Man Overboard!
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
A fisherman came face-to-face with a massive great white shark after he fell off his dinghy Saturday morning. Yikes!
The man fell overboard when he tried to shoo away a 15 ft shark that was ramming his tiny aluminium fishing boat. He was hitting the shark on the nose with his oar but the shark grabbed it. The man tried to retrieve the oar and fell in. But it gets worse… the boat was still in gear so it took off, leaving the man stranded in the middle of the ocean!
The shark circled him four or five times, but eventually he was able to start swimming 2 miles back to shore. A fisherman rescued him 30 minutes later. Phew!
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Geez, that’s what my nightmares are made of!
“But the man-eating monster grabbed the oar and as the fisherman attempted to retrieve it, he toppled into the water.”
man-eating monster? Doesn’t it speak volumes that the shark could have attacked but didn’t and that he made it back without such as a scratch?
It was just checking out his motor as they are known to do, not attacking his boat as implied.
talk about luck
Holy cow!!! It sounds like the man stayed way calmer than I would have! Circled 4 or 5 times… the shark could have taken him at will. Either it had just fed, or it’s a smart porker!
thats funnier than the guy who ran over himself with his own car in the jack in the box drive-though
you clumsy get falling on your boat what a fat prat !!!
The shark was just harrassing him..If the shark wanted him he was there for the taking….