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  I have swum off the beach in Durban, which is protected by nets. My only problem was being hung over from the previous night and falling asleep on the beach in the blazing sun. My skin was frazzled and I was walking around like a leper for a week afterwards.
  
  Have never been overly concerned about the welfare of sharks. As a merchant seaman, have always regarded them as a bit of an occupational hazard. Have swum in numerous places where they are present and never fancied ending up as a meal. In the Merchant Navy, we call them knobbies (rhyming slang: Knobby Clark - Shark).
  
  I remember gazing in horror at a South African pictorial magazine with graphic photos of a swimmer who had been attacked by a great white and survived. There was a semicircle of deep toothmarks across his back and the flesh on the side of his body had been torn off leaving the organs exposed. He had a black wetsuit on which had held his body parts together and enabled him to survive.

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