repel Sharks says the magnets mess with the shark’s sensory abilities by sending an electrical current that creates a electromagnetic field the shark finds basically unpleasant. Hmm, can you use it for other predators like say, cougars and rhinos?

Psst So do you get your money back if it doesn’t work and you get mauled by a shark?