A 15 ft shark circled a small boat and then at the propeller, nearly knocking the passengers overboard.
Two of the men had been swimming next to the boat, just an hour earlier!
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A scuba diver caught this footage of a shark coming right at him off the eastern tip of Maine. Scott MacNichol, 30, used his camera to fend off the porbeagle shark. MacNichol estimates the shark was 8 feet long and weighed about 300 pounds.
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Surfer Frank Solomon recently had this close call with a 9′ shark while sailing through the Bassas da India. Solomon and fellow surfer, James Taylor, are currently on a journey across the Indian Ocean, mixing business with pleasure as they deliver a yacht and scout exotic wave locations en route. The crew were anchored and having lunch on deck when they spotted a couple of the sharks swimming around.
“I thought it would be a good idea to take my GoPro (camera) and swim with them” wrote Solomon on his expedition blog. “What I didn’t know was that they were Zambezi sharks.”
After jumping overboard, the situation escalated quickly. “The first shark I filmed was fine but then another one arrived and for some reason it didn’t like me filming. Maybe it was camera shy” quipped Solomon. “It fully started attacking me. Luckily I was able to push it away with my feet after about 15 seconds of it trying to bite me.”
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Jim Rawlinson, 68, was catching waves at the point in Hanalei Bay, Kauai Monday at about 4 p.m. when his surfboard was attacked by a large tiger shark.
Rawlinson slid back off the board and onto the back of the shark.
After measuring a bite mark on the tail of Rawlinson’s surfboard the tiger shark was estimated to be 14 feet long.
Rawlinson’s board was attacked about five miles from where Bethany Hamilton lost her arm while surfing a break called Tunnels in October of 2003.
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A teenager from New Zealand has saved herself from the jaws of a shark by using her body-board to defend herself.
Fourteen-year-old Lydia Ward said she was at a beach near the southern city of Invercargill when the shark struck.
The shark, about 5 ft in length, is reported to have lunged at her and tried to bite her hip.
Standing in water that only reached up to her waist at Oreti Beach, she said she hit the “big, grey, slippery thing” repeatedly with her body-board.
“I showed Dad and he didn’t really believe me but then I showed him my wetsuit with all the blood coming out and he believed me,” Lydia told Radio New Zealand.
Although not seriously injured, Lydia required hospital treatment for two of the deeper wounds.
A Queensland surfer fought off a shark with his fists at Archie’s Beach in Australia.
A woman who witnessed the attack, which happened late Wednesday, says the water around the surfer began to bubble before he started punching the sea.
The man, who had been surfing with his son, returned to the beach unharmed and told lifeguards his board had been hit by a “large grey shape”.
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A fisherman got quite a fright when the snapper he thought he had on the end of his line turned out to be an 8 ft shark.
What’s even more scary is that the guy was fishing from his kayak.
Paul Spathopoulos was sure he had hooked a snapper, but 20 minutes into the battle the fish leapt out of the water and Spathopoulos realized he was fighting a thresher shark.
About 1.5 hours later, Spathopoulos finally won.
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Hayden Panettiere has confessed that she recently had a run-in with a shark.
The ‘Heroes’ star, who spends a lot of her time protesting against whaling, told Jimmy Kimmel that she tends to attract sharks. Panettiere went on to recall one encounter in particular, saying: “This safety diver got in to take pictures of my brother and my mum and they had their fins on and when the shark comes too close, you put your fins in their face, and I didn’t have my fins on and all of a sudden – they start going, ‘Shark, right behind you!’
“I was going, ‘What could it be? Tiger shark, Mako, bull, Great White?’ I swam for my life… they were yelling at us because the worst thing to do is to swim away from the shark and make all the splashing.
“I was like, ‘Guys, you yelled shark… How else do people react?’ I practically walked on water back to the boat.”
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