Dave Pearson

I guess, diffused the situation, the worse it'd become.

And I just went, wow.

These people, and that was my last comment, I think, was nobody here knows me.

You don't know me.

You're making judgment of me from your own opinion, which is fine.

But I don't need this in my life, so F you lot.

And I slammed my computer down.

God, I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, you know, I had tears running down my face.

I didn't deserve any of that and I got it.

But it was quite, I guess, surreal to read about myself and how people can quickly form an opinion.

I had no opinion on sharks and I still don't.

We have people within our group with all sorts of opinions as well.

We would have people in our group who would like to see all sharks culled and then we got people in our group

who want to go out and hug all the sharks.

So I have to be neutral because I need to communicate effectively with everybody in that group.

And I need to understand where it comes from.

And then if, you know, with education within everyone else in the group, we form, I guess, our own opinions again.

And we try and get the truth out there to our own members to understand where our opinions are coming from.

I grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, so...

The beach for us was an hour and a half away.