Three rescued after sharks attack yacht off Australian coast

Unusual. What kind of sharks were they?

Unusual. What kind of sharks were they?

Also unusual, from the article:

a nine-meter inflatable catamaran

An inflatable catamaran, with two Russians and a French citizen on board. I've never heard of an inflatable yacht for blue water international sailing. I assume it's a semi-rigid inflatable type.

Orcas have been documented in numerous attacks on boats, but I have not heard of sharks doing it before.

Recently I have watching some divers and marine biologists even vet's on YouTube who have become friends with some great white hammer heads and other types of sharks, what all have in common is the NEVER disrespect nor provoke or disturb the sharks path or maneuvers, they teach that sharks will almost never attack unless they feel threatened or provoked.

Mark – Interesting.

I guess the recent spate of attacks on surfers was because they were “in the sharks path”?

a nine-meter inflatable catamaran

Might be one of these?

https://www.grabner.com/en/shop/products/sailing-catamarans?ai%5Baction%5D=tree&ai%5Bcontroller%5D=Catalog

Darned if I'd sail in one of the largest models for open ocean sailing. Very brave.

stormcrow Today  02:56 pm JST

Unusual. What kind of sharks were they?

The kind that bites.

They started with a different boat in Chile, and then they had to replace it with this one on Easter Island because the steering broke on the first one. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/06/three-people-rescued-off-australian-coast-after-yacht-damaged-by-multiple-shark-attacks

seems as thorough the Russians and Italian went to Walmart before heading into the open waters. This does give china hope that it will also have a blue water navy soon.

You're gonna need a bigger boat...

, they teach that sharks will almost never attack unless they feel threatened or provoked.

Or hungry.

 they teach that sharks will almost never attack unless they feel threatened or provoked.

Or hungry.

What I was thinking too. Research on shark attacks that I'm familiar with posits that sharks looking up from below mistake surfers and paddle borders as sea lions or other prey. They realize the chose wrong after biting the victim, but that is cold consolation for the victim.

https://www.livescience.com/great-white-shark-mistaken-identity

These sharks must have had a reason to attack, but what ever it was, they do not mess around, do they? Those men were very lucky. I have never heard of an inflatable catamaran before, but if it was one, what was it doing so far out in the ocean?