Surfer Mick Fanning escapes shark attack

Piscis Austrinus – the Southern Fish

An Australian surfer has made an incredible escape after encountering two sharks during a major competition in South Africa. Mick Fanning was competing in Jeffreys Bay, on the eastern Cape, when one of the sharks approached his surfboard. The final of the J-Bay Open had only just started when Fanning was knocked off his surfboard and into the sea. Fanning, the defending champion, escaped injury. The tournament was called off soon afterwards. July 20 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33585853

Jeffreys Bay is a town located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. A chart of the current New Moon at Jeffreys Bay is shown here. The luminaries [23cn] are conjunct the star Muscida, omicron Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear’s muzzle. The Bear is a ferocious creature and among events in this area, Diana Rosenberg includes animal attacks.  But more significantly on the IC are stars for which she writes:

Affirming tradition about  the Lion being a “beastly” sign, along with the ferocious Bear and Hydra’s snaky Head, encounters with wild beasts are common: here are venomous snake expert J B Slowinski, killed at 38 by the bite of a krait, wild animal trainer Mark Oliver Gebel (Manilius  associated Ursa Major with animal trainers) and zoo keeper W G Cooper.  These stars were transited in 1819 when a “great sea snake”(Hydra) was sighted by naval officers at Gloucester, MS; in 1885 when a rabid dog bit 9 year old Joseph Meister (who was saved by Pasteur’s still untested rabies vaccine); in 1992 when a great white shark attacked a diver and bit his right arm off and many others.

Finally when we consider that on the MC with Neptune is the star Fomalhaut, alpha Piscis Austrinus,  in the mouth of the Southern Fish, all the pieces of the puzzle are in place to explain the shark attack.