The Daily Telegraph, Peter Bodkin, July 8, 2013
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Bishan
Rajapakse in St Vincents Hospital after he was knocked unconscious
by a whale
while surfing at South Bondi Beach, Sydney. Picture: Gregg Porteous
Source: The Daily Telegraph
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TALK about
a sting in the tail. Surfer Bishan Rajapakse was lucky to be pulled from the
waves with only a headache and sore shoulder after he was knocked unconscious
by a southern right whale yesterday.
The
38-year-old hospital emergency unit doctor was heading back to the beach at
Bondi about 10.30am when he saw "a big, black shadow" as the whale
surfaced near him.
"Some
other surfers were quite close to it and I remember wondering to myself about
that tail - I thought 'Wow, this could just go and knock us all out'," he
said.
The next
thing Dr Rajapakse remembers is lifeguards treating him on the sand. Lifeguard
Anthony "Harries" Carroll said: "The whale has lifted his tail
and it's come down and struck the (surfer) on the head and knocked him
out."
Mr Carroll
said the force of the impact had punched a "large-sized ding" in Dr
Rajapakse's surfboard.
"This
could have been a major incident, a fatality, so for this guy to walk away with
minimal injuries ... he's probably the luckiest emergency doctor to end up in
emergency," he said.
Surfer Tony
Spanos said the whale had made a "huge turn" and come out of the
water directly underneath a group of surfers, knocking him off his board. He
saw Dr Rajapakse get knocked out.
"I had
to go under and quickly pull him out from underneath, from going down," he
said.
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| A whale surfaces near surfers at Bondi Beach. Picture: John Brawley Source: Supplied |
St
Vincent's head of emergency Gordian Fulde said Dr Rajapakse - who works at
Wollongong Hospital - was fortunate not to have any broken bones but he remains
in hospital for observation to see if he had suffered any underlying damage
from the "unbelievable accident".
National
Parks and Wildlife whale expert Geoff Ross said southern right whales were
known for liking shallower water - and for their unpredictable behaviour.
"Whales
are generally not aggressive animals but they will defend themselves - they can
see people in the water as a potential predator," he said. "Like all
wild animals, you need to respect them and their position in the ocean."
Swimmers
and surfers are banned from going closer than 30m from whales in NSW waters.
Girlfriend
Sanna Lundmark had been waiting on the beach when she saw people huddled around
Dr Rajapakse. "I saw his feet and they didn't move. I was really worried
... then I saw him talking," she said.
Dr
Rajapakse said the incident would not put him off surfing. "I think if I
saw a whale again I'd probably tell other people just to hold back. I guess
I've got the evidence to say things can go wrong."
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