Tailchaser
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I'm surprised no one has posted these yet.
Summary: GWS played tag with a kayaker off Catalina on Saturday 6/21, flipped her kayak and kept pushing. She was picked up by another boat but was close enough to stand on the shark at one point.
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From the boat that rescued her:
"She and the yak was knocked about four feet up in the air. When she landed, a four foot tail slapped her yak. Flipping it upside down! Then she stood up on the back of the fish, and dived into the water, and swam like hell! "
From a witness:
"I saw a big splash next to the boat and then saw what I initially thought was an arm waving back and forth and splashing. The "arm" was dark so I thought I was looking at a person in a wetsuit waving his arm back and forth. My brain didn't correctly process what I was seeing and for the first second or two I thought maybe somebody had played a trick on the lady by pushing her off the kayak and was screwing around and splashing her. I could also see a large dark shape maybe a foot out of the water that I thought could have been a couple of people in dark wetsuits but obscured by the splashing from the "arm". After about two seconds I realized the "arm" was actually part of a huge shark tail oriented vertically in the water and it was thrashing back and forth right at the surface. The large dark shape was actually part of the shark sticking out of the water. The portion of the tail I could see looked like it was three feet long. The shark was pushing on the kayak and the woman was on the far side of the kayak holding on and screaming. Apparently, when she was knocked out of the kayak at some point she ended up with the kayak between her and the shark. I'm sure that's what saved her life. Anyway, the shark was pushing on the up-side down kayak to get at her and the whole while she is shrieking like nothing I've ever heard."
Summary: GWS played tag with a kayaker off Catalina on Saturday 6/21, flipped her kayak and kept pushing. She was picked up by another boat but was close enough to stand on the shark at one point.
cbs2 news
From the boat that rescued her:
"She and the yak was knocked about four feet up in the air. When she landed, a four foot tail slapped her yak. Flipping it upside down! Then she stood up on the back of the fish, and dived into the water, and swam like hell! "
From a witness:
"I saw a big splash next to the boat and then saw what I initially thought was an arm waving back and forth and splashing. The "arm" was dark so I thought I was looking at a person in a wetsuit waving his arm back and forth. My brain didn't correctly process what I was seeing and for the first second or two I thought maybe somebody had played a trick on the lady by pushing her off the kayak and was screwing around and splashing her. I could also see a large dark shape maybe a foot out of the water that I thought could have been a couple of people in dark wetsuits but obscured by the splashing from the "arm". After about two seconds I realized the "arm" was actually part of a huge shark tail oriented vertically in the water and it was thrashing back and forth right at the surface. The large dark shape was actually part of the shark sticking out of the water. The portion of the tail I could see looked like it was three feet long. The shark was pushing on the kayak and the woman was on the far side of the kayak holding on and screaming. Apparently, when she was knocked out of the kayak at some point she ended up with the kayak between her and the shark. I'm sure that's what saved her life. Anyway, the shark was pushing on the up-side down kayak to get at her and the whole while she is shrieking like nothing I've ever heard."
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