Friday, October 14, 2011

Now This Is Surfing!

Man surfs on Great White Shark
A surfer claims he was knocked off his board by a great white shark and ended up standing on the predator for several seconds.

Doug Niblack was trying to catch another wave before going to work, when his longboard hit something hard as rock off the Oregon Coast and he suddenly found himself standing on the back of a thrashing great white shark.

Looking down, he could see a dorsal fin in front of his feet as he stood on what he described as 10 feet of back as wide as his surfboard and as black as his own Neoprene wetsuit. A tail thrashed back and forth and the water churned around him like a depth charge went off.

"It was pretty terrifying just seeing the shape emerge out of nothing and just being under me," he said. "And the fin coming out of the water. It was just like the movies."
I could imagine a whole new form of surfing based on this; lure the shark up to the surface by pretending to be a seal, then ride it.

I'll leave that for someone else, though.

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