{"id":45559,"date":"2014-03-07T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45559"},"modified":"2014-03-07T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T23:35:33","slug":"quik-roxy-pro-in-sharky-waters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45559","title":{"rendered":"Quik &#038; Roxy Pro In Sharky Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script height=\"280px\" width=\"450px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=VkMW0xbDqEROPmuCfhb1lQW7VVipn_Sc&#038;pbid=d7724830c63641b4b5782eadefb84891\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The largest great white shark caught on the Gold Coast in more than seven years was taken &#8220;on a drum line&#8221; 300 meters off Greenmount Beach&#8221; on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 several hours after the <b>Roxy Pro Gold Coast<\/b> had concluded, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/monster-great-white-shark-caught-just-metres-from-roxy-pro-surfers-on-gold-coast\/story-e6freon6-1226847383108\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eight female surfers including <strong>Stephanie Gilmore<\/strong> competed in the Roxy Pro at Snapper Point just hours before the shark was caught. . . Shark Control Program manager <strong>Jeff Krause<\/strong> said board riders were in a potentially dangerous situation on Wednesday being in the vicinity of a great white shark. . The competition finished at 9:15am and the shark was first reported about 2pm.\u201cThe successful removal of this dangerous shark from a popular swimming beach was particularly important given the Quiksilver Pro surfing competition currently underway at nearby Snapper Rocks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice of them to clear things out before the contest gets rolling again, huh? Then again, it is the ocean. (Sidenote: Love it that Australia&#8217;s Today Show comes in off the break to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qotsa.com\"><b>Queens of the Stone Age<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/monster-great-white-shark-caught-just-metres-from-roxy-pro-surfers-on-gold-coast\/story-e6freon6-1226847383108\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest great white shark caught on the Gold Coast in more than seven years was taken &#8220;on a drum line&#8221; 300 meters off Greenmount Beach&#8221; on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 several hours after the Roxy Pro Gold Coast had concluded, according to a story in the Courier Mail. Eight female surfers including Stephanie Gilmore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45562,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559\/revisions\/45562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}