The Mammoth Book of Shark Attacks by Alex MacCormick

Author:Alex MacCormick [MacCormick, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nature, animals, Marine Life
ISBN: 9781472100306
Google: eUHBBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2013-11-07T23:54:10.106262+00:00

1995

CALIFORNIA, USA, 1995

A Santa Cruz windsurfer escaped injury when he was attacked by a shark just off Davenport Landing on Friday.

The surfer involved in the 5.30 p.m. attack just north of Davenport, identified as Mike Sullivan, could not be reached for comment on Saturday, but Matt Haut, who works at Haut Surf and Sail in Santa Cruz, said he witnessed the incident, which he termed “pretty hairy”.

“I saw this real thrashing, lots of white water spray everywhere,” said Haut, who was windsurfing thirty or forty feet from the spot of the attack. “I saw his board being carried upwind and I saw him swimming frantically away from his gear. I knew something was wrong and I sailed up between him and his board. I saw death in his eyes, he was really, really scared.”

Although the attacked surfer managed to swim ashore and was not hurt, Haut said, his board was pocked with teeth marks. Ben Christi, who also witnessed the accident, said, “There were teeth marks on both rails of the board, on one side between his rear and front straps, and on the other side near the fin – a span of maybe two feet – that’s the mouth span.”

“It’s definitely a shark bite,” said Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, who examined the bitten board and talked with several witnesses. He estimated the animal’s size at twelve to sixteen feet.

San Jose Mercury News, 10 January 1995

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