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November 1st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A shark sighting prompted the closing of three beaches at Rottnest Island this morning, they have since been reopened. Photo: Courtesy Channel 10
Beaches have been reopened at Rottnest Island this morning after a sweep of the area found no sign of the two large great whites spotted yesterday afternoon.
The Rottnest Island Authority closed the beaches at Salmon Bay, Green Island and Strickland Bay shortly after two five metre sharks were spotted off the shore at Battery Point.
A Surf Lifesaving helicopter spotted the two sharks about 1.20pm yesterday afternoon, and the authority closed the three beaches as a precautionary measure.
The helicopter will continue to monitor the area as part of its routine sweeps of the coastline this morning. The Rottnest Island Authority reopened the beaches just after 9am today.
Yesterday’s sighting was less than two weeks after an American tourist was killed by a great white at Little Armstrong Bay at the island.
Texan diver George Thomas Wainwright, 32, was diving alone on October 22 when he was fatally attacked by a great white shark.
Mr Wainwright was the third shark fatality in WA waters in less than two months, and the fourth in just over a year.
His death sparked fears that a rogue shark was prowling the state’s south-west coastline, and within 24 hours of Mr Wainwright’s death, WA Premier Colin Barnett announced a $1 million funding boost to provide a seven–day a week surveillance of Perth’s beaches.
The move extended the aerial patrols daily from 6.30am to 7.30pm from Mandurah in the south to Yanchep in the north.
Mr Barnett said surf lifesaving guards will also conduct increased patrols with the use of surf skis and rubber dinghies across metropolitan beaches.
He said a new surf ski patrol will also be put on at Rottnest’s popular family beach, Thompson Bay, for summer.
Earlier last month, 64-year-old Bryn Martin disappeared while swimming at Cottesloe beach, and while his body was never found, he was believed to have been taken by a great white.
In September, 21-year-old bodyboarder Kyle Burden was savagely killed by a great white at Bunker Bay in the state’s South West region.
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