Shark survivor’s relief
AN EXTREME weather system that battered the NSW coast earlier this week has set its sights on popular southeast Queensland beaches this weekend.
Winds of up to 55km/h are expected to hit the southeast coast Friday morning, with offshore swells to 4m and seas set to reach 3m heading into Saturday.
The system has already battered large parts of New South Wales, with waves of 11.5m already reported along the southern coast, all due to a deep low-pressure system over the Tasman Sea.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued hazardous surf warnings and strong wind warnings along the southeast coast, with the system expected to be felt
FITZROY Island Shark attack victim Anika Craney thought that she could’ve died following the freak incident earlier this week.
Talking to 7 News, the lucky diver also revealed she tried to defend herself against the shark as it swam under her, kicking it with her now torn fins. “I did think I could die …. I was bleeding so much in the water”
“I started to breath really slowly, I was thinking ‘if you calm down right now, you will be okay.”
Miss Craney also revealed the extent of the injury, with the animal taking a chunk out of her left leg and severing several tendons.
Though despite the injury resulting in multiple surgeries and a predicted six-month rehabilitation period, the selfconfessed shark lover as far north as Fraser Island.
“You’ll see those peak swells of up to 4m hitting the coast from Friday, though they should be coming down heading into Saturday evening,” BOM meteorologist Shane Kennedy said. “Even with the rough sea conditions, it would still be sunny skies for the southeast all the way into next week as well,” he said.
While onshore conditions won’t be too “extravagant” in the morning, Gold Coast’s chief lifesaver Warren Young warned that could change quickly as the system continued to move. “We keep an eye on things. Really, when it comes to the surf, you have to monitor it hour by hour,” he said. “Even if you’re the most experienced surfer, don’t over-estimate your ability.” considers herself lucky to be bit on the leg. “If it had been anywhere else in the body, it could’ve been fatal.”
The joyous sentiment was shared by her father in tears, happy to hold his daughter in what could’ve been a tragic accident.
REALLY, our top astrologers should have seen this coming — space agency NASA has found a new star sign that has knocked the whole zodiac out of kilter.
The new 13th sign of the zodiac is called Ophiuchus, which is Greek for serpent bearer, and falls between November 29 and December 17.
But not only are Sagittarians displaced, every other star sign gets bumped along a bit.
Members of the new star sign are supposed to be complicated, fierce, emotional and flamboyant.
Ophiuchus has been around since the Babylonians gazed into the sky and noticed an apparent relationship between the movement of the sun and the constellations more than 3000 years ago. They divided them into 12 equal parts to form the signs of the zodiac, which suited their 12-month calendar, and chose to ignore that tricky 13th one on the edge.
“Ophiuchus is on the cusp of the ecliptic, which means it is not part of the zodiac, more like a weed creeping into the zodiac rose garden,” Australian astrologer Milton Black said.
So all was blooming lovely in the astrological world until those finicky boffins at NASA pointed out that the Earth’s axis — and therefore the North Pole — did not quite “point in the same direction” and therefore “the sky has shifted”. In other words, Ophiuchus is in the ascendant.
Mr Black believes talk of Ophiuchus reappeared on the internet on Thursday because of “the uncertain times around the coronavirus and peoples’ search for answers”.