Shark Knocks Man Out of Kayak!

A man fishing from his kayak off the San Mateo coast in SF had a run in with a great white shark this weekend. Apparently, the shark rammed the guy’s kayak, knocking him into the water and then proceeded to gnaw on his kayak.

“Everyone had been fishing for a while — for a good two, three hours,” said John Dale of Foster City, a member of the kayak fishermen’s club. “From what he told me, basically he was fishing and was adjusting a lure, and all of a sudden he was thrown from his kayak into the water. When he came up, he thought he had been hit by a boat, but when he looked the shark was still on the front of his kayak, latched on, gnawing on the kayak. He thought about it for a second and decided he better get back onto the kayak, even though it was still on the nose.”

Another kayaker helped him get back into the mangled, sinking vessel and he high-tailed it to shore.

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